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POLICE LOG* Harper's Choice: 10900 block of Clarksville Pike: Someone shattered the passenger side window on a 1990 Chevrolet Lumina between4:30 p.m. Thursday and 7:20 a.m. Friday.10800 block of Olde Woods Way: Someone stole the front and rear registration plates from a 1984 Jeep between 8 a.m. July 1 and 2 p.m. Thursday.* Wilde Lake: 5000 block of Summer Day Lane: Someone shattered the passenger side rear window on a 1988 Honda Civic between 7:30 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. Friday. Entry wasn't gained.

Baltimore police are looking for whoever fatally stabbed a man downtown yesterday morning. The stabbing occurred at 11:40 a.m. at Jasper and Mulberry streets, according to police. The victim was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead. Police did not release his identity last night. Police said they are looking for a red midsize sport utility vehicle with damage on the passenger side in connection with the incident.

POLICE LOG* Kings Contrivance: 3100 block of Eden Brook Drive: A $300 car stereo and cassette tapes were stolen from a Volkswagen Jetta Wednesday or Thursday after someone broke its driver's side window.* Owen Brown: 6900 block of Garland Lane: The passenger side window of a tan Oldsmobile Royale was smashed between last Tuesday and Thursday.

Anna Levin has never considered art her strength. So, when the Harper's Choice Middle School pupil was named one of five winners of the Images of Freedom art contest as part of Black History Month, she was thrilled. "I was so surprised," said the 13-year-old eighth-grader. Sponsored by the Columbia Association, Corridor Transportation Corp. and the Howard County Office of Public Information, the contest also celebrates the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, the 1954 landmark decision that ended school segregation.

* Long Reach: 6200 block of Hidden Clearing: Someone scratched the paint on the passenger side of a 1993 Honda Accord between 7 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday.* Oakland Mills: 9400 block of Bullring Lane: Someone smashed a driver's side window on a 1990 Mazda MX-5 between 8:45 p.m. Friday and 6:30 a.m. Saturday.

Baltimore police are looking for whoever fatally stabbed a man downtown yesterday morning. The stabbing occurred at 11:40 a.m. at Jasper and Mulberry streets, according to police. The victim was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead. Police did not release his identity last night. Police said they are looking for a red midsize sport utility vehicle with damage on the passenger side in connection with the incident.

WALDORF - A 14-year-old Fort Washington boy died yesterday in a collision in Charles County, state police reported. The boy was riding with his family south on Route 5 near Waldorf about 2:20 p.m. when a northbound van crossed the median and slammed into the passenger side of their car, said Tfc. J.K. Swann. The four other passengers in the car were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries, Swann said. The driver of the van was not injured. The names of those involved were not released last night.

A tanker truck overturned yesterday, spilling 500 gallons of gasoline and closing a Brooklyn street for more than six hours, city fire officials said. The accident occurred about 8:30 a.m. in the 1500 block of Frankfurst Ave. near the Harbor Tunnel, said city Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright. Firefighters and workers from the city's Department of Public Works and the Maryland Department of the Environment contained the spill. Crews used salt, sand and an absorbent boom to soak up the gasoline.

A man was found fatally wounded early today seated in the passenger side of a pickup truck in the 100 block of N. Central Ave.A passer-by came on the shooting scene about 12:40 a.m. and flagged down a police car. The man was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he dead on arrival at 1 a.m. without regaining consciousness.Police said the victim, Alexander Morrison Jr., 37, of the 3400 block of Cornwall Road in Dundalk, was shot five times in the upper body."We know from his position that he was definitely shot while seated on the passenger side of the truck," an investigator said.

William Fischer, a private investigator from Endicott, N.Y., testified in Port Crane, N.Y., that former major-league manager Billy Martin was driving when his pickup went out of control on Christmas Day 1989 and smashed into a culvert, killing Martin. Martin's companion that night, Detroit bar owner William Reedy, is on trial for driving while intoxicated, but he has maintained that Martin was behind the wheel.Fischer said his examination of the truck on the morning after the accident showed several signs that Martin, and not Reedy, was driving.

