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Austin N. Rowan, 91, Harford County farmerAustin N. Rowan, a retired Harford County farmer and maintenance engineer, died Thursday from complications of a stroke at Lorien Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Belcamp. He was 91.Mr. Rowan spent his entire life on a 120-acre farm in Whiteford that has been in his family for more than 100 years. He raised beef cattle and grew crops.He was a graduate of Slate Ridge High School in Cardiff, and joined the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground as a foreman-carpenter in the ordnance depot in 1940.

State police are looking for the driver of a red Pontiac Grand Am who sped away after striking a 15-year-old girl Saturday as she walked with friends outside a homecoming dance at Westminster High School.Michelle Rowan, a ninth-grader, was taken to Carroll County General Hospital, where she was treated for knee and foot injuries, she said yesterday from her Westminster home."We all saw the car slowing, as if it were going to stop, or I never would have stepped off the curb," she said. "But the car never stopped."

After its best start ever, the Johns Hopkins men's soccer team meets its stiffest test to date tonight at 7 when it plays No. 6 Rowan (N.J.) at Homewood Field.The Blue Jays -- 9-0 and ranked No. 9 nationally -- face a team responsible for one of their three losses last season. Rowan (8-1-1) won a 1-0 game in overtime, but Hopkins coach Matt Smith has no illusions that his team should have won that game."They were the better team," Smith said. "They were the best team we faced last year, hands down.

GLASSBORO, N.J. -- The first shutout of the season suffered by the Johns Hopkins men's soccer team was the last game of the year for the Blue Jays.Chris Swanger's goal 55 seconds into the first sudden-death overtime gave Rowan a 1-0 victory last night in the NCAA Division III quarterfinals.Hopkins (18-2-2) was seeking its first trip to the national semifinals since 1994."They deserved to win. They played better than us. I hope they keep going," Hopkins coach Matt Smith said. "I don't think we played a strong game -- that is what's bothering the players.

Reserve outfielder David Santana, hitting only .183, delivered two RBI singles in the last two innings, and reliever Tom Botwin, sporting a 12.39 ERA, blanked Navy for 3 2/3 innings as Monmouth College rallied to beat the Midshipmen, 8-4, in the deciding game of the NCAA play-in series in Annapolis.The Hawks (30-19), from the Northeast Conference, capitalized on five walks, four hit batsmen and three Navy errors to gain their first NCAA tournament berth.For the Mids (26-17), with only two senior starters, it was a bitter end to an outstanding season.

Coming off a 12-6 record in women's tennis last season, Loyola picked up a pair of freshmen who have lifted the team.Nancy Turnblacer and Alison Popp are two reasons for the success of the Greyhounds, who won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship in Lake Kiamasha, N.Y., last weekend and will be going to the NCAA championships next May.Turnblacer, from Severna Park, and Popp, of Winchester, Mass., have combined for a 25-14 record while playing in the No. 1 and No. 5 spots, respectively, as the team compiled a 13-1 record.

Campaign finance reform is needed nowBill Clinton's pre-election plea for campaign finance reform was made shortly after attending a $50,000-a-plate fund-raiser given for him by a group of California businessmen.It reminded me of Saint Augustine's prayer to God: ''Give me chastity and continence, but not just now." With a second term secured, perhaps the time is now.Fred GornickBaltimoreInternet snooping informs governmentI have read with interest several articles that talk about how law enforcement officials search Internet files to gather information to aid them in catching criminals.

Look at the title: "The Coming Race War in America." You'd think it would hail from someone on the lunatic fringe - a black nationalist or Aryan Nations type, for example. But it comes from Carl Rowan, long the poster boy for whining liberals.And whining liberalism consumes much of this book. All the standard Rowan targets are here. Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton are demagogues who fuel the racial passions that will lead toward race war, Rowan contends. On the Caucasian side of the scale stand Pat Buchanan, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen; radio hosts Howard Stern, Bob Grant and G. Gordon Liddy.

When Bill Rowan wants to leave his hunting trailer in Western Maryland and do some serious calling, he heads through the pre-dawn hours to No Name Vista in Green Ridge State Forest."

Rowan on NAACPCarl T. Rowan's Feb. 22 column, "The Third Deadly Sin," is the culmination of what should be an award winning series.Mr. Rowan certainly must have suffered pains of anguish and disappointment in having to expose the failures within his beloved NAACP.To witness the decline of what has been this country's most historical and successful civil rights organization certainly must have been a traumatic experience.His articles not only informed the public of what went wrong but also of what is needed to resurrect this great organization.

