Robert Shaw

* Elkridge: Route 95 north of Route 100: About 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, police stopped a 1977 Ford truck which had stolen tags on it. Police charged the driver, David Robert Shaw, 32, of the 600 block of Cadbury Drive in Odenton, with theft of a motor vehicle. His license had also been revoked and suspended.* Ellicott City: 3200 block of Sonia Trail: A $500 chain saw and a $50 weed wacker were stolen between 4 p.m. Saturday and 7:30 a.m. or Sunday from Wilder Builders.

The first thing that strikes you upon opening this new book on the assassination of John F. Kennedy is that author Gerald Posner has not seen the hundreds of thousands of pages of newly released documents. They were declassified pursuant to the JFK records act and signed into law by then-President Bush in January. I have spent countless evenings immersed in these files over the past six months and find that the very title of Mr. Posner's book is presumptuous: It asks us to believe he has closed the case before we have had a chance to digest the facts that have only now been made public.

On May 22, 2006, WILLIAM B. SHAW beloved husband of Catherine (nee Loesch) SHAW; brother of Ruth Matthews of Fort Worth, TX; devoted father of Robert A. Shaw and wife Carla Robertson of New Orleans, LA., Stephen W. Shaw and wife Joan Shaw; grandsons, Ray and O. Daniel Shaw of Baltimore, MD. Mr. Shaw donated his body to Maryland Anatomy Board to advance Medical Education and Research. There will be no viewing or funeral. Those desiring may make memorials to Bethany United Church of Christ, 1932 Gwynn Oak Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21207.

Moods of Christmas The lowdown -- About 40 years ago, the late, great choral director Robert Shaw and colorful arranger Robert Russell Bennett (celebrated for his arrangements of music from Broadway hits) devised one of the most popular holiday celebrations in the repertoire -- The Many Moods of Christmas. The piece offers suites of favorite carols imaginatively scored for chorus and orchestra to make the familiar tunes seem perpetually fresh. As part of the Sundays at Central concert series, The Many Moods of Christmas will be performed by vocal and instrumental forces of Central Presbyterian Church, including organ and bells.

ROY SCHEIDER, 75 Film actor Roy Scheider, the actor best known for his role as a police chief in the blockbuster movie Jaws, died yesterday at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hospital in Little Rock, hospital spokesman David Robinson said. The hospital did not release his cause of death. Hospital spokeswoman Leslie Taylor said Scheider had been treated for multiple myeloma at the hospital's Myeloma Institute for Research and Therapy for the past two years. Mr. Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss starred in the 1975 movie Jaws, which was widely hailed as the film that launched the era of the Hollywood blockbuster.

Four men -- three incumbents and a newcomer -- will vie for three available seats on the Taneytown City Council.The filing deadline for candidacy in the city's May 19 election was yesterday.The candidates are incumbents Henry C. Heine, James L. McCarron and Thomas J. Denike, and political newcomer Roger Keller.Mr. Heine, 46, a Mass Transit Administration engineer, said the council will need to make decisions concerning the city's basic infrastructure and the structure of the downtown area over the next four years.

There are two TV treats tonight, but both of the goodies are also oldies: a double feature of early James Bond movies on TBS and, on ABC, a prime-time showing of Pee-wee Herman's delightful first film. Other than that, and a fresh episode of "The Marshal," tonight's TV is as dull as Whitewater.* "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" (8 p.m.-10 p.m., Channel 2) -- CBS was already through with its Saturday-morning cycle of "Pee-wee's Playhouse" shows, and into reruns, when the Paul Reubens indecent-exposure scandal hit the news.

In a rehearsal room at Morgan State University, Nathan Carter slaps at wobbly pitches as if he were swatting mosquitos."C'mon ladies!" he says. "One, two, sing! Sopranos and altos, sing!"Carter is transforming students slouched in Boss and Hilfiger chic into the precise and powerful instrument he needs to conquer Carnegie Hall. As the singers enter the brilliance of the spiritual "Great Day," the notes fall in line, clean and bright as the righteous marching to heaven.The Morgan State University choir is a week from a concert in New York that will mark another achievement in its distinguished history under Nathan Carter.

CBS helps the television year go out on a lovely note -- several, in fact -- as it airs "The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts" at 9 tonight (Channel 11).For two glorious but all-too-fleeting hours viewers bask not only in artistic excellence, but in the needed reassurance that excellence is sometimes still rewarded in America, even if it's never featured on the cover of People magazine.Of the seven honorees tonight, it's likely that most viewers could readily identify only two -- country music legend Roy Acuff and actor Gregory Peck.

Before voting on a zoning amendment that would open farmland to bioscience research facilities, the county commissioners will tour Spring Valley Laboratories in Woodbine. Spring Valley, a 110-acre farm, has housed labs for breeding and testing animals since 1980. The business tests vaccines and has contracts with the National Institutes of Health and several private companies. It also is involved in bioterrorism research. The laboratory, which employs 30 scientists and lab technicians, had a payroll of nearly $1.2 million last year.