WALDORF - A 14-year-old Fort Washington boy died yesterday in a collision in Charles County, state police reported. The boy was riding with his family south on Route 5 near Waldorf about 2:20 p.m. when a northbound van crossed the median and slammed into the passenger side of their car, said Tfc. J.K. Swann. The four other passengers in the car were taken to local hospitals with minor injuries, Swann said. The driver of the van was not injured. The names of those involved were not released last night.

A tanker truck overturned yesterday, spilling 500 gallons of gasoline and closing a Brooklyn street for more than six hours, city fire officials said. The accident occurred about 8:30 a.m. in the 1500 block of Frankfurst Ave. near the Harbor Tunnel, said city Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright. Firefighters and workers from the city's Department of Public Works and the Maryland Department of the Environment contained the spill. Crews used salt, sand and an absorbent boom to soak up the gasoline.

A Dunkirk man who killed his brother's close friend in a four-car crash in Waysons Corner in 2000 received a sentence yesterday that combines 18 months of jail time with house arrest, loss of driving privileges, community service and other penalties. Driving drunk and speeding on a suspended license with his 6-year-old son in the car, Gary Lee Rawlings, 27, initiated a crash that caused the death of Frank A. Vaughn, 51, of Forestville after a Father's Day party both attended. "This is not a `there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I' case," said Assistant State's Attorney Shelly A. Stickell, who sought a four-year prison term for Rawlings, who pleaded guilty in March to manslaughter.

An unidentified pedestrian was killed last night when he was hit by a pickup truck in a hit-and-run incident on Philadelphia Road near Gunpowder Falls in Bradshaw, Baltimore County police said.The man was walking north in the southbound lane of Philadelphia Road near Forge Road about 9: 30 p.m. when he was struck by a white Ford F-150 pickup, police said.He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.Witnesses told police that the driver did not stop. Police said the vehicle will have damage to its front and right passenger side.

The Ravens are discussing what disciplinary action they might take against Ralph Staten after the reserve safety was arrested recently for a handgun violation after an auto accident in Baltimore County.Officer Gary Morgan found a 9-mm semiautomatic handgun on the passenger side of the front seat of Staten's 1988 black Cadillac after the former University of Alabama star failed to negotiate a curve while heading southbound on Falls Road in Cockeysville on Jan. 15.Staten's car struck and went over a guardrail.

Police said excessive speed contributed to the death yesterday of a county man whose motorcycle crashed into a car at Ritchie Highway and Bon Air Avenue in Brooklyn Park.Police said Norman Gene Morral, 25, of the 5200 block of Kramme Ave. in Brooklyn Heights, was riding a 1996 Suzuki GSX-600F motorcycle south on Ritchie Highway at high speed about 9: 33 a.m. when he crashed into the passenger side of a 1996 Buick Century, whose driver was attempting to turn left from Ritchie Highway onto westbound Bon Air Avenue.

Police said excessive speed contributed to the death yesterday of a county man whose motorcycle crashed into a car at Ritchie Highway and Bon Air Avenue in Brooklyn Park.Police said Norman Gene Morral, 25, of the 5200 block of Kramme Ave. in Brooklyn Heights, was riding a 1996 Suzuki GSX-600F motorcycle south on Ritchie Highway at high speed about 9: 33 a.m. when he crashed into the passenger side of a 1996 Buick Century, whose driver was attempting to turn left from Ritchie Highway onto westbound Bon Air Avenue.

A Yellow Van driver was critically injured yesterday when a towering red oak tree on the edge of Leakin Park fell and crushed the roof of his sedan as he was traveling west on Windsor Mill Road.Clarence Henry "Hank" Cammeron, 44, a Yellow Van driver for about two years, was trapped in his Ford LTD Crown Victoria while firefighters used a collapse unit to support the roof and tree limbs -- about a foot in diameter -- that totaled the car in which Cammeron was the only occupant.Cammeron was in critical but stable condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center last night.

State police are looking for a man in his early 20s who attempted to steal a woman's purse outside the Mount Airy Ames on Friday.According to police, an Ames employee was leaving work when a man came up to her and grabbed her purse. The woman refused to let go and the man dragged her across the parking lot. When the purse strap broke, the man lost his grip and dropped the bag.The woman told police that the man jumped into a late-model pickup with a young woman and a young man in it and drove away.