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In a decision that could spur more prisoner lawsuits against the state, a federal appeals court has ruled that Maryland inmates have the right to sue for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.In a 2-1 ruling Thursday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., upheld the constitutionality of the ADA as it applies to inmates housed in state-run prisons.The ruling stems from a 1991 lawsuit filed by the Washington-based American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project on behalf of 13 physically disabled inmates at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown.

Saturday Night Live" has a sketchy film legacy.The Coneheads, Pat and Stuart Smalley may have first appeared "live from New York," but they died at the box office. Only "The Blues Brothers" and "Wayne's World" made successful leaps from sketch to screen.Sustaining a one-note joke for two minutes is tough enough.But sustaining the same one-note joke for two hours is nearly impossible.That didn't stop the powers that be at the aged late-night institution from trying to score with "A Night at the Roxbury" on Friday.

Man in Roxbury facility is charged in theftA Westminster man in the Roxbury Correctional Institute in Hagerstown was charged Friday in the theft of a bank bag from an employee of Monopoly Pizza Sept. 25.State police charged Timothy T. Costley, 32, Friday with theft, conspiring to commit theft and six counts of writing bad checks. He was held without bail after a hearing in front of a court commissioner.Costley was in the Hagerstown correctional center for an unrelated incident.

LAST WEEK'S ice storm delayed classes, closed offices and tied up roads all over eastern Massachusetts. But it didn't prevent scores of parents from thronging Hearing Room B-1 in the State House Tuesday morning. There, the legislature's Joint Education Committee was meeting to hear testimony on House Bill 1817, and nothing was going to keep these parents away.H. 1817, the Parents' Rights Bill, is founded upon a simple principle: informed consent. It would 1) require public schools to notify parents in advance of "morally or religiously sensitive" programs; 2)

POLICE LOG* Roxbury: 4300 block of Route 97: A rear basement door was forced opened between 5:30 a.m. and 3:45 p.m. Monday. The intruder or intruders stole a camera, change and credit cards.* Marriottsville: 1500 block of Marriottsville Road: A blue 1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass was stolen between 6 a.m. and 4:10 p.m. Friday. The flat tire that was on the car was left in the yard. The car didn't have tags.

Roxbury Mill. A familiar road name to most longtime west county residents, but the actual 200-year-old stone and wood building could well be lost to history.Nearly swallowed by thick woods and underbrush, the two-story building looks as if a bomb had exploded inside. Wooden planks jut outward where the wall ends abruptly under rotting, moss-covered wooden rafters -- exposed for more than a decade after a storm peeled up a section of corrugated metal roof."It's such a shame, because it was an operating mill in '58," said Jack Cremeans, whose 1820s farmhouse overlooks the wooded mill property.

A 38-year-old man in prison on an unrelated case was arrested Monday in the shooting death of a Morgan State University student whose body was found in a trash bin in the Hillendale area in July 1993, Baltimore County police said yesterday.A county grand jury indicted Ronald Monroe Stewart Nov. 21 on charges of first-degree murder, robbery with a deadly weapon and robbery in the death of Lyndon Reese Turner, 24.Police said they were able to identify Stewart after receiving a tip from someone who had seen his photograph on the Sept.

SALISBURY -- Roxbury Electronics Corp., a privately owned, Boston-based electronics company, came to the rescue of Grumman Corp.'s struggling aircraft cable plant yesterday. But workers were left wondering just how many of their jobs would be saved.The company announced that it will take over the 9-year-old Grumman plant, which was scheduled to close at the end of this year. But it was noncommittal about how many of the plant's 115 workers it would hire, saying only that it would "try to save as many jobs as possible."

Just days after the collapse of a deal that would have kept open the former Grumman Corp. plant in Salisbury, a new agreement to save the plant could be completed as early as this week.Wicomico County officials hope to reach an agreement with a Phoenix, Ariz., businessman in time to avert a plant closing and save the jobs of the 80 remaining workers there, Edgar A. Baker, an attorney for the county, said yesterday.If a deal is reached, Salisbury Technologies, a Maryland corporation being formed by John Corella, president of Corella Electric Wire and Cable Inc., would take over current contracts held by Grumman and seek additional work for the plant.

Tuberculosis screening of all inmates and staff at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown began yesterday after initial tests revealed that 68 prisoners and 21 officers harbored the infection.Only one person at the prison -- an inmate -- has an active case of tuberculosis, leading authorities at Roxbury to speculate that he may have infected the others who have tested positive for the bacteria."I don't think we're dealing with hysteria at this point, but to say that people are concerned is probably an understatement," said Roxbury Warden Jon P. Galley, who himself got a skin test yesterday.

