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Darryl Strawberry yesterday called the three women who have filed a civil suit against New York Mets pitcher David Cone "a bunch of pigs" who have a history of harassing the team, including baring their breasts while the players were on the team bus."It's important for society to know people can say things, but the things they were doing were ridiculous," Strawberry said before the Mets played the Los Angeles Dodgers yesterday. "It's important that people know that. Yes, I'm jumping to Coney's side.

A federal judge in Indianapolis is scheduled to hear arguments today in the NFL's trademark infringement suit against the CFL Colts.The NFL has requested a court order barring the Baltimore club from using the name until the matter is settled at trial. The hearing begins at 9 a.m."Regardless of what happens [at today's hearing] we are going to appeal and do everything it takes," Colts owner Jim Speros said at a news conference at Baltimore-Washington International Airport.Speros has said he has asked the CFL to black out televised games on ESPN2 in Indiana this season.

Even if you never shopped there, you probably got one of its ties or shirts as a gift.To the end, the store remains solid, uncomplicated, never a discount arena. Over the years, it has possessed an old-fashioned Baltimore respectability. The place traded on the quality of its wares and never worried too much about high fashion and design.If Hamburger's styles were a couple of years behind other designers, nobody fretted much.Bob Pullen, a suit salesman at the flagship store at Charles and Fayette streets, came to work for the firm in 1951.

BOSTON -- Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson has left the city and, at least temporarily, will leave her position at the newspaper. Yesterday she filed suit in Suffolk County Superior Court against the New England Patriots, owner Victor Kiam, three players and two front-office employees, charging sexual harassment and violations of her civil rights.Olson's suit also charges intentional infliction of emotional distress and interference with advantageous relations by the defendants, who include former general manager Patrick Sullivan, former public relations director Jimmy Oldham and three players -- present Patriots Zeke Mowatt and Michael Timpson and former Patriot Robert Perryman.

A former resident at Maryland General Hospital has filed a $15 million slander suit charging the hospital's chief of obstetrics and gynecology with falsely accusing him of throwing away a fetus to cover up a botched abortion."

Keenan Kester Cofield -- dubbed by several judges a relentless abuser of the court system -- was back in Baltimore County Circuit Court yesterday, trying to file a legal motion in a suit that's already been dismissed against McDonald's Corp.In his latest legal maneuver, Cofield appeared undeterred by an unusual order restricting him from filing suits in the county.Cofield, 38, has spent most of his adult life seeking damages through dozens of lawsuits that were dismissed and called frivolous by judges in Alabama and Tennessee.

The state's highest court has affirmed the dismissal of a $10.5 million suit filed against the Carroll County Narcotics Task Force by a Westminster defense attorney.Without comment, the Maryland Court of Appeals last week declined to hear Stephen P. Bourexis' appeal of a Carroll Circuit judge's dismissal of his 1992 suit.Mr. Bourexis' suit contended that the task force blackballed his clients from becoming informants or entering plea negotiations. He had sought damages against the task force, state police Tfc. Richard Heuisler and Westminster police Sgt. Andrew McKendrick.

The mother of a Glen Burnie elementary school student sued the county school system for $800,000 yesterday, claiming that her daughter had been sexually assaulted at school by another student.The suit, filed in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court by a plaintiff identified only as Joyce M., alleges that a girl at Richard Henry Lee Elementary School assaulted her daughter several times during the 1992-'93 school year.The suit alleges that on Nov. 4, 1992, another student touched the plaintiff's daughter in "intimate areas" and "attempted to solicit sexual favors" during school hours and on school property.

Two women who worked for a Hanover asbestos abatement firm filed suit against their former boss yesterday, claiming in Circuit Court that he sexually harassed them for months until he was fired, and kept harassing them by telephone until they quit.Kathleen Britt of Pasadena and Dawn Rakowski of Kenosha, Wis., allege in their $20 million suit that Gregory L. Bauer of Hanover harassed them last summer until he was dismissed as their supervisor at Control Resource Systems Inc., an Indiana-based asbestos abatement firm.

A citizens group has filed a federal lawsuit to block a company from disposing sludge at its Whiteford property, contending that contaminants in the material risk polluting drinking wells.The group, called the Mason-Dixon Safe Water Awareness Team, is asking for $5.3 million in damages from Whiteford Construction Co. in its suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on May 13.The 16-page, 617-count suit calls for the company to develop a plan to correct contamination at the site. The citizens also want federal and state agencies to increase their monitoring of the site.