Steven Keller

On April 7, 2006, CRAIG CLARK; loving brother of Steven Keller, Kevin Cantwell and Phillip Dryden; dear father of Lindsay and Gage Keller; loving step-son of Mary A. Linn. The family will receive friends at the W. Dabrowski-Chojnacki Funeral Homes, P.A., 1005 Dundalk Avenue Wednesday, 4 to 8

On April 7, 2006, CRAIG CLARK; loving brother of Steven Keller, Kevin Cantwell and Phillip Dryden; dear father of Lindsay and Gage Keller; loving step-son of Mary A. Linn. The family will receive friends at the W. Dabrowski-Chojnacki Funeral Homes, P.A., 1005 Dundalk Avenue Wednesday, 4 to 8

A car struck a school bus carrying 18 Glenwood Middle School students in Woodbine yesterday afternoon, but no one was injured, Howard County police said.Shortly before 3 p.m. on Florence Road near St. Michael Road, a school bus -- driven by Lisa Baker, 29, of Mount Airy -- was making its rounds, discharging students, when a 1987 Toyota, driven by Kelly Scible, 16, of Woodbine, struck it in the rear.Miss Scible, who had three passengers in her car, was charged with the failure to reduce speed to avoid a collision, said Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman.

Howard County police interrupted a would-be burglar at the High's store in Columbia's Kings Contrivance village late last week, according to a police report.Police said that about 2: 30 a.m. Friday, an officer saw someone at the front of the High's store in the 7300 block of Murray Hill Road attempting to wedge an object between the lock and the door frame as he pulled on the door. He then climbed onto the roof of the building, the report said.Police said additional officers were summoned and caught the would-be intruder as he attempted to jump to the ground.

Two children believed to be missing from an Oakland Mills village apartment complex were found unharmed Thursday night after an intensive search, Howard County police said.Police searched the area around the 9300 block of Basket Ring Road on foot and in a helicopter for two hours before finding the missing 5-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy at 10 p.m. in a basement laundry room in the Dorsey Forge Apartments in Oakland Mills.Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman, said the children accidentally locked themselves in the room.

Two Columbia residents were injured in a single-car accident Thursday at Broken Land Parkway and Cradlerock Way when their car hit a tree, according to the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue.The driver, Bill Clark, 57, and his passenger, Ruby Clark, 81, both of the 5800 block of Barnwood Place in Hickory Ridge village, were treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and released. Their 1994 Oldsmobile Sierra ran off the road and hit a light pole and a tree, said Sgt. Steven Keller, Howard County police spokesman.

Two men were arrested late last week on outstanding warrants after residents spotted them in an Elkridge neighborhood and called police, Howard County police said yesterday.Michael Arnold Hood, 25, of the 6300 block of Beechfield Ave. in Elkridge and David Lee Vernon, 20, of no fixed address were found Friday about 6 p.m. by a state police helicopter in the 6400 block of Forest Ave. in Harwood Park, said Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman.Both were charged with breaking into trucks at Herr's Foods Inc. on South Hanover Road in late August, and Hood also was charged with breaking into a Harley-Davidson store on Howard Lane last Tuesday, Keller said.

An Owen Brown village pizza restaurant was held up early yesterday by armed robbers near closing time -- just over a month after a similar robbery, police said.Two men wearing masks and gloves stole $1,500 in cash from the register and the employees of Pizz-A-Boli's in the 7100 block of Oakland Mills Road at about 12: 40 a.m., said Sgt. Steven Keller, a Howard County police spokesman.The men ordered the workers to lie on the ground and then fled, police said. No one was injured.A Pizz-A-Boli's delivery man working at the same location was robbed and shot in the leg at 1 a.m. July 12 as he left the store to make the last run of the night.

Howard County police interrupted a would-be burglar at the High's store in Columbia's Kings Contrivance village late last week, according to a police report.Police said that about 2: 30 a.m. Friday, an officer saw someone at the front of the High's store in the 7300 block of Murray Hill Road attempting to wedge an object between the lock and the door frame as he pulled on the door. He then climbed onto the roof of the building, the report said.Police said additional officers were summoned and caught the would-be intruder as he attempted to jump to the ground.

A Columbia man was arrested Tuesday by federal agents and accused of passing counterfeit $50 bills in Montgomery County.Authorities said they also found nearly $25,000 in cocaine and marijuana in his Hickory Ridge town house.The suspect had been the focus of a months-long counterfeiting investigation by Montgomery County police and the U.S. Secret Service, said Agent James Washington.Police would not say where or how the counterfeit bills were produced.Howard County police assisted the Secret Service and Montgomery officers when they raided the town house about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The Easter Bunny came a few days early for several Ellicott City merchants who were allegedly victimized by a pair who were charged with shoplifting last weekend, police said.As Barry Gibson tells the tale, he was dressed in a fluffy white, fake fur bunny suit, colorful sequined vest and black sunglasses Sunday when he noticed a woman putting a wooden Christmas ornament into her purse while in the Forget-Me-Not Factory.A man who was with the woman walked about the store -- a gift shop at the bottom of Main Street -- uttering obscenities and causing havoc, apparently trying to draw attention away from the woman, Gibson said.

