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Services for Claire Mae Ballou, a hospital telephone operator, will be held at 1 p.m. todayat the Hubbard Funeral Home, 4107 Wilkins Ave.Mrs. Ballou, a resident of Lansdowne for 37 years, died Friday at St. Agnes Hospital after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 62.She was born in Baltimore and attended Fourteen Holy Martyrs School.After she left school, she worked for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. for 11 years.About 1960, she took a job as an operator at St. Agnes Hospital.

A national agency will review screening procedures at Anne Arundel County jails after an inmate attempted suicide last week, jail officials said yesterday. Four inmates have died at the Jennifer Road Detention Center this year, including two who took their own lives. A consultant with the National Institute of Corrections will visit the jail this month to see if mental health screening tests can be improved to prevent future suicides, said jail administrator Terry Kokolis. "It's tragic," Kokolis said.

His team had already defeated Ballou of Washington earlier this season, but Southern coach Tom Albright still had the utmost respect for the Knights heading into last night's championship round of the Southern Christmas Tournament."

Improv of 3081 Go hear the improvising musicians of 3081 with music professor Dave Ballou at 8:15 p.m. at Towson University's Center for the Arts, 8000 York Road. Ticket prices vary. Call 410-704-2787 or go to towson.edu/centerfor thearts/boxoffice.htm.

When Baltimore County voters elected Circuit Judge Vicki Ballou-Watts to a 15-year term Tuesday, they answered an uncomfortable question that had been hovering around county elections for at least four years. They were willing, even eager, to elect an African-American to a countywide position. Before Ballou-Watts' victory, no black Baltimore County candidate had ever won in a countywide vote. And the election defeats of Judge Alexander Wright Jr. - a widely respected judge who is African-American - in 2000 and 2002 were in the minds of those watching this year's judicial race.

In three years as a Baltimore County District Court judge, Vicki Ballou-Watts has won over much of the county's legal community. "She listens, she takes charge and she's very fair," said Carey Deeley Jr., a Towson lawyer and a former president of the Baltimore County Bar Association. But when she is sworn in this month as the county's first black female Circuit Court judge, Ballou-Watts will be breaking a barrier in a jurisdiction where critics say too many judges have been white males.

A Maryland State Police trooper responded to an unusual request for assistance yesterday afternoon: a woman in labor on Interstate 95. According to a combination news release and birth announcement, Trooper T.R. Robinson of the JFK Highway barracks in Perryville found the woman, Dontrace Ballou of Havre de Grace, had given birth to a baby girl just before 5 p.m. Ballou's husband had been driving her south on I-95 to a hospital with their young son...

City homicide detectives have charged the father of a missing 2-month-old girl, who was the subject of a statewide "Amber Alert," with first-degree murder although the child's body has not been found, a police spokesman said. Kenneth Jenkins, 20, of the 2500 block of Francis St., was being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center pending a bail hearing today in District Court, said Officer Troy Harris, the spokesman. Harris declined to reveal the evidence that led police to charge him last night.

Jazz performance 49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar and Gallery will host Jeff Antoniuk and the Jazz Update with trumpeter Dave Ballou at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. May 31 at 49 West St., Annapolis. Tickets are $10. Reservations are suggested. 410-626-9796 or www.jeffantoniuk.com

Improv of 3081 Go hear the improvising musicians of 3081 with music professor Dave Ballou at 8:15 p.m. at Towson University's Center for the Arts, 8000 York Road. Ticket prices vary. Call 410-704-2787 or go to towson.edu/centerfor thearts/boxoffice.htm.

A Maryland State Police trooper responded to an unusual request for assistance yesterday afternoon: a woman in labor on Interstate 95. According to a combination news release and birth announcement, Trooper T.R. Robinson of the JFK Highway barracks in Perryville found the woman, Dontrace Ballou of Havre de Grace, had given birth to a baby girl just before 5 p.m. Ballou's husband had been driving her south on I-95 to a hospital with their young son...

