NEWS
November 19, 2007
Patrols at Towson U. ramp up amid threat University police are stepping up campus police patrols this week after an anonymous threat indicated something would happen today at Linthicum Hall, a spokeswoman said yesterday. Police are investigating the threat, received Friday, involving the liberal arts classroom building near the center of campus, said Carol Vellucci, assistant for communications to University President Robert L. Caret. Although the threat "did not seem to have a high level of credibility," Vellucci said, officials sent an e-mail and text message to students and posted a notice on the university Web site.
NEWS
July 25, 2007
On July 23, 2007, LILLIE MAE EVERETT, of Parkville (local artist and winner of numerous blue ribbons for her artwork) beloved wife of John Edward Everett; loving mother of Rodney Gordon Everett, Sr., and wife Margy; dear sister of Norman L. Brandt and wife Shirley, Ernest P. "Buddy" Brandt, Jr., and Bertha "Pat" Hupfeld; cherished grandmother of Jacqueline, Nicole, John and Rodney Jr.; great-grandmother of five great-grandchildren. Family and friends will honor Lillie's life at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services-Parkville, 8800 Harford Road on Thursday, July 26, 2007 from 12-2 P.M., at which time a funeral service will begin.
BUSINESS
By Robert Little | May 18, 1999
Joan Everett had seen horse No. 86 run, so she knew he was fast. She'd seen X-rays and a veterinarian's report, so she knew he was healthy. She'd seen his family tree and knew his stock -- brother to 109 winning racehorses, with a Kentucky Derby winner as a great-grandfather.But Everett couldn't quite explain what made her decide that this particular 2-year-old colt with no racing experience was worth $41,000."He looked like a racehorse," said Everett, who, as of yesterday at 1 p.m., owned 18 horses.
NEWS
By Sally Voris | November 15, 1999
ON WEDNESDAY, THE first day after the fire, people gathered in disbelief at the corner of Old Columbia Pike and Main Street in Ellicott City. Then they pulled together to begin restoring their lives.10 a.m.People clustered in small groups in a tiny park outside the cordoned-off area.A police officer asked whether there were shop owners in the group and escorted them -- a few at a time -- to their burned buildings at the bottom of the hill.Carole and Bill Sachs, owners of Spring House Design, sat on a bench and answered questions from reporters about the damage to their store.
BUSINESS
By Kristine Henry | July 24, 1999
A year and a half after demoting its Baltimore office from a co-headquarters to a division, Doner advertising agency said yesterday that the head of its office here is being transferred to the home office in Detroit.Tony Everett will move to Detroit near the end of the year but will remain president of Doner Direct, the firm's locally based direct-advertising arm. The office, which has 140 employees, handles direct-response television and print ads -- those that prompt consumers to call a toll-free number or log onto a Web site to find out more about a product -- and direct mail.
NEWS
June 22, 1999
Francine Everett,a singer, dancer and actress who was one of the stars of the all-black-cast "race" movies of the 1930s and 1940s, died May 27 at a nursing home in the Bronx.Ms. Everett gave her birth year as 1920. By 1933, she was appearing with the Four Black Cats, a nightclub variety act. Shortly thereafter, she began acting with the Federal Theater in Harlem, which was sponsored by the Works Progress Administration.William Greaves, the former actor and award-winning filmmaker and producer, said Ms. Everett "was a true legend of black film and theater, one of the top stars of the '40s race movies."
NEWS
By GREGORY KANE | June 6, 1999
AT 8 P.M. APRIL 8, Condell Woodson dressed in black and left his mother's Orange, N.J., home to head out for a robbery spree. Toting a 9 mm TEC-DC9 handgun, he stuck up two men 10 minutes later.Heading north and then east, Woodson robbed three more men. He continued his northerly direction and hit two more guys. By this time several of the victims had called police. Joyce Carnegie, a patrolwoman for the Orange Police Department, had a description of the suspect and stopped Woodson shortly after 8: 30 p.m. Woodson shot her twice, killing her.Within mere blocks of the shooting, Terrance Everett and his wife, Ebony, were in a Wendy's restaurant, where they had arrived about 8: 20 p.m. The manager remembered Ebony Everett's "long, thick hair."
NEWS
August 22, 1998
Jackie McClure, 41, who as a dying mother who turned to a daytime TV talk show to find parents willing to adopt her two young daughters, died in Cleveland on Monday night of AIDS and cervical cancer.Ms. McClure appeared on the "Sally Jessy Raphael" show March 24 to ask for help finding adoptive parents for her daughters Tamika, 7, and Latasha, 8. She had no other surviving relatives, and her daughters' fathers were dead.Ronald and Katonya Everett of Waynesboro, Miss., who are unable to have children, drove 16 hours to Cleveland to meet the girls.
NEWS
January 7, 1998
Virginia Durish, 86, police receptionistVirginia Durish, a longtime receptionist at Baltimore County -- police headquarters in Towson, died of heart failure Monday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 86.A 48-year resident of Phoenix, Ms. Durish retired from the Police Department in the mid-1970s.Born Virginia Grace Martin in North Carolina, Ms. Durish spent her childhood between Georgia and Florida as her father shuttled between colleges in those states teaching music.She nurtured a lifelong love of music, sang with big bands during the World War II era and played the piano.
BUSINESS
By Mark Guidera | February 18, 1998
W. B. Doner & Co., the international advertising agency with offices in Baltimore, fired 24 of its 175 local employees yesterday as part of a restructuring effort.The layoffs came without warning. Positions eliminated ranged from senior copy writers to account executives.Tony Everett, general manager of Doner's Baltimore operation and president of Doner Direct, a direct-mail subsidiary, said the layoffs were the result of a decision to focus the Baltimore group on a niche of the advertising business called "brand response advertising."