Denise

What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? I asked myself. The place was my cramped field office and the girl -- I'll call her Denise -- was a 19-year-old high school dropout from an upper-middle-class socio-economic background with a genius-level IQ and a heroin habit.Denise was the kind of probationer city agents might never see in their entire careers. She was a recent absconder from an out-of-state, in-patient recovery program, sporting a ring through her nose and orange hair, accompanied by her physician-father, a soft-spoken, frustrated man who knew that any parental control he once had over his daughter's life was now gone.

Two West Baltimore sisters, one of whom was seven months pregnant, were stabbed to death early yesterday and, in an unrelated incident several hours later, police found a third woman dead in a West Baltimore alley.Police learned of the double-homicide at 2:40 a.m. yesterday, when they went to a home in the 2200 block of West Fayette Street.They found Denise Sparrow, 27, and her sister, Yvonne Sparrow, 33, dead from multiple stab wounds. Police said Yvonne Sparrow was seven months pregnant and that her child died in her womb.

The Dundalk woman charged this week with child abuse in the death of her 3-year-old son was accused of endangering the boy in Ohio in 2001, resulting in him spending several months in foster care, the woman's stepdaughter said last night. Denise Marie Lechner, 25, of the 7800 block of St. Fabian Lane, was charged with child endangerment in August 2001, after Roy Lechner Jr., then 5 months old, was hospitalized with bruises on his face because he had stopped breathing, according to Teresa Harford, 32, of Canton, Ohio.

On October 13, 2006, SANDRA DENISE NEWBILL; loving wife of Mr. Stuart Newbill. On Wednesday, friends may call at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4905 York Road where the family will receive friends from 3-8 P.M. On Thursday services will be held at Loch Hill Ekklesia Church, 6601 Loch Raven Boulevard where the family will receive friends from 11-11:30 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500

Figures and glass -- Artists' Gallery in the American City Building, 10227 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, is showing Explorations: Figure Drawings by Pat Roberie and Stained Glass by Denise Tarbell through Dec. 1. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday; 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday and by appointment. 410-740-8249.

We've made it to the finale already; it seems like the season has gone quickly, but then again, if I have to hear Lisa say "I know what I have to do to win, but it goes against everything I believe in ... " I may stab myself in the ear with an ice pick. Unsurprisingly, she is my last choice to win. My order of preference is Malcolm, Denise, Mike, and then Lisa. And really, Malcolm and Denise are interchangeable. First off, we recap the entire season of 'Survivor Philippines,' but since I've already done that, I'm not going to do it again.

When George Khalid Jones enters the boxing ring tonight at Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie, most of the cheers will be for his opponent, local fan favorite Darnell Wilson. But Jones will have at least one enthusiastic fan in attendance, and Denise Scottland vows to scream loudest for the New Jersey light heavyweight. That's how she used to yell for her husband, Beethavean Scottland. "I'm going to be rooting for Khalid, just like I used to root for Bee," Denise Scottland said. "I'd say, `Come on, Bee. Come on, you can do it. Hit him with some one-twos.

The tears that used to stain 21-year-old Denise Firda's face are missing today, replaced by a shy smile that brightens at the mention of her job.Two years ago, the idea of getting a job would have seemed ludicrous for the severely handicapped students inside the tan brick walls of Marley Glen school in Glen Burnie.But Denise's limitations, due to autism, retardation, scoliosis, muscle spasms and illiteracy, didn't prevent her from landing a job in the laundry room at the Maryland Manor Convalescent Center, only a mile from the school.

There's the batting cage. An indoor and outdoor basketball court. A home gym complete with juice bar, a hot tub and pool. And don't miss the specially designed storage areas for sports equipment. It seems as if it's a home belonging to a professional athlete.In truth, Charles and Denise Franz built their 13,000-square-foot house in Catonsville with three amateur athletes in mind: their children, Charles Jr., 17; Sara, 13, and Alex, 9."On Saturdays in the fall it's not uncommon for us to have seven different basketball games [that the children are playing in]

One month and 24 days after he suffered a stroke in Indonesia, Dennis Storm, 57, a decorated Marine veteran and Bel Air resident, returned to the United States on Thursday. Storm was working as a contractor for a Singapore-based company and living in Jakarta when he was admitted to the Siloam Gleneagles Lippo Cikarang hospital for a stroke on Sept. 2. While receiving care, he contracted a fungal infection, pneumonia and bed sores. His family had been working with the U.S. Embassy and other government, military and private organizations to bring him home since September.