Two Women

Police arrested two Baltimore women Saturday on charges they stole more than $200 worth of clothes from the Hecht's at Marley Station.Tarsha Delores Randloph, 19, of the 2800 block of N. Denholm Circle and Tamika Lasandera Ben, 18, of the 2800 block of Winnwood Court were charged with theft.A security guard told police he saw two women in the store about 6: 30 p.m. take several items from store displays and place them in their handbags. The women walked out of the store without paying for the items and the security guard stopped them and held them for police.

Two women cut trying to break up fight Two women were stabbed when they tried to break up a fight in a crowd Tuesday night in the 900 block of President St., Annapolis police said. Police said they were called to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where the two women who were being treated told them that about 10:45 p.m. a fight broke out in the group between two people, one of whom drew a knife and threatened the crowd. One of the women tried to grab the person wielding the knife but was cut on the right arm. The other woman swung a pair of jeans at the person, but tripped, fell and was slashed in the left arm, police said.

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. -- Rich Ashburn enjoys the solitude of hiking and camping along the Appalachian Trail, but as he left yesterday morning on a four-day jaunt, he made a few changes in his routine.He decided to head north into Maryland from Harpers Ferry, instead of south toward the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, as he originally planned. He will camp near other people. And he is packing a can of Mace.Ashburn's anxiety was shared by many hikers along the Appalachian Trail after two women were found slain in their tent June 1 in the backwoods of Shenandoah National Park, their throats slashed.

The debate about same-sex marriage gives a particular relevance to Vita & Virginia, the current production by Rep Stage. Eileen Atkins' play dramatizes the affair between the British writers Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. It is an absorbing production that maintains Rep Stage's high standards. Vita was married to a diplomat, Harold Nicolson, and had two sons but had many relationships with women. An adventurous person who loved to travel in remote lands, she was also a prolific writer of novels, poems, travel books and, later in life, gardening books.

Two women's worlds See the new exhibit Two Women, Two Worlds, which explores the lives of working-class and upper-class Victorian women, on display through May 15 at the Carriage House Gallery in Cape May, N.J. Learn about the differences and similarities between the two classes of Victorian women through artifacts, including Victorian clothing, upper-class sewing materials, servants' cooking utensils, various pieces of furniture, as well as letters, photographs...

An Anne Arundel County grand jury yesterday indicted Kathryn E. McLane of Pasadena on a charge that she solicited an undercover county detective to kill her boyfriend's ex-wife.Ms. McLane, 30, was arrested April 7 by Anne Arundel police at her home in the 8300 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd. Police said she offered to pay the detective $5,000 and gave him half on March 31 in the parking lot of B J's Warehouse on Ritchie Highway in Pasadena.She is free on bail.The indictment was among 27 the grand jury returned yesterday.

Baltimore County police arrested two women yesterday on murder charges after a man on horseback told police he had spotted two women burying the body of another woman in the snow along a rural road.Myra Elaine Harrison, 30, of St. Paul Street in Baltimore had been stabbed several times in the chest in a dispute over a debt,police said.They said the witness was riding in his neighborhood about 9 a.m. when he saw two women seemingly digging in the snow in a remote section of Carroll Road, south of Sparks Road.

A 30-year-old Westminster man is in the Carroll County Detention Center without bail on charges tied to an assault and robbery involving two women Monday night.William Evast Robinson of the first block of Carroll St. has been charged with two counts of assault and robbery, and one count each of assault, battery and theft.Investigators said they received a call to report to the first block of Pennsylvania Ave. about 9:20 p.m. Monday.When officers arrived, the two women told them that a man whom they knew asked for a ride to Main Street.

Police in Southeast Baltimore are warning residents about two women who stole thousands of dollars in jewelry from an elderly woman while claiming to be selling Avon cosmetics door to door.Agent Robert W. Weinhold Jr., a police spokesman, said it appears the two have struck only once, but detectives are trying to find out if there are victims in addition to the 87-year-old woman who was targeted Wednesday morning."It certainly seems to be a case in which these two suspects preyed on the hospitality of this woman," Agent Weinhold said.

The Carroll Players. "This Must Be The Place." 7 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday at VFW Post 467 in Westminster. Needed are two women, ages 55-65; two women, ages 20-40; two men in their 40s; one adult, any age; and one man -- a large, aggressive type, any age. Be prepared to read from the script. Technical people and backstage help also needed. Call 410-876-2220.Fell's Point Corner Theatre. "Skylight." 7: 30 p.m. July 6-7 at the theater, 251 S. Ann St. Needed are one man in his 50s, one man in his early 20s, and one woman in her 30s. Call 410-276-7837.