Woodlawn

The 15th-ranked Dundalk Owls came to Woodlawn last night to show their muscle against the sixth-ranked Warriors, favorites in the Baltimore County 3A-4A League.But it was the muscle of one 6-foot-7 Warrior that helped thwart the Owls' game attempt at an upset.Forward Guy Butler scored a game-high 30 points, helping host Woodlawn rally from an eight-point deficit in the third quarter en route to a 61-58 win.Butler, who has had to pick up the scoring load since the loss of Baltimore County Player of the Year Donte Dudley in the preseason, was nearly unstoppable in the second half, scoring 19 points.

Charles Edgar "Chaz" Dorsey V kept a poker face yesterday in the welcoming crush of reporters, television cameras, firefighters and paramedics at the Westview Fire Station.Just over a week earlier, some of those people had workedfrantically to save Chaz's life after the horrific accident that claimed the lives of his stepmother, two stepsisters and two cousins. A car jumped the curb on Woodlawn Drive near Security Boulevard on July 20 and plowed into them at a bus stop.Yesterday, the welcomers wore broad smiles as the 8-year-old boy, wearing a Baltimore County Fire Department baseball cap, hobbled with a walker across the station tarmac.

Baltimore County officials want to build on the value of two federal agencies with headquarters in Woodlawn by creating a tax-friendly enterprise zone to draw more jobs and investment to the area. County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced plans Tuesday to create the Federal Center at Woodlawn enterprise zone near Interstate 695 and Dogwood Road. The Social Security Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employ nearly 16,000 people in the county with related contractors employing thousands more, officials said.

A 37-year-old man was sentenced in Baltimore County Circuit Court on Monday to three years in prison for animal cruelty stemming from a police seizure of scarred and malnourished dogs from a Woodlawn area home. Larry Alston was arrested in 2009 after police found numerous dogs in the home, along with cages that were covered in feces and urine. He had been charged 22 counts of violating various animal cruelty laws, including charges of mutilating the animals, and police said there was evidence the dogs had been used for fighting.

A crowd of 500 attended a fund-raiser in Woodlawn last night where state Comptroller William Donald Schaefer announced he would seek a second term. Schaefer was introduced by longtime aide Gene Raynor, state schools Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick and Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. The event raised $200,000, Raynor said. Schaefer, 80, has said that retirement is not an option and that he has more he wants to accomplish in government.

Dulaney coach Elaine Lindsay planned a triangle-and-two defense to stop Woodlawn's Erin Graham, the area's second-leading scorer with a 20.2 average. It turned out she didn't need it.The Lions (9-0, 9-0) used a swarming defense that collapsed on the inside players of host Woodlawn (7-1, 8-2), and recorded a 57-46 victory in a key Baltimore County 4A-3A league game.Amy Luttrell led the Lions with 19 points, and Graham had 12 for Woodlawn."We played straight man-to-man defense on her," Lindsay said of Graham, "and switched off. I was really pleased with the way we played her, and especially the way Courtney [McClelland]

The last time the Woodlawn Warriors beat Randallstown, the Baltimore Orioles were in the World Series. What's more, many players on the Woodlawn roster were too young to stay up and watch it.In their first win over rival Randallstown (4-3, 3-2) since 1983, the Warriors took advantage of several miscues to win, 20-10, last night at Catonsville Community College."This is the best win that Woodlawn has had in a long time," said running back Troy Sheppard, who helped Woodlawn's cause by running 64 yards on five carries, one a 43-yard touchdown run that gave his team a 13-10 lead midway through the final quarter.

The Digital Harbor boys basketball team has been known to round into form late in the season to make a strong playoff push, winning consecutive state titles in 2009 and 2010 in that manner. Coach Johnnie Grimes is hoping the 17th annual Basketball Academy can provide a springboard for a similar run. So far, so good. The Rams got 18 points from sophomore guard William Robinson, played stingy zone defense and hit 19-of-22 free throws to come away with a 55-45 win over Woodlawn in the event's opening night Thursday at Morgan State.

Two firefighters were hurt yesterday in a fire at a Woodlawn group home, officials said. The fire at the two-story rowhouse in the 2400 block of Kevsway Court was reported about 5:30 p.m. and appeared to have been set, said Lt. Vernon Adamson, a Baltimore County Fire Department spokesman. The three residents of the dwelling, described as a group home for emotionally disturbed adolescents, and one staff worker were unhurt. Two firefighters were in good condition at John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where they were taken for burns to their hands.

Baltimore County police are investigating the death of a 19-year-old man whose body was discovered yesterday in a wooded section of the 3100 block of Essex Road in Woodlawn.The victim, Carlos L. Paul of the 1200 block of Brigadoon Trail, was found on the ground with a bullet wound to the right side of his head and a pistol in his right hand, police said. His body was found about 7:15 a.m. by students taking a shortcut to school. E. Jay Miller, a county police spokesman, said police are treating the death as suspicious pending an autopsy at the state medical examiner's office.