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Mike Sawyers shot a 120-pound black bear this season, then turned around and added a 20-pound turkey to his freezer. That man's better than a Whole Foods deli department. Sawyers, the outdoors editor at the Cumberland Times-News, was missing from the Mount Nebo check station during the opening days of bear season for good reason. He was one of the 240 people selected in the lottery for a hunting permit. Sawyers reports that he saw nothing the first two days. But on Oct. 28, as he climbed an old logging road on the eastern side of Dan's Mountain in Allegany County, he nearly ran into his bear.

Women's basketball Terps ' DeVaughn to take part in WUG trials this week Maryland junior center Alicia DeVaughn will head to the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., this week to take part in USA Basketball Women's World University Games Team trials. DeVaughn is one of 33 of the nation's top college athletes attending the trials today to Sunday. The World University Games women's basketball competition will be held July 8-15 in Kazan, Russia. Organized by the International University Sports Federation and held every other year, the WUG event is a multi-sport competition open to men and women between the ages of 17 and 24. DeVaughn averaged 8.4 points and 7.4 rebounds per game to help Maryland to a 26-8 record and an appearance in the Sweet Sixteen.

Rockville police shot and killed a 120-pound Rottweiler-pit bull mix early Sunday after trying for hours to subdue the dog after it attacked its owner. Officers first tried using a Taser on the dog, named Jesus, but the dog ignored the shocks. Police say the dog's 38-year-old owner underwent surgery Saturday night for injuries including puncture wounds to his chest and thigh. Three children were in the house but weren't injured. Police were called to the home at 6:20 p.m. Saturday and spent hours trying to capture the animal.

Kaci DeWitt-Rickards remembers being a chunky kid with a steady diet of Burger King chicken tenders, vanilla milkshakes and Papa John's pizza. By her sophomore year in college at the University of Miami, her adolescent pudge had ballooned into a weight problem. The 5-foot-4 exercise physiology major hit her heaviest weight ever that fall in 2010, weighing in at 167 pounds. She felt bad about herself and didn't have a lot of energy. But most of all, she felt like a hypocrite as she studied for a career to help people stay fit. "If you're going to go out and teach a healthy lifestyle, you have to live it," DeWitt-Rickards remembers a professor saying that fall semester.

On December 2, 2006, Robert L. Pound Friends may call at the family owned Kirkley-Ruddick Funeral Home, P.A., 421 Crain Hwy. S.E., Glen Burnie, MD on Tuesday from 3-5 & 7-9 P.M. Services will be on Wednesday at 12:30 P.M. Interment in Crownsville MD Veterans Cemetery.

LONDON -- Britain announced yesterday that the pound will join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism Monday, tying sterling into a tighter relationship with major continental currencies.Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who during her 11 years in office has resisted pressure to link the pound to the mechanism, said yesterday that the time was "right."At the same time, Chancellor of the Exchequer John Major reduced the base, or prime, interest rate to 14 percent from 15 percent, easing a yearlong squeeze on spending.

SEATTLE - In recent years, the Orioleshave experienced plenty of these games in September, when a contender demolishes and demoralizes an overmatched also-ran playing out the string. Almost exclusively, though, the Orioles were on the wrong end of those beatings. Not now, however. Not in this crazy season. The upstart Orioles pounded the Seattle Mariners, 10-4, Monday night, amassing 15 hits and chasing starter Hector Noesi with just one out in the second inning. “Everybody is kind of just picking the next guy up. If someone doesn't get it done, the next guy does,” said first baseman Mark Reynolds.

The annual Maryland bear hunt ended Thursday night after a total of 65 bears were killed, the largest being a 372-pound male shot by a 12-year old boy. Colton Lucas of Kitzmiller in Garrett County brought down the biggest of the bears, which averaged 154 pounds, according to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. Most of the bears — 59 of them — were killed in Garrett County. The other six were killed in Allegany County. Nearly 70 percent of the bears were killed on private property.

OCEAN CITY -- At the end of the first day of fishing in the five-day White Marlin Open, Dan Orenberg of Clark, N.C., had caught a 268 1/2 -pound blue marlin worth nearly a quarter of a million dollars in prize money. By the end of Day 2 yesterday, Orenberg's catch had been drastically devalued."Today was unreal," tournament organizer Chuck Motsko said last night. "Just absolutely unreal."First, Doug Salter of Chester came to the scales at Harbour Island Marina with a 287-pound blue marlin.

In a meeting hardly anyone could have imagined a few years back, BALCO founder Victor Conte and World Anti-Doping Agency chairman Dick Pound sat down yesterday for their first face-to-face discussion about doping in sports. During the two-hour meeting in New York, they didn't discuss specific cases or name names, but had what both termed a frank conversation they hope will lead to a more productive relationship. "We talked about ... his thoughts on how we could get better at what we do," Pound said.