Two children believed to be missing from an Oakland Mills village apartment complex were found unharmed Thursday night after an intensive search, Howard County police said.Police searched the area around the 9300 block of Basket Ring Road on foot and in a helicopter for two hours before finding the missing 5-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy at 10 p.m. in a basement laundry room in the Dorsey Forge Apartments in Oakland Mills.Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman, said the children accidentally locked themselves in the room.

Paul Stephen Riggins Jr., the 39-year-old Elkridge man arrested Tuesday on charges involving having sex with a teen-age girl, was arrested again Thursday and charged with misdemeanor theft, Howard County police said.After turning himself in to police about 8 p.m., Riggins was brought before a District Court commissioner and charged with stealing clothing valued at less than $300 and with running a theft scheme valued at more than $300 between Dec. 24 and Feb. 4, according to authorities.A charge involving less than $300 is a misdemeanor; more than $300 is a felony.

A Baltimore man was slightly injured Tuesday when he drove his car into a house in West Friendship, Howard County police said.The man, identified as Allen Ernest Morse of the 5300 block of Belleville Ave. was driving on Route 32 about 2: 47 p.m. when he drove his 1987 Nissan Stanza off the right side of the road and struck a wooden landscaping barricade, police said.Morse's car then hit the southeast corner of a house in the 2800 block of Route 32, a police report said. The impact knocked out the windows of a closed-in porch.

Two Columbia residents were injured in a single-car accident Thursday at Broken Land Parkway and Cradlerock Way when their car hit a tree, according to the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue.The driver, Bill Clark, 57, and his passenger, Ruby Clark, 81, both of the 5800 block of Barnwood Place in Hickory Ridge village, were treated at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore and released. Their 1994 Oldsmobile Sierra ran off the road and hit a light pole and a tree, said Sgt. Steven Keller, Howard County police spokesman.

An unidentified man stopped his truck at the site of a Howard County public works project Friday and hurled a racial epithet at a predominantly black work crew, then returned minutes later to berate them again, Howard County police said yesterday.Six men were fixing a broken water line on Montgomery Road near Washington Boulevard in Elkridge about 5 p.m. when a white man in his 30s driving a Toyota truck stopped and began screaming at the crew to work harder, said Thaddeus Mitchell Jr., 35, the crew leader, who reported the incident to police.

Joyce Beaman moved from Colorado to Columbia just three months ago, and she doesn't feel welcome.Sunday night or early Monday, vandals slashed the vinyl top of her convertible, a Volkswagen Cabriolet, one of at least nine cars in the Waters Edge community of Columbia Town Center to be vandalized that night -- the second time in two weeks for her car."I'm tired of it," said Beaman, of the 5600 block of Vantage Point Road, part of a growing chorus of Columbia residents upset about property crime.

A Baltimore man was slightly injured Tuesday when he drove his car into a house in West Friendship, Howard County police said.The man, identified as Allen Ernest Morse of the 5300 block of Belleville Ave. was driving on Route 32 about 2: 47 p.m. when he drove his 1987 Nissan Stanza off the right side of the road and struck a wooden landscaping barricade, police said.Morse's car then hit the southeast corner of a house in the 2800 block of Route 32, a police report said. The impact knocked out the windows of a closed-in porch.

Considering going to the Pearl Jam concert with hopes of buying a ticket there?Think again."People without tickets will be waved away at the parking lot," says Jean Parker of Merriweather Post Pavilion press relations.In addition, Merriweather will close access to the woods that encircle the property at 6 p.m., an hour and a half before showtime. And, as with any sold-out show, security staff will be very large in number, Parker says.The Howard County police will play an active role in making sure everything runs smoothly.

Two men were arrested late last week on outstanding warrants after residents spotted them in an Elkridge neighborhood and called police, Howard County police said yesterday.Michael Arnold Hood, 25, of the 6300 block of Beechfield Ave. in Elkridge and David Lee Vernon, 20, of no fixed address were found Friday about 6 p.m. by a state police helicopter in the 6400 block of Forest Ave. in Harwood Park, said Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman.Both were charged with breaking into trucks at Herr's Foods Inc. on South Hanover Road in late August, and Hood also was charged with breaking into a Harley-Davidson store on Howard Lane last Tuesday, Keller said.