Three correctional officers assigned to the Roxbury Correctional Institution at Hagerstown in Western Maryland could face termination amid allegations of using excessive force against inmates, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services said yesterday. The names of and specific allegations against the officers were withheld because of the continuing investigation. The disciplinary action stemmed from an incident last week, said spokesman Rick Binetti. He declined to describe what happened.

On a warm November weekend morning, about 35 people from Massachusetts, New York, Missouri and Pennsylvania pack the benches of a trolley rolling through Roxbury, a historically black neighborhood in Boston. For two hours they listen as the tour guide explains how residents are building on vacant lots created when the neighborhood disintegrated in the 1960s. The trolley, part of a tour organized by the local group Discover Roxbury, passes restored 19th-century mansions and red-brick rowhouses, and the tourists audibly "aah" with delight.

On December 27, 2004, MARY C. KAMINSKI (nee Lisiewski); beloved wife of the late Joseph D. Kaminski; devoted mother of Diane Parks and her husband Lee; loving grandmother of Lee and Kelly Parks; dear sister of Michael Lisiewski and Clara Dziewanowski. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26A), on Thursday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Joseph Church, Texas, on Friday at 9:30 A.M. Entombment St. Stanislaus Cemetery.

Developers planning subdivisions in eastern Howard County or projects that require conditional-use permission must meet with neighbors before submitting plans to the county. The next meetings are: Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Carlton property, 6318 Old Washington Road, Elkridge, for a proposal to build four homes on 1.25 acres. Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Glenwood Baptist Church, 3875 Roxbury Mills Road, Glenwood, for a conditional-use proposal there.

Preston E. Smith, 91, a former Texas governor known for his assortment of polka-dot ties and his old-fashioned electioneering, died Saturday in Lubbock. A Democrat elected to the first of two terms as governor in 1968, he relied on personal contacts, face-to-face campaigning and direct mail. Mr. Smith focused on education and criminal justice, pushing for the first comprehensive drug abuse program in Texas. He was also instrumental in passing the state's first minimum-wage law. When he ran for lieutenant governor the first time, then-Lt.

When Chuck Roxbury compared his store's sales for several recent days with the same period last year, even he was surprised. Both years, the Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc. manager tracked sales during the period that the Rite Aid Corp. convention was in town. The main difference was the colorful welcome sign he put in the window this year at the Inner Harbor store. "We did 25 percent more business this year than last," Roxbury said. "We attribute that to the signs. We had a great week anyway, and the Rite Aid convention just pushed us over the top."

In a decision that could spur more prisoner lawsuits against the state, a federal appeals court has ruled that Maryland inmates have the right to sue for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act.In a 2-1 ruling Thursday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., upheld the constitutionality of the ADA as it applies to inmates housed in state-run prisons.The ruling stems from a 1991 lawsuit filed by the Washington-based American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project on behalf of 13 physically disabled inmates at the Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown.

Saturday Night Live" has a sketchy film legacy.The Coneheads, Pat and Stuart Smalley may have first appeared "live from New York," but they died at the box office. Only "The Blues Brothers" and "Wayne's World" made successful leaps from sketch to screen.Sustaining a one-note joke for two minutes is tough enough.But sustaining the same one-note joke for two hours is nearly impossible.That didn't stop the powers that be at the aged late-night institution from trying to score with "A Night at the Roxbury" on Friday.

LAST WEEK'S ice storm delayed classes, closed offices and tied up roads all over eastern Massachusetts. But it didn't prevent scores of parents from thronging Hearing Room B-1 in the State House Tuesday morning. There, the legislature's Joint Education Committee was meeting to hear testimony on House Bill 1817, and nothing was going to keep these parents away.H. 1817, the Parents' Rights Bill, is founded upon a simple principle: informed consent. It would 1) require public schools to notify parents in advance of "morally or religiously sensitive" programs; 2)

Man in Roxbury facility is charged in theftA Westminster man in the Roxbury Correctional Institute in Hagerstown was charged Friday in the theft of a bank bag from an employee of Monopoly Pizza Sept. 25.State police charged Timothy T. Costley, 32, Friday with theft, conspiring to commit theft and six counts of writing bad checks. He was held without bail after a hearing in front of a court commissioner.Costley was in the Hagerstown correctional center for an unrelated incident.