Scooter

Gina Teresa Griffin, 51, was killed while riding a scooter on Interstate 95 late Thursday night, Maryland State Police said Saturday. Few details are available about the incident and the investigation continues, said Sgt. Jeff Kirschner, a State Police spokesman. According to police, a Honda Accord and a scooter with two riders were involved in a crash at 11:53 p.m. on the southbound side of the highway near the Baltimore Beltway interchange. The second person on the scooter, Victor Angelo Huntley, 47, is in critical but stable condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

The following is compiled from police reports from the Towson and Cockeysville precincts. Our policy is to include descriptions when there is enough information to make identification possible. Cockeysville Reldas Court, unit block, between 12:01 a.m. Oct. 25 and 8:40 a.m. Oct. 27. Boxes containing various items stolen from apartment. Entry through unlocked bedroom window. Timonium Eastridge Road, 2100 block, between 10 a.m. and 11:40 a.m. Oct. 29. Dresser and jewelry boxes ransacked, nothing appeared missing.

Baltimore County police are investigating a fatal accident involving a Harford County driver on a scooter in Parkville early Saturday morning. Shawn Appel, 30, of the 2500 block of Shuresville Road in Darlington was struck at the intersection of Perring Parkway and Taylor Avenue at about 3:12 a.m. Saturday, police said. A Mercury Sable heading north on Perring Parkway collided with the scooter, throwing Appel from it, police said. Appel was pronounced dead at the scene. No one has been charged, police said.

A teenager was charged Thursday with fatally shooting a 70-year-old church caretaker during a struggle last year over a scooter, a crime that drew outrage not only among the victim's friends and family but from a city reeling from eight killings in a single week. The suspect, 18-year-old James Jeffrey Johnson, lives five blocks from the rented rowhouse of the victim, Milton Hill, who was shot in an alley behind his home on East North Avenue, next to the Ark Church where he volunteered as a custodian.

A Baltimore County man died after his scooter ran off the road into a wire fence in Carroll County early Saturday, according to Maryland State Police. Mark Joseph Kinslow, 46, was driving a black Vela motor scooter west on Green Valley Road just after midnight when police said he veered off the road for unknown reasons and struck the fence. Kinslow, of Bero Road in southwestern Baltimore County, suffered severe head and neck injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

When the shuttle returns him to his dorm each weekday evening, Pete DeSouza makes certain the driver doesn't pass the campus intersection where he had a severe motor-scooter accident last month that has come back to him in nightmares. "I actually have them go a different way to take me home because I really don't want to go there at night," said DeSouza, a 6-foot-6, 288-pound Maryland offensive tackle who spoke to the news media Tuesday for the first time since he suffered multiple fractures in both legs in the Oct. 21 evening crash.

The city takes little nips out of its citizens. Richard Horne can tell you about it. He remembers people sitting on front porches on balmy summer evenings. Now the porches are bare. His was emptied last summer, and now the city's reached for its own piece of the action."Barren porches," Horne was saying yesterday. "Go through my neighborhood in Roland Park, go down toward Charles Village, places where you used to see porches with nice furniture, and now they're barren. Because things are instantly stolen now."

In a Mount Vernon back street, signs of a curious revival are evident. Twenty vintage Italian motor scooters are neatly aligned in a row. Their riders, standing quietly nearby, have left no detail to chance in their own appearance. Hair is shaped in a sober blunt cut, bangs low to the eye, reminiscent of the early Beatles. Dark sunglasses mask their eyes. They sport short, boxy jackets. Expressions are solemn. Their stance is as tailored as their form -- with feet turned out and hands held behind their backs.

COLLEGE PARK -- It's 11: 15 on a muggy Monday morning and the stifling humidity is beginning to set in for a 14th straight day at the Maryland football practice field.The morning practice is over, and most of the players head for the showers and a welcome break for lunch before the afternoon session.But an obviously tired Scooter Monroe remains on the field for a little more punishment. Monroe wants to work overtime on some pass routes with quarterback Calvin McCall.Ten minutes later, the freshman wide receiver from John Carroll comes off the field with sweat pouring off his face.

Lashe and Jermaine have shared the Apollo Theatre stage with P. Diddy and Blu Cantrell. They've lunched with Ananda Lewis and got some dance tips from Michael Jackson's choreographer. And when Arista Records called about a Lil' Bow Wow video, the rap duo had to beg off - they just couldn't fit it in. New York may be their stepping stone to stardom, but at the day's end, the singing siblings return to their townhouse in Essex and get ready for another day at Mars Estate Elementary School.

