Regional Briefing

Three people safely escaped the structure in the 9800 block of Sorrel Avenue after discovering the fire at 12:30 a.m., said county fire spokesman Pete Piringer.

-- Daniel de Vise

Shots Might Have Been Hunters'

The president of Mount St. Mary's University said deer hunters might have fired the gunshots heard on campus Friday night, hours after a student discovered a bullet hole in a dormitory room.

College officials restricted movements on the Frederick County campus from 10:20 p.m. until midnight to investigate four gunshots heard by a student and campus police. Earlier in the day, a student had reported that a bullet was fired into her dorm room.

Thomas Powell, the university president, said investigators had not determined whether the incidents were related or if the bullets had been fired on campus or in the hills nearby.

-- Daniel de Vise

Oxon Hill Man Held in Killing

Prince George's County police announced the arrest of an Oxon Hill man yesterday in a fatal stabbing Friday in the city.