Streets

Four people were injured in a three-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Route 543 and Walters Mill Road in Street. Maryland State Police troopers said the accident happened shortly after 1 p.m., when Coleman Lewis Hitchcock, 82, failed to stop at the stop sign on Walters Mill Road as he neared Route 543. His car, a Mitsubishi, was hit by a Mazda driven by Krystle Genuendt, 24, of Pennsylvania, according to Sgt. Gary Chatfield...

The Baltimore sports scene is blessed with a bunch of talented bloggers who bring their unique perspective to the conversation. Each week, I hope to chat with one of them in a regular feature called Blogger on Blogger. This week, I exchanged emails with Joe Polek, who blogs about the Orioles for Eutaw Street Report . MV: How important do you think it is that the Orioles get off to a good start like they did a year ago? JP: It's Opening Day and the Orioles need a big win. They have won their last two Opening Days, 10 of their last 12 and overall are 64-42 when Opening Day is in April.

The northbound Interstate 895 entrance ramp from Potee Street/Patapsco Avenue is schedule to close Friday for three months as part of a $12.6 million rehabilitation project, the Maryland Transportation Authority announced. Motorists will be detoured onto Frankfurst Avenue to connect to I-895. Once northbound work is completed, the southbound ramp at Exit 7 is scheduled to close about July 7 for repairs. The project to replace the decks of the I-895 bridges over Patapsco Avenue and Potee and Hanover streets began in fall 2012 and is scheduled to be complete by summer 2014.

Shirtless, hair flowing, legs pumping, Dr. Theodore Houk is a familiar sight running along North Charles Street on his twice-daily, 5.5-mile trek between his Lutherville home and his job at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. "You always see him out there," said Kathleen Wrona, who has seen Houk, an internal medicine specialist, often during her commute. On Thursday, she saw him again, witnessing as the vehicle in front of her struck Houk, critically injuring him and sending him to Maryland Shock Trauma Center via helicopter.

A man died in a shooting reported in Southwest Baltimore about 4 a.m. Thursday, city police said. Officers were called to the 1300 block of Carroll Street in the Washington Village/Pigtown neighborhood, where they found a black man with a gunshot wound to the chest. Homicide detectives are investigating. The victim was taken to an area hospital, where he died, police said. No other information was immediately available. The shooting death is the first police have reported in the city in more than a week, after two shootings in West Baltimore left two women and two men dead March 19. A man and woman were shot while driving a pickup truck in West Baltimore on Monday but were expected to survive.

High Street Partners, a business software and services company based in Annapolis, said Monday it received $8 million in financing, the largest round of funding in its 10-year history. The company said it would use the proceeds raised from venture capital investors - Baird Capital, Sigma Partners and Gold Hill Capital - to accelerate the launch of applications in its HSPOverseasConnect platform. High Street's offers software and services that help companies with back-office operations, such as payroll.

Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts is still relatively new on his job, so it's probably unfair to make too much of his unfortunate response to a question last week about the recent spate of gun violence that left nine people dead on the city's west side. "Though we're having a spike in homicides," Mr. Batts said, "our organization is working better, faster and smoother, and you can see it in the overall stats. " There was nothing factually wrong in Mr. Batts' answer; department statistics show an 8 percent drop in crimes of all types over this time last year.

A dispute between the owner of an 11-acre site in Remington and the developer that plans to build a Walmart-anchored shopping center there has thrown the project's future into doubt. Twenty Fifth Street LLC, the property owner, filed Wednesday in Baltimore Circuit Court asking a judge to declare that it legally terminated sale agreements with WV Baltimore-24/Sisson LLC, a development team led by Rick Walker. Twenty Fifth Street is controlled by Bruce Mortimer, president of Anderson Automotive Group, which has operated car dealerships on the site.

The Town of Sykesville and the Warfield development along Route 32 will be the key topics of a town hall meeting Monday night hosted by County Commissioner Doug Howard, at 7 p.m. at the South Carroll Senior Center, 5928 Mineral Hill Road, Eldersburg. The meeting is the fourth in a series of monthly sessions for District 5 residents. Guests Ivy Wells and Brad Rees from the Town of Sykesville will provide information on the Main Street and Warfield projects.

Edna Rudell, who began selling homemade chocolate bunnies outside the Northeast Market and went on to co-own Fallston's Log Cabin Chocolates, died of congestive heart failure March 6 at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Jacksonville resident was 90. Born Edna Rose Himler, she was the daughter of John Himler, a city police officer, and Sara McCleester, who died when Mrs. Rudell was very young. She was placed in an orphanage at age 2 and remained there until her father remarried. "My mother was a survivor," said her daughter, Annette Armstrong.