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As Georgine Edgerton rode down Clifton Avenue in West Baltimore last week, she couldn't help reminiscing about how Walbrook Senior High first defined and then transformed the neighborhood she has called home for more than 30 years.It seems like just yesterday that the disparate Mount Holly, Windsor Hills, Fairmount Park and Woodhaven communities found themselves in an unlikely partnership supporting the school's creation, she says. From there, the alliance went on to help build affordable housing developments, condos and almost every community marker that stands in what is known as Greater Walbrook, including Cahill Recreation Center and Walbrook Junction shopping center.

As Georgine Edgerton rode down Clifton Avenue in West Baltimore last week, she couldn't help reminiscing about how Walbrook Senior High first defined and then transformed the neighborhood she has called home for more than 30 years.It seems like just yesterday that the disparate Mount Holly, Windsor Hills, Fairmount Park and Woodhaven communities found themselves in an unlikely partnership supporting the school's creation, she says. From there, the alliance went on to help build affordable housing developments, condos and almost every community marker that stands in what is known as Greater Walbrook, including Cahill Recreation Center and Walbrook Junction shopping center.

Her fight to make Walbrook Junction a healthy place for children has gripped Georgine Edgerton so long that she was elevated last year to the Baltimore Women's Hall of Fame.But even at 71, this is no time to quit.Edgerton is now talking up the Light Street Housing Corp., a private, nonprofit provider of affordable housing, to her neighbors in West Baltimore. The agency wants to build an anti-drug center to replace two abandoned houses that have drawn the homeless, addicts, prostitutes, arsonists, rats and neighbors' scorn.

Baltimore homicide Detective David John Brown saw a snea preview of "Homicide" last month, and he liked it -- but it may not be for everybody, he readily admits."

MCI wins contract for network servicesWashington-based MCI Corp. has won a five-year contract worth more than $200 million to provide network services to CoREN, a new, coast-to-coast consortium of eight regional data networks that make up the heart of the Internet.The agreement, announced last week, means that the regional networks will be able to migrate easily to advanced offerings such as switched digital services or asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), according to Jerry Edgerton, MCI's vice president of government systems.

Baltimore prosecutors have dismissed charges against a drug dealer who was accused eight years ago of shooting and paralyzing a West Baltimore girl who died earlier this year.Assault charges against Aaron Wayne Harper were dropped at a recent Circuit Court hearing after Timothy V. Doory, chief of the violent crimes unit of the state's attorney's office, decided that the evidence remaining from the 1983 shooting of Michelle Bennett was insufficient to seek indictment."Too much time had passed," Mr. Doory said, explaining his decision to end a case in which bureaucratic mishaps brought no justice in the shooting of Ms. Bennett, who was 16 when she was wounded.

Baltimore prosecutors have dismissed charges against a drug dealer who was accused of shooting and paralyzing a West Baltimore girl eight years ago but was never arrested until the victim died of her wounds earlier this year.Assault charges against Aaron Wayne Harper were dropped at a recent Circuit Court hearing after Timothy V. Doory, chief of the violent crimes unit of the state's attorney's office, decided that the evidence remaining from the 1983 shooting of Michelle Bennett was insufficient to seek indictment.

Police say a 24-year-old man, who was wearing a bulletproof vest and was slain in his front yard in a shootout that featured semiautomatic weapons, may have been expecting trouble.Sheldan E. Simon, of the first block of N. Kossuth St., was killed early yesterday in the shootout during which he and his assailants exchanged at least 70 shots, police said."Shortly before he was shot to death while returning fire from behind a bush in his front yard," homicide detective Harry Edgerton said last night, "Simon was sitting in his front room with a friend and had the vest on even then."

Police today were seeking at least two gunmen who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy and critically wounded a man as they sat on the front steps of an apartment building on Fulton Avenue, police said.Homicide Detective Harry Edgerton said the shootings may be drug-related because police found several vials of suspected cocaine in the building's hallway immediately behind the victims.Dead on arrival at University of Maryland Medical Center was DaShawn Powell, of the 1700 block of St. Paul St., Edgerton said.

Gov. William Donald Schaefer gritted his teeth, forced a smile and said he'd be happy with 62 percent of the vote in Maryland."I'm very satisfied," he told reporters. "I really am satisfied. I' not a bit angry. I am satisfied. If we'd gotten less than 60 I'd hav been a little bit disturbed. But getting 62 -- OK."He sounded like a schoolboy who expected an A-plus in civics and found himself with a D-minus.As it turned out, by his standard, he barely escaped an F: He ended up with just 60 percent of the vote; he lost 12 counties.

On July 30, 2009; beloved husband of Yong P. Edgerton; devoted father of Raymond P. Edgerton and Karen Guss; father-in-law of Guihua Edgerton and Joseph Guss; dear grandfather of Dylan Mitchele Guss; great uncle of Sharon Roden; great-great uncle of Kenny Allen and Tony Moore. Memorial services will be held at the Korean Presbyterian Church of Baltimore, 1600 W. Seminary Avenue, Lutherville, MD, 21093 on Saturday, August 1, 8 P.M. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Johns Hopkins University Alzheimer's Research Center.

