Three Women

Coppin State suspended three women players for one game for their role in a brawl following Saturday's loss to visiting North Carolina A&T. Suspended from Monday night's home game against Norfolk State were Jeanine Manley and Crystal Whittington, two juniors from Oakland, Calif., and Leola Spotwood, a sophomore from Trenton, N.J. Coppin athletic director Derrick Ramsey said that Manley was suspended for starting the fight and Whittington and Spotwood were suspended for participating in it. "These two institutions over the last 10 years have won the conference championship five times, so it's a heated battle between the teams.

Having read your report, the story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of three women in Cleveland makes no sense whatever ("Women's 'nightmare is over,'" May 8). If true, something is drastically wrong with America. I am incredulous the women were held against their will for 10 years, incredulous that neighbors blame the police when the captives were right next door, incredulous one of the prisoners could have given birth and cared for a child for six years without anyone asking questions.

United Cerebral Palsy of Central Maryland, a nonprofit organization with locations in Arbutus and Halethorpe to support individuals with disabilities achieve independence and productivity, name these women to its board of directors: • Vanessa Jones, a Gwynn Oak resident, who works as a credentialing assistant program manager for the Maryland State Department of Education's Office of Child Care. She formerly held the position of education coordinator for the Baltimore City Child Care Resource Center Head Start.

Amanda Weeks, Kellie Batz and Sarah Mack - the pregnant runners featured in a Baltimore Sun story this week - all finished their respective races Saturday at the Baltimore Running Festival. Weeks, 33, of Ellicott City, completed the half-marathon in 2 hours, 22 minutes. "That was better than I thought," said Weeks, who is almost five months pregnant. "I made a couple of bathroom stops, which added some time, but otherwise, it was pretty smooth sailing. " She said she would celebrate by taking a nap. Mack, 31, of Evans, Ga., clocked a 3:18 in the half-marathon.

Three women, one of whom broke a beer bottle and threatened to cut a store detective, stole an undetermined amount of clothing from the Jamesway Department Store at Lake Shore Plaza Sunday, county police said yesterday.The store detective, John Phelps, 18, told police he noticed the women shortly before 6 p.m., taking items from hangers and shelves and putting them under the clothes they were wearing, police said.Mr. Phelps said he confronted one of the women as the three left the store. One ran to a white car in the parking lot, and the others walked, Mr. Phelps told police.

Three women have sued a former Anne Arundel County police officer who they claim asked them to bare their breasts during traffic stops -- and snapped a photograph of himself fondling one of them. The lawsuits also target the county government and Police Department, saying they should never have hired, then failed to supervise, the rookie officer, Joseph F. Mosmiller. Mosmiller, 23, was convicted of misconduct in office last year and stripped of his badge amid allegations that he had threatened to take the women to jail unless they agreed to lift their tops.

A weekend at a bed and breakfast is the common denominator daydream of all kinds of couples, from new lovers to weary parents or touristy retirees. It is an intimate retreat, a place of discovery or rediscovery, a jumping-off point for sightseeing.The same is true even if you're not a couple at all, but three women: forever friends from way-back-when who play an unspoken game of "Can You Top This?" when selecting the setting for a reunion.In that case, a bed and breakfast must be more than "delightful" or "charming."

Three women were shot with a pellet gun outside a Wendy's restaurant in Westminster at dinner- time Wednesday, authorities said. No one else was injured. Michael W. Riggs, 18, of the 600 block of Windsor Drive was charged with second-degree assault, reckless endangerment, use of a deadly weapon and possession of marijuana, court records show. He was released yesterday from the Carroll County Detention Center in Westminster on $50,000 bond, court records show. Westminster police said a man passed through the drive-through lane of the fast-food restaurant about 5:10 p.m. and shot at three women who were standing outside near a pay phone in the 300 block of N. Center St. Amanda L. Grimm, 23, of Ellicott City was struck in the right leg. Melissa L. Sealover, 18, of Westminster was shot in the right hip. The women were treated at Carroll County General Hospital in Westminster and released, a spokeswoman said.

Imagine your mom on the radio for two hours. Then multiply by three, add commercials and what do you get?No, you're not crazy.Rising above the static of Rush and Ollie and all-this and all-that formats are the distinct voices of three women who are raising children and the consciousness of Central Maryland listeners.Their program, "Mom's Talk. No, You're Not Crazy," lights up the phones and fax machine at Frederick's WFMD, 930 AM with questions and opinions on everything from weekly allowances to home schooling, diapers to dating.

