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When I go to Winston Cup races now, I see so many women working. They are reporters, photographers, public relations representatives, lawyers and television producers.There weren't always so many women covering racing. It used to be a man's world.Not long ago, Humpy Wheeler, president and general manager of Lowe's Motor Speedway, referred to me as a pioneer in the covering of Winston Cup racing. And when I started back in 1976, working for The Evening Sun, there were only a few women who would be seen regularly on the beat.

PALMER LAKE, Colo. - The red sandstone cliff to the north of Red Ranch Road looms over the valley in stark, rugged majesty. Pillars of stone, carved by the wind into strange, compelling shapes, rise from the foothills.The scene could be the backdrop of a Western movie if it weren't for all the subdivisions crawling up the slopes of the Front Range.This is not John Denver's Colorado. This is sprawl, Westernstyle, unchecked development that spreads into regions of extraordinary natural beauty and meager water supplies.

Though he lost in court, a Howard County inmate seems to be nTC winning at the dinner table -- he's getting an extra scoop of vegetables.Michael W. Britt, 31, took unsuccessful legal action against the Howard County Detention Center last month, alleging that the jail was violating his right to expression of religion by failing to provide him with vegetarian meals.Britt, awaiting trial on charges he stole an 84-year-old woman's purse and broke her arm in three places, is a Buddhist.Though Circuit Judge Lenore Gelfman dismissed his case because of technical flaws, she sent a letter to the jail director asking that Britt's culinary complaint be investigated.

The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has suspended four Coppin State women's basketball players after an altercation during Monday's loss at Norfolk State, Coppin announced yesterday.Liesha Mitchell, who leads the team in scoring (15.3 points per game), Simone Adams, the Eagles' top rebounder (10.2 rpg), Gloria Schley and Liani Adair all will miss tomorrow's game against Morgan State."It's unfortunate that it happened and unfortunate that it happened in a game that did not mean anything to us as far as our goals in the MEAC are concerned," said Coppin State coach Britt King, who will have only seven players in uniform tomorrow night.

Thomas "T. J." Hundley long ago stopped listening to his mother's advice - or "nagging" as he good-naturedly calls it. So when Rita Hundley said she'd found the perfect mate for her only unmarried child, T. J. easily ignored her pleas that he at least take the woman on a date.Peggy Radasky was a widow whose daughter, Britt, was enrolled in Rita Hundley's first-grade class in the fall of 1996. Radasky, with Britt and younger daughter, Bo, had moved back to this area from Colorado, after her husband was killed in a car accident in the spring of 1996.

An Anne Arundel County Circuit Court jury acquitted a Washington man yesterday of involvement in a 1992 execution-style attempted murder near Laurel.Jurors found James C. Britt, 23, not guilty of assault with intent to murder and of seven other charges in the shooting of Eric Brake. A motorist saw Brake collapsed on Brock Bridge Road on Dec. 1, 1992. He had been shot in the head.Brake is serving an 18-year sentence for convictions under the state's drug kingpin law.All of those involved in the case are in their early 20s and from Washington.

AS HE LAY ON his deathbed, J.S. Bach summed up his life's accomplishment in a few humble words: "I worked hard."The phrase could serve as epitaph for generations of dedicated church musicians who devoted their lives to realizing the biblical injunction, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord."And so it is that the spirit of the indefatigable old master has been re-created in Baltimore in the form of two remarkable church-sponsored musical events. The first is today'sopening concert of the Cathedral Concert Series' 30th-anniversary season, presented by the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on North Charles Street at 5: 30 this afternoon.

Earl S. Britt, 74, Baltimore school principalEarl S. Britt, a retired Baltimore elementary school principal with many interests, died Jan. 25 after bypass surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Windsor Hills resident was 74.Mr. Britt was in the city school system 35 years before retiring in 1980 from Cherry Hill Elementary School. Later, he became acting director of the system's high school equivalency testing program and taught General Educational Development classes.From the late 1940s until the 1960s, Mr. Britt also sold real estate.

Martina Olandrous Drummond Tyler, a former schoolteacher and seamstress and keeper of her family's history, died Monday in her sleep at Inns of Evergreen Northwest Nursing Home in Baltimore. She was 103."She was the oral historian of our family and focus of our family reunions, which she attended up until several years ago," said a great-nephew, William H. Britt of Baltimore, a retired city school principal.Her forebears "were slaves that came from Africa to the Eastern Shore of Virginia before the Revolutionary War and worked on the Finney Plantation near Onancock, where she grew up," Mr. Britt said.

Rebecca J. Britt, a retired biology teacher who wrote poetry and essays in her leisure time and was involved in the Roman Catholic Church of the Resurrection, died of breast cancer Tuesday at her Ellicott City residence. She was 69.Mrs. Britt, who moved to Baltimore in 1955 from South Carolina, taught at Seton Institute and the Samuel Ready School until her retirement in 1975.She enjoyed writing poetry, children's stories and reflective essays. Three of her books -- "On Eagles Wings," "Web of Lace" and "Dishpan Theology" -- were published during the 1990s.

On June 30, 2009, NATHANIEL BRITT Funeral Services will be held at 11:15 A.M. Thursday, July 9th at Howell Funeral Home, 10220 Guilford Rd, Jessup, MD. Interment Crownsville Veterans Cemetery.

