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Former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden has been buried in Los Angeles. Wooden, who led the Bruins to 10 NCAA championships, died June 4 of natural causes at 99. UCLA spokesman Marc Dellins confirmed that Wooden was laid to rest Friday afternoon after a private ceremony for family and invited guests at Forest Lawn's Old North Church in the Hollywood Hills. A public memorial is scheduled for June 26 at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. •The presidents of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State met with top Pac-10 officials as the two Big 12 schools weighed their options.

It looks like this heavily Democratic state's main publication is going to ignore the problems of this administration just like the White House is. What is on the front page of The Sun? is there any mention of Benghazi? The IRS and their illegal actions or the Associated Press being screened? Nothing! Oyster seeding, new technology for blocking cell phones in the prisons and the "sequester" causing the Blue Angels not to appear at the Naval Academy graduation make the front page. Any mention of the 3 biggest embarrassments to this administration?

Both the mother and father should be charged in the case of the one-month old boy who was found buried in Druid Hill Park ("Murder charge in baby's death," March 16). The father led the police to the grave. The baby had been there since some time in February. Department of Social Services had taken away four other children. Neither of them should be let off the hook. The father must have known something about what the mother had done. I don't understand how he could have gone nearly a month and not wondered where his son was. I think he knew what the mother had done.

Christine Jarrett had been there all along. From the night of Jan. 3, 1991, when the Elkridge woman purportedly left her family without saying goodbye, to the day years later when her husband filed divorce paperwork alleging abandonment, to the moment she was declared legally dead, prosecutors say the body of the mother of two was resting underneath the floorboards of a backyard shed. The discovery of her remains last April confirmed Christine's death and led to a murder charge filed against her husband, Robert Arnold Jarrett Jr., who had continued to reside at the home, raising their children with a new wife.

A 25-year-old Marine from Frederick who was mortally wounded in Afghanistan will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The Pentagon says Sgt. David Smith died Jan. 26 of wounds suffered Jan. 23 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He died at a military hospital in Landstuhl, Germany. A funeral service will be conducted Feb. 9 at 9 a.m. at the Frederick Christian Fellowship Church Complex. Burial at Arlington will start at 3 p.m. - Associated Press div.talkforum #creditfooter { display: none; }

Baltimore police were investigating the death of a baby found buried in a bag in Druid Hill Park. Anthony Guglielmi, the police department's chief spokesman, said officers were sent shortly before 8 p.m. to investigate a suspicious death in the 700 block of Druid Park Lake Drive. The infant's body was removed from a shallow hole and taken to the medical examiner's office for an autopsy, he said. Police said they were directed to the body's location by one of the baby's parents.

Imagine walking out to pick up the morning paper and discovering a gaping hole in your driveway. Or mowing your grass and having the wheel of your mower swallowed up by the earth. Or watching your children dodge a 10-foot pit as they play ball in the yard.A number of home owners in Carroll don't have to imagine any of these possibilities; they have experienced them. In the past four years, 52 of the 300 sinkholes reported to the county's Bureau of Water Resource Management were created by decaying construction debris that was buried by home builders.

Carroll County officials say they were surprised to learn two months ago that the state had declared in 1988 that it was illegal for builders to bury stumps and other construction debris at new house sites."

Police have located and are questioning the mother of an infant found buried in a bag in Druid Hill Park over the weekend, according to a source. The father of the 2-month-old boy told police that his son had been buried in the park by the baby's mother sometime in February, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the investigation. The father was able to tell police where and how deep the body was buried, and police located the body inside of a bag. Police were awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine an official cause of death.

If the earth hadn't collapsed under Wendell and Patricia Hart's driveway and under the pine trees along one side of their property, the couple might never have found out that Carroll County allows builders to bury construction debris on home sites.The Harts were lucky that no cars were in the driveway of their home near Winfield when the sinkhole opened and that neighborhood children didn't fall into the 12-foot-deep fissure at the side property line."If a pet or child had gone down into [the fissure]

The Maryland Senate has once again voted to cut the state's land conservation programs by $16 million. Not only are we disappointed by the lack of respect for this important, dedicated funding source, but these cuts are disproportionately targeted toward programs, including the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Fund (MALPF) and the Rural Legacy Program, which benefit the farming community. MALPF and Rural Legacy allow farmers to put conservation easements on large blocks of working land, thus protecting the natural, agricultural, forestry, and environmental resources within the area.

