Cherry Hill

The 19th-century laborers pooled their money and did what they could to build this biscuit box of a church along Offutt Road in the southwest corner of Baltimore County. Atop a stone foundation they put up four walls, eight windows, a peaked roof, three rows of pews, a pulpit for inspiration and a wood stove for warmth - and called the thing done. It can hardly have been much to look at when it was completed in 1887, and it surely isn't now. That there is a now at all is notable. It will be noted more widely if the Friends of the Cherry Hill African Union Methodist Protestant Church make good on their plans to turn it into a museum dedicated to local black history.

A little more than 12 hours after a stray bullet pierced a window frame, traveled through the back of a couch, a thick purple cushion and into her upper left chest, Shirley Foulks held court on the front porch of her Cherry Hill town house. "Praise the Lord," she shouted to a friend on the other end of her cell phone. "I'm fine, I'm blessed," she shouted to the driver of a red car who stopped to check up on her. "I was in my house, in my chair," she exclaimed to a police officer helping with the investigation.

Alleged police handcuffing incident under investigation City police are looking into whether a patrol sergeant handcuffed a homicide detective during a disagreement as they investigated a reported abduction. The incident is alleged to have occurred Friday night in the Northwest District after patrol officers secured a possible crime scene in the reported abduction of a female corrections officer, who was later located unharmed. Sources with knowledge of the incident say homicide detective Joshua Ellsworth arrived to assume control of the investigation.

Two men were killed and another was critically injured in three separate shootings over an eight-hour span in Baltimore, police said Monday. About 10:25 p.m. Sunday, an officer responded to a call for a shooting in the 600 block of Cherry Hill Road, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. Police found Charles Gregory Pratt, 18, of the 8700 block of Church Lane in Randallstown lying in the parking lot of the Cherry Hill shopping center. He had been shot several times, according to Monroe.

Man fatally shot in Cherry Hill fight A man died shortly after he was shot in the neck Saturday afternoon during a fight in the Cherry Hill neighborhood of South Baltimore, according to Baltimore police. Detectives are investigating why a group of men began fighting in the 2800 block of Winwood Court about 2:30 p.m., said Agent Donny Moses, a Baltimore police spokesman. The man's identity was not released. Liz F. Kay Pizza deliveryman shot in $15 holdup A Baltimore pizza deliveryman was shot during a robbery on a delivery run Friday night, police said.

On March 20, 2009, RUBY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS. On Friday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Williams will lie in state at First Baptist Church of Cherry Hill, 823 Cherry Hill Road, where the family will receive friends from 11 to 11:30 A.M with services to follow

Janice Elaine Brown, a Baltimore City public schools assistant principal, died of heart disease Wednesday at her Randallstown home. She was 58. Born Janice Elaine Singleton in Baltimore and raised in Cherry Hill, she attended Cherry Hill Elementary School and was a 1968 Edmondson High School graduate. She earned an education degree at what is now Morgan State University. She joined the city's Department of Education and taught at the Robert Poole and Fairmount Hill schools, as well as Northeast Middle School and Dunbar Middle schools.

As members of the Cherry Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church began learning yesterday of the overnight fire that destroyed their center of worship, the church's pastor vowed to hold regular services this Saturday and to work to rebuild. The Rev. T. DuWayne Privette was visiting family this week in Ohio when he got word about 4 a.m. yesterday that his church had burned to the ground. He booked a flight back to Baltimore yesterday afternoon and started dealing with the insurance company that covered the church property, in the 2800 block of Joplea Ave. in South Baltimore.

On October 25, 2008, DAVID E. JR., of Cherry Hill. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Thursday after 2 P.M., where funeral services will take place on Friday at 12 noon.

A woman who proved to be unarmed was shot by police in Cherry Hill yesterday morning after she refused to show her hands to an officer, police said. About 9:30 a.m., police received a call about an armed person selling drugs in the 1700 block of Cherry Hill Road, in an industrial area of South Baltimore near a bus stop and the Cherry Hill light rail stop, said Sterling Clifford, a police spokesman.