Jazz performance 49 West Coffeehouse, Winebar and Gallery will host Jeff Antoniuk and the Jazz Update with trumpeter Dave Ballou at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. May 31 at 49 West St., Annapolis. Tickets are $10. Reservations are suggested. 410-626-9796 or www.jeffantoniuk.com

Two men convicted in the fatal shooting of a Randallstown woman whose husband was the supposed target of a botched murder and robbery plot were sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Shawn E. Gardner, who will turn 27 tomorrow, and Aaron D. Holly, 20, could have walked away after Tanya Jones-Spence tumbled off a balcony while trying to get away from them, Baltimore County Circuit Judge Vicki Ballou-Watts said before imposing sentences for first-degree murder.

When Baltimore County voters elected Circuit Judge Vicki Ballou-Watts to a 15-year term Tuesday, they answered an uncomfortable question that had been hovering around county elections for at least four years. They were willing, even eager, to elect an African-American to a countywide position. Before Ballou-Watts' victory, no black Baltimore County candidate had ever won in a countywide vote. And the election defeats of Judge Alexander Wright Jr. - a widely respected judge who is African-American - in 2000 and 2002 were in the minds of those watching this year's judicial race.

Poolesville came to Dunbar last night determined to slow down the Poets. The Falcons spread the floor often in the first half, repeatedly found back-door layups and used patience to control the tempo and stay close. But then came the second half. The No. 2 Dunbar boys basketball team rattled visiting Poolesville with increased defensive pressure in the second half, and guards Maurice Barksdale and Herman Hayes helped the Poets break the game open quickly and cruise to an 84-52 victory in the Class 1A South regional final.

The West Baltimore man who told police his 2-month-old infant daughter was abducted by an unlicensed cab driver later confessed to homicide detectives that he "killed his daughter by accident," according to court documents. Kenneth Lee Jenkins, 20, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of A'shia Monique Jenkins. He is expected to have a bail review hearing today at Central Booking and Intake Center, where he is being held without bond. Jenkins initially told police -- and the child's mother, Lakeisha Ballou -- that A'shia was abducted by an unlicensed cab driver, or hack, who had pulled a gun on him and robbed him of $5 as Jenkins and his twin girls were on their way to meet Ballou.

A national agency will review screening procedures at Anne Arundel County jails after an inmate attempted suicide last week, jail officials said yesterday. Four inmates have died at the Jennifer Road Detention Center this year, including two who took their own lives. A consultant with the National Institute of Corrections will visit the jail this month to see if mental health screening tests can be improved to prevent future suicides, said jail administrator Terry Kokolis. "It's tragic," Kokolis said.

Two men convicted in the fatal shooting of a Randallstown woman whose husband was the supposed target of a botched murder and robbery plot were sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Shawn E. Gardner, who will turn 27 tomorrow, and Aaron D. Holly, 20, could have walked away after Tanya Jones-Spence tumbled off a balcony while trying to get away from them, Baltimore County Circuit Judge Vicki Ballou-Watts said before imposing sentences for first-degree murder.

City homicide detectives have charged the father of a missing 2-month-old girl, who was the subject of a statewide "Amber Alert," with first-degree murder although the child's body has not been found, a police spokesman said. Kenneth Jenkins, 20, of the 2500 block of Francis St., was being held at the Central Booking and Intake Center pending a bail hearing today in District Court, said Officer Troy Harris, the spokesman. Harris declined to reveal the evidence that led police to charge him last night.

Three men pleaded guilty yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court on related charges in the shooting death of a 19-year-old city man in June, the city state's attorney's office announced. Robert Hanna, 20, of the 200 block of Dallas Court pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and a handgun charge in the death of George Chisholm Jr. The others are 24-year-olds Johnny Timmons of the 200 block of Ballou Court, who admitted to conspiracy to murder, and Curtis Williams of the 200 block of S. Mason Court, as an accessory after the fact.