Woodlawn

Some days, Mike Sye still leaves his office with his head spinning. There's been so much to learn that Sye is still getting to know people and getting comfortable with procedures a year after he officially became coordinato of athletics for the Baltimore County Public Schools, the top job in running one of Maryland's - and one of the nation's - biggest scholastic sports programs. He oversees every aspect of competitive athletics in the county's 24 high schools. Like his predecessor Ron Belinko, who retires Friday after 21 years, including ayear as a consultant to help Sye make the transition, Sye likes to be hands-on.

Ada Althea Gettier, a homemaker and former cashier, died Saturday of Alzheimer's disease at Bethania Home Care, a Westminster assisted-living facility. She was 90. Ada Althea Burke was born in Baltimore and raised in Ednor Gardens. She attended city public schools, leaving in the eighth grade to help support her family. She was married in 1941 to Donald Edward Stallings, a Cloverland Farms milkman who died in 1973. During the 1960s, Mrs. Gettier worked as a cashier at the Colts Lanes in Woodlawn, and from 1970 until 1980, she was a cashier at Social Security Administration headquarters in Woodlawn.

Baltimore County Police have charged a Woodlawn man with assault in the stabbing of his father Thursday evening. Michael Darnell Palmer, 22, of the 6000 block of Prince George Street, is being held at the Baltimore County Detention Center on $50,000 bail. Police said he stabbed his father James Elise Sudler several times with a steak knife during an argument that began about 9 p.m. The suspect fled the home but was soon located at a grocery store parking lot at the intersection of Ingleside Avenue and Baltimore National Pike.

A man was shot in Woodlawn in Baltimore County on Friday night, according to police. City police first responded at about 7:30 p.m. to reports of a man shot near the intersection of Liberty Heights Avenue and Powder Mill Lane, which is near Powder Mill Park and just inside the city line, according to Det. Jeremy Silbert, a city police spokesman. After determining the man had actually been shot nearby in Baltimore County, they turned the case over to county police, Silbert said.

Chew on this: Adults — not children — account for 65 percent of gummi candy consumption in the United States. And that appetite is growing, if Haribo of America Inc.'s sales are any indication. U.S. sales for the Woodlawn-based division of the German candy maker have grown in double digits in each of the past five years, and more than 20 percent in 2011, said Christian Jegen, president of Haribo of America. Known for inventing gummi bears, Haribo began mass-marketing the fruity, chewy candy in the United States in the 1980s.

Baltimore County police are investigating the early Saturday stabbing of a woman outside of a club in Woodlawn. Cpl. John Wachter said police transported the woman, whose name was not released, to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center with non-life threatening injuries. Her status was not available. Police responded to a call at 1:36 a.m. in the Days Inn parking lot at 1660 Whitehead Court and found an adult female suffering from several cuts, Wachter said. The hotel shares a parking lot with Club Paradise, he said.

Baltimore City girls basketball got the better of its Baltimore County counterparts at Thursday's opening day of the 16 t h Annual Basketball Academy as No. 6 Poly and No. 7 Dunbar scored easy victories. Poly (14-0) used balanced scoring to roll over Randallstown, 69-9, and Dunbar (11-4) got 33 points from All-Metro forward Michelle Wright to match Woodlawn's total in the Poets' 76-33 victory at Lake Clifton, the home for all three days of this year's event. The Engineers scored the first 23 points of their game and put 12 players in the box score, including three in double figures - Keli Alston with 12 points and Blair Harding and Chaun Crockett with 10 each.

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.

Baltimore County police have made an arrest in a fatal stabbing that occurred Wednesday night in Woodlawn. Police say 35-year-old George Robert Evans Jr., a convicted sex offender who lives in the 1400 block of Langford Rd., was arrested Thursday and charged with first-degree murder of 23-year-old Kevin Regusters, who was stabbed to death in the 2600 block of Purnell Drive at about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. According to a statement from police, Evans and Regusters, of the 5300 block of Kenilworth Ave. in Baltimore, and been involved in a fight.

Baltimore County police are investigating the stabbing death of a 23-year-old city man Wednesday night in Woodlawn. Police responded to a report of a fight at about 11:30 p.m. to the 2600 block of Purnell Drive, near Gwynns Falls Boulevard. They found a vehicle with several people in and around it, police said, and several homes away, they found Kevin Eric Regusters in a front yard suffering from multiple stab wounds. The victim, who lived in the 5300 block of Kenilworth Ave. in the Govans area, was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.