Pasadena Woman

A 28-year-old Pasadena woman told police she was raped early Friday morning by a man who said he would give her a ride home, police said.According to the police report, the woman was at the Brass Rail Bar on Hog Neck Road and asked a man she knew from her Alcoholics Anonymous meeting to drive her home.Instead of driving her home, she said, he drove her to a desertedstreet and raped her.The woman said she knew the man's first name, but not his last. He was described as about 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 120 pounds.

County narcotics investigators seized cocaine worth more than $21,000 from a New York man who had arrived at the BWI Amtrak station Wednesday.Detectives said they were working undercover at the Linthicum station at about 9:30 p.m. when they saw a man get off the train from New York.They began talking to the man and he agreed to let them search his luggage. Police said they found 217 grams of cocaine inside his bags. One gram was found inside his sock, police said.Wascar AntonioTapia, 30, of the Bronx was charged with bringing cocaine into the state and possession with intent to distribute cocaine.

A man convicted of raping a woman in her Cape St. Claire home -- andthen returning to the house five days later to rape her teen-age daughter -- was sentenced yesterday to two life terms in prison.Michael Richard Smith, 31, also was sentenced to a total of 35 years for breaking the jaw of a woman he had met near a Pasadena bar and for assaulting a Pasadena woman after forcing his way into her home.All of the attacks occurred within three weeks in September and October 1990.In a letter contained in court files, the woman who suffered the broken jaw wrote: "The man is a sick, scared, brutal . . . 'perverted' gentleman and he had no right to hurt my ego and my body the way he did."

Seldom is a world record broken as nonchalantly as the one eclipsed earlier this month by Nancy Brown of Pasadena.The 55-year-old member and coach of the Severna Park YMCA Masters swim team was having so much fun on her recent trip to Barbados that she nearly swapped herchance to compete for the opportunity to relax."

A man convicted of raping a motel clerk faces the prospect of life in prison after pleading guilty yesterday to raping a woman in her Cape St. Claire home -- and then returning to the house five days later to rape another woman.Michael Richard Smith, 31, also pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting a woman he had met near a Pasadena bar, and to assault with intent to rape in connection with an attack on a Pasadena woman, Assistant State's Attorney Eugene M. Whissel II said. In that sexual assault, Smith followed the woman home and told her sparks were flying out of her car's exhaust pipe before forcing his wayinto her house, the prosecutor said.

In football, it's called piling on. In life, it's called adding insult to injury.In the case of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland and its relationship with Judy Marsh of Pasadena, let's call it a callous disregard for a human life.The insurance company has told Marsh, once again, that it will not pay for the cancer treatment she got at Duke University Medical Center.The first time around, the Blues insisted that Marsh's request for a bone marrow transplant -- her only chance for survival, her doctors said -- was cooked up by Dr. Quack.

Judy Marsh, a Pasadena resident who has fought a well-publicized battle with her insurance company while struggling against breast cancer, has cleared the final and most dangerous phase of a controversial treatment method at a North Carolina hospital.On Saturday, doctors at Duke University Hospital Cancer Center in Durham injected bone marrow they removed from her body the week before -- and so far, Marsh's body has accepted the transplant. All they can do now is wait and see what happens during the next five weeks, said her husband, Roland.

The phrase "pay phone" has taken on a new meaning for the resident of a Glen Burnie apartment building.Thomas Earl Strempeck, of the 7900 block Silent Shadow Court, reported on July 7 that his telephone service had been disconnected. Then he received a phone bill for $2,231.71 for the period of July 5-18.Residents of two other apartments got bills totaling $906.47.An investigator for the phone company went to the attic and discovered that wires to the apartments were sliced and tapped into another apartment in the building.