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Two children were killed and a third seriously injured early yesterday in a fire that consumed a West Baltimore rowhouse where they had been left unsupervised, fire officials said. The fire began shortly after 3 a.m. on the first floor of the home in the 2900 block of Windsor Ave., said Baltimore Fire Department spokesman Kevin Cartwright. While one group of firefighters doused flames, another searched the home, finding three children on the second floor, Cartwright said. The cause of the fire was unknown yesterday, according to the spokesman.

A suspended Carroll County priest who admitted molesting two boys was released from jail yesterday after serving a little more than nine months of a 15-month sentence. Brian M. Cox left the Carroll County Detention Center yesterday, not long after a judge agreed to his request for an early release. Explaining why he granted the request, Carroll Circuit Judge Michael M. Galloway said that Cox's conduct was "not to be tolerated" but that he had been adequately punished and holds the potential to do more good outside of jail than in it. "In my short time on the bench, this is probably the case that has caused me to do more soul-searching in fashioning a sentence than any other," Galloway said in court.

Despite a national decline in the once-pervasive outdoor movie theater, an Eldersburg man is seeking permission to turn a hilly plot in Carroll County into the nation's first digital drive-in, a proposal that has angered neighboring property owners. The proposed theater, which would be called Bumpers Drive-In Theatre and would have two screens, is believed to be the first effort to construct a drive-in in Maryland in decades, according to the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association.

A Taneytown church is the first to start an after-school program for middle school and high school students, and another group is planning a similar alternative to "hanging out."Messiah United Methodist Church's After School Club for 10- to 15-year-olds meets from 3: 30 p.m. to 6 p.m. three days a week at the church. The program started the school year with 12 students, now has six and is looking for members.Teen-agers and preteens need afternoon activities while their parents are working, said the Rev. Laura L. Schultz, the pastor.

To rebuild her life, Felicia "Snoop" Pearson had to destroy her reputation. The actress who portrayed a cold-blooded killer so memorably on three seasons of the HBO cable series "The Wire" pleaded guilty this month to a crime she says she didn't commit. In exchange for her conviction on a misdemeanor count of conspiracy to sell heroin, the 31-year-old Pearson received her freedom. And she swears that when her face appears in public in the future, it will be because of her acting accomplishments, not her legal troubles.

Some call it a brazen, drunken act of women's liberation. Others claim it's pure degradation. It's an annual ritual, a rite of passage, on the Preakness infield. Picture this: Blond-haired Jamie Morris hoists herself atop a set of broad shoulders, looks out across a muddy sea of T-shirt clad, beer-bonging twentysomethings and screams "wooooooo!" Then she lifts her head high and yanks up her gray top, answering the calls of "show us your [you-know-whats]!" The crowd closes in on the braless 18-year-old, spraying her with Bud Light and yelping with glee.

The Evening Sun incorrectly reported yesterday that convicted murderer Robert Daly Angell was being held at Patuxent Institution. He was actually moved from Patuxent to the Maryland Penitentiary last week. The incorrect information was provided by a spokesman for the state Division of Correction.3' The Evening Sun regrets the errors.Robert Daly Angell, the convicted murderer whose unsupervised furloughs from Patuxent Institution led to major changes there, is back at Patuxent -- doing hard time.

A former Baltimore police officer received a five-year suspended sentence this week and was ordered to refrain from unsupervised contact with children after pleading guilty in September to second-degree assault. Troy Jaquan Gee Sr., 34, had been charged in Baltimore Circuit Court with child sexual abuse for allegedly fondling a 13-year-old relative in March 2008. The girl reported the incident to police, and Gee was suspended without pay from the Police Department upon his arrest. He has since resigned.

Here is a compilation of some of the activities in Carroll County courts: Circuit Court Ronald Alston: Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. issued a bench warrant on April 8 for a failure to appear for trial on a theft charge. Robert Contarino: Sentenced by Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. to probation before judgment, no probation, on April 8 for a speeding conviction. Paul Flickinger: Sentenced by Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. to probation before judgment and two years supervised probationon April 9 for an assault with intent conviction.

Golf is a more dangerous sport for children than riding horses, skateboarding, or soccer, according to a report in the British medical journal Lancet."