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Four men have been charged in the fatal shooting of a 35-year-old city man in Rosedale Jan. 1, Baltimore County police said yesterday. The suspects - all from Baltimore and ranging in age from 18 to 20 - have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. It remains unclear why William Gerome Sinkler, whose body was found in the 5400 block of Hamilton Ave., near Rosedale Shopping Center, was killed, police said. Being held without bail at the county detention center are Jawan Ivan Goode, 20, of the 700 block of Dr. Benjamin Quarles Place; Michael Edwin Johnson, 18, of the 1000 block of N. Kenwood Ave.; Dominic Tavon Bullock, 18, of the 500 block of N. Highland Ave.; and Korey Stevenson, 19, of the 900 block of N. Linwood Ave. Witnesses reported seeing a blue Lexus with temporary license plates leaving the scene immediately after the shooting.

Running Showalters, KidsPeace to host 5K/walk Sat. in Canton Orioles manager Buck Showalter and his wife, Angela , have teamed up with KidsPeace to host the third annual KidsPeace Trick-or-Trot 5K run/one-mile walk Saturday in Canton. The event is open to all ages and features Halloween activities in addition to the race. The entry fee for the run is $35, which includes an Under Armour T-shirt for the first 400 registered runners. Families who plan to do the mile walk will pay $20 and are encouraged to dress in their favorite Halloween costumes.

George L. Stanley always had an adventurous streak. In his mid-teens, he left home to join the merchant marine. As a young man, he saved his money to travel around the world. And as a married man, he often took exotic trips -- most without his wife.Flying was usually the last mode of transportation chosen by Mr. Stanley, 93, who died Saturday of heart failure at his Darley Avenue home in East Baltimore. Most of his excursions were by bus, train or boat.After he made a brief attempt at driving a car, relatives and friends decided he shouldn't be behind the wheel of an automobile.

Sister Mary Frances Cumberland, D.C.: In an obituary in yesterday's editions, the age of Sister Mary Frances Cumberland, D.C., former provincial secretary of the Daughters of Charity, should have been listed as 69.The Sun regrets the error.Jeanne Darley Riley, Western Electric employeeJeanne Darley Riley, who had worked in the accounting office of Western Electric Co. for about 30 years, died Sunday of cancer at her Dundalk home. She was 67.The former Jeanne Darley, a native of Baltimore who was raised in Dundalk, was a graduate of Sparrows Point High School.

Andrew Wells is hoping to buy a Baltimore home for around the cost of an old car: Less than $10,000. Turns out he's in good company. One of every 10 city homes sold during the first half of the year - about 275 in all - fell in that price range. Twice as many sold for under $20,000. Often foreclosures, these properties are usually in bad shape but seem like deals to real estate investors and the occasional hopeful owner-occupier - such as Wells. "I don't have to worry about trying to get a loan," said Wells, 40, a bill-processing technician who works in Annapolis.

Alonzo Smith was walking Thursday in the 1600 block of Darley Ave. when he spotted his 92-year-old neighbor Janie Frieson standing in her doorway. "You OK?" Smith asked. Frieson smiled and assured him she was fine, and Smith walked on to his Northeast Baltimore home a few doors down. The brief exchange captured a sense of community that residents say endures on the block of mostly well-kept - and inhabited - brick rowhouses in the Darley Park neighborhood, even as the wider area grapples with the highest homicide rate in all of Baltimore.

A man was fatally shot in the Darley Park neighborhood near Clifton Park, city police said Tuesday. Police found the man about 11:17 p.m. in the 1600 block of Darley Ave., in the police department's Eastern District, and he was taken to an area hospital, where he died. Investigators did not release additional details of the shooting or the victim's name. As of Tuesday morning, 128 people have been slain in Baltimore compared with 124 on this date last year.

A 13-year-old girl was found slain Sunday evening in the Darley Park neighborhood of northeast Baltimore, police reported. Family members confirmed the girl's identity as Monae Turnage, according to local newscasts. They had reported her missing early Sunday. The body was found about 6 p.m. in the backyard of a two-story, brick rowhouse in the 1600 block of Cliftview Ave., said Detective Donny Moses. Monae's aunt, Paulette Marshall, confirmed on newscasts that the girl's 16-year-old brother and neighborhood youths found the clothed body while looking through alleys.

In kindergarten, everyone in our class was given a coleus to take home. The leaves were velvety splats of moss green, cream and deep rose that looked like little botanical Rorshak tests. It turned out to be my initiation into gardening. Together, my mother and I planted it in the shade of the lilac where I inspected it every time I spit watermelon seeds over the porch rail. But while I applauded the plant's enthusiastic growth, I didn't like its looks. Moss green and rose weren't my colors.

Baltimore police have identified 18-year-old Ottus Maximum Savoy as a suspect in the shooting death Monday of a man near Clifton Park. Shortly after 11 p.m. police received a report of a shooting in the 1600 block of Darley Ave. Sean Eames, 24, had been shot several times in the torso and died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, police said. Homicide detectives have identified Savoy as the person responsible for Eames' death and are seeking the public's help in locating him, police said.