Bolden

Leonard Plato Bolden, a jazz pianist who performed under his middle name, died of cardiac arrest May 22 at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 77 and had lived on Madison Avenue.For more than 30 years, from the 1940s through the 1970s, Plato Bolden worked the theaters, clubs and lounges in West and Northwest Baltimore.Though he accompanied many entertainment legends of that period, there were many nights when he also entertained the Baltimoreans who stopped in for a drink."He was a fixture along Pennsylvania Avenue," said Tracy McCleary, who for many years led the orchestra at the Royal Theatre.

Harry Bolden's West Baltimore apartment complex looks like the average manicured, 170-unit, brick development. But his downstairs unit holds a collection of artifacts, art and rare plants many a museum would brag about.The demure 55-year-old renter of a one-bedroom apartment collects Oriental and African art and recently acquired a 200-pound bonsai tree, all placed strategically in his close-quartered home. His 20-year-old hobby -- which has garnered him hundreds of pieces -- has turned into a labor of love.

Two children were killed and at least four other people, including two firefighters, were injured last night when a fire raced through a rowhouse in West Baltimore, a fire department spokesman said.An infant who lived in the rowhouse at 3112 Baker St. in the Rosemont section was rescued unhurt by a neighbor, the spokesman, Battalion Chief Hector Torres, said.The dead were identified as George Temple Jr., 11,, who died on the way to Bon Secours Hospital, and Barbara Lee, 2, who was pronounced dead at the scene, Chief Torres said.

Leon Day saw himself at the induction ceremony. He saw them place the ring on his finger. He saw himself making his speech. Then he woke up yesterday morning at St. Agnes Hospital and told his wife, "I'm in. I'm in."Yesterday afternoon, he was in. Mr. Day, 78, became the 12th Negro league star elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.The Veterans Committee also elected Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Richie Ashburn, National League founder William Hulbert and turn-of-the-century pitcher Vic Willis, a native of Cecil County.

Leon Day moved to Baltimore when his father got a job at a Westport glass factory. Day was 6 months old when he arrived with his family at Camden Station.The station is now a ballpark, and the nearby section of Camden Street is now Leon Day Way -- in honor of the induction tomorrow of the late Negro Leagues star into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.Day, 78, died of heart and kidney ailments on March 13, six days after learning of his election. A pitcher, second baseman and outfielder with the Newark Eagles, he grew up in the Mount Winans section of southwest Baltimore and was the 12th Negro Leagues star selected for the Hall.

Two children were killed and at least four other people, including two firefighters, were injured last night when a fire raced through a rowhouse in West Baltimore, a fire department spokesman said.An infant who lived in the rowhouse in the 3100 block of Baker St. in the Rosemont section was rescued unhurt by a neighbor, said another neighbor.The dead were identified as George Temple Jr., 11, who died on the way to Bon Secours Hospital, and Barbara Lee, 2, who was pronounced dead at the scene, said Battalion Chief Hector Torres, a fire department spokesman.

Bolden to receive football awardNaval Academy Deputy Commandment Marine Col. Charles F. Bolden will receive the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame's 29th Distinguished American Award.The award is presented to an outstanding leader who has maintained an interest in football and has made a significant contribution to improve amateur football.A 1968 Naval Academy graduate and Marine Corps aviator, Mr. Bolden piloted four space shuttle missions as a NASA astronaut. In February, he commanded the first U.S./Russian spaceflight.

A Clary's Forest man who was shot by two assailants while taking out his trash Tuesday night was listed in critical but stable condition yesterday at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.Howard County police said Derek Z. Bolden, 23, was taking garbage to a trash bin outside his apartment building in the 12100 block of Little Patuxent Parkway when two men accosted him about 10 p.m.The men fired several shots, striking Mr. Bolden once in the buttocks. Police said he ran to a nearby apartment building and collapsed in the stairway.

Arthur William Bolden's life ended three weeks ago after a vicious beating on an East Baltimore street, but it wasn't until he became a statistic that anyone gave him a second thought.Mr. Bolden -- homeless, infected with the human immunodeficiency virus and, by his own family's description, a hopeless drug addict -- was classified yesterday as the year's 336th homicide victim by the state medical examiner. As a result, 1993 is officially the deadliest year in Baltimore's history."I guess this is the only way anyone will ever remember him," said his sister, Margo Davis, 35. "He was a hellion.

Arthur William Bolden's life ended three weeks ago after a vicious beating on an East Baltimore street, but it wasn't until he became a statistic that anyone gave him a second thought.Mr. Bolden -- homeless, infected with the human immunodeficiency virus and, by his own family's description, a hopeless drug addict -- was classified yesterday as the year's 336th homicide victim by the state medical examiner.As a result, 1993 is officially the deadliest year in Baltimore's history."I guess this is the only way anyone will ever remember him," said his sister, Margo Davis, 35. "He was a hellion.

President Barack Obama's selection on Saturday of former astronaut Charles F. Bolden Jr. to head NASA gives a boost to the agency's manned space program and its stated goal of returning humans to the moon by 2020. During the presidential campaign, Obama had seemed lukewarm toward NASA and its hugely expensive human spaceflight program. Space enthusiasts were particularly worried after Obama staffers floated the idea of taking money from the space agency to fund domestic programs. But now, with the selection of a retired Marine general and astronaut to run the agency, observers are asking whether this means the president has suddenly got religion for manned space flight.

