Walking To School

Howard County police arrested a man at Wilde Lake High School yesterday morning and accused him of threatening two teenagers with a handgun and bringing the gun onto the school parking lot as students were arriving for classes. Edward Brown, 62, of Jason Lane in Columbia was charged with first-degree assault and possession of a gun on school property, police said. Officers received a call about 7:10 a.m. from a person who heard a car alarm, looked out his window and saw a man with a gun get into a maroon Porsche on Jason Lane.

The volunteer organizer of a weekend basketball and computer camp for children in Baltimore has been charged with second-degree rape in the assault of a 12-year-old girl, according to court documents.Kermit Oneal Carter, 34, owner of People Production, an advertising and public relations firm, is accused in court documents of raping the girl in May at his home.According to court documents, the girl told police that she was walking to school on North Avenue in East Baltimore when a man lured her into his van with the offer of a ride and then took her to his home and assaulted her.The girl identified Carter from a photo lineup, police said.

Do the pop stars and sleek models who stare down from billboards seduce young people into tasting their first beer? Or do they just entice adults into sampling another brand?Both arguments were made last night during a lengthy, crowded and heated public hearing on legislation that would make Baltimore the first city in the nation to ban almost all outdoor alcohol and tobacco advertising.Community groups fighting to prohibit the billboards argued that they target the young in the city's poor and predominantly black neighborhoods.

Evelyn Marie Strauss Snyder, a former teacher and legislative proofreader, died Wednesday at the Brian Center for health and rehabilitation in Goldsboro, N.C.. She was 92 and had lived for the last several years in Goldsboro. During 68 years of marriage to Robert O. Snyder, she lived in Baltimore, Hagerstown and Annapolis. After Mr. Snyder's death, Mrs. Snyder moved in 1999 to her daughter's home in Goldsboro. Born Evelyn Strauss in Hebbville, Baltimore County, she grew up on her father's truck farm, feeding the livestock and milking the cows before walking to school.

Editor: It might surprise you to know that the Bel Air, Maryland residents do not want you to build an enormous Walmart Supercenter in our residential neighborhoods, a store that will destroy our community. We realize that the "bottom line" is your concern. Our concerns are: safety of the children walking to school, residents walking to a nearby shopping center and I don't believe that they would walk to Walmart, bikers and runners no matter the...

A Glen Burnie woman was killed and her husband and their three children injured Monday night in a two-vehicle collision on Route 3, Anne Arundel County police said. Wanda Jean Schulze, 34, was pronounced dead at North Arundel Hospital about 10 p.m., about an hour after the car in which she was riding collided with a pickup truck at Route 3 and Old Stage Road in Glen Burnie, according to a news release issued yesterday. Police said Schulze, her husband, Terry Matthew Parker, 44, and the children were in the family's 1993 Ford Taurus about 9 p.m. when Parker, the driver, attempted to turn left at a yellow light from Route 3 onto Old Stage Road.

Anne Arundel County government hasn't supported the installation of speed cameras, but beginning Friday one slice of the county will have them anyway. Annapolis is set to launch its own enforcement program, even while state legislators consider overhauling Maryland's speed camera law in the wake of troubles with the Baltimore program. The Annapolis program, approved by the City Council in November 2011, allows for three speed cameras that, by law, must operate within school zones.

Marlow Rezoning Piece MisleadingAs noted in the article printed in the Dec. 29 edition of The Sun for Howard County, I am the attorney for Willard Marlow, who has requested a rezoning of his property in Fulton. The article was misleading to readers unfamiliar with the rezoning. . . . The article characterizes the proposed subdivision as "dense," and the lots as "small." What the article fails to mention is that under the mixed-use zoning, the property could be developed with the same number of housing units, on smaller lots, including townhouses and retail and employment uses as well.

Just when Savage residents thought their traffic problems couldn't get any worse, the major road through their community has been closed for relocation and improvements.The closure of Gorman Road from U.S. 1 to Foundry Street last Monday is expected to last another week, said James Irvin, county public works director.The closure has angered Savage residents, who say that it has forced more traffic through the residential area on Baltimore Street, endangering children walking to school and tying up traffic through the community.

In Baltimore County Man from Edgewood charged in killing of Catonsville girl TOWSON -- A 24-year-old Edgewood man was charged yesterday with first-degree murder in the killing of a Catonsville girl who had run away from home, county police said. Police said they charged Curtis Jerome McKissett of the 400 block of Sedgemore Court in the death of 13-year-old Sarah Jane Forrester. He was being held yesterday without bail. A child walking to school last May found Forrester's body near a playground at a Woodlawn apartment complex.