The thousands of fans who filed into Morgan State University's auditorium for Khia Edgerton's funeral yesterday could recite her accomplishments: recording artist, radio personality, leader of an underground music movement. But during the two-hour music-filled ceremony, those fans learned how Edgerton rose from spinning records in her family's Randallstown basement to become "K-Swift," leader of Baltimore's club music scene. The story is a by-the-book lesson on the value of hard work. "She's didn't talk about building an entertainment empire - she just did it," said Marc Clarke, of radio station 92Q, where Edgerton was the first female DJ. "She didn't talk about losing 170 pounds.

It was a day of music and mourning. Yesterday, downtrodden callers and DJs on hip-hop station 92Q shared heartfelt memories of their late colleague Khia Edgerton, better known as K-Swift. Edgerton, 29, died early Monday morning of neck injuries after jumping into an above-ground pool at her home, the state medical examiner's office said yesterday. Dubbed the "Club Queen," Edgerton trumpeted the Baltimore club scene on the air and in dance halls up and down the East Coast. She introduced a younger audience to the fast beats and dirty vocal tracks of Baltimore club music - one of the city's signature sounds.

Khia Edgerton, a pioneering DJ who as "K-Swift" became one of Baltimore's top radio personalties and a major player in the local music scene, died early yesterday morning after a pool accident at her home. She was 29. Through her popular radio show, which attracted thousands of listeners each night, and frequent live performances, Ms. Edgerton helped reinvigorate and reintroduce the aging genre of Baltimore Club music to a younger generation of listeners. For local artists, a spin on K-Swift's 92Q radio show meant instant recognition.

Blast tonight Matchup: Cleveland Force (3-2) vs. Blast (3-3) Site: 1st Mariner Arena Time: 7:35 Radio: WCBM (680 AM) Outlook: The Blast will seek its first Eastern Division win tonight, having lost twice to the division-leading Philadelphia KiXX. The Force, now in second place, was tied for the division lead until last weekend, when it lost to Philadelphia, 7-4. The Blast comes in to this game off Saturday's 8-4 victory over the Monterrey Fury. In that game, Carlos Farias, 27, demonstrated his playmaking skills with four assists, good for the Major Indoor Soccer League's Offensive Player of the Week award.

Joseph W. Gattuso Sr., 74, salesman, engineer Joseph William Gattuso Sr., a retired Eastern Stainless Steel salesman and production engineer and a former Cockeysville resident, died Thursday of multiple strokes at Edgerton Memorial Community Hospital in Edgerton, Wis. He was 74. Born in Baltimore, he lived in Little Italy with his four siblings as a child. Because his father, Joseph Gattuso, died when he was an infant, Mr. Gattuso left school at age 12 to work at area markets to help support his family.

As Georgine Edgerton rode down Clifton Avenue in West Baltimore last week, she couldn't help reminiscing about how Walbrook Senior High first defined and then transformed the neighborhood she has called home for more than 30 years.It seems like just yesterday that the disparate Mount Holly, Windsor Hills, Fairmount Park and Woodhaven communities found themselves in an unlikely partnership supporting the school's creation, she says. From there, the alliance went on to help build affordable housing developments, condos and almost every community marker that stands in what is known as Greater Walbrook, including Cahill Recreation Center and Walbrook Junction shopping center.

As Georgine Edgerton rode down Clifton Avenue in West Baltimore last week, she couldn't help reminiscing about how Walbrook Senior High first defined and then transformed the neighborhood she has called home for more than 30 years.It seems like just yesterday that the disparate Mount Holly, Windsor Hills, Fairmount Park and Woodhaven communities found themselves in an unlikely partnership supporting the school's creation, she says. From there, the alliance went on to help build affordable housing developments, condos and almost every community marker that stands in what is known as Greater Walbrook, including Cahill Recreation Center and Walbrook Junction shopping center.

Her fight to make Walbrook Junction a healthy place for children has gripped Georgine Edgerton so long that she was elevated last year to the Baltimore Women's Hall of Fame.But even at 71, this is no time to quit.Edgerton is now talking up the Light Street Housing Corp., a private, nonprofit provider of affordable housing, to her neighbors in West Baltimore. The agency wants to build an anti-drug center to replace two abandoned houses that have drawn the homeless, addicts, prostitutes, arsonists, rats and neighbors' scorn.

MCI wins contract for network servicesWashington-based MCI Corp. has won a five-year contract worth more than $200 million to provide network services to CoREN, a new, coast-to-coast consortium of eight regional data networks that make up the heart of the Internet.The agreement, announced last week, means that the regional networks will be able to migrate easily to advanced offerings such as switched digital services or asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), according to Jerry Edgerton, MCI's vice president of government systems.