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The Baltimore-Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Baltimore Washington Regional Government Procurement Fair at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Greenbelt Marriott, 6400 Ivy Lane in Greenbelt. The event allows businesspeople to meet procurement officials from approximately 50 government agencies. Online and telephone registration is required by noon tomorrow. The registration fee is $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers by today; $95 tomorrow and at the door. Information: www.baltwash chamber.

Cranberry Mall is site of children's coat collectionCranberry Mall will be the drop-off site for WTTR-AM radio's Coats for Kids campaign to benefit Shepherd's Staff in Westminster.Residents and shoppers are urged to drop off unwanted children's coats at the mall. Modern Ideal will dry-clean the coats and give them to Shepherd's Staff, a Westminster-area ecumenical ministry that provides a variety of services to those in need.Shepherd's Staff will distribute the coats to needy families and children in the county.

A Frederick County man was arrested late Wednesday in connection with the armed robbery of Pizza Hut in the 140 Village Shopping Center in Westminster.The suspect was apprehended less than an hour after the robbery was reported, Westminster police said.The man is also a suspect in the armed robbery of a High's Store in the 400 block of E. Main St. in Westminster on Monday, police said.David M. Evanick, 34, of Walkersville, was charged with armed robbery, robbery, first- and second-degree assault, and theft over $300.

Alcohol and drugs contributed to the shooting of a Taneytown pizza delivery woman last winter when four teen-agers planned to rob her for drug money, said Joseph Murtha, a Baltimore attorney representing the alleged shooter.The first-degree attempted murder trial of Edward F. "Eddie" Sible began yesterday in Carroll County Circuit Court before Judge Francis M. Arnold.Sible, 19, of Harney is accused of firing two shots at Linda D. Bond, 48, of Westminster. One struck the side of her Toyota, and the other opened a baseball-size hole in the passenger window.

A CAST OF 40 will present "The Door," a musical dramatization of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ at 7 ++ p.m. April 5 at St. John's United Methodist Church.The production is costumed with sets and special effects. The cantata, published by Dennis and Nan Allen, uses background music from a compact disc.A cantata typically includes recitation, choral pieces and solos. At St. John's, two soloists will perform -- Patti Therit as Mary and Carroll Kelbaugh as Judas.The play opens with a misty exodus into life 2,000 years ago. Two ladies carry terra-cotta candle pots up the center aisle of the church.

Hoping to thwart an armed robber who has hit a half-dozen stores since Dec. 22, state police met yesterday with those most affected by the rash of robberies in Carroll and Howard counties -- the owners or representatives of Pizza Hut, Little George's, High's and 7-Eleven.Mel Higgs, who owns six Little George's convenience stores in Carroll County, was among those invited to the Westminster barracks to meet with investigators. He said he is pleased with the open communication between police and store owners.

La-Van Hawkins Urban City Foods, the largest African-American franchisee in the country, is in the midst of moving its headquarters from Baltimore to Detroit, where the company expects to make half its sales.Hawkins, a 37-year-old fast-food entrepreneur originally from Chicago, owns Urban City Foods and Wolverine Pizza, which operate 72 Burger King franchises nationwide -- and plan another 150 by 2001 -- as well as Pizza Hut and Perkins Family Restaurant franchises.The corporate offices on North Charles Street closed last month and will reopen in downtown Detroit within another month, said Laura Williams, Hawkins' executive administrative assistant.

Sherice Proctor and Megan Rollins are seemingly interchangeable in Arundel's backcourt. Both can slash, hit the three, find an open teammate (often each other), beat a press, give opposing guards fits and, most importantly, come up with their best at crunch time.Apart, both would be just fine handling all the chores of a point guard.But together?"They cause a lot of havoc," said Arundel coach Lee Rogers.Rollins, a 5-foot-5 junior, remembers playing with the older crowd one day during her middle school years.

The Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission gave approval yesterday for an Eldersburg commercial center that will house a Pizza Hut restaurant.The vote to approve the site plan for the $1 million project at Route 32 and MacBeth Way was unanimous."

A Taneytown teen-ager, who was promised a lenient jail sentence in exchange for her testimony, said yesterday that co-defendant Edward F. "Eddie" Sible admitted several times after an attempted armed robbery last winter that he shot a pizza delivery woman.Melissa A. Redding, 19, is the state's key witness against Sible, 19, of Harney, who is accused of shooting Linda D. Bond, 48, in a botched robbery attempt Feb. 20.Redding told the Carroll County Circuit Court jurors that she, Sible, Cory A. Coil, 20, of Taneytown and her boyfriend, Leo "Joey" Brandenburg, 18, of Taneytown, were driving around and drinking before Sible suggested robbing the Pizza Hut delivery driver because they wanted money to buy crack cocaine.

