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Until the other day, I had never experienced the sudden panic, feelings of worthlessness and subsequent descent into Customer Service Hell that comes with losing your bank card. The good news about the card was this: It wasn't stolen. So therefore I wasn't worried about some grinning hoodlum standing in the check-out line of Best Buy with a new flat-screen TV and my card, ready to go to town. The bad news: The card was "eaten" by the automated teller machine outside my bank, which turned out to be a horror story all its own. Anyway, the story goes like this: It's a weekday morning when I pull up to the ATM to withdraw cash.

A Baltimore bank robber who left his fingerprints at the crime scene was sentenced in federal court yesterday to spend more than 11 years behind bars. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced 48-year-old Robert Nathaniel Brown to 140 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery. He could have received up to 20 years behind bars. The judge stiffened her sentence, in part because of Brown's three previous convictions for robbery. Brown must also pay restitution of $1,400, according to Blake's order.

Two Baltimore banks on Harford Road were robbed within 90 minutes yesterday in unrelated holdups by bandits who passed threatening notes to the tellers and claimed to have guns, city police said.The first holdup occurred about 11: 30 a.m. at First Union Bank in the 5400 block of Harford Road in Hamilton.Police said two suspects -- one 4 feet 11 inches and the other 5 feet 2 inches -- dressed in black wigs and wearing heavy makeup and black leather coats passed a note to a teller.The note read: "I know where you live.

A man wearing wraparound sunglasses robbed a bank in Long Reach village yesterday morning, taking an undisclosed amount of cash from a teller, police said.About 10: 45 a.m., the robber approached a cashier at First Union Bank in the 8700 block of Cloudleap Court, police said.The robber handed the teller a note demanding money and stating that he had a gun, police said. The teller handed over cash.The robber, who never showed a weapon, was described as white, bearded and 5 feet 11. He wore a baseball cap, police said.

A Laurel Park racetrack teller accused of placing bets while he worked and leaving $97,000 in gambling debts when he went home has been arrested, Anne Arundel County police said.Steven Michael Stout, 35, of the 400 block of Greenlow Road in Academy Heights near Catonsville was arrested at the track just before 8: 30 a.m. Monday after racetrack managers discovered the money was missing, said Officer Carol Frye, police spokeswoman.She said Stout was charged with theft over $300 and released.

Anne Arundel County police arrested a 22-year-old man yesterday on charges of robbing the Carrollton Bank branch in the 400 block of Crain Highway S.E. in Glen Burnie.Police said a man wearing a striped stocking cap and a long blue coat walked into the bank about 12: 15 p.m., handed a teller a note demanding cash and said he had a gun. The teller turned over an undisclosed amount of money, and the man fled.Police said they stopped a man running from the bank toward Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard and found a large amount of cash on him. No weapon was found.

A man wearing red lipstick and a wig robbed a Columbia credit union yesterday morning, Howard County police said.The robber entered Tower Federal Credit Union in the 9000 block of Snowden Square Drive about 10: 20 a.m. and approached a teller, police said.The man opened his purse, displayed a handgun and passed the teller a note demanding money, police said.The man then fled with with an undetermined amount of cash, police said.Police are looking for a black man, between 5 feet 8 and 5 feet 10, with broad shoulders and a mustache.

State police are looking for a man who fled a NationsBank in Mount Airy on Friday after robbing the bank of an undisclosed amount of money.No one was injured in the 11: 20 a.m. incident in the 1300 block of S. Main St., police said.The man entered the branch office and handed a teller a note, demanding money. After she handed him the money, he ran out of the bank, police said.The investigation is continuing, police said.Pub Date: 10/18/98

BANKER'S HOURS. That deprecating term for a short workday and an easy job now seems so antiquated. Not long ago, it was on the mark, defining for the working stiffs the very limited hours the local institution was open to serve the public.Today, with the profusion of automated teller machines and credit cards, home-computer banking and electronic direct deposits and payments, the bank is nearly always open.And despite the cornucopia of these services, the physical buildings we call banks have also abandoned banker's hours.

&TC County police arrested two men Tuesday and charged them in the holdup of a Linthicum branch of Signet Bank.John Wayne Newman, 36, and Robert George Pawley, 30, neither of a fixed address, were charged with robbery in the first of two bank robberies that occurred in a three-hour period in Linthicum Tuesday, police said.A man walked into the Signet Bank branch in the 700 block of Hammonds Ferry Road shortly after 11 a.m. and demanded money from a teller, police said.The teller gave the man an undisclosed amount, and the man left, got onto a bicycle and rode off with another bicyclist, police said.

