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The Stadlers' story is a tale of two houses on the same riverfront street in Sparrows Point and a dream that began when Tim Stadler was just a young boy. "My parents had friends that we would visit about once a week that lived on River Drive Road," he recalled. "There was a house on the street that had a small airplane in the front yard. As a kid, I always had my parents drive me past the 'airplane house' on our way home. " Then, in 2001, when he was 21 and looking for a waterfront house, Tim Stadler came across one in a home magazine.

The Baltimore region was left out of the earliest severe storm watches issued in the mid-Atlantic on Friday, giving it about three hours less to prepare for the deadly winds than the Washington area and points south and west. At the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., where severe systems around the country are tracked for the National Weather Service, the first severe thunderstorm watch in the mid-Atlantic was issued at 6:35 p.m. Friday. It included the Washington metropolitan area, but went no further east than Frederick, Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

Jeremy Gardner is getting lucky with first-time horse gambles, and he isn't planning to stop anytime soon.  Gardner, who recently moved to Baltimore with his fiancée Tracey Richter fromLlos Angeles, turned $100 in bets into $700 in wins by 2 p.m. "I'm going to bet until it's gone," he said giddily. "I'm only betting on the long shots. " "I'm having so much fun," he added as he waited to make more bets at the infield windows.  A steady stream of bettors put down cash at the open windows, next to a tent sponsored by The Daily Racing Form and horseplayernow.com.

Baltimore County police are investigating a "possible bias incident" after a rock was thrown through a window of a Muslim community center in the southwest neighborhood of Riverview. Police spokeswoman Detective Cathy Batton said a rear window was reported broken at the Bab E Mustafa Community Center on Hollins Ferry Road between Monday evening and noon Tuesday. The cost to repair the damage was put at $100, she said. She said police were looking into the possibility of bias as a motive chiefly because no other buildings in the area were damaged, and because the person making the complaint said that in the past, young people have shouted slurs at the building during prayer sessions.

Baltimore County police are searching for a 48-year-old man charged in a series of burglaries targeting office buildings throughout the county. Authorities identified the suspect as Billy Evans, who frequents North Avenue in Baltimore, Police said that he is a suspect in the April 3 break ins at two businesses on Frederick Road in Wilkens -- Step Well Podiatry and Advanced Hearing Centers, where electronic equipment, money and postage stamps were...

Standing in the driveway of Arleen Dvorine's Lutherville property, it is clear she has successfully realized her dream of converting an old carriage house into an office and home. The 240-year-old, one-story structure served as the stable for the long-ago gentleman farmer and owner of White Manor, a mansion still standing and still occupied further down the winding road. A gently sloping roof flows into the exterior's cedar shake siding. Multi-paned windows — colonial in style and with cream trim — are symmetrically placed on either side of a portico, also in a cream color.

A toddler fell three stories from an apartment building window Friday evening in Owings Mills, police said. The 2-year-old boy sustained life-threatening injuries in the fall and was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center. The fall occurred around 7 p.m. on Willow Bend Drive, police said. There was no update on the child's condition as of 10:15 p.m. steve.kilar@baltsun.com twitter.com/stevekilar

Windows at several businesses in Bel Air - two banks and one restaurant - have been shot at over the past 10 days, town police say. Windows were shot at on Feb. 29 at NBRS Financial and PNC Bank, both in the 100 block of North Main Street, according to Bel Air police reports. On Sunday, a window at Friendly's in the 300 block of South Main Street was also shot at. The same day in the upper end of town, back in the 100 block of North Main Street, a front door at NBRS, was reported shot.

I've had several readers ask the same question: What are degree days? The statistic is a measure of heating and cooling. It comes from the difference between the day's average temperature and 65 degrees. A high degree days value means your heat or air conditioning is cranking; zero means it's time to open the windows. Because this winter has been so mild, you shouldn't be surprised to learn that degree days to date are running lower than normal and lower than a year ago. That's good news for your heating bill.

In the previouslies, Jeff points out that the men have won all the challenges thus far. Yup, the women have really not been doing well at anything. Fingers crossed that this episode will change that? I can hope, right? (And it's not that I'm all that big of a fan of Salani, it's just downright embarrassing for them at this point.) Once the women are back from Tribal Council, the men come over and invite them to their camp (the one with the tarps) because a nasty storm is coming in. The women claim that they will be fine, but they've obviously never camped during a storm.