Daughter

Some dads play peek-a-boo with their kids. Some play catch. Dave Engledow stages photo shoots. Engledow, a Texas native now living in the Maryland suburbs of D.C., is the creative force behind a series of " World's Best Father " photos. The images depict Engledow with his daughter, 2-year-old Alice Bee, in a variety of hilarious - and unlikely - circumstances. In one New Year's-themed shot, Alice Bee and her dad pour champagne into side-by-side towers (Dave pours into champagne coupes; Alice Bee into plastic baby bottles)

Doreatha C. Jordan, a retired Morgan State University student center director, died of a pulmonary embolism April 13 at Sinai Hospital. The Northwood resident was 89. Born Doreatha Cecelia Diggs in New Rochelle, N.Y., she was the daughter of Leroy and Nellie Diggs. She moved to Baltimore and was a 1942 graduate of Frederick Douglass High School. She attended Coppin State College. In 1946, she married the Rev. Basha Jordan, a United Methodist pastor. She moved with him to assignments in West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland.

Margel L. Burton, a retired factory worker and former longtime Dundalk resident, died March 29 from complications of pneumonia at Carolina Point Nursing Home in Durham, N.C. She was 81. The daughter of farmers, the former Margel Love Gray was born and raised in Gore, W.Va., where she graduated from high school. In 1949, she married Orlif Burton and moved to Baltimore. They later settled in North Point Village, where they lived for many years. Mr. Burton, who was a shipping manager for Glidden Corp., died in 1982.

A 23-year-old Rosedale man has been charged with trying to kill another man and the man's 4-year-old daughter after arranging a meeting at a nearby street corner and then opening fire, Baltimore County Police announced Friday. Rasean Dominick Penix arranged the Monday night meeting with a Baltimore man, also 23, by phone prior to the victim and his daughter arriving at the intersection of Old Home and Meadow roads about 8:30 p.m., in the vehicle being driven by another person, police said.

Editor: What's in a name? I often ask people if they know why their parents chose the name they were given. Sometimes the answer is no, and I suggest the person ask their parents for an answer. I don't know why my parents chose my name, however, I found out that there are 16 others with the same first and last name that I have. I jokingly tell others I can do anything I want to and God won't know if I or one of the other 16 people did it. I was told God doesn't use names; God uses finger prints!

A German native who consorted for years with New England's social elite by pretending to be a Rockefeller was convicted Wednesday in Los Angeles of first-degree murder, capping a nearly three-decade-old mystery involving a missing couple and a body buried in a Southern California backyard. Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, 52, was accused of bludgeoning his landlady's adult son with a blunt object, then digging a 3-foot-deep grave in the backyard of the victim's home in San Marino. The body was buried behind a guest house where Gerhartsreiter had been living.

A 23-year-old man and his 4-year-old daughter were shot while sitting in a vehicle in Rosedale on Monday night, according to Baltimore County Police. Both sustained non-life-threatening injuries, and were driven to Franklin Square Hospital by a family member, police said. The hospital notified police about 8:17 p.m., and officers were told the shooting occurred near the intersection of Old Home and Meadow roads, police said. A third person, the driver, was also in the vehicle at the time of the shooting but was unharmed, police said.

Tara and Steve Sams of Bel Air announce the birth of their daughter, Whitney Ann Sams, on Jan. 27 at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center. Grandparents are Doss and Marilyn Sams of Street and John and Linda Downing of West Chester, Pa.

This is prettay, prettay, prettay cool. Larry David, the creator/star of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and, of course, a co-creator/writer of "Seinfeld," was apparently seen on the University of Maryland-College Park campus on Tuesday, escorting one of his daughters on a campus tour, according to UMD's student newspaper, The Diamondback.  The Diamondback reports that college officials wouldn't comment on the alleged sightings, but David is...

Orioles left-hander Mark Hendrickson returned to camp on Saturday after joining his wife, Cortney , for the birth of the couple's third child back home in York, Pa. Hendrickson missed the child's birth -- he was standing in the line at the airport for a 6 a.m. flight on Wednesday while his wife was in labor, video chatting with her she was in the delivery room -- but was in the air when the baby, which they named Sophia Joy , was delivered....