Murder and mayhem were Matt Jablow's bread and butter as a WBAL newsman, Baltimore police spokesman and America's Most Wanted producer. Now he's offering more life-affirming fare as a "Webumentarian." Jablow left America's Most Wanted in July to start a video production company, Frodo Productions, named for a Hobbit. Baltimore's Ronald McDonald House has hired him to make a documentary for its Web site - a "Webumentary," as Jablow put it - on a family it serves. It tells the story of Kevin and Melissa Buckles of Northern Virginia.

The Syracuse women's lacrosse team went into last night's NCAA Division I semifinal with the hottest offense in the nation, but three-time defending champion Northwestern cooled the Orange down. Wildcats defender Maggie Bremer held the nation's leading scorer, Katie Rowan, without a point, and Bremer's teammates scored the first nine goals of the second half to break open a close game and win, 16-8, at Towson University's Johnny Unitas Stadium. The top-seeded Wildcats (20-1) will meet second seed Pennsylvania for the title tomorrow at 7 p.m. The Quakers beat Duke, 9-8, in overtime.

Blake Rowan's 35-yard field goal as time expired lifted visiting Perry Hall to a 10-7 upset over No. 13 Hereford yesterday. It was the second straight year the Gators beat the Bulls in the season opener. Rowan admitted that he was nervous before the winning kick, but he knew a win could set the tone for Perry Hall, which is looking to bounce back from last year's loss to Sherwood in the Class 4A North regional title game. "I just tried to keep my head down and kick it straight," Rowan said.

Rowan is back. I can hear the happiness in his voice, and I don't think it has anything to do with medication. As far as I know, the only mood-enhancer at play here is the anticipation of Rowan's return to what Rowan does best - making people laugh at Harborplace, tourist capitol of the Queen City of the Patapsco Drainage Basin. (Couple of weeks ago, a guy writes from Hampden - or Honville - that he doesn't like it when I use John Goodspeed's old nickname for Baltimore. He thinks it's a putdown.

On May 13, 2006, WILLIAM J.; devoted husband of Martha H. (nee Hannah); beloved father of Kay Johnson and her husband Steve, Eric Rowan and his wife Tracy; loving brother of Polly Caldwell and her husband Tom, Nancy Ferguson, and the late Lewis Rowan; dear grandfather of Shawn, Nathan and Timothy Johnson, Lee and Mc Kenzie Rowan. Services and interment private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Freestate Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, the Bill Rowan Scholarship Fund attn: Joe Squires, 1599 Nobles Mill Ct, Darlington, MD 21034.

On April 23, 2006, HELEN M. (BRINKMAN) ROWAN, 85, of New Freedom, PA, formerly of Baltimore, MD. Born on October 17, 1920 in Havre De Grace, MD, she was the wife of the late Leo F. Rowan; mother of Anne G. Thompson and her husband Donald, Kathleen P. Lange and her husband Richard, and Mary R. Neumann and her husband Louis; sister of Genevieve Nelson and Virginia Edwards; daughter of the late Charles and Mamie (Ryan) Brinkman. Helen is also survived by 10 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.

Top-seeded and top-ranked Maryland advanced to the NCAA field hockey semifinals for the third straight year after a 3-0 win over No. 6 American yesterday in College Park. Lauren Powley scored early in the second, and Meredith Long scored twice in the last 11 minutes. Maryland outshot American 16-6 but was even better defensively, giving up just one second- half shot and penalty corner to the Eagles (20-2). The Terps play Old Dominion in Louisville, Ky., on Friday. Salisbury 4, Rowan 1 -- The top-ranked Sea Gulls (19-1)

On Saturday, October 29, 2005, at Easton's Memorial Hospital, NANCYCAROLYN ROWAN, 71. She was born in Baltimore, MD on June 19, 1934, the daughter of the late Lawrence E. and Madeline F. Fishbach Watts. She was a graduate of Eastern High School in Baltimore. She then worked for the Social Security Administration in Baltimore. After moving to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in 1971 she worked for Federalsburg Elementary School and later worked for several years for Sisk Fulfillment in Federalsburg.

Ellison Nunez, once a shy, inattentive student, will become the first of five brothers to graduate from high school and attend college. His classmate, Timothy Rowan, a self-described country boy with boots and belt buckle to match, plans to join his father's landscaping business like his sister and brother. They are among the 275 members of the first graduating class at Reservoir High School in Fulton, students from rival schools brought together through redistricting when the school opened in 2002.

JERRY ROWAN, the funny juggler who was banned from performing at the Inner Harbor more than two years ago because some cops didn't like one of his jokes, can't say with absolute clarity whether his free-speech lawsuit against the city is dead or alive. It sounds like he has lost interest in it, or found it too much trouble. More likely, he is simply discouraged, no longer game for a fight. "Not doing my act at Harborplace has sucked the life out of me," Rowan says. It's sad to hear a slump speech from a comic, perhaps Baltimore's most popular street performer of the last 25 years.