Nearly 1,800 pounds of unused and expired medication was turned in Harford County by more than 500 people during the Nationwide Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday, April 27. The 1,782 pounds of medicine turned in was properly disposed of and destroyed. This effort will significantly help in addressing the alarming rate of drug overdoses relating to prescription and over-the-counter medicines, county officials said. Nationally, an estimated 6.2 million Americans over the age of 12 years old reported misusing prescription drugs.

Federal agents found 500 pounds of marijuana and more than 10 kilograms of cocaine, along with an AK-47 and body armor, during raids on homes in Baltimore County and northeastern Baltimore as part of a cross-country drug investigation.  At least two men have been charged through a federal complaint in connection with the raids - Harold and Joseph Ibreham Byrd. Both men have had initial appearances in federal judge before a magistrate judge and are being detained; attorneys are not listed in court records.

The United Way of Central Maryland's Access to Healthy Food Initiative distributed more than 2.8 million pounds of groceries - enough to fill 56 tractor trailers - to low-income individuals and families, the organization announced Tuesday. Businesses, organizations and individuals, including 89 healthy food drives across the region hosted by Constellation Energy, Johns Hopkins institutions, LifeBridge Health and others, made contributions. The amount of food is nearly double the initiative's first-year goal set when it kicked off in 2011.

Those watching No. 3 St. Paul's build a 7-4 halftime lead Tuesday afternoon against No. 8 Loyola might have thought the host Crusaders would be content to settle for a routine margin of victory over a tough boys lacrosse rival. But they would've been mistaken. St. Paul's is looking to make amends for a down year in 2012 during which the Crusaders did not win a conference game and finished a dismal 3-15. To that end, the Crusaders pressed forward at every opportunity to widen the gap in what would become a dominant 19-9 victory over the Dons, who suffered their third consecutive Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference loss.

Rose Dodds from Bel Air was searching for a recipe for a cake similar to one that she enjoyed at a party. She said the texture was similar to poundcake and the almond flavor reminded her of Italian amaretti cookies. Patricia Waxman from Chapel Hill, N.C., sent in a recipe she had seen in Southern Living magazine for an amaretto-almond poundcake that she thought might be similar to the one Dodds was looking for. She thinks it is the best poundcake she has ever made: "It's moist and delicious, and it's almost impossible to stop at just one slice.

A strong odor of marijuana in a Joppa home where Harford County sheriff's deputies had responded to settle a domestic dispute on Sunday has led to the arrests of a young couple and the seizure of about eight pounds of marijuana, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said Thursday. Deputies responded to the home in the 800 block of Chatfield Road about 12:15 p.m. for a report of a verbal altercation between Michael Allen Brandt, 26, and Julia Michele Leonard, 24, the sheriff's office said.

On July 5, Bill Bennett of Timonium was aboard the charter boat Job Site, trolling the 100 fathom line out of Ocean City in search of marlin.The catch that Bennett brought aboard Captain Mitch Pierson's boat that day was, to say the least, unexpected -- an 11-foot, 857-pound mako shark that may qualify as the state record.The state record for mako shark is 766 pounds.Bennett caught the mako on 80-pound test monofilament and mono leader. The fight to land the fish lasted approximately 45 minutes.

"Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold, it brings to every man the feeling of luxury and nobility." - Sheik Abd-al-Kadir, "In Praise of Coffee," 1587. When you splurge on $4 coffee at Starbucks, it better not be an ordinary cup of joe. For many, it's not: It's a $4 respite from the office, a $4 getaway from the kiddie carpool, a happy little $4 nook of jazzy tunes, plush chairs and tasteful decor for catching up with friends over steamy mochaccinos. Such is the winning formula at Starbucks, a company whose allure is such that Baltimore's mayor is practically begging them to erect their green awnings on every other city block.

Jack Clark McDonogh, junior, 145 pounds It's hard to imagine a wrestler having a better season than Clark, who dominated the area and won the National Preps championship for a second straight time. The junior finished 45-4 this season, including 25 pins. Clark's career record in three years with the No. 1 Eagles is 138-15 with 69 pins, and he didn't lose a match to a local wrestler this season. Clark previously said one of his goals is to win four Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championships in his high school career.

Women's college basketball Terps ' Hawkins, Thomas are All-ACC Maryland senior Tianna Hawkins and junior All-American Alyssa Thomas were voted to both the Blue Ribbon Panel All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team and the head coaches' All-ACC first team, announced Monday by the conference. Thomas led the league in rebounding throughout the season with 10.3 per game, and Hawkins finished just behind her with 9.4. Thomas also finished second in assists with 5.3 per contest.