Fought

On April 6, 2004 DELORES MAE FOUGHT (nee Keller) of Elkridge, beloved wife of Daniel Clay Fought; loving daughter of Mildred Smith Keller of Hughesville, PA, loving mother of Tyrus Fought of Ferndale, MD and Jacob Fought of Elkridge, MD; dear sister of Bill Keller of Muncy, PA and Elaine Tule of Victorville, CA. A Memorial service will be held at the GARY L. KAUFMAN FUNERAL HOME AT MEADOWRIDGE MEMORIAL PARK, INC., 7250 Washington Blvd (exit 6 off Route...

A bill meant to boost recycling of drink cans and bottles by charging a nickel deposit on them died in the House Environmental Matters Committee Monday. The measure, HB1085 , sponsored by the committee's chairwoman, Del. Maggie McIntosh, a Baltimore city Democrat, had the backing of environmental groups, who noted that states with similar container deposit laws had much higher recycling rates than those without. McIntosh touted the bill as a new, improved version of the bottle deposit legislation that was repeatedly pushed - and defeated - years ago in Annapolis.

A Pasadena woman fought off a man who reached through her car window and tried to try to snatch her purse, county police said.Gail M. Sheehan, 29, told police she was leaving the Dollar Store in the Sun Valley Shopping Center in the 7900 block of Baltimore-Annapolis Blvd. shortly before 8 p.m. Monday when a man approached her and asked for money.She refused him, got in her car and put her purse on the passenger seat, she reported. The man reached through the driver's side window, but Ms. Sheehan fought him off, police said.

William L. More, a retired Exxon marketing representative who fought during World War II with the 4th Marine Division in some of the bloodiest battles in the Pacific, died Saturday of respiratory failure at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic Home. He was 90. Nearly 40 years would pass before William Lynn More could bring himself to talk about Iwo Jima, the 36-day battle in 1945 for a rugged, uninhabited eight-square-mile Pacific island of gray volcanic sand and rock, where 6,800 Americans died and 26,000 were wounded.

When Wild Man Joe O'Connell went looking for a fight, nobody was safe, including Joe himself. You could look it up. Pro boxers, street fighters, carnival brawlers, he took 'em all on. Plus, not to be overlooked, a gorilla and a kangaroo who should have known better.For the record, Joe says the gorilla and the kangaroo were the roughest fights he had. But that's just his word. Nobody's asked the gorilla or the kangaroo their side of it."I just liked to fight," Joe was explaining yesterday.

Alfred U. McKenzie, a World War II bomber pilot and one of the original Tuskegee Airmen, spent a good part of his life fighting. He fought for his country. He fought against racial discrimination in the military. He fought against poverty in his community.Through all the fights -- including one that led to his arrest by the military on mutiny charges -- Mr. McKenzie's love for flying and for justice thrived, and he lived as a proud airman and defender of the underdog throughout his life.Mr.

Most athletes, given to truth, will tell you they are rarely accorded enough credit for their accomplishments. Or maybe it's that they receive too much criticism when things don't go well.Baseball players, as a whole, are particularly thin-skinned, gobbling up the adulation when their hits win a game while thinking a costly error should be glossed over as "just one of those things."The pro who is probably most justified, even completely justified, to complain when his efforts are downgraded, though, are boxers.

As a war escalates in the Middle East, the sporting society suffers mostly from a case of mild embarrassment. Issues that would otherwise engage us suddenly seem trivial. The disruption of seasons is minimal, almost nil, limited to the hollow symbolism of debating whether to postpone games.It is so because young Americans don't have to fight anymore unless that is their choice, and because, for whatever reasons, the imperative is no longer felt so keenly by so many. It wasn't always that way. A half-century ago, athletes did not merely lead cheers at the outbreak of war. They fought.

Costas E. Themelis lived quietly for a half-century with his family in Highlandtown.Not until his funeral was a secret unveiled -- that as a tough resistance fighter and a highly decorated Greek soldier who fought the Nazis in World War II, he received the prestigious Cross of St. Mark.At Oaklawn Cemetery in Baltimore on Thursday, Col. Chris Portocholis, the military attache from the Greek Embassy in Washington, spoke reverent words over Mr. Themelis' flag-draped coffin:"Let the soil above your casket weigh lightly on it," said the colonel, invoking a cultural tribute reserved for the bravest and most dedicated.

Mary Frances Garland, a South Baltimore community activist who fought for neighborhood recognition and raised her voice against highways and high-rises, died of a brain tumor Sunday at Stella Maris Hospice at Mercy Medical Center. She was 68 and lived on Webster Street. She battled in the 1960s and 1970s against a planned interstate highway that threatened to cut through parts of Federal Hill, South Baltimore and the Sharp-Leadenhall neighborhoods. She also criticized a suspension bridge that would have cut diagonally across the Inner Harbor, cutting it in half.

