From 1991-2001, the number of AIDS cases within this group grew threefold, according to health officials. Women, nearly all of them African American, made up a quarter of the 8,757 people in the city who were living with AIDS as of last December.
The three-hour discussion, sponsored by the District health department on World Aids Day, will begin at 11 a.m. at the City Museum at Mount Vernon Square, 801 K St. NW. For more information, call the city's HIV/AIDS Administration at 202-724-8902.
New Schools Facilities Head Starts Work
The District school system's new facilities management director, Cornell S. Brown Jr., began work yesterday, starting a broad analysis of the problems he must tackle to stop the neglect of the city's crumbling school buildings.
Brown was hired by Superintendent Clifford B. Janey after serving since May 2000 as senior project engineer, director of facilities management and administrator of comprehensive maintenance and construction at Baltimore County Public Schools.
Brown was instrumental in restructuring the staffing and reporting hierarchy at Baltimore's Department of Physical Facilities, focusing on areas such as accountability and performance standards.
Gregory Williams, who had been serving as acting facilities management director, will return to his previous job as deputy director.
MARYLAND
Hit-and-Run Driver Injures Girl, 5
A 5-year-old girl crossing a street in Silver Spring with an older girl was seriously injured yesterday when she was struck by a car whose driver did not stop, Montgomery County police said.
The girls were crossing the northbound lanes of 16th Street, just north of Spring Street, when the younger girl was struck about 5:45 p.m., police said. The older girl, 9, was not injured. The girls were not in a crosswalk.
A shopper at a nearby strip mall came to the girls' aid. The 5-year-old, who was conscious, was being treated at Children's Hospital for serious injuries that included broken bones, police said. The injuries were not believed to be life threatening.
Police said the car, possibly green or white, probably has damage to the front near the driver's side. Anyone with information about the car should call 301-565-7744.
Convict Granted Clemency Is Released
A convicted murderer whose life sentence was commuted last week was released from prison yesterday, one of two people granted clemency by the governor.
In 1968, Walter H. Arvinger and four other youths were accused of beating a man to death during a Baltimore robbery. Arvinger, 55, was the only defendant among the five still in prison.
He had maintained that he did not take part in the slaying or share proceeds of the robbery. His case was championed by students and professors at the University of Maryland School of Law, who believed him after reviewing a trial transcript.
Brown, who has served more than 30 years for a murder committed when she was 15, could be eligible for parole in one year.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I'm just worried about my dad. He carried every brick in. He and his dad built this restaurant."
-- Joe Lasick, grandson of the founder of Lasick's, a popular restaurant that was destroyed by fire. -- Page B1
Compiled from reports by staff writers David A. Fahrenthold, Susan Levine, Eric Rich, Jacqueline L. Salmon, Allan Lengel, Paul Schwartzman and Valerie Strauss and the Associated Press.
