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FireUnion Bridge: Harney firefighters assisted Union Bridge at 1 a.m. yesterday, responding to a barn fire on Motter Station Road. Time out for units was unavailable.Pub Date: 12/12/96

PoliceEldersburg: A resident of Four Points Court told police that two men stole her 1993 Jeep Cherokee bearing Maryland license tags 87767M while it was parked at her home Thursday. The amount of loss was unavailable.Pub Date: 9/18/96

WASHINGTON -- Moving to meet a self-imposed Saturday deadline, Bob Dole has narrowed his list of potential running mates to three, telling aides yesterday he is "very close" to a final decision.The Dole campaign would not identify the three finalists, but said they were not necessarily all drawn from the list of seven hopefuls who have submitted in recent weeks to background checks.Top prospects are believed to include Dole's former Senate Republican colleagues John McCain of Arizona and Connie Mack of Florida; former South Carolina Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr.; and Michigan Gov. John Engler.

To try to clamp a lid on spiraling overtime costs, the Baltimore Fire Department began taking equipment out of service yesterday and dispersing crews to fill staffing gaps.Battalion Chief Hector L. Torres said none of Baltimore's 42 fire stations would be closed, but the department intends to take two pieces of equipment out of service on each shift and reassign crews to understaffed stations. This eliminates the need to call in off-duty employees and pay them overtime -- a savings of $300 per shift per person, he said.

At the time, the discomfort that Leo Gomez felt in his right ankle after sliding into second base was so minimal, he asked not to come out of Sunday's game against the Chicago White Sox.Manager Phil Regan remembered this, which made the sight of Gomez wearing a walking cast in the Orioles' clubhouse yesterday all the more unusual.The third baseman has been listed as day-to-day since suffering the injury -- which occurred on a pickoff play -- but Regan said Gomez won't be available until at least Sunday.

There are two things Mary Pat Clarke must do in order to become the next mayor of Baltimore.Unfortunately for her, she has no idea what they are.Take how she handled her recent "endorsement" by William Donald Schaefer.If I were her (or even if I were she), I would have made a big deal out of an endorsement.I would have held a press conference. I would have assembled a cheering crowd. I would have blown up a balloon or two.But most of all I would have made sure Schaefer was up on stage with me so he could lift my hand in victory for the TV cameras.

Neither Seton Hall nor the Portland Trail Blazers are commenting on published reports that P. J. Carlesimo is going to jump from the college ranks to become the team's new coach, and Carlesimo has made himself unavailable for comment.But Chuck Daly, who had Carlesimo as an assistant on the U.S. team at the 1992 Olympics, yesterday said that Carlesimo had spoken with him recently about coaching in the pros."I wouldn't want to divulge any parts of our conversation," Daly said by telephone from Houston.

WASHINGTON -- Criticizing what she called his "plantation mentality," Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski yesterday demanded the resignation of the man who supervises the 285-acre Capitol Hill complex, which includes the Capitol, congressional office buildings and the Supreme Court.Ms. Mikulski wrote to George M. White, the architect of the Capitol, that a report by the investigative arm of Congress "describes a lack of management principles and employee protections in your office that is outrageous and intolerable."

The West River Sailing Club of Galesville's traditional Labor Day weekend regatta featured lots of action.Things started well Friday with a race from Annapolis to Galesville in breezes from the south-southeast at 20 knots or more -- tough conditions for the relatively tiny Chesapeake 20s, Stars and Flying Scots.With survival conditions prevailing, both Stars and four of the six Chesapeake 20s dropped out.Weather conditions looked threatening the next morning for the start of the officially sanctioned, two-day annual regatta.

There were so many boats (108) yesterday on Day 1 of the Laser Atlantic Coast Championships at Severn Sailing Association in Annapolis that race organizers had a qualifying series to determine competitors for the championship or Gold Fleet this weekend.Entrants, among the top U.S. and Canadian sailors, will vie to become the top five finishers who will be named to the U.S. Sailing Team; the top 12 will be eligible to train and compete this summer in Europe.Yesterday, the fleet was halved into Red and White classes, with the top-seeded competitors evenly split between the two. The two fleets started as separate flights in the first race of the day. The top 18 qualified for the weekend's Gold Fleet.