These are some of the faces of people robbing banks in and around Baltimore and Washington: A middle-age, balding man with a sand-colored beard wearing spectacles and a striped polo shirt, holding a demand note while leaning across the teller counter. A young man wearing a Detroit Tigers cap, a T-shirt with an easily identifiable slogan, chatting on his cell phone. A man wearing a construction-site hard hat adorned with the American flag and clad in an orange safety vest. A man in a hooded sweat shirt carrying an umbrella under his right arm. A man disguised with a white surgical mask.

On July 24, 2009 REGIINA M. KELLER "JEAN" (nee Kraus), beloved wife of Frank J. Teller, cherished mother of Teresa J. Teller and the late Cynthia T. Teller. Services and Interment at the convenience of the family. Arrangments by MARZULLO FUNERAL CHAPEL, P.A., 6009 Harford Road, Baltimore, MD 21214

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Central Baltimore Theft: A navigational system, a radio and a DVD player, all valued at $500, were stolen between July 21 and Friday from a 2007 Honda Pilot parked in the 200 block of Water St. Burglary: Someone broke into a house in the 1500 block of Bolton St. in Bolton Hill through a front window between Thursday night and Friday and stole several pieces of jewelry and a computer. Southeastern Baltimore Bank robbery: A man robbed M&T Bank in the 3400 block of Eastern Ave. of an undisclosed sum of money about 10 a.m. Saturday after giving a teller a holdup note demanding only $20s and $50s.

Four shootings leave two dead, two wounded Baltimore police were investigating four shootings, two of them fatal. About 3 p.m. Monday, Antwon Witherspoon, 28, of the 2500 block of N. Charles St., was shot to death while standing in an alley off the 2900 block of The Alameda. About 7:15 p.m. Monday, officers were called to the 4000 block of Old York Road at Dumbarton Avenue for a reported shooting. They found John Woodies, 38, of the 700 block of Grantley St., lying on a basketball court with wounds to the chest, police said.

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Southwestern Baltimore Shooting: Police continue to seek an unidentified man who shot another man, 19, while the victim was attending a cookout with several other people in the first block of N. Marley St. about 12:05 a.m. Tuesday. The victim was shot several times in the lower body and legs and was driven by a friend to St. Agnes Hospital, where he was treated in the emergency room before being transferred to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was reported in good condition.

Police reports in Baltimore city and county: Southwestern Baltimore Burglary: Someone broke into a city Department of Recreations and Parks garage in the 1900 block of Ridge Top Road in Leakin Park between May 23 and Tuesday through a window and removed four city Police Department mountain bikes, all valued at $1,200. Assault: A male teenager was walking in the 4400 block of Rokeby Road about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday when he was assaulted by three other young men, one armed with an unknown sharp weapon.

A former Westminster bank teller pleaded guilty yesterday to embezzling between $400,000 and $1 million from her bank over nine years and using the money to buy a Hummer, a Corvette and snowmobiles, according to the Maryland U.S. attorney's office. Karen L. Baer, 46, admitted committing bank fraud and faces a maximum prison sentence of 30 years and a $1 million fine, federal prosecutors said. She is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 3 in U.S. District Court in Baltimore. Prosecutors said Baer worked as a teller from 1998 to Oct. 25 last year, when she was fired.

NCR Corp. Shares advanced $2.80, or 13 percent, to $23.77. The world's largest maker of automated teller machines said earnings for 2007 exceeded its previous forecast as sales grew more than expected.

Howard County police are asking for the public's help in finding the man they believe to be responsible for the robbery of a food chain and an attempted robbery of a bank. The first incident occurred at 11:30 a.m. Sept. 11 at the Subway restaurant on U.S. 1 near Montgomery Road in Elkridge. A man entered the store, demanded cash and fled with an undisclosed amount of money. The second incident occurred at 1 p.m. Friday at the BB&T Bank branch at U.S. 1 and Montgomery Road. A man entered the bank, approached a teller and demanded money.

Until the other day, I had never experienced the sudden panic, feelings of worthlessness and subsequent descent into Customer Service Hell that comes with losing your bank card. The good news about the card was this: It wasn't stolen. So therefore I wasn't worried about some grinning hoodlum standing in the check-out line of Best Buy with a new flat-screen TV and my card, ready to go to town. The bad news: The card was "eaten" by the automated teller machine outside my bank, which turned out to be a horror story all its own. Anyway, the story goes like this: It's a weekday morning when I pull up to the ATM to withdraw cash.