Gina Teresa Griffin, 51, was killed while riding a scooter on Interstate 95 late Thursday night, Maryland State Police said Saturday. Few details are available about the incident and the investigation continues, said Sgt. Jeff Kirschner, a State Police spokesman. According to police, a Honda Accord and a scooter with two riders were involved in a crash at 11:53 p.m. on the southbound side of the highway near the Baltimore Beltway interchange. The second person on the scooter, Victor Angelo Huntley, 47, is in critical but stable condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

Have you seen the scoot coupes out and about in Ocean City? If you're at all like me, when you see one you smile and think "how cute and fun!" And your very next thought after that is "too dangerous for me, though. " Scoot coupes are those tiny two-person vehicles that resemble mini-cars, have three wheels and somehow seem a bit, well, flimsy for any road, let alone one as busy as Coastal Highway. But the scoot coupes are legal in Ocean City (Delaware, too) and have been since last summer.  And as of this season the "motorized passenger scooters" are also legal on most state roads.

A Baltimore County man died after his scooter ran off the road into a wire fence in Carroll County early Saturday, according to Maryland State Police. Mark Joseph Kinslow, 46, was driving a black Vela motor scooter west on Green Valley Road just after midnight when police said he veered off the road for unknown reasons and struck the fence. Kinslow, of Bero Road in southwestern Baltimore County, suffered severe head and neck injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

A 91-year-old man died after he was struck by a pickup truck in Brooklyn while riding a mobility scooter, according to Anne Arundel County Police. According to the initial investigation, Charles Oliver Fretwell Sr. of Brooklyn was traveling southbound on Hammonds Lane and crossed toward Upland Street when he was struck by a Toyota Tundra driven by Frances James Hall, 58, of Baltimore, police said. Fretwell had been in the crosswalk, said Lt. Frank Tewey, Anne Arundel County Police spokesman.

When the shuttle returns him to his dorm each weekday evening, Pete DeSouza makes certain the driver doesn't pass the campus intersection where he had a severe motor-scooter accident last month that has come back to him in nightmares. "I actually have them go a different way to take me home because I really don't want to go there at night," said DeSouza, a 6-foot-6, 288-pound Maryland offensive tackle who spoke to the news media Tuesday for the first time since he suffered multiple fractures in both legs in the Oct. 21 evening crash.

Maryland football coach Ralph Friedgen and a number of his players criticized the campus newspaper Tuesday for an editorial cartoon making light of the motor-scooter accident that left offensive lineman Pete DeSouza hospitalized with multiple leg fractures. The cartoon by Morgan Noonan in The Diamondback, an independent campus daily, depicts a woman addressing a player in helmet and full pads. "I didn't think there was a game today," she says. The player replies: "There isn't.

The Conaway political dynasty seems to be building a fleet of unusual campaign vehicles. Last year, the family of four officeholders bought a 10-year-old Chevy Astro van and tricked it out with a $2,700 "wrap" emblazoned with images of the whole gang: Circuit Court Clerk Frank Conaway Sr ., City Register of Wills Mary Conaway , state Del. Frank Conaway Jr. and City Councilwoman Belinda Conaway . This year, it's a $1,000 Stand-N-Ride...

The joke around Towson State a couple weeks ago was that if senior guard Scooter Alexander didn't turn up soon, someone would have to file a missing persons report.Then the asides turned into genuine concern. Alexander missed three days of classes and no one knew his whereabouts.Once Alexander contacted coach Terry Truax with his explanation -- he'll only say it was for personal reasons -- he had to sit out a Feb. 16 loss to Drexel, and didn't start the next game against Hofstra.It was the latest bump in the road for Towson State on its first ride through the North Atlantic Conference.

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass.— Maryland right tackle Pete DeSouza had a message for his teammates after a motor-scooter crash left him hospitalized with multiple leg fractures. "The first thing he said was, 'Sorry,'" said offensive coordinator James Franklin , who visited the player late Thursday night. "He felt like he was letting the guys down. " "And then he said, 'Go get the win,' Our guys responded to it very well," Franklin said. DeSouza's crash occurred on campus Thursday night.

Milton Hill shoveled the snow from the front walk of the church next to his small East Baltimore apartment. The 70-year-old helped carry heavy boxes to the food pantry and walked women to their cars after late-night events. He trimmed the church hedges on Thursday, just because it needed to be done. On Friday morning, Hill was found slumped against a fence, lying in a pool of blood. He had been shot. The scooter he used to get around town — a retirement present he bought himself, according to the church deacon — was gone.