When it comes to Jermaine Bolden, Morgan State's fireplug point guard, appearances can be, and often are, deceiving. The player known on campus as "Itchy" is listed generously at 5 feet 9 (generous by perhaps 2 inches) and 175 pounds, which is a shadow of the 199 pounds he said he weighed at the end of last season. As Bears assistant Kevin McClain noted yesterday: "He moves slow and looks like he's old, but he's in great shape." This week, the Bears are headed to Kansas City, Mo., for their first NCAA Division I tournament in school history, an accomplishment attributable in large measure to Bolden's evolving game in the backcourt.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -Validations were everywhere last night for Morgan State. For Jermaine "Itchy" Bolden, the 5-foot-8 point guard who showed he could run an offense as well as score this season. For Marquise Kately, the San Francisco native who left the University of California three years ago to join a ragtag mid-major program that had been dormant for 30 years. And for Todd Bozeman - perhaps especially for the Morgan coach - who resurrected a program and his career with a remarkable three-year run that produced two Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference regular-season titles and, now, the school's first NCAA Division I tournament bid. Morgan's 83-69 rout of Norfolk State in the MEAC final at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum ushered in a new era of basketball on the Hilltop, an era that no one could have imagined when Bozeman arrived on campus in 2006.

Add the Colonial Athletic Association to the list of conferences that have been victimized by the ever-improving Morgan State basketball team this season. After beating teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference (Maryland) and Big East (DePaul), the Bears added Towson of the CAA to their portfolio of victories yesterday, never trailing in the first Bracketbuster appearance by a Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference member in an 80-64 romp at Towson Center. Granted, Towson (9-20) is not among the premier teams in one of the toughest mid-major leagues in the country, but it was still a significant win for the Bears, their eighth in a row and 10th in the past 11 games.

Morgan State's men kept rolling last night, but it wasn't easy. The Bears received a stern test from Norfolk State at Hill Field House before a clutch three-pointer by Jermaine "Itchy" Bolden fractured Norfolk's final run and sealed Morgan's third straight victory and sixth in the past eight games, 74-70. The outcome kept the preseason favorite in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference atop the league standings and ended the Spartans' two-game winning streak. It also avenged a 71-69 Norfolk State win over the Bears last season, one of only two losses Morgan suffered in regular-season MEAC play.

Alex Ruoff scored 17 points, leading visiting West Virginia and coach Bob Huggins to a 76-48 victory over No. 15 Ohio State yesterday. Da'Sean Butler scored 16 points - all but two in the first half - with Darryl Bryant adding 11 and Devin Ebanks 10 for the Mountaineers (10-2), who gave the Buckeyes (9-1) their first defeat of the season. West Virginia has won four in a row since a 68-65 loss to Davidson in the Jimmy V Classic on Dec. 9. Up by seven at halftime, the Mountaineers extended the lead to more than 20 midway through the second half and poured it on the rest of the way. William Buford and Jeremie Simmons each scored 11 points, and Evan Turner had 10 for Ohio State.

A Howard County jury acquitted a Baltimore man of attempted-murder charges yesterday but convicted him of assaulting his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend in the same incident last year. Kazeem Akinniyi, 26, testified during his three-day trial that he was defending himself against Jefferson Bolden, whom police discovered with several serious stab wounds to the face, back and chest early Dec. 23. The jury convicted Akinniyi of second-degree assault and one count of reckless endangerment. He could be sentenced to 15 years in prison for the two convictions.

A Baltimore man accused of trying to kill his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend before leaping from a window to escape and breaking both legs, committed the stabbing in self-defense, his attorney argued yesterday. Attorneys presented opening arguments yesterday in the case of Kazeem Akinyoade Akinniyi in Howard County Circuit Court. The 26-year-old is charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder, assault and burglary in the stabbing of Jefferson Bolden. Prosecutors plan to argue during the two-day jury trial that Akinniyi broke into the Columbia apartment of his ex-girlfriend, Sharon Johnson, about 5 a.m. Dec. 23, 2007.

A man whose brother died in police custody May 30 after swallowing bags of cocaine is under arrest in an unrelated incident, authorities in Harford County said yesterday. Reginald Leon Bolden, 24, who is charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a Havre de Grace man outside a Waffle House restaurant in Belcamp on May 24, was arrested Friday evening on North Avenue in Baltimore after a short foot chase. Sgt. Dave Betz, a spokesman for the Harford County Sheriff's Office, said that Bolden, a resident of Forge Hill Road in Bel Air, is being held without bail at the Harford County Detention Center.

A man who had been charged last week with kidnapping and assaulting another man in Harford County died after a struggle Friday night after he allegedly swallowed drugs and fought with sheriff's deputies, authorities said yesterday. The officers used a stun device to try to control him before they discovered that plastic bags filled with suspected cocaine had lodged in his airway and prevented him from breathing, according to a spokesman with the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Justin Eugene Bolden, 25, was arrested shortly after 8 p.m. Friday at a Wawa market in Street on a warrant charging him with violating his probation terms in connection with another case.