Cantrell

"I know I'm not a perfect singer," says Robert Cantrell. "Who wants a perfect singer? All the great ones had their flaws." The Georgia-born bass-baritone gives a little laugh as he says that, the laugh of someone who doesn't take himself too seriously. But Cantrell does take his art very seriously, as audiences will be reminded Sunday when the Baltimore resident will be a soloist in the Handel Choir of Baltimore's performance of the exquisite Requiem by Maurice Durufle. For the better part of two decades, Cantrell, 44, has been a frequent and much-admired contributor to the region's musical life.

BaseballAL: Named Indians OF Manny Ramirez Player of the Week.NL: Named Mets C Mike Piazza Player of the Week.Athletics: Activated C Mike Macfarlane. Optioned C A. J. Hinch to Triple-A Vancouver.Yankees: OF Shane Spencer was cleared to begin rehab program a week after doctors diagnosed an irregular heartbeat.BasketballMagic: Signed F Corey Maggette, first-round draft pick, to $3.71 million, three-year contract.WNBA: Named Utah F Natalie Williams Player of Week.Charlotte (WNBA): Named Dan Hughes interim head coach and Bob Bass GM.CollegeNCAA Championships/Competition Cabinet: net: Named Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson chairman of Division I men's basketball committee, effective Sept.

Timothy Cantrell of Glen Burnie chased a man who was trying to steal an armload of meatballs, ground beef, steaks and chicken wings from a freezer in his carport early Saturday, caught the man when he tripped on the driveway and held him for police.Cantrell, 50, of the 1100 block of Nottingham Drive was awakened about 4: 30 a.m. by his daughter, Marie Fields. She had heard a door opening and closing, peeped out the kitchen window and saw a man on the carport rooting through the freezer, police said.

Dissatisfied with her life and her investments, Nancy Cantrell consulted an Annapolis psychic in 1992.But instead of being "put in touch with her soul," Mrs. Cantrell told an Anne Arundel Circuit judge yesterday, she was persuaded to hand over $236,000 to an investment counselor who turned out to be a con artist and stole every penny.The Severna Park woman told Judge Eugene M. Lerner, who could decide the case today, that she came to trust Kathy Oddenino, the psychic or "channeler," she consulted March 3, 1992, after a referral from a New Age bookstore in Severna Park and two telephone interviews.

An Anne Arundel Circuit Court judge cleared an Annapolis psychic of civil charges of fraud and negligence yesterday and ruled it wasn't the psychic's fault that a client lost $236,000 after investing with a financial counselor she recommended.Judge Eugene M. Lerner ruled that Nancy Cantrell of Severna Park was responsible for losing her inheritance and that the release she signed before consulting Kathy Oddenino cleared the psychic of any liability.Mrs. Cantrell filed suit in Anne Arundel Circuit Court last year, alleging she lost her money after investing with a financial counselor Mrs. Oddenino recommended during a 1992, "channeling session" in the psychic's home on Lee Drive.

Eyes riveted and thumbs a popping, 7-year-old Brandon Cantrell hooted with excitement as he guided a video-game hero through a labyrinth of tunnels and alleyways. He was a master of the game, and knew it.Last Oct. 2, it appeared doubtful that a high-tech Christmas gift would mean anything to him.That day, while riding his bicycle, Brandon collided with another child and tumbled to the pavement. As was his custom, he wasn't wearing a helmet. The left side of his skull was the first thing to strike the asphalt, and he lapsed into a coma.

Alice in Chains is a Seattle band in every sense of the term.With their long hair, lax expressions and loose, well-worn clothes, these four have the look down cold. They also have the sound, a tunefully intense mixture of grunge guitar, slo-mo riffing, soaring vocals and sledgehammer drums.Most importantly, Alice in Chains also has the Seattle attitude. So even though the band has been complimentarily compared to fellow Northwest rockers as Soundgarden and Pearl Jam, and despite the fact that its new album, "Dirt," has been a fixture on the Top 20 since its release, no one in the group seems to put much stock in the "Seattle Sound" mystique.

Sheila Cantrell of Glen Burnie sold ceramic "suicide ducks" and smiling Frankensteins. George Olivero of Westminster displayed thrones and couches for cats. Penny Green rang up sales of cinnamon-coated mashed potato candy.Eighty-five vendors did their best yesterday to lure shoppers at the 11th Annual Reese Fall Bazaar at the Reese Firemen's Building. The craft show, which continues today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is sponsored by the Ladies' Auxiliary at the Reese and Community Fire Department.

Leonard E. Cantrell Jr. has resigned as president and chief executive officer of the Upper Chesapeake Health System, which operates Harford Memorial and Fallston General hospitals.The resignation, which took effect Nov. 27, was announced Dec. 1.A brief press release announcing the resignation said Mr. Cantrell's replacement would be named early next year.Allan Acton, Upper Chesapeake's vice president for marketing, declined to comment on the resignation.Frederick O. Mitchell, president of the board of directors of Upper Chesapeake, will be interim president.

A Navy lieutenant and his wife have charged that their 8-year-old son contracted the AIDS virus during a series of transfusions at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and that doctors failed to inform them of his condition for three years.In a suit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, the Virginia couple alleges that their son, then an infant, was infected with the virus, HIV, that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome during several transfusions in a cooperative arrangement between Walter Reed in Washington and the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda between 1983 and 1984.

