Unidentified Woman

A 22-year-old woman was injured early Saturday after a vehicle fleeing police drove onto the sidewalk after the second night of the Greek folk festival, police said. Police were called to the 4800 block of Eastern Ave. about 2 a.m. after a woman said a man who made a lewd comment at her pulled out a handgun and pointed it at her and her boyfriend, according to an incident report. As witnesses notified security for the Greek Folk Festival, the man and three others fled in a 1999 BMW. With the 500 block of S. Ponca St. closed to traffic because of the festival, the car veered onto the sidewalk and up a ramp in front of St. Nicholas Church.

In Baltimore City Va. woman dies in motorcycle crash on the JFX A Leesburg, Va., woman died yesterday evening after she lost control of her motorcycle and tumbled over an embankment on the Jones Falls Expressway near Chase Street, Baltimore police said. Sharon Van Brokern, 39, was riding northbound in the left lane about 6 p.m. when a witness saw her 2001 Honda motorcycle start to wobble, said Officer Richard J. McCarthy of Baltimore police accident investigation unit. It was unclear whether she hit the jersey divider separating traffic, but Van Brokern was thrown across three lanes of traffic and over a wall onto an embankment on the east side of the expressway.

In Baltimore City Broken main feared as reservoir level, water pressure drop City public works crews were searching late last night for an apparent break in a major water main after a "very rapid drop" in the water level at Montebello Reservoir and calls reporting a drop in water pressure in Southeast Baltimore, Dundalk and Sparrows Point, a spokesman said. "We had a very rapid drop in the water level at our reservoir at Montebello," said Kurt Kocher, spokesman for the Department of Public Works.

SHE GOT a lot of traffic tickets for speeding; I guess that means she was likely to have sex with strangers. An unidentified woman who knew her at the time said that in high school she was popular and "had a little wild streak" -- which I suppose indicates that she would naturally grow up to be a loose woman. Her mother may have been going out with her second husband when he was still married -- well (wink), we know what that tells us about the daughter.More clues to the daughter's character: She didn't get terrific grades in school, she had a baby out of wedlock, she liked to visit bars and nightclubs in Palm Beach, Fla. That's it. The verdict is in. She was out looking for it and brought it on herself.

Police are investigating seven slayings that occurred in the city between late Friday and yesterday evening. Arrests were made in two of the incidents. About 9:30 p.m. yesterday, an unidentified man was shot in the 400 block of N. Port St. and was pronounced dead minutes later at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said. They said his death was related to the shootings minutes earlier of at least three other men in the 2400 block of Jefferson St. nearby. At least one victim in those shootings was in critical condition at Hopkins, police said.

Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found yesterday afternoon on the property of an East Baltimore middle school. Detectives and crime scene technicians stood over the body of a black woman, slumped on the sidewalk that runs through William C. March Middle School, south of Clifton Park. She was pronounced dead at the scene from gunshot wounds, but police had not determined her identity as of last night, according to Officer Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman.

The woman who abandoned her newborn daughter under a restroom sink at Northwest Hospital Center in Randallstown last week has been found, Baltimore County police said yesterday. The identity of the woman, who was located Monday morning in Baltimore, was not released at her request. "There will be no charges from Baltimore County in regards to child abandonment," said Cpl. Ron Brooks, a county police spokesman. He added that the mother did not require medical care. The 6-pound, 9 1/2 -ounce African-American girl, nicknamed "Rosie" by Northwest staff, was discovered May 1 by a security guard who was making evening rounds on the hospital's first floor.

WASHINGTON -- A woman who was a friend of Monica Lewinsky's has testified before a federal grand jury that Lewinsky told her that she had engaged in sexual activity with President Clinton, the Los Angeles Times has learned.The witness offered the first sworn testimony known to echo remarks that Lewinsky made in secretly tape-recorded conversations with another friend, Linda R. Tripp, that she was having an affair with Clinton.The new testimony represents a potentially significant step for independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr's inquiry into whether Clinton was sexually involved with Lewinsky and urged her to lie under oath about it. Clinton has denied having had sexual relations with Lewinsky, a 24-year-old former White House intern, and has said he did not ask anyone to lie.In the conversations taped by Tripp, Lewinsky talked about being sexually involved with the president and described what she said were efforts by Clinton to conceal the affair from lawyers in the Paula Corbin Jones sexual misconduct case against Clinton.

Baltimore photographer Joseph Kohl, whose career was cut short last year by his death from leukemia at age 45, left behind a large and varied body of work that is now the subject of an impressive retrospective exhibition at School 33 Art Center through Dec. 2. Among the approximately 80 mostly black-and-white photographs in the show are many examples of Kohl's long-running fascination with people who live on society's margins - striptease dancers, transvestites,...

The call came into the Baltimore County emergency dispatch center just after midnight. An unidentified woman asked police respond to a home in Parkville. She didn't say why. When officers arrived in the first minutes of Sunday, they found 26-year-old Paul White Jr., who had been released from the county jail less than three months earlier, leaving his family's home, police said. Inside, White's mother was found unconscious and bleeding from at least one stab wound from a kitchen knife, and his sister was also found stabbed and bleeding, police said.