Through the first half of Tuesday night's game against visiting UMBC, No. 4 Loyola played like it was still reeling from Saturday's 12-10 loss to then-No. 3 Maryland. But the reigning national champion Greyhounds got back to their signature ways in the third quarter, using a 9-1 third quarter to turn an 8-6 lead at halftime into a 21-9 demolition at Ridley Athletic Complex in Baltimore. Loyola improved to 3-1 and - just as importantly - buried the memory of that disappointing setback to the Terps, who claimed the No. 1 ranking.

More than 100 people crowded into an intimate memorial service Saturday morning for Stephen Alex Rane, a senior at the University of Maryland, College Park who police say was killed Tuesday by his housemate. "We've witnessed a horrific tragedy this week," said the Rev. Jim Moyer, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church outside Philadelphia. During the 40-minute service, mourners made little other mention of the circumstances of Rane's death. Instead, family and friends took the solemn occasion to share thoughts about how, over his 22 years, the gregarious young man brought them joy, taught them life lessons and stood by them.

It appears that much of the skepticism with the Symphony Woods Inner Arbor plan, brought to light by Columbia resident Michael McCall and introduced by CA, is more about process and hurt feelings than the actual plan. Utilizing a theme creatively embracing the arts, the Inner Arbor plan is a big concept in a town where development is based on careful small steps often kept in check by a vocal minority. While issues may be within some facets of the new plan as currently envisioned, the largeness of the concept has created the conversation needed.  Much of that opinion however appears to be about the process, CA and prior plans instead of this plan's potential to help invigorate a downtown currently ill-defined by a large mall and a sleepy lakefront.  One has to wonder how this plan would be received if it were championed and submitted by another organization. Is much of the gnashing of teeth more to do with opinions of CA and the process?

John Carroll senior guard Rodney Elliott passed the buzzer-beating torch to sophomore Elijah Long against Archbishop Spalding on Monday, producing the same positive result that is fast becoming the norm for the Patriots. Coming out of a timeout with 18 seconds left and the scored tied, the visiting Cavaliers put extra attention on Elliott, who swiftly swung the ball over to the right side for Long to nail a 3-pointer as time expired to give No. 7 John Carroll a thrilling 53-50 win over No. 5 Spalding.

Snowfall records this week date back to the Blizzard of 1996, one of the more memorable storms in a generation for the Baltimore area and across the Northeast. Accumulation topped a foot and a half as far south as Calvert and St. Mary's counties, and topped 2 feet in Columbia, Owings Mills and points northwest. The records, set at BWI Marshall Airport: 15.8 inches Jan. 7, 6.7 inches Jan. 8 and 4.1 inches Jan. 9, contributing to a total of 32.6 inches for the month. As The Sun reported 17 years ago today: The Blizzard of 1996 struck states as far south as Kentucky and moved north to Philadelphia, Newark and New York.

ACRE, Israel -- The last mourners were saying goodbye to Shimon Zribi and his young daughter, Mazal, their shrouded bodies buried side by side in dirt the color of henna. A few feet away, down a rocky hillside, women were already sobbing over another dead man, Albert Ben-Abu. One funeral hadn't even ended when another began. Israel yesterday buried its dead, killed a day earlier in the Jewish state's single bloodiest day in more than three weeks of fighting. Five of the dead were residents of this northern coastal city who had emerged from bomb shelters, thinking the coast was clear, only to be cut down by Hezbollah rocket fire; the other three were Israeli Arab youths who had leapt from their car for safety, only to take the direct hit that left not a scratch on their vehicle.

FORT RILEY, Kan. -- The U.S. Army division that broke through Saddam Hussein's defensive front line used plows mounted on tanks and combat earthmovers to bury thousands of Iraqi soldiers -- some still alive and firing their weapons -- in more than 70 miles of trenches, according to U.S. Army officials.In the first two days of ground fighting in Operation Desert Storm, three brigades of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division, "The Big Red One," used the grisly innovation to destroy trenches and bunkers being defended by more than 8,000 Iraqi soldiers, according to division estimates.

Dan Rodricks had a great column ("Scary storms in the age of information," Oct. 30) and I could not agree more. When will we begin to have a serious discussion about making the proper investments in improving our infrastructure as it relates to how we receive our power in Maryland? Recent climatic events clearly point to the need for us to do something other than "kick the can down the road. " I agree with Mr. Rodricks when he points out that climate scientists observe, "we have sufficiently damaged the atmosphere in a way that will make such events more common and more deadly.

There's a simple solution to keep the power on: Make BGE hire 100 to 200 people - probably a lot less than they got rid of about 10 years ago - and start burying the lines ("The light goes on at BGE," Sept. 17). How much would that cost each customer, a buck or two a month? With the high unemployment it would help locals get decent paying jobs. Then when there is an outage, BGE would have these workers available to make repairs. They could be pulled from burying lines to fixing them.