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Havre de Grace police were looking yesterday for a driver who fired shots at an officer Tuesday night, a police spokesman said. About 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Officer Jason Forsmark saw a 1996 gold Ford Aspire - which had been reported stolen by the Harford County Sheriff's Office - westbound on Route 155, said spokesman John Van Gilder. The car had also been involved in a pursuit earlier involving Aberdeen police, said Sgt. Steve Smith, Aberdeen police spokesman. When Forsmark tried to stop the car, the driver turned onto Bayview Drive, where he fired shots at Forsmark before losing control of the Ford and crashing into a parked van in the 1800 block of Bayview Drive, Van Gilder said.

Harford County : Havre de Grace Missing man's body found in the bay The body of a missing Harford County man has been found in the Chesapeake Bay near Havre de Grace, authorities said yesterday. Donald Walter McGlothlin, 53, of Havre de Grace had been missing since Feb. 28. His last known address was on a friend's boat at Tydings Park Marina, said Maj. John Van Gilder, a spokesman for the Havre de Grace Police Department. Two fishermen discovered McGlothlin's body Sunday afternoon at Swan Creek Point, near the mouth of the Susquehanna River, police said.

Suddenly on March 7, 2004, JAY A. YOUNG, loving son of Charles E. and Shirley J. Young, brother of Leslie Grahn, Diane Van Gilder and Tracey Young, Uncle of David Van Gilder, Brian and Adam Grahn. Family will receive friends at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 3204 Mountain Road (Pasadena) on Wednesday 7 to 9 P.M. Memorial Service Thursday at 1 P.M. Contributions may be made to: Our Daily Bread, 411 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

Police said yesterday that they have identified an 83-year-old woman who was found dead in her Havre de Grace home Sunday night and that they are investigating her death as a homicide. Havre de Grace police were called about 10 p.m. Sunday to the 200 block of N. Adams St., where they found the body of Hazel E. Jones in the living room, said Maj. John Van Gilder. She apparently had suffered trauma to the head and neck, he said. Autopsy results were not available late yesterday, van Gilder said.

Police said yesterday that they have identified an 83-year-old woman who was found dead in her Havre de Grace home Sunday night and that they are investigating her death as a homicide. Havre de Grace police were called about 10 p.m. Sunday to the 200 block of N. Adams St., where they found the body of Hazel E. Jones in the living room, said Maj. John Van Gilder. She apparently had suffered trauma to the head and neck, he said. Autopsy results were not available late yesterday, van Gilder said.

One suspect was shot and another captured yesterday in an attempted robbery of a Brinks Inc. security guard carrying money from an armored truck into a Havre de Grace bank, town police reported. The wounded man, Lamar Kennard, 25, of the 100 block of S. Reed St. in Bel Air, was wanted in Baltimore County on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in court. He was listed in critical condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. According to Maj. John Van Gilder of the Havre de Grace Police Department, the robbers - apparently unarmed - assaulted the unnamed 24-year- old Brinks guard about 2:45 p.m. as he was carrying a bag of money to the Farmers Bank of Maryland branch in the 200 block of St. John St. Van Gilder said the guard pulled out his gun and shot one of the men in the upper torso.

On the evening of Feb. 8, 1987, Maurice Dale Wing went to visit a friend who lived at Terrace Garden Apartments in Havre de Grace.ButWing never showed up at the friend's apartment. And no one has seen him since.He vanished.The 34-year-old Havre de Grace man's disappearance has left city police investigators stumped and his family in anguish for the last four years."It's been rough," said Wing's brother,Anthony. "I don't think a day goes by that we don't think about him.Every time you hear they found a body, you wonder."

Armed robbers broke into two Havre de Grace residences early yesterday, awakening and terrorizing the occupants to obtain money, authorities said.The first of the two incidents, which police believe were carried out by the same men, began about 2:30 a.m. when Havre de Grace police responded to a breaking and entering report on Chesapeake Drive."

Did Richard Anthony Cooper die for want of a couple hundred dollars?Havre de Grace police think so.Investigators believe the 22-year-old Havre de Grace man's dispute over a debt with his cousin, Cornelius Marcellous Cooper, came to ahead March 28 when Cornelius allegedly gunned down Richard Cooper inthe 200 block of Bloomsbury Ave. Police believe 20-year-old Cornelius Cooper was fed up with his cousin's badgering him for the money, thought to be between $200...

State police are investigating whether a Havre de Grace police officer followed proper procedures when he shot and wounded a man who threatened him with a knife.The officer, Cpl. David Smith, shot 55-year-old William J. Burchette Sr. last Sunday after he threatened the officer with a butcher knife outside a city shopping center, said Sgt.John Van Gilder, spokesman for the Havre de Grace Police Department.Burchette was shot twice in the left leg. He is in satisfactory condition at University Hospital in Baltimore, a hospital spokesman said.

