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Anne Arundel County The following were among incidents reported by the Anne Arundel County police . For information, call 410-222-8050. No incidents reported last week. These were among incidents reported by the Annapolis Police Department . For information, call 410-268-9000. Graff Ct., 1200 block, 11:14 p.m. Aug. 13. An Annapolis man, 28, was shot and killed at this location. Bay Ridge Rd., 900 block, 12:50 a.m. Aug. 17. An male claimed he had a weapon, stole cash and cigarettes from a business, and fled on a bicycle. An Annapolis man, 46, was arrested. THEFTS/BREAK-INS Barbud Lane, 100 block, 3-5:20 p.m. Aug. 14. Two bicycles were stolen from a home. Chester Ave. and Sixth St., 12:30 a.m. Aug. 11. Property was stolen from a vehicle. A Severn man, 23, was arrested. Copeland St., 1900 block, 5:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Aug. 16. Cash, shoes and a computer were stolen from a home. Edgewood Ave., 1:15-2:30 p.m. Aug. 14. A bicycle was stolen from a parking lot. Garden Gate Lane , ...

WICHITA — Numerous Wichita apartments have recently changed hands . First, Lew McGinnis, an Oklahoma businessman with a history of buying and selling apartment properties here and in his home state, has purchased six more in Wichita for a dozen total. McGinnis didn't return calls for comment, but someone in his office – who declined to give her full name – confirmed that he has purchased new properties here and is now managing them as well. They include the 240- unit Barclay Square Apartments near Riverside Park; the 220- unit Cedarbrooke Apartments on East Harry just east of Rock Road; the 138- unit Eastborough Apartments on East Kellogg just west of Rock Road; the 196- unit Kingsborough Apartments near South Seneca and West 27th Street South ; the 244- unit Rockborough Apartments near Douglas and Rock; and the 239- unit Woodgate Apartments on East 21st Street North between Oliver and Woodlawn. There have been some maintenance issues at some of the complexes since McGinnis...

As summer comes to a close and the kids go back to school, there seems to be a whole lot of movin’ going on. Marguerite Vann teachers moved back into a renovated building this past week while other school personnel were moving to new positions or even new schools. Teachers were moving in new supplies and displays to assist them in teaching their new classes. And those yellow school buses will be moving again tomorrow, some over newly paved highways and roads. The Salem Road extension from Exit 124 to Highway 25 at Lake Beaverfork opened last week and frequent travelers are loving it. Stoby’s had a soft opening to raise funds for Haven House yesterday but if all goes well, the restaurant will be opening on Wednesday. Two of the most anticipated improvements for the new restaurant are more seating and restrooms that aren’t located in the kitchen. After several readers commented about the sign for Captain Hook’s Fish and Chicken being down, a message from the restaurant, which is ba...

Capitalism is “a process of creative destruction” according to Austro- American economist Joseph Schumpeter . That is working out right now as new communications technologies are revolutionizing sectors like short-term housing and short- distance human transportation . I use these wordings rather than “hotel” and “taxi” because companies like Airbnb and Uber are changing the very meaning of these historic terms. Much of this is to the good, enabling society to get more satisfaction of human needs and wants from a given set of resources. But Schumpeter’s insight that economic creation inevitably is linked with destruction still applies. Innovations also destroy outdated businesses and products.  Airbnb is the one in the news right now as the St. Paul City Council considers new rules to limit the fraction of rental housing units that can be converted to short- term Airbnb units . That is an issue in many other cities. Airbnb and its small competitors also raise the same issue as Uber...

The developer of a large proposed Lomita apartment complex will pay the city more than $450,000 initially and then $50,000 annually in development fees to offset the effects of a project more dense than municipal standards currently allow. In addition, to get around the density issue, the city plans to create a specific plan for the area that would permit residential densities of up to 88 units an acre. That’s the exact density of the 220- unit Picerne Apartments , which would sit on a 2.7-acre site on the Torrance border at the northeast corner of Lomita and Crenshaw boulevards. The Planning Commission will discuss the project and specific plan at a 6:30 p.m. Monday public hearing at City Hall, 24300 Narbonne Ave. City staff is recommending approval of the project, saying it is consistent with the goals and objectives of the city’s land-use policies. “Specifically, the project furthers these goals by developing an under-utilized parcel, helping to address a documented housing shor...

Cathy Czerniak, community development director for Lake Forest, has proposed calling 2017 "the year of the crane." "One morning when I looked at the skyline, I saw four different cranes piercing the skyline from the central business district ," Czerniak said. The Lake Forester recently spoke with Czerniak about the state of various ongoing construction projects in town. Lake Forest Hospital The hospital is still on target to open its outpatient clinics this fall with the rest of the almost $400 million hospital to open in the first quarter of 2018. Final work on the interior of the buildings is being completed, a temporary parking lot is being removed and the height of a berm on the south side of the property is being increased. Kelmscott Park (formerly Laurel and Western) Three apartment buildings with a total of 111 units are expected to open in January, February and March 2018. Pre-leasing of apartments is scheduled to start this October. One single family ho...

Regeni was undeterred. Proficient in five languages, he was insatiably curious and exuded a low-intensity charm that attracted a wide circle of friends. From 12 to 14, he served as youth mayor of his hometown, Fiumicello. He prided himself on his ability to navigate different cultures, and he relished Cairo ’s unruly street life : the smoky cafes, the endless hustle, the candy- colored party boats that plied the Nile at night. He registered as a visiting scholar at American University in Cairo and found a room in Dokki, a traffic-choked neighborhood between the Pyramids and the Nile, where he shared an apartment with two young professionals : Juliane Schoki, who taught German, and Mohamed El Sayad , a lawyer at one of Cairo’s oldest law firms . Dokki was an unfashionable address, but it was just two subway stops from downtown Cairo with its maze of cheap hotels, dive bars and crumbling apartment blocks encircling Tahrir Square . Regeni soon befriended writers and artists and practi...