Two Women

A running gun battle that broke out late Thursday night between Baltimore police and a suspect after a domestic incident in Canton left one man dead, two women shot and a quiet Southeast Baltimore street rattled. Police worked Friday to unravel the circumstances surrounding the overnight incident. It was the year's eighth officer-involved shooting and the second in which a suspect died. Officers responded to call about a disturbance at a house in the 3400 block of Foster Ave. just before midnight.

I suspect my children will want to see me throw myself on my husband's funeral pyre, the better to tie up all the loose ends. But I am certain they would not want me out there and available again. And frankly, the idea of revisiting all that teenage dating angst does seem like an awful lot of work. Just in time for Mother's Day, there is a new book, written by two women who watched their own mothers search for love again in widowhood, called "From Granny Panties to Thongs: The Mourning After.

County police arrested two Glen Burnie women Monday night and charged them with shoplifting merchandise from a Marley Station department store.Charlotte Brinkmeyer, 21, of the 100 block of Warwickshire Lane, and Angela Jones, 34, of the 500 block of Longwood Ave., were each charged with one count of theft less than $300.A security officer at Macy's told police he saw two women place men's and women's clothing into plastic bags about 7 p.m.When the women attempted to leave the store without paying for the clothes, the security officer detained them.

A running gun battle that broke out late Thursday night between Baltimore police and a suspect after a domestic incident in Canton left one man dead, two women shot and a quiet Southeast Baltimore street rattled. Police worked Friday to unravel the circumstances surrounding the overnight incident. It was the year's eighth officer-involved shooting and the second in which a suspect died. Officers responded to call about a disturbance at a house in the 3400 block of Foster Ave. just before midnight.

The bodies of two women - apparently those of a missing 70-year-old bar owner and her daughter-in-law - were found by Anne Arundel County police last night in Glen Burnie, in the trunk of a car. County police said they discovered the bodies shortly after 10 p.m. in the 7600 block of Ridgewater Court last night after receiving a call from a resident, reporting what appeared to be blood dripping from the trunk. When officers forced it open, they found the bodies of two white females, said spokesman Charles Ravenell.

Two women managed to keep teens from snatching their purses in separate attacks in Columbia's Town Center Friday night, Howard County police said.In the first case, police said a 43-year-old Columbia women was walking to her car in the 10200 block of Wincopin Circle about 7 p.m. when three juveniles approached her from behind and one of them grabbed her purse. The woman struggled to hold on and the teen let go and ran away with the others, police said.Later, teens approached a 60-year-old Columbia woman outside Hecht's at the mall and tried to take her purse, police said.

A help-wanted ad for a lingerie model in a Crofton-area shopper led to the arrest Tuesday of two women on charges of running an illegal massage parlor and house of prostitution in a Crofton apartment.Carmen Morgan Lopez, 39, of the 1600 block of Fendall Court in Crofton was charged with operating a massage parlor without a license and operating a brothel. She was held in lieu of $10,000 bail.Stephanie L. VonBargen, 20, of the 200 block of Margate Drive in Glen Burnie was charged with giving massages without a license and massaging or offering to massage an erogenous area of a customer.

Two women have filed separate civil suits accusing a gynecologist of making improper sexual advances during examinations.The suits accuse Dr. Mohammad Farzanfar, who has offices in Baltimore and Anne Arundel County, of exploiting his "position of power and trust" over the two patients to gain sexual satisfaction.In one suit, a Severna Park woman says the doctor caused her to become aroused -- "to her embarrassment and shame" -- during an April 18, 1991, examination. The woman says the doctor also made comments about her husband's sex habits.

Two women were killed in separate car-truck accidents yesterday on the Eastern Shore and near the Harbor Tunnel Thruway.In the Baltimore County accident, officials said an elderly woman driving a 1984 Chevrolet Chevette was rear-ended by a tractor-trailer about 2 p.m. several miles south of the tunnel, between Route 1 and the Baltimore Beltway.The woman, believed to be 74, was either slowing down or had stopped on the highway when the accident occurred, said Thomas Freeburger, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority.

