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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.

No one would blame the Loyola players for being a little melancholy in the aftermath of Saturday's 10-9 overtime loss to Johns Hopkins - a setback that was the first blemish for the top-ranked Greyhounds (12-1). But the common theme struck by the three players made available to the media after Saturday's outcome was a desire to get back to work, which begins Monday as the team prepares to meet No. 16 Denver in Wednesday's semifinal round of the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament.

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; }

Davey Johnson hadn't owned a home in more than a decade. But soon after being hired by the Orioles in 1995, he defied baseball managers' conventional logic by buying - rather than renting - a ranch house on the north side of Loch Raven Reservoir. It was the sort of decision he would never make in a game - allowing his heart to triumph over his head - but Johnson was as smitten with the Orioles franchise from his playing days as he was with the Baltimore County property, which had a pool, a stream and plenty of rustic charm.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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]

Robert Jarrett shuffled over to the red plastic chair and sat down, then used both of his shackled hands to slide on a pair of glasses. It was the 57-year-old's first court appearance after his arrest Wednesday night on charges that he killed his wife, Christine Ann Jarrett, who had gone missing more than 20 years ago. Little insight into the case was offered at the brief hearing Friday in Howard County District Court. Jarrett, who said he works as a steamfitter, did not have an attorney, and a prosecutor asked only that Judge Pamila J. Brown reaffirm his no-bail status, saying the severity of the charges makes him a flight risk.

No. 17 Washington doesn't have much time to sit and bemoan Saturday's 13-11 loss to No. 13 and Centennial Conference rival Gettysburg as another league foe in Swarthmore will visit Roy E. Kirby Jr. Field in Chestertown Wednesday night and then the Shoreman will travel to meet Salisbury in another installment of their War on the Shore series. Even so, coach Jeff Shirk said the players are taking the setback in stride. “We talked to them a little bit [Sunday], and I think it was a little bit of disappointment because we felt like we really let one slip away,” Shirk said Monday.

Maj. Robert J. Marchanti II, 48, was buried Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery. Marchanti, a 25-year member of the Maryland National Guard, was one of two officers killed last month in Afghanistan. Violence erupted in Kabul, where Marchanti was stationed, when it was revealed that copies of the Quran had been burned at a NATO base in Bagram. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the deaths were punishment for burning the Muslim holy book. Gov. Martin O'Malley ordered U.S. and Maryland flags flown at half-staff Tuesday in Marchanti's memory.

Sunday night's installment of "The Walking Dead"  on AMC had it all: zombie deaths, human deaths, a car wreck, new characters, a working bar, heated arguments and - to cap it all off - a song by Maryland-based blues -metal band Clutch . The pace has slowed down a little bit compared to the last ten minutes of the midseason finale on Nov. 27, when a bunch of zombies spilled out of the barn and got blasted away in a maelstrom of...

Mourners of Airman 1st Class Matthew Ryan Seidler said the Westminster man had followed his dream of serving his country, found a band of brothers in the Air Force and died protecting his fellow soldiers in Afghanistan. "When we talked to him New Year's Day, it was the happiest that he had ever been in his life," his father, Marc Seidler, told the more than 500 mourners who filled the Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral home Tuesday in Pikesville. "He loved the Air Force. " Matthew Seidler, an explosive ordnance disposal apprentice, was killed Jan. 5 by a bomb in Helmand province.

In the Dec. 12 edition of The Sun, you devote 30 percent of the front page to the Ravens' defeat of the 0-13 Colts. Perhaps one-tenth of the next inside page, at the very bottom, is devoted to Habitat For Humanity's recent notable achievement in West Baltimore ("Habitat for Humanity rehabs 300 t h home in Sandtown"). Twenty years of effort in one of Baltimore's most challenging areas garners a couple hundred words and no picture. Habitat for Humanity (an organization with which I have no affiliation whatsoever)

Ruling that the problems of the living should not disturb the dead, a Howard County Circuit judge yesterday refused to allow Evelyn Shew to dig up her husband's body from his mother's cemetery plot and move it to one Shew owns.Judge James B. Dudley said Shew had not shown a pressing reason to move her husband, Harry, who has been buried for nearly five years at Elkridge's Meadowridge Memorial Park in a plot owned by Marie DeFlavis, his mother."If you buried [Harry Shew] in your back yard, you wouldn't speak to each other," Dudley said of the conflicts between Shew and DeFlavis, who sat at opposite sides of the courtroom.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A black man was buried yesterday in Johannesburg's all-white municipal cemetery, striking a blow in death for the cause of desegregation he had supported in life.David Tshoga, 26, who died two weeks ago when police fired on demonstrators at an open-housing march, became the first black to be buried in West Park Cemetery.He was a member of an open-housing organization that campaigns for an end to the Group Areas Act, which segregates residential areas in South Africa.

People are angry over the slow pace of restoring power following Hurricane Irene and the snow storms last winter. But BGE employees worked 130-hour weeks, and I'm sure the phone company was just as busy. People were brought in from 12 other states to restore power to folks who obviously didn't know bad weather was on the way, and had not stocked up on pet food, prescriptions, lamp oil and other essentials. Some have since suggested that power lines be buried underground to avoid future problems.

Members of one of the smallest and oldest African-American churches in Carroll County are leaving the United Methodist Conference and are gearing up to try to retain the church and its property, largely a cemetery where many have ancestors buried. Congregants of White Rock Church in Sykesville, founded by freed slaves in the 1860s, said Sunday that they felt neglected by the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church and feared their church would be ordered to close or merge with another because of its demographic: a tiny congregation with a largely graying membership.