He wears Reebok athletic shoes, eats at Pizza Hut and drives a Chevy from JBA Chevrolet. As his prospects as a commercial pitchman take off along with his career on the football field, Joe Flacco can increasingly be heard in the media urging consumers to follow his lead. For now, endorsement deals by the Ravens quarterback are mostly regional, such as the agreement to push Pizza Hut of Maryland, where workers serve "Joe Flacco's favorite pizza," and advertisements for Glen Burnie-based JBA that show "2 Good Joes," the other being the local dealership's longtime owner.

Annapolis city attorney recertified to practice Annapolis' acting city attorney has been recertified to practice law in the state, after what he described as an oversight left him uncertified for the past two years. Stephen Kling, who began serving as the acting city attorney in October, was recertified Monday, according to Angelita Plemmer, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Judiciary. Kling did not respond to a call requesting comment. Kling's appointment came after Gov. Martin O'Malley appointed former City Attorney Shaem C. Spencer to a judgeship in District Court.

For 50 years, Don Sekira has watched Howard County morph from a sleepy farming community into one of the nation's most affluent areas. The manager at Kendall Hardware store in Clarksville has seen plenty, but violent crime has been almost nonexistent. That's why Sekira was alarmed to learn that masked gunmen robbed the Pizza Hut restaurant next to the hardware store Sunday night - the second armed robbery of a business in the area in 10 days. "It's uncommon for Clarksville," Sekira said yesterday just before going on his lunch break at the store in the 12200 block of Clarksville Pike.

If you believed everything you heard or read yesterday, presidential candidates would settle their race in a bowling alley, a cat park would be coming soon to a vacant lot in Annapolis, and a new e-mail service could send messages back in time. From cyberspace to outer space, April Fools' Day pranks ran rampant yesterday. And in addition to the phony news releases and crank phone calls, corporations continued a recent trend of jumping on the hoax bandwagon. Among yesterday's corporate ruses was Google's debut of "Gmail Custom Time," a service that enables users to send e-mail messages with time stamps from the past.

The Baltimore-Washington Corridor Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Baltimore Washington Regional Government Procurement Fair at 8 a.m. Tuesday at the Greenbelt Marriott, 6400 Ivy Lane in Greenbelt. The event allows businesspeople to meet procurement officials from approximately 50 government agencies. Online and telephone registration is required by noon tomorrow. The registration fee is $55 for members, $70 for nonmembers by today; $95 tomorrow and at the door. Information: www.baltwash chamber.

The owner of an Ellicott City Pizza Hut was fined $1,000 for an incident March 18, when several underage employees were found by county liquor inspector Detective Martin Johnson drinking vodka in the business after closing. According to the decision by the county's Alcoholic Beverage Hearing Board, Johnson noticed cars parked around the restaurant after closing time and found a 25-year-old manager trainee inside with three teenage employees. A friend of the cook came to the restaurant, at 10120 Baltimore National Pike, to give him a ride home and brought a bottle of vodka, which all were drinking when the manager trainee showed up. He stayed and had a beer until Johnson arrived.

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Here's to the classic neighborhood pizza joint, long may it live. Unfortunately, this garlicky and grand quick-and-dirty eating destination has become something of a dinosaur in these days of Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza and other big chains. But a fine example exists in Catonsville, tucked into a corner of the Forty West shopping center on Rolling Road. By all rights, this place should be called Tony's Pizza, and, indeed, that's what the voice on the other end of the phone says when you call for a take-out order.

I THOUGHT THAT, in today's column, I would heal the nation. The nation suffered a wound during the recent presidential election as a result of the rift between the red states -- defined as "states where 'foreign cuisine' pretty much means Pizza Hut" -- and the blue states, defined as "states that believe they are smarter than the red states, despite the fact that it takes the average blue-state resident 15 minutes to order one cup of coffee." Some blue-state residents are so upset about the election that they're talking about moving to Canada, which is technically a foreign nation.

SHOREVIEW, Minn. - At the gigantic Target store in this Minneapolis suburb, you can sip a cafe latte at Starbucks, savor a slice with pepperoni from Pizza Hut - or get your ear infection diagnosed at the MinuteClinic. Target Corp., the nation's second-largest retailer, has a half-dozen emergency health clinics at stores in its home state of Minnesota. It plans to open eight in the Baltimore region in the next two months. Staffed by nurse practitioners and with an assurance that patients are in and out within 15 minutes, the clinics stress convenience and dispatch.