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Reginald Amos was on his way to a video rental store in the Towson area when, he said, he saw a red truck run down a grandmother pushing a stroller across the road and keep going. He testified yesterday in court that he called 911, followed the truck and told the driver to wait when she briefly pulled over in a neighborhood about a mile from the crash scene. "I was telling them, `Hold up,'" Amos told the judge hearing the case of the woman charged in the dragging death of the toddler who was in the stroller.

So, what makes the Hunt Valley Antiques Show Preview Party so young and fresh, even in its 37th year? "We do!" said event co-chair Kathleen Jensen with a laugh. She may have been joking, but she may also have been right. She and co-chair Cara Shea Kohler headed up the 60-member committee that put together this annual fundraiser for Family and Children's Services of Central Maryland. With many of the organizers younger than 40 years old, the combo of young and old proved to be the ticket.

It seemed such a simple plan.After finishing a 120-date tour with her band last year, singer/pianist Tori Amos had planned to spend the spring hunkered down in a recording studio near her home in Cornwall, England, to work on her fifth album. The idea was to release a double CD, but even so, Amos and her crew weren't expecting to do a lot of recording, as one disc would be all live material, while the other mixed B-sides with a couple of new tunes.Then the songs started coming. And coming.

Sister Helen Amos, who has built strong programs -- and marketed them adroitly -- in eight years as president and chief executive officer of Mercy Medical Center, will become board chairwoman of Mercy's new parent organization July 1.She has led a hospital that has remained independent in a period of mergers, has drawn more patients as the number of patients in the state was dropping, and has thrived downtown while other hospitals were chasing business in...

Nobody ever accused Tori Amos of being shallow.If anything, the opposite has been true -- her albums have run so deep that some listeners have been left feeling as if they were in over their heads. Between the intensity of her performances and the complexity of her metaphors, the music on her last two albums, "Under the Pink" and "Boys for Pele," left as many listeners overwhelmed as elated.That situation should change with her fifth and newest album, "From the Choirgirl Hotel" (Atlantic 83095)

Some have stories worthy of being told and retold. Others, frankly, do not. They live in a serene place and a placid time. Drama and urgency may never have paid them a visit.That was not the case for virtually anyone who lived in Palestine in 1948, when a nation was founded and a war for survival begun. "Perhaps there was somebody there who had a very dull life," says Baltimore photographer Aaron Levin, "but I never met that person."This spring, in connection with Israel's 50th anniversary, Levin published "Testament," a book of photographic profiles and reminiscences of Israelis who were participants in the creation of Israel.

Five C. W. Amos & Co. LLC partners have split with the Baltimore accounting and consulting firm to form Penta Advisory Services LLC, a consulting company.C. W. Amos, with one of the largest consulting practices in the region, generated more than $7 million in revenue last year from clients such as MCI Communications Corp., Apple Computer Inc. and the University of California.Penta will retain all of C. W. Amos' 42 consulting employees and its offices in Baltimore, Washington and Richmond, Va. The new firm also intends to build on its bankruptcy case work, having consulted in cases such as Merry-Go-Round Enterprises Inc. and Luskins Inc.Penta's acquisition of the consulting practice from C. W. Amos follows a national trend begun by so-called "Big Six" accounting companies Arthur Andersen and Deloitte & Touche, both of which have formed new consulting practices out of their core accounting businesses.

NEW YORK - What a difference a band makes.Over the past six years, Tori Amos has built both an audience and a reputation through her live show. Performing with just a piano, her concerts seemed to fly in the face of rock's bigger-is-better aesthetic. Heck, she didn't even have an amplifier onstage!Yet Amos could easily convey the full scope of her music, using her Boesendorfer grand to fill the hall with sound while somehow making the whole thing seem as intimate as a living-room recital.

Arthur Amos Woodward Jr., who designed and tested military protective clothing at Aberdeen Proving Ground, died Sunday of prostate cancer at his Bel Air home. He was 82.Dr. Woodward began working in 1953 at the medical laboratories at the old Edgewood Arsenal before he went to work a year later at the proving ground, where he was a member of the ArmyOrdnance Corps Human Engineering Laboratories.He retired in 1993."He once spent a summer in the rain forest of Panama testing clothing and then spent a winter in Alaska doing the same thing," said his wife of 56 years, the former Mary Moore Chamberlin.

For years, Chicago Bulls forward Dennis Rodman has tried to play basketball by a different set of rules, at times almost daring the NBA to take serious action against him. Yesterday, the league, finally fed up with his act, did just that.Rodman was suspended for at least 11 games without pay and fined $25,000 for kicking a courtside cameraman during Wednesday's game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. It is the second-longest suspension in league history. And Rodman stands to lose more than $1 million of his $9 million contract because he has a clause tied to the number of games he plays this season.