Just by walking into the courtroom yesterday, the three judges made a statement: Women on the state's intermediate appellate court have achieved critical mass.The opening of the fall term of the Court of Special Appeals marked the first time one of its three-judge panels was all-women."We all wore pearls to mark the occasion," Judge Ellen L. Hollander quipped during a short break from hearing arguments in a half-dozen cases. "It was either this or white gloves."But each one's pearls were different.

United Cerebral Palsy of Central Maryland, a nonprofit organization with locations in Arbutus and Halethorpe to support individuals with disabilities achieve independence and productivity, name these women to its board of directors: • Vanessa Jones, a Gwynn Oak resident, who works as a credentialing assistant program manager for the Maryland State Department of Education's Office of Child Care. She formerly held the position of education coordinator for the Baltimore City Child Care Resource Center Head Start.

In reference to the article entitled "On the rise," I would like to say that the only CEOs mentioned in the story about rising executive pay are a group of men in suits. Seems to me we are missing a real fact of substance here which is the disparity within the Maryland CEO ranks. I'm sure whoever is hiring into these positions could just as well find competent women to fill these posts. Additionally, three women co-authored this story. Did this occur to any of them? Patricia Bayly Miedusiewski, Monkton

When Johns Hopkins University civil engineering student Erin Kelly was assigned a class project to design a steel structure, her thoughts went to her sorority "big sister," Miriam Frankl. Frankl, a fellow Hopkins student, was killed last year in a hit-and-run crash involving a chronic drunk driver while she was crossing St. Paul Street near campus. Kelly thought it would be fitting to make her project the design of a pedestrian bridge that might keep other Hopkins students safe. So she teamed up with two engineering school classmates, Charlotte Healy and Alison Ignatowski, to research what it would take to build a bridge across Charles Street — the main north-south road through campus — and whether there was a demand for it. Kelly said that would be a better location for the bridge than the site on St. Paul Street where Frankl was killed.

Coppin State suspended three women players for one game for their role in a brawl following Saturday's loss to visiting North Carolina A&T. Suspended from Monday night's home game against Norfolk State were Jeanine Manley and Crystal Whittington, two juniors from Oakland, Calif., and Leola Spotwood, a sophomore from Trenton, N.J. Coppin athletic director Derrick Ramsey said that Manley was suspended for starting the fight and Whittington and Spotwood were suspended for participating in it. "These two institutions over the last 10 years have won the conference championship five times, so it's a heated battle between the teams.

I never met my grandmother. She was burned alive with kerosene doused on her sari and lit on fire. Some think it was suicide. Others say it was a dowry murder, given her mother in-law's displeasure with the dowry. I cannot imagine her shock, grief and pain in the moments before she died. It makes me sick to even think about it. Regrettably, her story is not uncommon. Millions of women all over the world suffer acid attacks, rape, forced marriage and other horrendous forms of violence.

I arrived carrying my reporter's notebook, but I immediately felt like I was attending the reunion of every kid carpool of which I'd ever been a member. Arundel Habitat for Humanity was announcing plans to construct a home in Annapolis that would be financed and built by women, and I was there to write about it when I realized I knew just about every woman in the room. I recognized my fellow swim team moms and dance camp moms and art class moms and Montessori moms and, of course, soccer moms.

Having read your report, the story of the kidnapping and imprisonment of three women in Cleveland makes no sense whatever ("Women's 'nightmare is over,'" May 8). If true, something is drastically wrong with America. I am incredulous the women were held against their will for 10 years, incredulous that neighbors blame the police when the captives were right next door, incredulous one of the prisoners could have given birth and cared for a child for six years without anyone asking questions.

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine admitted 63 women and 57 men to its fall class. It's the first time in the school's 101-year history that more women than men have been enrolled in an incoming class. The school's first class in 1893 had just three women. Article, Page 6B.

Toby Devens knows firsthand that being over 50 doesn't make a woman over the hill. The Clarksville resident is a successful author, a widow twice over, and mother to an adult daughter. The characters in Devens' first novel, My Favorite Midlife Crisis (Yet), could be her own circle of friends. They are three women juggling love lives, aging parents, relationships with grown children, and their own careers. Devens said an "ability to find humor, except in the most difficult circumstances, is probably what buoys up most women."

Three women have sued a former Anne Arundel County police officer who they claim asked them to bare their breasts during traffic stops -- and snapped a photograph of himself fondling one of them. The lawsuits also target the county government and Police Department, saying they should never have hired, then failed to supervise, the rookie officer, Joseph F. Mosmiller. Mosmiller, 23, was convicted of misconduct in office last year and stripped of his badge amid allegations that he had threatened to take the women to jail unless they agreed to lift their tops.