Lawrence W. "Larry" Simns Sr., a fourth-generation waterman and longtime advocate for the Chesapeake Bay and those who make their living from its waters, died Thursday of bone cancer at his Rock Hall home. He was 75. "Larry stood sentry for the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay for over 40 years and courageously carried their banner into the 21st century," Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski said in a statement. "He fought to preserve their traditions and their opportunity to work on the water like their forefathers," she said.

After fighting with the father of her child, an Essex woman contacted her boyfriend and his brother, who shot and killed him, and injured two others at a Middle River bus stop last month, Baltimore County police said. Michael Desmon Martin, 22, Mikal A. Martin, 20, both from Prince George's County, and Laquesha Maria Lewis, 24, are charged with first degree murder after plotting to kill the father of her child near a bus stop on Eastern Boulevard near Kingston Road just before 11:50 p.m. on Feb. 18, police said.

Ralph K. "Ken" Barnes, a retired Koppers Co. manager who was a prisoner of war during the twilight months of World War II, died Saturday from complications of a stroke at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The longtime Cockeysville resident was 89. The son of farmers, Ralph Kenneth Barnes was born in Gist, in Carroll County, and after his family lost their farm during the Depression, they moved to Waverly. He was a 1941 graduate of Polytechnic Institute, where he was an outstanding baseball pitcher, and later earned a degree from the Johns Hopkins University.

Ignoring pleas from union leaders and the county's Annapolis delegation, the Baltimore County Council approved a bill Tuesday changing how county employees can appeal decisions about retirement benefits. The council voted 6-1 in favor of the bill, proposed by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz. Councilwoman Vicki Almond, a Reisterstown Democrat, was the only member of the council to oppose it, saying it will put county employees "through unnecessary hardship, both economically and procedurally.

As expected, Maryland vigorously defended its right to move to the Big Ten without paying a $52 million exit fee to the Atlantic Coast Conference in two legal actions filed Friday. Maryland attorney general Doug Gansler filed a complaint in Prince George's County circuit court alleging the ACC violated state antitrust laws, breached contractual obligations and interfered with the the economic growth of the school. The suit seeks an injunction against paying the fee and declaratory judgment that it is unlawful.

Baltimore County officials said Monday they no longer intend to relocate a fire station to Towson Manor Park, a plan the community had fought. County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced the county now plans to build the new Towson fire station at the corner of Towsontown Boulevard and Bosley Avenue, where the county owns a gas station that's used for county vehicles. The fire station is currently located at the corner of Bosley Avenue and York Road, and plans to move it to the park sparked controversy among residents.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. -- A soft breeze rustles dying leaves on this serene slope. That's the sound of Culp's Hill today.Most visitors to the Gettysburg battleground ignore this quiet, out-of-the-way expanse of rocks and trees. Few know that here, 131 years ago, Marylander clashed with Marylander in fighting as vicious and significant as anywhere on the battlefield.But this weekend the spotlight at Gettysburg will shine on Maryland. In a ceremony Sunday featuring Civil War re-enactors as well as fighter jets, Marylanders will return to Gettysburg to dedicate a memorial to the state's soldiers, Union and Confederate, who fought here in the Civil War's pivotal battle.

CHANCELLORSVILLE, Va. - Here, where thousands fell in one of the greatest battles ever fought on American soil, a new confrontation is shaping up over the fate of the battlefield. At the Battle of Chancellorsville in May 1863, Gen. Robert E. Lee scored one of his greatest triumphs, defeating a larger Union army with a series of brilliant maneuvers that are still studied in military academies. But the victory came at a terrible cost, because the man Lee called "my right arm," Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, known as "Stonewall," was mortally wounded by Confederate sentries.

"Truth crushed to earth will rise again. " -- Martin Luther King Jr. (quoting William Cullen Bryant) Sometimes, oceans are not enough. Usually, the fact that we are barricaded on both sides by great bodies of water gives us in this country a certain sense of remove from the awful things people with funny names do to one another in strange places on the far side of the globe. But once in a while, the thing is awful enough that you can't ignore it, or pretend that it is less real.

Benjamin C. Whitten, a prominent Baltimore educator and community activist who served as president of the Baltimore Urban League, died Sept. 21 of cancer at Good Samaritan Hospital. The Morgan Park resident was 89. "Ben was a true giant in the Baltimore public school system and could easily have been superintendent. He knew the system inside and out," said Dr. Walter G. Amprey, who was superintendent from 1991 to 1997. "He wore many hats and was a giant in both education and civil rights.