Suddenly on March 7, 2004, JAY A. YOUNG, loving son of Charles E. and Shirley J. Young, brother of Leslie Grahn, Diane Van Gilder and Tracey Young, Uncle of David Van Gilder, Brian and Adam Grahn. Family will receive friends at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 3204 Mountain Road (Pasadena) on Wednesday 7 to 9 P.M. Memorial Service Thursday at 1 P.M. Contributions may be made to: Our Daily Bread, 411 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.

Two Harford County residents remained hospitalized yesterday after an auto accident Tuesday that killed a Havre de Grace High School sophomore. William C. Lee, 15, of the 1300 block of Currier St. in Havre de Grace died in the midafternoon crash on Route 155, police said. Lee was riding in a westbound 1987 Honda Civic when it struck a 1997 Ford van that the driver -- fellow Havre de Grace High student Brandon S. Harkins, 17 -- was attempting to pass, said Maj. John Van Gilder, a Havre de Grace police spokesman.

Havre de Grace police were looking yesterday for a driver who fired shots at an officer Tuesday night, a police spokesman said. About 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Officer Jason Forsmark saw a 1996 gold Ford Aspire - which had been reported stolen by the Harford County Sheriff's Office - westbound on Route 155, said spokesman John Van Gilder. The car had also been involved in a pursuit earlier involving Aberdeen police, said Sgt. Steve Smith, Aberdeen police spokesman. When Forsmark tried to stop the car, the driver turned onto Bayview Drive, where he fired shots at Forsmark before losing control of the Ford and crashing into a parked van in the 1800 block of Bayview Drive, Van Gilder said.

One suspect was shot and another captured yesterday in an attempted robbery of a Brinks Inc. security guard carrying money from an armored truck into a Havre de Grace bank, town police reported. The wounded man, Lamar Kennard, 25, of the 100 block of S. Reed St. in Bel Air, was wanted in Baltimore County on a warrant charging him with failure to appear in court. He was listed in critical condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center. According to Maj. John Van Gilder of the Havre de Grace Police Department, the robbers - apparently unarmed - assaulted the unnamed 24-year- old Brinks guard about 2:45 p.m. as he was carrying a bag of money to the Farmers Bank of Maryland branch in the 200 block of St. John St. Van Gilder said the guard pulled out his gun and shot one of the men in the upper torso.

Three seniors at a Harford County high school were barred from their graduation ceremony after school officials discovered marijuana growing in a science class project -- a decision that has triggered parent protests.Cory Christy and Michael Smith, both 18, were suspended after an environmental science teacher at Havre de Grace High School found two marijuana plants growing among other plants in a terrarium, their parents said yesterday.Principal James J. Bennett gave the students a five-day suspension, to which School Superintendent Ray R. Keech added four days and barred them from participating in last week's graduation, the parents said.

An Aberdeen man has alleged in a letter to The Sun that Havre de Grace officers used "cowboy police tactics" in arresting his brother Dec. 16 after stopping the man's car for a burned-out headlight.Ron Jones, of the 600 block of Plater St., said the officer who stopped his brother, Elwood Thomas Jones Jr., should have given him "a warning and a 10-day notice to have the problem fixed."Mr. Jones said his brother, who lives in the 700 block of S. Atwood Road in Bel Air, was arrested after the officer did a license check.

A 29-year-old woman suffering multiple stab wounds and screaming stumbled into Havre De Grace Middle School yesterday morning.There, school employees provided first aid to the victim, and an ambulance took her to Harford Memorial Hospital.She was in critical condition upon arrival, but a hospital spokeswoman said she was in stable condition before being transferred to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore about 4:30 p.m. yesterday.The victim was on her way to work, walking along the running track about 300 yards behind the middle school about 11:20 a.m., when a large man attacked her, said Sgt. John Van Gilder of the Havre de Grace police.

Two Harford County residents remained hospitalized yesterday after an auto accident Tuesday that killed a Havre de Grace High School sophomore. William C. Lee, 15, of the 1300 block of Currier St. in Havre de Grace died in the midafternoon crash on Route 155, police said. Lee was riding in a westbound 1987 Honda Civic when it struck a 1997 Ford van that the driver -- fellow Havre de Grace High student Brandon S. Harkins, 17 -- was attempting to pass, said Maj. John Van Gilder, a Havre de Grace police spokesman.

Armed robbers broke into two Havre de Grace residences early yesterday, awakening and terrorizing the occupants to obtain money, authorities said.The first of the two incidents, which police believe were carried out by the same men, began about 2:30 a.m. when Havre de Grace police responded to a breaking and entering report on Chesapeake Drive."