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Three men were indicted this week on charges that they broke into a house in Owen Brown on Jan. 17, hid in the basement until the owner and his girlfriend returned and threatened to kill them while stealing $50,000 in electronics, jewelry and cash. Deron Maurice Webb, 24, of Elkridge, Tjon M. Johnson, 25, of Columbia and Shamal I. Chapman, 26, of Laurel are each facing 20 charges ranging from armed robbery and assault to burglary and false imprisonment. They are being held in the Howard County Detention Center on bails ranging from $250,000 to $1 million after their arrests in late March.

Two men who set up shop directly across from the state police barracks in Jessup are the first to be charged under a new state trademark counterfeiting law.Police said the two men are suspected of selling thousands of dollars in counterfeit designer goods -- Tommy Hilfiger sweat shirts and watches, Rolex watches and Disney T-shirts that came with Warner Brothers cartoon characters -- from their roadside stand y across the street from the Waterloo barracks on...

Some are of the Mickey Mouse variety. Others have faces of ducks, rabbits or the Queen of Hearts. There are those that are everyday plain, and plenty more are worn out, beat up, and mighty ugly. Dig a little deeper, though and behold: Is that watch a Rolex?"We don't know if it's a Rolex or a 'Roex,' " says Theresa Segreti of the American Visionary Art Museum. "We haven't looked too closely at it!"Perhaps she'd better hurry up and do so. The could-be Rolex is one of 10,000 timepieces the Visionary is hoping to collect to complement its next major exhibition, ominously titled "The End is Near!

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For some sailors, the Miami OCR regatta is a way to get known. For others, it's a way to stay in the international nautical spotlight. The five-day event, which will begin tomorrow, is the first of three regattas that will determine the U.S. sailing team. It is a time to test new boats, cement partnerships and forge new ones. In the case of Kevin Hall of Bowie, it means a fresh start after his disappointing 11th-place finish in the Finn class at the Athens Olympics. "I'm pretty optimistic about next time," said Hall, a cancer survivor who battled International Olympic Committee bureaucracy and personal setbacks during the Summer Games.

YOU have probably noticed from the newspape advertisements that the only items available for Christmas this year are watches.There are Swatch watches, sport watches, $25 watches, $15,000 watches, moon watches, deep sea watches. There are Gucci watches, Swiss Army watches and, if you walk down Fifth Avenue, you can see miles of card tables displaying fake Rolex watches.Why all the watches, when presumably most of us already have a watch?Norman Lear, a watch merchant, told me, "People no longer wear a watch to tell the time -- they wear it to make a statement."

One recent Monday morning, Randi Place and Robert Wetzel took their horses out for a ride. Ricky Martin and Rolex -- both Tennessee walkers, a breed known for its smooth gait -- carried their riders to the Liberty Reservoir in Carroll County. This was no ordinary ride, however. Randi and Robert were accompanied on horseback by a minister, as well as a good friend who would serve as their best man. A dozen of the couple's family members and friends -- including Randi's father and sisters who flew in at the last minute from California -- waited on foot at the reservoir.

There's a certain tradition involved in taking the children t see Santa that should not include, it seems to me, Santa firing up a Winston.It's probably also considered bad form for Santa to be seen talking on the phone with his bookmaker, although that is apparently what we saw the other day.To recap, the whole ugly business began when my wife and I sat down and thought: What can we do to make our lives as hellish as possible in the next couple of hours?Suddenly...

Federal prosecutors in August 2012 announced that two men, Bryan Eammon Williams and Lawrence Lee Hayes, had been sentenced to 11 years and 15 years respectively for their roles in a cocaine distribution conspiracy. The details of the case are rather fascinating if you keep reading, and even moreso if you start connecting dots.  The press release about Hayes' and Williams' sentences includes a canned quote from Ava Cooper-Davis, the special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Washington field office, calling the case "drug interdiction at its best.

Freshly sprung from college in 1979, I was giddy with excitement after landing my first "real" job. Hired as a publishing house secretary, I could barely comprehend all the perks coming my way. Paid vacation! A business card with my name on it! My elation fell flat, however, when I saw the hand-me-down office chair parked in front of my desk: a lumpish gray cube, upholstered with what seemed a hybrid of burlap and sandpaper. Dubious stains splattered the seat, which was so low-slung that while typing I looked like a chimpanzee swatting at bananas above my head.