Pasadena

Greg Cantori plans to downsize when he retires. Really, really downsize. His retirement home is 238 square feet — one-tenth the size of the average new American house — and sits in his Anne Arundel County yard. He and wife Renee can hitch it to a truck and take it with them wherever they go. "It's so cheap — that's what's so cool about this," said Cantori, 52, who envisions a surf-and-turf future, alternating between the house and a sailboat. "We bought the house for $19,000.

Saying that "those who made the laws have an obligation to obey them," a District Court judge in Annapolis sentenced state Del. Donald H. Dwyer Jr. on Tuesday to 30 days in jail after he pleaded guilty to operating a boat while under the influence. Dwyer, 55, a Republican from Pasadena, immediately filed an appeal. The sentence stems from a powerboat collision last summer on the Magothy River involving Dwyer's boat, the Legislator, and another vessel. Several people were injured in the crash, and toxicology tests showed that Dwyer had a blood alcohol level of 0.24 percent, three times the legal limit for being under the influence.

A man was fatally shot, and another wounded, in Pasadena early Saturday morning, according to Anne Arundel County police. Police said officers were called to the 7000 block of Outing Ave. for a shooting about 1 a.m. and found two victims, Matthew Morrow, 21, and an unidentified 20-year-old male, suffering from gunshot wounds. Both were taken to local hospitals. Morrow died from his injuries a short time later; the second victim is being treated for non-life-threatening injures. The victims were attending a house party and were standing in front of the house when they were shot, according to police.

The devil may have taken Skylar Marion away, his father says, but God had to figure out how to spread him around. Skylar, a 15-year-old Chesapeake High School freshman who loved to tinker with bicycles and spend time outdoors, was killed in a hit-and-run just a quarter-mile from his home in Pasadena in April. The driver of the vehicle that hit him has yet to be found. But in a turn of events that surprised two families in the tight-knit Pasadena community, part of Skylar will continue to live on. His heart, transplanted into the body of an ailing friend, will bind two families together for the rest of their lives.

The devil may have taken Skylar Marion away, his father says, but God had to figure out how to spread him around. Skylar, a 15-year-old Chesapeake High School freshman who loved to tinker with bicycles and spend time outdoors, was killed in a hit-and-run just a quarter-mile from his home in Pasadena in April. The driver of the vehicle that hit him has yet to be found. But in a turn of events that surprised two families in the tight-knit Pasadena community, part of Skylar will continue to live on. His heart, transplanted into the body of an ailing friend, will bind two families together for the rest of their lives.

POLICE LOG* Pasadena: A 37-year-old woman reported to police that someone stole her bicycle that was in the back yard of her home in the 1200 block of Holmespun Drive Saturday.

A collision between a motorcycle and a car on the outerloop of Interstate 695 in Parkville late Saturday morning temporarily closed all outerloop lanes and sent the motorcyclist to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in critical condition, according to Maryland State Police. State troopers responded to the accident scene, near Perring Parkway, about 11:36 a.m. and found the motorcyclist seriously injured, police said. No one else was injured in the collision, police said. The motorcyclist was transported to Shock Trauma by a state police medevac helicopter, police said.

Mountain Road (MD 177) in Pasadena was closed in both directions on Tuesday morning as Anne Arundel County Fire Department officials investigated what it deemed was a suspicious item near a dumpster, but about an hour later county police said the state highway had been reopened after the item was deemed safe. The state Department of Transportation reported at 9:11 a.m., that MD 177 was closed in both directions. Anne Arundel County Fire Department Division Chief Keith Swindle said that MD 177 between Postal Court and Magothy Beach Road was closed as state and local fire officials investigated the scene.

Anne Arundel County police on Monday evening arrested two Pasadena men on drug charges after seizing more than three pounds of marijuana and other marijuana items from their residence, said police officials on Tuesday morning in a prepared statement. Officials said that at approximately 5:10 p.m., members of the Eastern District's tactical patrol unit and tactical narcotics team executed a controlled dangerous substance (CDS) warrant at the 1200 block of Hillside Road in Pasadena.

Anne Arundel County Police said Monday that a 15-year-old boy who was struck in a hit-and-run accident in Pasadena on Friday night has died. Skylar Marion, 15, of Pasadena, had been walking along Mountain Road — a dangerous roadway with a long history of fatalities — with two other juveniles at about 9:25 p.m. when he and a 13-year-old girl from Clearwater Beach were struck by a passing vehicle. Skylar was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, and on Monday afternoon was pronounced dead, police said.

Rescue crews spent nearly an hour Friday freeing a 15-year-old boy from waist-deep mud in Pasadena, officials said. The teen was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma Center with serious, but not life threatening injuries, said Anne Arundel County Fire Department Capt. Michael Pfaltzgraff. It wasn't immediately clear how the teen ended up in the mud near Water Oak Point and Old Water Oak Point roads, he said. Crews were dispatched around 1:30 p.m. A technical rope rescue using wood planks was used to free the teen.

A 35-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a car in Pasadena shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, officials said. Anne Arundel County police identified the woman as Karla Nicole Wilson, 31, of Mayfield Avenue in Baltimore. She was struck near the intersection of Fort Smallwood and Pittman roads and was taken to Baltimore Washington Medical Center in Glen Burnie with life-threatening injuries, Anne Arundel County Division Chief Keith Swindle said. Police later identified the driver of the car as Jacqueline Nichole Bowers, 28, of Pasadena.

Howard Thomas "Has" Sachs, a retired Crown Cork and Seal manager and a coach, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Feb. 24 at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 77 and lived in Pasadena. Born in Baltimore and raised on Sidney Avenue in Westport, he was a 1953 graduate of Southern High School, where he earned varsity letters in baseball, football and basketball. Family said he played on the same team as Al Kaline, a Westport friend who went on to play for the Detroit Tigers and is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

A Pasadena man was charged with stealing bronze grave markers that vanished from grave sites in Glen Haven Memorial Park in Glen Burnie, according to Anne Arundel County police. Dustin Landon Grogan, 42, of the first block of Wishing Rock Road, is facing a theft charge, police said Tuesday. He was held in lieu of $5,000 bail, according to court records. Police said they recovered four markers from the cemetery, as well as several related metal pieces, at a home in Glen Burnie, and now are trying to find relatives of the people named on the markers.