Purse

The following is compiled from local police reports. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have information about these crimes, call the Wilkens Precinct at 410-887-0872. Hilton Avenue, 1200 block, 3:30-4 p.m. June 4. Man saw former friend's vehicle parked outside his residence and heard her voice. To avoid confrontation, he went to another section of property. When he returned an hour later, he found his laptop broken and pizza box on chair knocked over.

Michael Saunders has learned that you don't have to bet on horses to make money at the Preakness. The co-owner of Baltimore-based Universal Limousines doesn't plan to get much sleep this weekend. He'll be ferrying clients around day and night to race-related events. Saunders is one of many area business owners who hope to reap some of the economic benefits that come with the Preakness, the second jewel of the Triple Crown, which is expected to attract more than 100,000 people to the region.

Spring brings renewal, and that was the feeling among some horsemen Wednesday, when the Maryland Jockey Club released a Pimlico spring stakes schedule that includes the return of the Grade III Allaire duPont Distaff on Preakness Day and a $100,000 boost to the purse for the day before's Grade II Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. The MJC unveiled the stakes schedule after reaching agreement with the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association and Maryland Horse Breeders Association. All that remains is for the Maryland Racing Commission to approve it Feb. 15 at its monthly meeting at Laurel Park.

Laurel Park Overnight purses to increase Feb. 2 thanks to slots revenue Revenue from slot machines at Hollywood Casino Perryville and The Casino at Ocean Downs will allow Laurel Park to raise overnight purses by an average of $26,000 per day beginning with the Feb. 2 card. Laurel's average daily overnight purse target is now $186,000, up 16 percent from a previous average of $160,000 at the winter meet that began Jan. 1. "This will give our racing office a chance to compete with surrounding states who have used revenue from slot machines to become significant players in the Mid-Atlantic region," Maryland Jockey Club President Tom Chuckas said.

Before he even had presented the Founders Cup to the golf public, LPGA Commissioner Mike Whan noted he already had received "at least 50" e-mails from players with suggestions on how to improve the novel event. Here's one more. Let the players keep half their winnings. The other 50 percent of the purse still would be earmarked for LPGA/USGA Girls Golf developmental program. Players would be free to donate whatever additional slice of their paycheck to the cause. Win-win.

What a ridiculous, nonsensical editorial about horse racing! ("More empty promises," Nov. 10.) In one sentence, you write: "The trouble is, the theory about better purses leading to more interest in racing is not true. " The last sentence in the same paragraph states: "It could … boost simulcasting revenues. " If it is boosting simulcasting revenues, it is by definition leading to more interest in racing. One needs to go no further than the Monmouth, N.J. experiment over the summer to see the connection between bigger purses and larger fields and increased betting interest.

Campaign signs have likely been around since Eve convinced Adam to endorse the Apple ticket, but it's really taken the 21 s t century residents of Baltimore County to perfect the next big thing: the lawsuit over political signs. Gentle readers will recall that the county's crackdown on an oversized yard sign promoting Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s campaign for governor caused its owner to sue earlier this year. A judge subsequently ruled that the county acted within its power.

A Baltimore teen was arrested after a woman spotted him at a Brooklyn bus stop and told police he had robbed and sexually assaulted her two months earlier, according to court records. Police were called to the corner of Fifth Street and East Patapsco Avenue about 9 p.m. Saturday, where a woman told police that a man standing at a bus stop was the same man who had robbed her of $200 and attempted to rape her June 26, records show. "You don't remember me," she said, yelling and pointing at the man, according to charging documents.

University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love was so angry at George Huguely V in the days before she was killed that she hit him with her purse, spilling its contents all over the floor, according to court documents released Wednesday. Love, 22, a Cockeysville resident and graduate of Notre Dame Preparatory School, left Huguely's off-campus apartment without some items from the thrown purse, including her cell phone, forcing the former couple to communicate via e-mail, the documents say. Love showed a teammate an e-mail Huguely sent to her, the papers say. The contents of the e-mail were redacted from the court papers, but a source who spoke to that teammate said the e-mail, viewed on April 30, was described as threatening.