Caudill

OF COURSE Aaron Copland was the son of immigrants; that explains why his music was so American. Was it more classical or popular? The sound obliterates such categories; its love, gratitude, and sheer recognition of what lies all about us overflows all classifications except American. His is the music of discovery presented with calculation.This composer was in love with the simple things about America -- cowboy tunes, folk songs, Lincoln -- that are not so simple at all, any more than he was. He didn't just use American themes in his music but created them anew for future generations.

Harry M. Caudill, 68, a retired lawyer and state legislator whose 1963 expose of Appalachia's social and environmental problems, "Night Comes to the Cumberlands," helped inspire President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s, killed himself Thursday in Pikeville, Ky. Mr. Caudill taught Appalachian history for eight years at the University of Kentucky until 1985.

Sidney L. Roberts Jr. remembers the closeness he shared with his family, raising horses at their Monkton farm and traveling to horse shows throughout the state.After his parents, Sidney Roberts Sr. and Helen Roberts, divorced about a year ago, Roberts said his brother and two sisters maintained close ties to each other and both parents.Now, the family is struggling with grief after, police say, Helen Roberts shot and killed her former husband outside his Jarrettsville home last Sunday and then shot herself.

The county State's Attorney's office is continuing a review of a shooting incident last Sunday in which an Edgewood woman was killed when a shotgun was fired while two men struggled over it.No charges in the shooting have been filed.Kimberly D. Nichols, 21, was shot once in the chest at her apartment at Martin Manor Apartments on Carroll Avenue shortly after 9 p.m., said state police Sgt. B.J. Caudill.Nichols was taken to Fallston General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival, Caudill said.

BOWIE -- When drivers peer at the prices on the gasoline pumps at the Pleasant Hill Sunoco station on Reisterstown Road, they get angry. Now station owner Rick Caudill says he is getting angry back."