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Anne Arundel County 187 of 187 precincts reporting County Executive Democrat Janet S. Owens* ..................Unopposed Republican Phillip D. Bissett ...........................18,056 ........ 64 Tom Angelis .................................... 10,237 ....... 36 1st Council District Democrat Pamela G. Beidle* ..............................Unopposed Republican Bob Gouge ..........................................Unopposed 2nd Council District Democrat Paul T. Falkler ......

Harford County 65 of 66 precincts reporting County Executive Democrat Paul Gilbert Unopposed Republican James M. Harkins * 12,574 72 Ronald Roz 4,890 28 Council President Democrat Gunther Hirsch * Unopposed Republican Robert S. Wagner 8,298 52 Norman R. Cochran 7,679 48 Council District A Democrat Dion F. Guthrie 1,518 65 Samuel T. Gibson, III 486 21 Michael Q. Paton 333 14 Republican Susan B. Heselton * 638 42 Bill McCullough 483...

Mount Airy's mayor will run unopposed and five candidates will seek two open council seats in the town election May 6. Mayor Gerald R. Johnson will seek a fourth term. He also ran unopposed in 1998. Incumbent Council President R. Delaine Hobbs will vie with four newcomers for the two council seats. The other candidates are Denise Morgan, John Medve, Chris Decolli and Michael Boyer. Council member Laurie V. Hager said she will not seek re-election for family reasons.

In the quietest election Carroll County has seen this year, Union Bridge elected three unopposed candidates yesterday to the Town Council. Incumbents Karen Kotarski and Dawn Metcalf and newcomer Kathleen Smith will serve four-year terms. The day was not without a little tension because four years ago, Union Bridge elected a write-in candidate, former clerk and treasurer Kathleen Kreimer. Remembering that, the candidates tried to avoid pre-election overconfidence. But no strong write-ins surfaced.

Parris becomes university chancellor. Kathleen ascends to governor, then runs unopposed for a full term. There's your campaign finance reform. The only thing worse than asking lawyers to rate their colleagues' fitness for the bench is not asking them. Puncturing the long-held theory that the mother of us all lived in Ethiopia, Kenyan scientists have demonstrated that she was Kenyan. Be patriotic. Play Lotto.

The odds were incredibly favorable. With no competitors to claim votes, two Anne Arundel County Circuit Court judges easily secured 15-year terms on the bench in yesterday's election. With about one-fifth of Arundel precincts reporting, James C. Cawood Jr. and Philip T. Caroom, who handle mostly domestic and administrative cases, were on their way to retaining their seats on the 10-judge court, the fifth-largest Circuit Court in the state. Cawood, 64, is the county judiciary's unofficial historian.

Col. Ronald L. Daniel moved a step closer to confirmation as Baltimore's police commissioner yesterday, sailing through a City Council hearing on his nomination. No one opposed Daniel's nomination in the two-hour session before the council's Executive Nominations Committee. During the hearing, Daniel pledged to make police supervisors more accountable for reducing crime and to step up efforts to weed out any departmental corruption. Daniel, a 26-year veteran, also unveiled a chart showing his new departmental structure, under which top managers have been reduced by more than half -- from 13 to 6. Daniel said that if he is approved by the full council, being commissioner would be an honor and a great challenge.

Taneytown voters elected Henry C. Heine Jr. mayor yesterday and put incumbent Brian E. Long and Darryl G. Hale on the City Council.City Clerk Linda Hess said 253 of the city's 1,170 registered voterscast their paper ballots.Heine, 52, ran unopposed and will replace Mayor W. Robert Flickinger, who is retiring after 28 years in office as a councilman and mayor. Flickinger received 107 write-in votes.Heine has been a councilman for 10 years. He and his wife, Linda, moved to the city in 1975 and have two daughters.

A Hagerstown man who attended a Civil War re-enactment in New York last summer has sued William Wickham, accusing the Detour man of assaulting him.Michael B. Wicklein, whose company is Video Vision of Hagerstown, seeks $200,000 in damages for alleged assault and battery in a civil case filed last week in Carroll County Circuit Court. It names as sole defendant "William `Dirty Billy' Wickham," of the 7500 block Middleburg Road in Detour.According to the lawsuit, Wickham became angry and struck Wicklein in the face and body July 18 in Genesee Village, near Rochester, N.Y.Neither Wicklein nor Wickham could be reached for comment.

So far, there are no contests in the Sykesville municipal election on May 4. All four incumbents are running and no challengers have emerged.It all could change tomorrow at the Town Council meeting when anyone can nominate a candidate."