The owners of a popular Columbia nightspot were fined $500 for serving alcohol to minors after a fight in the parking lot led police to two underage men who had been drinking inside before the altercation. The incident at 2 a.m. May 10 brought several officers to Nottingham's, in the 8800 block of Stanford Blvd., where they found a semiconscious man in the parking lot and three people in a silver Honda trying to drive away. The Honda driver sped in reverse at high speed after seeing the patrol car, hitting a curb, Officer Timothy Kane testified.

Richard J. Colonna, Memorial at St. Marks on the Hill, 1620 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, Wednesday, March 11, 2:30 P.M. Omit flowers. Donations to Grace Presbyterian, 1875 NW Britt Rd, Stuart, FL 34997.

On January 31, 2009, WILLIAM STEWART KOONS, SR., of New Windsor; beloved husband of the late Martha E. Hilleary Koons; devoted father of Patricia Dunphy, Finksburg; Susan Britt (Robert), North Wales, PA.; William S. Koons, Jr., Westminster; Kenny Kaye (Leah), Bel Air; grandfather of Martin Dunphy (Beth Anne), Lauren, heather and Sarah Britt, Kenny and Ryan Kaye; great-grandfather of Emma Ruth Dunphy, fiance of Lois Berlau, Dundalk. Funeral service 11 A.M TODAY at St. Luke's Lutheran Church, 701 Green Valley Road, New Windsor.

When the captivating Rev. C. Anthony Muse took the pulpit at the funeral of a fellow state senator last month, he repeated a phrase throughout his eulogy like a gospel choir singing a refrain: "Well done, Senator Britt, we'll take it from here." To many listeners in the pews that day, the phrase was a poignant way for Muse to pay tribute to the late Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt and her long history as an activist. But the gay and lesbian attendees, who were shifting in the pews to exchange knowing looks, hoped the phrase meant something more.

State Senate, governor honor Senator Britt With about 20 family members of the late Sen. Gwendolyn T. Britt in attendance, the Maryland Senate paid tribute yesterday to the Prince George's County lawmaker and civil rights activist, who died Saturday. Gov. Martin O'Malley told the overflowing chamber that Britt was "deeply loved throughout our state" and was "one of the strongest and classiest senators that ever walked these floors." The five-year Democratic state senator, who was jailed in 1961 for protesting segregationist Jim Crow laws in Mississippi, also campaigned for civil rights on behalf of ex-offenders and homosexuals.

Prince George's County senator and civil rights activist Gwendolyn T. Britt died early yesterday, shortly after being taken to Doctor's Community Hospital in Lanham, according to a spokeswoman for Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller. She was 66. She had not been feeling well and was absent from the General Assembly's session Friday, the spokeswoman said. The cause of death was not available. The five-year Democratic state senator was expected to introduce legislation this year that would legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland - and by agreeing to do so, she had become a "hero" to that community, wrote Dan Furmansky, executive director of Equality Maryland.

On May 4, 2006, LINDA E. BRITT (nee Ensey); beloved wife of Billie E. Britt Sr.; loving mother of Angie Thomas and her husband Bruce and Billy E. Britt, Jr. and his wife Angie; cherished grandmother of Christina Thomas, Bruce Thomas, Jr., Jennifer Frisnedi and Michael Kinsley; dear sister of Annie Nelson, Carol Hurst, Barbara Taylor, Johnny Ensey , Jr. and James Ensey. Also survived by many loving nieces, nephews, family members and friends. Relatives and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME OF LANSDOWNE, 2719 Hammonds Ferry Road, on Saturday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M., where funeral services will be held Sunday, 11:30 A.M. Interment to immediately follow services in the Meadowridge Memorial Park, Elkridge.

On May 26, 2005, THORA ILENE (nee Lane); beloved wife of the late Frank F. Faust; devoted mother of Frank Lane Faust and wife Page and Peter Charles Faust and wife Ellen; devoted sister of Alva Viste, Glenn Lane, Dean Lane and Forrest Lane; devoted grandmother of Patricia Lane Britt, Peter Charles Faust, IV, Laura Elizabeth Faust and Meredith Talley; devoted great-grandmother of Austin Neil Britt, Emily Alyse Britt, Amelia Talley. Friends may call at the Lassahn Funeral Home, Inc., 7401 Belair Road, on Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Services will be held at the Kenwood Presbyterian Church, on Tuesday at 11 A.M. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

On March 4, 2005, MARGARET ELLEN HARFORD BRITT, beloved wife of the late Franklin Clay Britt, Sr., devoted mother of Franklin C. Britt, Jr. and wife Jo Ann, Brenda Kay Gillingham and husband Gary. Also survived by four grandchildren, Laura Zorn, Kimberlee Coffee, Jennifer Yates, Andrea Britt and five great-grandchildren. Predeceased by her father Wilbert Harford, her mother Laura Christopher and stepfather Bryan Christopher. Services will be held at the family owned Mc Comas Funeral Home in Abingdon, MD on Monday, March 7, 2005 at 12:30 P.M. Interment will be in Parkwood Cemetery, Baltimore, MD. Friends may call at the funeral home in Abingdon on Sunday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M.