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PERRYVILLE -- State fire officials said yesterday that Saturday's devastating explosion here caused at least $10 million in damages and left 80 to 100 people homeless, including nearly two dozen residents of a retirement home.Officials said they won't know for sure just how many people lost their homes until engineers inspect nearby residential buildings and decidewhether any are habitable."We have buildings all the way down the block that are going to be condemned," said State Fire Marshal Rocco Gabriele as he surveyed the wreckage yesterday.

That Travis Manion and Brendan Looney ended up side by side should surprise no one. Loved ones had always been struck by the similarities between the Naval Academy roommates — both family men, both rugged athletes, both warriors who yearned to reach the heart of action. Now, they needed to be together again. It was the only bit of comfort Amy Looney could fathom as she watched white-gloved soldiers carry her husband's casket from the back of an airplane at Dover Air Force Base last September.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Earvin "Magic" Johnson used to dominate the basketball court. Now, a team of restaurant developers is helping him own the food court, too. Sodexho USA's Retail Brand Group, an Allentown subsidiary of the Gaithersburg-based food services giant, is working with hoops legend Johnson to develop three restaurant concepts through his Magic John Enterprises that will trade on Johnson's sports and business success. Plans call for a sports bar, a sandwich shop and a Magic Johnson Marketplace food court, brand group officials said this week.

County police arrested four people in Freetown Village on Saturday night during a raid on an open-air drug market.Between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. officers hid in the community and watched suspects buy drugs then stopped them as they were driving out of the neighborhood, police said.Howard Eugene Fallin, 34, of the 8000 block of Bellhave Road in Pasadena, Kurt Dykins Hofman Sr., 39, of the 8500 block of Beacon Point Drive in Pasadena, Michelle Lynn McKeruick, 30, of the 1100 block of Sunnybrook Drive in Glen Burnie and Clyde Thomas Williams, 41, of the same address, were all charged with possession of crack-cocaine, police said.

Burglar cuts hole in sub shop roof, but gets nothingA burglar who cut a hole in the roof of the newly rebuilt Harry's Sub Shop, in the 400 block of Baltimore Blvd., escaped with nothing about 3 a.m. Friday, state police reported.Troopers said they responded to an alarm at the shop and discovered someone had climbed to the roof and cut a hole in it, tied a rope to a piece of wood and used the rope to get in the bathroom.The intruder apparently searched for money before leaving the restaurant, which has been open for about two weeks after the old building was razed and a new one built.

A 63-year-old Ellicott City man was robbed outside a Columbia convenience store while sitting in his car with cash in hand Tuesday, Howard County police said.According to police, two men approached the victim about 6 p.m. outside the Royal Farm store in the 8200 block of Lark Brown Road in Columbia's Long Reach village and threatened him. One of the men grabbed an undisclosed amount of money from the victim before he and his partner ran toward Deep Run trailer park, police said.The victim drove around looking for the suspects for about an hour, then returned to the convenience store and told the clerk what had happened, police said.

Police logOakland Mills: 9000 block of Red Branch Road: A burglar broke the glass of a business' bay door, entered and stole a computer printer Tuesday morning.Oakland Mills: 8600 block of Centre Park Drive: Police said someone entered a Subway sandwich shop with a key, broke into an inside office, opened a combination safe and stole cash Monday night or Tuesday morning.Owen Brown: 7100 block of Oakland Mills Road: Someone set off a burglar alarm when trying to break into a trailer at Enginuity Auto Repair Inc. early Wednesday.

The owner of a Gamber carryout beer, wine and sandwich shop died late Monday after her car ran off Route 32 and crashed into the porch of a house, authorities said.Sandra Lee Timchula, 35, of the 2600 block of Sykesville Road near Gamber was ejected from the car, police said. She was taken by state MedEvac helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where she was pronounced dead at 10: 50 p.m., a hospital spokeswoman said yesterday.The 1998 Chrysler was traveling north on Route 32 (Sykesville Road)

Coming next spring: John Waters' Hampden.Filming on "Pecker," the latest set-in-Baltimore Waters film, begins Monday in the North Baltimore community famous for neighborhood bars, church steeples and its blue-collar heritage.The film will star Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Bess Armstrong, Mary Kay Place, Martha Plimpton, Brendan Sexton III, Mink Stole and Lili Taylor."It's the story of a very strange but very functional and very loving family," says Waters. "It's the Hampden of John Waters' dreams."

Commission approves convenience store planThe Westminster Planning Commission has approved a revised plan for a convenience store with gas pumps and a sandwich shop to be built on a vacant lot at West Main and Carroll streets.Owner S. H. "Jack" Tevis won praise for a site model that showed a red brick building with an awning set back from Main Street at the northeast corner of the property.The design is an attempt to balance residents' requests for a building that would blend into the neighborhood with the logo and corporate design displays required by Shell Oil Co., Mr. Tevis' gasoline supplier.