On May 30, 2009, PERRY (BUCK), beloved husband of Juanita M. Cantrell (nee Atkins); dear father of LaVonna L. Lowery, Sondra K. Stubbs, Timothy R. Cantrell, Pamela L. Wasielevski and the late Tyrone P. Cantrell and Deborah A. Freyman. Also survived by four generations of grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned Gonce Funeral Services, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway, on Thursday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services on Friday at 12 noon. Interment in Glen Haven Memorial Park. Please omit flowers.

"I know I'm not a perfect singer," says Robert Cantrell. "Who wants a perfect singer? All the great ones had their flaws." The Georgia-born bass-baritone gives a little laugh as he says that, the laugh of someone who doesn't take himself too seriously. But Cantrell does take his art very seriously, as audiences will be reminded Sunday when the Baltimore resident will be a soloist in the Handel Choir of Baltimore's performance of the exquisite Requiem by Maurice Durufle. For the better part of two decades, Cantrell, 44, has been a frequent and much-admired contributor to the region's musical life.

River Hill's Garcia wins scholarship Leo Carelle Garcia, a senior at River Hill High School, is one of 20 students around the country to receive a Citigroup Academy of Finance Scholarship of $20,000, or $5,000 a year for four years, to be used for tuition, room, board and other educational expenses. In addition to receiving the award, Garcia will be paired with a Citigroup mentor and given a summer internship at one of Citigroup's subsidiary companies in the United States or abroad. As a student in the Academy of Finance, part of a national program of specialty classes, he has served as state president of DECA, a student organization focused on business and marketing.

On November 18, 2007 DEBORAH A. FREYMAN (nee Cantrell); beloved wife of the late John A. Freyman and devoted mother of Karey A. Foster and Pamela M. Boyko; loving daughter of Perry and Juanita Cantrell; dear sister of Timothy Cantrell, LaVonna Lowery, Pamela Wasielevski, Sonnie Stubbs and the late Tony Cantrell. Also survived by four grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned Kirkley-Ruddick Funeral Home, P.A., 421 Crain Highway, S.E., Glen Burnie on Tuesday from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. Services will be held on Wed. at 10:00 A.M. Interment in Glen Haven Memorial Park.

On a night when the main card of EliteXC: Renegade held much promise with a number of intriguing matchups, only one out of the five main-card fights went beyond the first round. A doctor ended two fights. The lone title fight left fans with an empty feeling inside. And we still don't know anything more about Kimbo Slice's mixed martial arts skills. His fight ended after 19 seconds as Bo Cantrell tapped out in anticipation of the onslaught he was about to receive after Slice caught him with a punch and an elbow to the face that floored him. One thing I've noticed in Slice's training video is that he really does work on his elbows, and he used his lone elbow standing up fairly effectively.

Rockin' homecoming The lowdown -- After spending weeks on the road crisscrossing the country, local rock outfit J-Roddy Walston and the Business comes back to Baltimore tomorrow for a gig at the Ottobar. Want some raw and dirty rock 'n' roll? Go see these guys live. Their debut album, Hail Mega Boys, came out earlier this year. If you go -- Doors open at 9 p.m. and the music starts at 10 p.m. The venue is at 2549 N. Howard St. For more information, call 410-662-0069 or go to the ottobar.

A tanker truck filled with 3,000 gallons of home heating oil crashed into a waterfront Pasadena house yesterday morning, flipping over and spilling hundreds of gallons of oil onto the ground. The driver, David Woodson, 49, of Glen Burnie, pulled himself out of the cab after the crash, neighbors said. He was treated and released from Baltimore Washington Medical Center, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. The house - a three-bedroom, two-bath home up for sale and listed at $819,090, according to Remax Gold - was empty at the time.

The first time he watched Cantrell Fletcher on tape, Towson University men's basketball coach Pat Kennedy liked Fletcher's fire and hustle and smarts with the ball. Kennedy also saw an ideal way to plug the team's most glaring hole. So one of the first things he did after signing with Towson last spring was convince the well-traveled junior college star point guard to commit to the Tigers. The 3-6 Tigers, looking for their first winning season in nine years, remain a work in progress.

On December 4, 2004, NELLIE MULLINS, 89, (nee Cantrell); dear wife of the late Curtis D. Mullins; loving mother of Jospeh C. and Robert L. Mullins, Ina Kelly, Patricia Allred and Peggy Govel; dear sister of Delmar Cantrell; cherished grandmother of 17 grandchildren, 30 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends at FINK FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 426 Crain Highway, S. (at 5th Ave), on Monday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P. M , where funeral services will be held on Tuesday at 11 A.M. Interment Glen Haven Memorial Park.

On November 20, 2004 MOLLY LCANTRELL (nee Dye); beloved wife of the late Clifford O. Cantrell Sr.; devoted mother of Nancy L. Reiff and her husband Ron and Clifford O. Cantrell Jr.; dear sister of Lloyd Dye and his wife Pat; dear grandmother of Clifford III, Amanda, Brandon and R.J.; great-grandmother of Sofia. Also survived by several nieces and nephews. A Graveside Service will be held at Lakeview Memorial Park, (Sykesville) on Wednesday, at 1 P.M. Inquiries may be directed to LILLY AND ZEILER INC., FUNERAL HOME, 410-327-1442.