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TOWSON UNIVERSITY freshman point guard Tamir Goodman is close to becoming a regular student-athlete again. After a three-year whirlwind media tour that included profiles by "60 Minutes," ESPN and Sports Illustrated, the young man who turned the college basketball world upside down because he is an Orthodox Jew with game will finally get to enjoy campus life like most students. Towson's basketball season came to a close when the Tigers fell to Delaware, 66-51, on Saturday night in the quarterfinals of the America East tournament.

A former Takoma Park resident who had lived as a fugitive for more than 13 years after being charged in the fatal shooting of a Howard University professor has been arrested in Toronto, police announced yesterday. While a medical student at Howard, Jacquelyn Camille Robinson, now 41, began a secret relationship with Henry Lloyd Garvey, a member of the faculty at the university's medical school, according to Detective Phillip Glavin of the Toronto Fugitive Squad. Glavin said the affair lasted 18 months -- until Robinson discovered that her lover was a married man. After a fight on Sept.

TAKOMA PARK - This is a town where tie-dyed clothing and Birkenstocks never go out of fashion, a place where aging hippies and young vegetarians, potters and folk musicians, peaceniks and women's rights lawyers make their home. Yet even the free-spirited folks in this self-proclaimed "Berkeley of the East" are having a hard time pushing through one of the most popular of liberal causes: a handgun ban. More than 18 months have passed since anti-gun activists went door to door collecting signatures for a referendum to outlaw the possession and sale of handguns in Takoma Park.

TAKOMA PARK - Just days after the election and the Center for Voting and Democracy looked like the aftermath of a flood in a copy shop. The phones had gone crazy. The coffee pot was burbling for a refill. The three-person staff, besotted with French roast, though bleary-eyed and frazzled, seemed strangely exhilarated. "Before the election we had all these stupid calls from people who wanted us to tell them where to go to vote," said Eric Olson, the idealistic 30-year-old deputy director who wears his hair in a ponytail.

A 24-year Takoma Park police department veteran admitted yesterday to helping cover up unprovoked attacks, one involving a Prince George's County police dog, on two homeless burglary suspects. Sgt. Dennis Bonn pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt to being an accessory after the fact in the 1995 incident. Bonn, who retired from the police force Nov. 1, also agreed to cooperate with related federal civil rights prosecutions. Two Prince George's County officers and a former Takoma Park officer face charges in the case.

Known primarily for his defense, Derrick Snowden didn't take long in a recent practice to impress his fellow U.S. All-Stars with some offensive moves that will be on display against the Capital All-Stars in tomorrow night's 27th Capital Classic at MCI Center in Washington. "All it took," said Snowden, a two-time All-Metro pick from Archbishop Spalding, "was a couple of crossover dribbles to show my quickness," along with a couple of drives to the basket, of course. Snowden's efforts earned him the nickname "Baby-I," after former Georgetown star Allen Iverson, from U.S. All-Star teammates such as North Carolina-bound Adam Boone of Minnesota and Clemson-bound Tony Stockman of Ohio.

The Tamir Goodman show hit Keymar last night, and he brought a co-host. Guard Joe Mathis scored a team-high 20 points, and Takoma Academy broke open a close game with an 18-10 third quarter to roll past host Bowling Brook, 72-60, in a Beltway Basketball League matchup. Thoroughbreds senior forward Ian Brenner led all scorers with 24 points, but only senior guard Randy Echols could join his teammate in double digits. Meanwhile, Goodman -- playing in just his second game after he sprained and partially tore a ligament in his left ankle on Dec. 14 -- had a solid all-around game as he recorded 18 points, 11 rebounds, four assists and three steals.

Baltimore resident Tamir Goodman of Takoma Academy, who recently accepted a full basketball scholarship to Towson University, suffered an ankle injury Tuesday night in a game against Bullis School and could be sidelined at least four to six weeks, his physician said yesterday.Goodman, who received national attention last season when he averaged 39 points for Pikesville's Talmudical Academy, suffered a severe sprain and partial torn ligament in his left ankle in the third period of a 65-62 loss to visiting Bullis of Montgomery County.

LAS VEGAS -- At Friday's pre-fight weigh-in, World Boxing Association super lightweight champ Sharmba Mitchell got a "good-luck" hug from welterweight champion Felix Trinidad. The Takoma Park resident's luck held up last night at UNLV's Thomas & Mack Center, as the 29-year-old Mitchell defended his crown for the sixth straight time and got his 15th consecutive victory by unanimous decision over Venezuela's third-ranked contender, Elio "Chingo" Ortiz (18-4, 14 knockouts). Mitchell survived a sixth-round head-butt that produced a laceration over his right eye that is expected to require 30 stitches.

TAKOMA PARK -- By a 5-to-1 margin, voters in a mock election called on the City Council to enact a ban on handguns.The petition question on Tuesday's ballot lost its authority when a Montgomery County Circuit judge ruled that state law prohibits local jurisdictions from passing gun control laws in all but a few circumstances.However, at least two City Council members say they will attempt to draft an ordinance that complies with state law but allows Takoma Park to ban handguns within 100 yards of public places.