Baby Boy

Top 40 Singles 1. Nelly featuring P. Diddy and Murphy Lee, "Shake Ya Tailfeather" 2. 3 Doors Down, "Here Without You" 3. Beyonce featuring Sean Paul, "Baby Boy" 4. Christina Aguilera featuring Lil' Kim, "Can't Hold Us Down" 5. Black Eyed Peas, "Where Is the Love?" Urban 1. Beyonce featuring Sean Paul, "Baby Boy" 2. Youngbloodz featuring Lil' Jon, "Damn!" 3. Ashanti, "Rain on Me" 4. Ludacris featuring Shawnna, "Stand Up" 5. R. Kelly, "Thoia Thoing" Country 1. Tim McGraw, "Real Good Man" 2. Gary Allan, "Tough Little Boys" 3. Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" 4. Martina McBride, "This One's For The Girls" 5. Keith Urban, "Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me" Rock 1. Staind, "So Far Away" 2. Nickelback, "Someday" 3. Audioslave, "Show Me How to Live" 4. 3 Doors Down, "Here Without You" 5. Godsmack, "Serenity"

On July 31, 2003, (baby boy) ZACHARIAS BRACKINS; loving son of Chris L. Brackins and Penny L. Brackins (nee Tetlow); beloved brother of Douglas L. and the late Nicholas H. Brackins; beloved grandson of Steven and Donna Brackins, David and Vicky Miller; beloved great-grandson of Sharmaine Tetlow and Eve Foreman. Also survived by many loving relatives. Family received friends on Sunday, August 3, 7 to 9 at HARRY H. WITZKE FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4112 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City. A Service was held on August 4, at Dayton Four Square Gospel Church.

An unexpected guest arrived during visiting hours recently at Patuxent Institution in Jessup. Two correctional officers delivered a baby boy during his mother's visit to the state prison on Father's Day. They wrapped the healthy newborn in a correctional officer's uniform about 1:30 p.m. The two correctional officers, Charlotte Leach and Capt. Keith Butler, received certificates of commendation yesterday from Patuxent Director Randall Nero. Leach said that she was in the restroom in the main gatehouse at Patuxent when a woman came in and told her that she was going into labor.

Halfway through Wednesday's Britney Spears concert in Washington, the girl-pop diva took a break from her vigorous dance routines to perch on a piano stool and connect with her fans. "Let me tell you about what's been happening in my life," she began. "Honestly, I've been a little bit overwhelmed. Sometimes my life feels bigger than me. ... I've been writing a lot and here's something I wrote just the other day. ... "I gave you my heart ... Baby boy, and now you are gone," she belted out. "I'm out the door.

MIAMI - The first thing we see is a black man curled up in a womb. The first thing we hear is a voice-over explaining a psychologist's theory that black men are babies. That because of racism, the African-American man remains an unformed person - infantilized, immature and incapable of exploiting his own fullest potential. Thus begins the new movie, Baby Boy. In it, we are introduced to Jody, a jobless, aimless 20-year-old from South-Central L.A. Though he has fathered two children by two women, he flees commitment, whether that means marriage or just cohabitation.

Tennessee Williams once said of the audience and a play, "If they laugh, it's a comedy." Perhaps it's also true that "If they yell `kill 'em,' it's a gladiator show." The audience I saw it with had both those responses at John Singleton's new movie, "Baby Boy," the tale of a 20-year-old slacker in L.A.'s South Central who fathers two children with different women without growing up himself. And I'm not sure the responses I heard always came where Singleton wanted them. Singleton's writing and directing strategy here is to gear the most in-your-face domestic squabbles for laughs of recognition, then push them toward violence.

Baltimore police are searching for the parents or guardians of an infant who was discovered crying and abandoned under a park bench in West Baltimore in a steady drizzle Tuesday night.Doctors at University of Maryland Medical Center estimate the boy is between 10 and 12 months old. The infant was determined to be in good health after a checkup at the hospital and was handed over to city social workers."He seems to be well cared for and nourished," said Sue Fitzsimmons, a spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services.

The baby boy brought to mind astronauts landing on the moon -- his round face moving across the screen in a herky-jerky fashion that seemed strangely out of time. But to his mother, confined to a hospital bed 100 miles from home, the smiling boy in a camouflage suit was altogether real.Dabbing her eyes with the corner of her bedsheet, she waved to a camera perched on top of the video screen. Later, she typed out a message to her son, Derek: "How are you? Miss you already. Happy 4-month birthday.

Leave it to an astronomer to spoil the New Year's party. There you stand with a pointy hat, a glass of Korbel and a nice glow, and here comes some wise guy who has seen the big picture. A picture to dwarf any silly human-centered notion of time. New Year? Stop, already.After peering through the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, a scientist at the Space Telescope Institute in Baltimore said the other day that they now know how much time remains before our solar system dies because the sun has burned out. Nothing special.