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Baltimore County police were looking for a Cub Hill couple who failed to return home yesterday after taking a walk to a mall.Salvator Norman, 85, and his wife, Hortensia, 70, of the 9300 block of Waltham Woods Road left home about 11 a.m. for North Plaza Mall, about five blocks from their home, police said.Police said Mr. Norman, who suffers from dementia, is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and was wearing a black coat and hat. His wife is 5 feet tall, weighs 150 pounds and also was wearing a black coat.

A missing Hampstead teen-ager was safe at home yesterday after she and her former boyfriend were located Friday in Florida, where he was jailed while Maryland authorities sought his return to face charges here, Hampstead police said. Allison M. Zgorski, 18, of Golf View Lane was reported missing Feb. 13. Her parents called police after she failed to return home from a date with William T. Parrish III, 19, formerly of Owings Mills, said Hampstead Chief R. Kenneth Meekins. Meekins said his agency had sufficient probable cause to request an arrest warrant Saturday.

The opening of a new group home in Northwest Baltimore recently has allowed four mentally retarded young people who had been treated out of state to return to Maryland, where they can be closer to their families and their care costs considerably less.The home, on Thornbury Road in Mount Washington, is operated under the auspices of the Chimes -- a private, non-profit program based in Baltimore that provides education, vocational training and supervised homes to children and adults who are mentally retarded or have related conditions.

"Pops, when I come home, Natty Bohs and crabs?" Lance Cpl. Eugene C. "Gene" Mills III asked his father, Gene Mills II, during an impromptu phone call early last week, about a month before the younger man was due to return home to Laurel from Afghanistan. "One more mission, Pops, and I'll be home," the son told his father. "Love you, Pops. " Those were the last words his father - a retired Prince George's County police officer known as "Big Gene" - would ever hear from "Little Gene," 21, a High Road Academy graduate and Marine stationed in Helmand province, on his second deployment to the country.

ANNAPOLIS // Navy's football team will face three bowl participants and six teams from BCS conferences in 2006. The Mids return 18 starters off last year's squad that went 8-4, won the Commander-In-Chief's Trophy for a third-straight year and defeated Colorado State, 51-30, to win the Poinsettia Bowl. Navy plays Notre Dame at M&T Bank Stadium on Oct. 28, Conference USA champion Tulsa (Sept. 23) and Insight Bowl participant Rutgers (Oct. 14) to Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. Navy will open up the 2006 campaign with back-to-back home games against East Carolina (Sept.

Gov. William Donald Schaefer today described war-ravaged Kuwait as a country darkened by clouds of smoke, littered with live ammunition and reeling from destruction at the hands of the Iraqi military."

NEW ORLEANS - A Federal Emergency Management Agency official says Hurricane Gustav evacuees whose homes remain uninhabitable can have their hotel costs paid by FEMA. David Garratt, a deputy assistant administrator for the agency, said last night that the aid won't be available for short-term evacuees who fled the storm, spent a few nights in a hotel and then returned home. Rather FEMA's program pays for "extended stays" in hotels for people who can't return to their homes because of power outages, damage or for other reasons related to the storm.

An announcement from President Bush that we will not return to 12-month tours until after the summer will do nothing to relieve the burden of those currently deployed for 15 months - some of whom will not return home until summer 2009. Almost half of the active-duty Army's front-line units are currently deployed for 15 months. Three of these units are on their fourth tour. Almost all have served at least twice. This is the group of soldiers that has borne an immense, disproportionate burden from our wars.

In an effort to better identify service members suffering serious psychological problems as a result of combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Defense Department plans to perform an additional health assessment of troops three to six months after they come home, officials said Friday. The new policy, to begin this spring, will add a third health questionnaire to those given to troops before and immediately after deployments. Military health officials have found that soldiers leaving the war zone often minimize or cover up mental issues for fear that admitting any problem could delay their return home.

The Orioles have told their coaches that they can return home and take a few days off while they wait to see whether baseball's labor dispute will be settled in time to resume the season."