NEWS
June 5, 1991
Dr. Maurice Rubenstein, 62, who practiced general dentistry in the Eastpoint area for many years, died of cancer Monday at the Mercy Medical Center.A funeral was to be today at the Levinson funeral establishment, 6010 Reisterstown Road.Dr. Rubenstein, who lived on Beech View Court in Towson, retired in 1988 after practicing in Baltimore and eastern Baltimore County.Born in Baltimore, he was a member of the Class of 1947 at City College. He served with the Army in Japan after World War II as a staff sergeant.
NEWS
By Alec MacGillis and Alec MacGillis,SUN STAFF | April 8, 2001
A 29-year-old woman was found dead in her Eastpoint home yesterday afternoon, the victim of an apparent homicide, Baltimore County police said. The victim, Melissa Taylor, was found in the upstairs hallway of her home in the 7600 block of Edsworth Road by a family member who had come to check on her, police said. The relative - neighbors said it was her mother - called police about 2:45 p.m. Police said Taylor suffered trauma to the upper body. According to neighbors, Taylor moved into the house about six weeks ago with her 5-year-old daughter, who had gone to spend the weekend with her father.
SPORTS
By Mark Hoeflich and Mark Hoeflich,CONTRIBUTING WRITER | May 24, 1996
The Baltimore area has become a familiar stop along the Duckpin Pro Bowlers Tour.In each of the past 20 years, Baltimore has been the host of an event over Memorial Day weekend, and this year the Tour makes its second of seven stops at Eastpoint Lanes beginning tomorrow.From here, the competition moves on to Connecticut in June but returns to Maryland in Severna Park and Suitland, before concluding in Hagerstown where the ultimate prize of $5,000 will be awarded.In the qualifying round tomorrow, as many as 140 bowlers from as far north as Lowell, Mass.
NEWS
By Glenn Small and Glenn Small,Evening Sun Staff | January 15, 1992
Leonard Charles Harris, the Eastpoint physician charged with the 1991 rapes of two White Marsh women, has now been charged with a similar attack on a Towson State University student in 1990.Towson State University police charged the 37-year-old doctor after they noticed similarities between the attacks with which Harris was charged by Baltimore County police and the assault on the student.Campus police Chief Stephen J. Murphy noted that the two White Marsh women, attacked in February and November, were assaulted in their homes during the day by a man with a handgun who wore gloves and red mesh material over his face.
NEWS
By From staff reports | October 22, 1997
A Circuit Court jury awarded $617,852 yesterday to a Baltimore woman who sued her plastic surgeon for injuries suffered after he performed breast reduction surgery on her.A jury of six women also determined that Dr. Denis Franks, a Baltimore physician, was negligent when he reduced Deborah Warehime's breasts at Maryland General Hospital on Nov. 10, 1988.Testimony before Judge Ellen M. Heller showed that Franks took three hours on a procedure that should have taken six hours and that Warehime, 39, required 11 follow-up operations as a result, said Jay D. Miller, Warehime's lawyer.
BUSINESS
By Michelle Singletary and Michelle Singletary,Evening Sun Staff | July 3, 1991
Entrepreneurs Robin and Arthur Barr were so close to becoming a local retail success story.The Baltimore County couple opened their first record store, Sound Waves, in May 1978 in Ocean City.Over the next 12 years, they added eight record stores in the Baltimore area. For nearly all those years they showed a profit, the Barrs say.Robin, 36, a former special education teacher, and Arthur, 39, a former wholesale record distributor, had realized the American dream of owning their own business.