An accomplice might have helped two women - one of them facing child-abduction charges - escape from a state psychiatric hospital in Catonsville on Saturday, police said yesterday. One of the women, Lisa L. Gabbert, 25, told police in Springdale, Ark., that a friend of Maria L. Baughman helped them escape about 3 a.m. Saturday. Gabbert turned herself in to Springdale authorities Tuesday. "The information she has given us is that somebody had removed bars from the window to help them get out of the window," said Sgt. Rick Mayes of the Springdale Police Department.

Two women and one man were shot in an incident at a bar in Essex early Friday morning, according to Baltimore County Police. Officers responded to the Loft bar in the 100 block of Back River Neck Road at about 12:03 a.m. for reports of gunfire and found one woman suffering from a gunshot wound, according to police. Another woman and a man suffering from gunshot wounds in the same incident later arrived at an area hospital for treatment, police said. None of the victims are considered to have life-threatening injuries, police said.

A federal judge ruled Monday that claims by two former Anne Arundel County employees, who allege they lost their jobs because of retaliation by the administration of former County Executive John R. Leopold, can advance to trial. U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake threw out some parts of the lawsuits by Karla Hamner, a former spokeswoman for Leopold, and Joan Harris, who worked as a constituent services specialist during the executive's first term. But the judge "kept the crux of both of the cases" said John Singleton, an attorney representing both plaintiffs.

City police have charged two women - one who was released from jail recently after prosecutors dropped armed carjacking charges against her - in connection at least four knife-point robberies in the Federal Hill area, a spokesman said.  Officers received a report of a robbery Thursday night at about 7 p.m. in the 900 block of Harden Pl. and a description of the suspects was broadcast to officers. They found the two suspects walking in the 1100 block of Hanover St., said Detective Jeremy Silbert, a police spokesman.  Police arrested Sharticia Bryant, 21, and Keaira Vanzandt, 19, and have charged them in the Thursday robbery.

Jeanne Vertefeuille and Sandra Grimes could be George Smiley's people. They were recruited on their college campuses by the Central Intelligence Agency during the height of the Cold War. Jeanne wanted travel and adventure. Sandy didn't know much about the CIA; she just needed a job. Jeanne and Sandy. That's how they refer to themselves in the book they co-authored, "Circle of Treason. " It tells the story of these two women - Jeanne worked her way up from the equivalent of the steno pool, while Sandy was immediately in the Soviet division (and over her head)

A 19-year-old Parkville man has been arrested in the robbery and assault of an 88-year-old woman and the sexual assault of two other women in three separate incidents near Carney, according to Baltimore County police. Jordan Snyder, of the 3200 block of East Joppa Road, was arrested Oct. 31 for the robbery and assault, and a warrant was issued for the two sexual assault charges Nov. 6, after police were able to link him to the two incidents, according to police and court records.

Third of three articles on state ballot issues Dee Powell's belief in the ideal of marriage survived the reality of her divorce, and now she is working to preserve the institution as solely the union of a man and a woman. "Marriage is perfect," Powell says. "People are not. " But for Judy Gaver, what would make marriage perfect is to extend it to gay couples, such as the lesbians whose commitment ceremony she attended this summer. "It was beautiful, with the flowers and the music and the families," Gaver said.

Two women were found shot to death in a Reservoir Hill apartment Saturday night while the children of one victim watched television in an adjoining room, police said yesterday.Detective Roscoe Lewis of the homicide unit said the bodies were discovered by firefighters who had to break down the victims' apartment door about 11: 30 p.m. after an anonymous caller reported hearing gunshots coming from the building.Last night, Lewis said no arrest had been made and that a motive for the double-slaying was not known.

Two women died in separate shootings Thursday in Baltimore. The killings pushed the total of homicides for the year to 165, 11 more than at the same point last year and making it unlikely the city can improve upon last year's 35-year low of 196. Twenty-five people have been killed this month, nearly one per day. A 19-year-old woman, identified Friday by police as Nana Mensah of Randallstown, was shot in the head while seated in a car parked in...

Two women were wounded, one critically, in two separate shootings in Baltimore on Thursday night, according to city police. About 9:10 p.m., police responded to the 400 block of South Augusta Avenue in the city's Irvington neighborhood to find a young woman with a gunshot wound to her head, according to Sgt. Anthony Smith, a police spokesman. A preliminary investigation showed the woman was seated in a parked car "when a suspect discharged a firearm in the block" and she was struck in the head, Smith said.