Taco Bell

A man who used a threatening note to rob a Taco Bell restaurant in Hanover Monday night escaped with an undisclosed amount of money, county police said.The man walked into the restaurant in the 2600 block of Annapolis Road about 9:45 p.m. and went to the men's room. He came out of the men's room, ordered food and handed the cashier a note demanding money, police said.The cashier put the money into a Taco Bell bag, and the bandit ran from the store, police said.7-Eleven robbed by gunmanTwo men, one with a handgun, robbed a Laurel 7-Eleven store of $25 Saturday morning, county police said yesterday.

A gunman followed a Glen Burnie woman into a Marley Station Mall restroom Sunday and robbed her, county police said.Marie Anne Shelton, 37, told police she went to the restroom shortly after 12:30 p.m. The man pointed a small, dark-barreled handgun at her and demanded her money. He took her waist pouch and fled, police said.Ms. Shelton said she hurried after the man and saw him drove off in a light blue Plymouth that had Maryland tags, police said. She said she was not sure how much money was in the pouch.

A man who may have been armed with a handgun robbed a Taco Bell in Linthicum Sunday afternoon of an undisclosed amount of cash, county police said yesterday.The man walked into the restaurant in the 5100 block of Raynor Ave. shortly after 1:30 p.m. He pointed his right hand, which was wrapped in a dark shirt, at the cashier and demanded money, police said.The cashier complied, and the man ran out the front door and toward a motel in the back of the restaurant. The cashier told police that the man appeared to have a gun.Needle used as weapon in $50 robberyTwo men held a needle to the throat of a Baltimore bar owner Monday night and robbed him of $50 after he drove them to a house in Ferndale, county police said yesterday.

Some might call it the impossible vacation.Since he handed a New York cabbie $472 for a ride from New York to Laurel two months ago, Dutch tourist Sasa Nikolic has been embraced by a flood of goodwill by outraged Americans -- everything from a free Florida vacation to limousine tours of the nation's Capitol.Now he's been offered a stateside job and a shot at U.S. citizenship."A long time ago I started thinking it would be nice to become an American," said Mr. Nikolic. "Now maybe I can do it."

A 26-year-old cancer patient has filed a $500,000 lawsuit, accusing his former employer -- Taco Bell -- of discriminating against him because of his illness.Thomas Callahan of Greenbelt charged in a suit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore that he was fired from his job at the restaurant in Columbia's Hickory Ridge village the day after telling his manager that he would begin receiving radiation treatment for testicular cancer.Mr. Callahan has been battling the disease since April 1991, according to court documents.

An employee of the Taco Bell in the 8000 block of Veterans Highway was cut on the left hand, right arm, neck and chest during a robbery Thursday morning, police said.A man walked up to the drive-in window around 1 a.m., ordered food, then reached into the open cash register. The employee, Kenneth Schmansky, 26, tried to hold onto the man's arm, but the man started stabbing him with a large knife, police said.The man broke away and fled with an undetermined amount of cash. Mr. Schmansky was treated at North Arundel Hospital and released.

So, there we were in the movie theater last weekend making what always seems like one of life's toughest decisions: Would it be Goobers, Raisinets or . . . a bean burrito.A bean burrito?Hold on to your ticket stub, Toto, we're not in the multiplex anymore.Several months ago, the burrito supreme began its unlikely quest to unseat buttered popcorn as the preferred snack for moviegoers. The General Cinema Theaters chain started test-marketing a limited menu of Taco Bell products -- burritos and tacos only -- in its Towson and Security theaters.

POLICE* Westminster: A Manchester Avenue resident reported that some one broke the glass of his storm door in an attempt to gain entry to the house Friday. The damage is estimated at $500.An employee of Taco Bell on Baltimore Boulevard told police someone passed a counterfeit $10 bill to purchase food Monday.

Like some modern-day cave man, Jason Lems adjusts his sunglasses and motions toward Hollywood's Vasquez Rocks -- twisted, angry stone formations that have been the Santa Clarita Valley's loneliest landmarks for 20 million years."

A Columbia couple have proposed building an elderly housing community on the site of the former Elkridge Drive-In. But some Elkridge civic leaders are lukewarm to the idea since the project would involve first constructing a Taco Bell to finance it.The proposal from Barry Mehta and Dr. Charu Mehta raised concerns that once zoning was changed to allow the fast-food restaurant, the housing community might never be built."