Maryland

• Jury study raises hackles in city

  An Abell Foundation report that found disparity between the verdicts of Baltimore jurors and their suburban counterparts has infuriated the city's top prosecutor.

• A tribute to a patron saint

  Hours before people jammed the streets, sipping Italian iced tea and devouring fried dough on a perfect day for a festival, there was Dominic Pompa carrying the 92-year-old banner of St. Gabriel of the Sorrowful Mother through the quiet streets of Little Italy.

• Michael Dresser: Bridges need tougher policing

  The Maryland Transportation Authority owns and operates seven toll facilities on behalf of the people of the state. All seven are all critical to Maryland's prosperity and mobility, but the crown jewel is the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge - the Bay Bridge.

• Big dreams vs. economy

  Tennille Stokes started planning more than a year ahead of her wedding so that she wouldn't have to draw from her savings.

• Man killed in city fire

  A 49-year-old city man died yesterday and his wife was critically injured in an early-morning fire at the Southeast Baltimore rowhouse where they lived, authorities said.

• Police Blotter

  Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County.

• Beth El to hold festival Sunday

  Beth El Congregation of Pikesville will hold BECFest from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday at 8101 Park Heights Ave.

• Gunman sought after 3 teens are wounded

  Southwestern District detectives were seeking at least one unidentified assailant in the shootings early yesterday of three teenage boys in the city's Northwest Community Action neighborhood in West Baltimore.

• Church to hold crab feast Saturday

  St. Isaac Jogues Roman Catholic Church will hold a crab feast from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday at 9215 Old Harford Road, Carney.

• Bike ride to raise funds for cancer

  The Pan-Massachusetts Parkton Kids Ride will take place Saturday at the North Central Railroad Trail on Freeland Road to raise money for cancer research and treatment

• Bay Bridge lane to close this week

  Starting today, investigators plan to examine an area of the Bay Bridge where a tractor-trailer crashed through a Jersey wall and fell into the water, officials from the Maryland Transportation Authority said.

• Irvine Center to hold plant seminar, sale

  Irvine Nature Center will hold a native plant seminar and sale Saturday at its new facility at 11201 Garrison Forest Road in Owings Mills.

• Police show to focus on victims' rights

  Police Report, the Baltimore County Police Department's cable TV program, will focus on victims' rights and anti-terrorism activities in the segment being aired through Sept. 10.

• Katherin M. Sullivan Opie Johnson

  Katherin Marie Sullivan Opie Johnson, a longtime Essex resident who tended bar well into her 60s, died Friday at a nursing home in Martinsburg, W.Va. She was 82.

• Deaths elsewhere

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• Harold J. Jennifer Jr.

  Harold Jones Jennifer Jr., former executive director of the Baltimore Civic Center, died Tuesday at Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in St. Mary's County of complications resulting from myelofibrosis. He was 86.