Chris Amos always had a routine when he closed up at night. To make sure there was no one lurking outside the liquor store in Fullerton's Putty Hill Plaza Shopping Center, Amos would leave first, check the parking lot, and wait for his boss to walk out of the building and get into his car safely. "I wouldn't leave until he did," said Amos, 28, who had worked at the store for eight years. But on Thursday, his boss, Joon Am Kang, was alone in Putty Hill Liquors when two men wearing stockings as masks burst in about 9 p.m. and demanded money, police said.

On January 23, 2009, IRWIN (Brownie) G., beloved husband for 56 years of Edith (Edie) E. DeGraw Brown, devoted father of Nancy L. White and her husband Carl, Cindy L. Amos and her husband Melvin, Lindy L. Hall and her spouse B. J. Fraddosio, Bonnie A. Maras and her husband Peter, and the late Joseph D. Brown. Loving grandfather of James, John and Philip Hall, Daniel, Jessica and the late Melvin Lee Amos, Anna and Matthew Maras. He was a caring, helpful, loving neighbor and friend. A Graveside Service will be held at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, on Tuesday at 11am.

Police who patrol Baltimore's impoverished east side turned a station house room usually reserved for relaxation into a bustling Edison Highway pantry for the needy yesterday. The officers, many on their own time, spent the day sorting through piles of canned beans, canned corn, canned spinach and canned ham, not to mention frozen turkeys and a seemingly endless supply of macaroni and cheese that they had spent months working with community leaders to collect. At times, the room that also holds the station's soda and candy machines and a pool table resembled a crowded deli, with officers scanning lists of names of families who signed up for help and trying to make sure the right amount of food got into the right boxes.

On September 28, 2008, PATRICIA SARAH "PAT" (nee Herbert) of Pasadena; beloved wife of Charles "CHUCK" Baker; devoted mother of Katherine Mele, Ernie Amos, Millie Sebour and Joe Amos; loving grandmother of Anthony and Braden Mele and Kaitlyn and Sydney Sebour; sister of Geraldine Cameron, Nancy Wagner, Bonnie Brobeck, and Patricia Patrick. She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother. The family will receive friends at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 3204 Mountain Road (Pasadena)

The apparent suicide of a suspect in the 2001 anthrax mail attacks this week is spurring questions from legal observers of the 7-year-long federal investigation: Was Bruce E. Ivins' death a sign of guilt or the act of an innocent man unwilling to endure public accusations? Many suspects in high-profile federal investigations have been cleared only to suffer the lasting effects of ruined careers, health and reputations. And many believe government officials try to help their cases by deliberately leaking damaging information to the news media without official charges.

Casey Amos Groundskeeper Queenstown Harbor, Queenstown Salary: $10.50 an hour Age: 24 Years on the job : Two How she got started : After working in office and customer-service-related jobs, Amos wanted to work outdoors. She decided to try her hand at landscaping and was hired to maintain the flower beds at the 735-acre Queenstown Harbor golf course. "I just kind of gave it a shot. The job evolved from there." Typical day : For the first three or four hours each morning, starting at 6 a.m., she is one of about 20 groundskeepers who mow the greens and fairways.

ON THE WATERFRONT Middle River's Wilson Point Park hosts a wide variety of family activities, including water-taxi tours, arts and crafts shows and live music, for the fourth annual Baltimore County Waterfront Festival on Saturday. Through the event, the local government celebrates and directs attention toward the county's 175 miles of waterfront. The program also includes nature and environmental displays, local food vendors, water rescue demonstrations and more. ....................

On May 4, 1891, Isaac Amos acquired the oldest of the mills built by the Wiley family during revolutionary times. The Amos Mill is on Island Branch, three miles east of Norrisville. The three-story building is made of field stone and hand-hewn logs with lime mortar filling. The original water wheel was wood, but in 1926, John Amos, son of Isaac, replaced it with steel. Hardwood oak machinery fills the first floor with huge beams, cogs and gears, shafts and weights. The second floor houses the grinding equipment and hoppers.

THE GATHERING AT THE HYATT REGENCY Baltimore was full of heart. Literally. After all, this was the American Heart Association's 2008 Heart of Baltimore Gala. Some 600 guests -- including Neil and Ellen Meltzer, Hank Yurow, Don and Michaeline Fedder, Julie Mercer and Raphael Langford, Nelson Sabatini, Chuck and Maria Tildon, Stanton and Renee Ades, Greg and Lisa Barnhill, and Ted and Jennifer Winslow -- strolled around the hotel mezzanine during the gala's cocktail hour. That number made event chair Aris Melissaratos' heart soar.

68 John Amos Actor 64 Cokie Roberts ABC News correspondent 59 Gerard Depardieu Actor 41 Eva LaRue Actress 33 Masi Oka Actor