Walkersville

Boys state basketball semifinals Class 2A J.M. Bennett 51 Fort Hill 41 Central 64 Southern-B 56 Class 1A Dunbar 83 Havre de Grace 45 Pocomoke 72 S. Hagerstown 60 Girls state basketball semifinals Class 2A DuVal 54 Catonsville 44 Walkersville 40 Aberdeen 37 Class 1A Dunbar 75 Loch Raven 27 Pocomoke 61 Smithsburg 47

Charlene J. Orner, 52, Zoysia Farms employee Charlene J. Orner, an employee at Zoysia Farms Nursery in Taneytown, died Wednesday in her Bendersville, Pa., home of undetermined causes. She was 52. Born in Baltimore, Mrs. Orner graduated from Towson University with a bachelor's degree in business administration in the 1970s. Over the years, she had been a nun, a schoolteacher, a hospital worker and held other jobs before going to work at the nursery, said Donald E. Orner, her husband of 15 months.

WALKERSVILLE - In a townhouse community where residents can't remember a shooting, let alone a killing, on its quiet cul-de-sacs, neighbors-turned-witnesses spent yesterday helping with funeral arrangements for a 16-year-old girl and her 5-week-old baby gunned down in front of their home Saturday afternoon as other children played nearby. Authorities have arrested Sonya Marie Daniels, who they say is a longtime girlfriend of the baby's father and had recently been dumped by him. She is charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

Francis Scott Key's playoff dreams have turned into a nightmare the past two weeks. Pete Genovese threw a 36-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Geppert with 1:57 left to give visiting Walkersville a 27-20 upset of No. 13 Francis Scott Key in a Monocacy Valley Athletic League game last night. This was Key's second straight loss. South Hagerstown handed the Eagles a 24-7 defeat last week and Key fell to 5-2 overall and 4-2 in the MVAL. Coach John Baugher said he knew that finishing 10-0 and missing the state playoffs was a possibility, but now the Eagles can fare no better than 8-2 and appear out of the hunt.

The Southern boys lacrosse team introduced Walkersville to a different style of lacrosse. Unleashing a swift-hitting attack that produced the game's first five goals, the Bulldogs of Anne Arundel County made quick work of Walkersville by sailing to a 15-7 victory in a Class 2A-1A state semifinal at CCBC-Catonsville yesterday. The West Region champion Lions (13-5) were the first Frederick County team to reach the state semifinals. "We felt that by putting pressure on them and riding them hard, maybe they didn't see that type of lacrosse in the western part of Maryland," said Southern coach Ray Bowen, whose squad won the East Region.

Jean de Roulhac Moxley, a homemaker and former teacher, died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital of circulatory complications and polymyositis, a rare muscular disorder. The Ellicott City resident was 75. A teacher at Catonsville and Howard high schools in the 1950s, she was an active member and former president of the Split Rail Garden Club in Howard County, through which she worked with senior citizens on craft projects. She also had a home in northern Maine where she watched birds, went ice fishing and hunted bear and wildfowl.

Today Francis Scott Key (4-2) at Walkersville (1-5) When: 7 p.m. Outlook: One week after setting a county record with six touchdowns and rushing for 243 yards against South Hagerstown, Key running back Brad Stonesifer will look for another big day against Walkersville. The Lions have allowed an average of 31 points in their five losses, while the Eagles have scored an average of 41 over their past three wins. Key, hoping for a repeat of last year's 28-19 win over Walkersville, in looking to improve to 4-2 in the Monocacy Valley Athletic League.

In the Region Rotorex to lay off 65 employees at Walkersville plant Rotorex Co. Inc., a manufacturer of air-conditioning components in Frederick County, will lay off 65 of its 100 employees because of a decision by parent Fedders Corp. to move manufacturing to China. Officials at the Walkersville plant have told state officials they plan to eliminate the jobs by the end of August. The plant will remain open, mostly for product research and development, but will no longer assemble air-conditioner compressors, its primary business.

A Frederick County high school drama teacher was charged with possession of child pornography and drugs after federal agents raided his home yesterday morning, federal authorities said. Samuel Owen Huffer, a teacher at Walkersville High School, is accused of recently receiving a shipment of three child porn videos purchased for $90 over the Internet, said Postal Inspector Patrick Bernardo. Additional tapes recovered yesterday from the house in the 7100 block of Cypress Court in Frederick are being reviewed to see whether they contained illegal pornographic material.

WALKERSVILLE - An 18-year-old resident of this Frederick County town was awaiting extradition yesterday, accused of sending violent threats to teen-agers in the California town where two students were shot to death last week. Maryland State Police arrested Patrick Andrew Smith, 18, just after 9:30 p.m. Friday - about 12 hours after two San Diego detectives flew into Maryland because they had tracked Internet messages here. Smith also is accused of sending a threatening message Tuesday to a student at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo.