Georgia

A former Baltimore County man who has spent two decades behind bars for his role in a crime spree that culminated in one of the most notorious mass slayings in U.S. history is poised for his release from a Maryland prison.As a Cub Hill teen-ager in 1973, William C. "Billy" Isaacs joined his fugitive brother and half-brother on a two-week road trip that included stops to murder a high school senior near Cumberland and six members of a Georgia farm family. Yesterday, he moved a step closer to freedom when Baltimore Circuit Judge Elsbeth L. Bothe directed state officials to draw up conditions for his parole.

We have heard that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. How about keeping guns out of the hands of the bad guys in the first place? Right now, there is no federal law that punishes people who buy guns for criminals who are banned from purchasing guns themselves. In a recent TV interview, Elijah Cummings, one of Maryland's representatives to the U.S. Congress, spoke about a guy in Georgia whose girlfriend bought him 64 guns in less than three months.

FURMAN YORK was just out of high school and about to start his freshman year at Mercer College in Macon, Ga., when he decided to invite his friend, Richard Scott, an African-American, to a cookout at the summer house Furman rented with his older brother, Cliff York. Silly Furman. The year was 1954. The date was June 22. Just one month and six days earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court had handed down one of its most famous decisions when it declared separate schools for blacks and whites illegal.

Jasmine James scored 16 points and fourth-seeded Georgia rallied from a nine-point second-half deficit to defeat top-seeded Stanford, 61-59, in an NCAA tournament regional semifinal in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday night. Jasmine Hassell and Tiaria Griffin contributed 13 points apiece, Shacobia Barbee grabbed 12 rebounds and Anne Marie Armstrong finished with 10 boards for the Bulldogs (28-6), who will play second-seeded California or sixth-seeded LSU in the Elite Eight on Monday. Chiney Ogwumike had 26 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Cardinal (33-3)

Aberdeen Mayor Mike Bennett's recent trip to Georgia to advocate on behalf of the Ripken organization as it tries to secure public financing of a stadium for a minor league ballclub in Augusta is one of the most ill-advised moves in his time in office. It wasn't a bad idea because the stadium in Aberdeen turned out to be a boondoggle. Quite the contrary, Ripken Stadium by itself has been a tremendous asset to the Aberdeen community and Harford County as a whole. In addition, the youth baseball complex and the Cal Ripken World Series have only increased the prestige of the city and the county and made them burgeoning baseball destinations for dedicated fans of the national pastime.

In the end, Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia was a coward."I will hold until death," he declared on Christmas Day, foxholed in a bunker as his loyalists were trying to keep opposition gunners from taking over the government complex. Yesterday, he ignominiously fled in the cover of darkness to a neighboring republic after realizing he had lost a bloody struggle for power. "Not only the Georgia people but all the democratic forces of the world will celebrate this victory," a rebel commander declared.

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On January 7, 2009, Lillian Georgia Visiting at the E.F. Lassahn Funeral Home, P.A., 11750 Belair Road (Kingsville) on Friday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 10:00 am. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

On January 27, 2006, GEORGIA B. (nee Cole); devoted mother of Barbara Mayerhofer and husband Robert, Lynne Roberts and husband Richard, Franklin Mc Quay and wife Maxine; loving grandmother of Robin, Kimberly, Pamela, Michael, Heather, Bradley and Amanda; dear great-grandmother of Brittany, Emily and Brooke. A Memorial Service will be held at the E. F. Lassahn Funeral Home, (Kingsville) 11750 Belair Road, on Wednesday 3 P.M. Interment private.

On May 9, 2008, GEORGIA SARAH GREEN; beloved mother of Ol, Gladys, Vivian, Stella, Eva, Briston and Gregory. She is also survived by 18 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. Family will receive friends from 10 A.M. to 11 A.M., Funeral service to follow on Thursday, May 15, 2008, at the Rising Sun Baptist Church, 2211 St. Lukes Lane. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery.

Alternative rock group Chevelle, Nashville country duo Florida-Georgia Line and Philadelphia-based cover band Kristen and the Noise will perform on the Jagermeister Stage at this year's Preakness InfieldFest on May 18, the Maryland Jockey Club announced today. The addition of two rock bands and a country act makes sense after the Club announced last month Top 40 staple Pitbull and rising hip-hop star(s) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis would headline InfieldFest. Kristen and the Noise, who will kick-off the Jagermeister Stage, are scheduled to play Claddagh Pub's Meet in the Street in Canton on Saturday.

Editor's note: Each week, InsideMdSports.com provides this blog with a Maryland recruiting feature that previously appeared as premium content on its site. The greater Atlanta area has become a frequent stop for the Maryland men's basketball program in its recruiting travels. After landing Marietta, Ga., native Charles Mitchell in the class of 2012, the Terps - led by assistant coach Bino Ranson - have scouted numerous prospects from Georgia, including Trayvon Reed , Isaiah Manderson , Daniel Giddens and Jaylen Brown . Now there's a new name on the Terps' list of prospects from Georgia: 2015 power forward Shawntrez Davis . Davis, who attends Tri Cities High School in Atlanta and plays AAU for Game Elite, claims offers from Maryland, Clemson, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Florida, Florida State and Tennessee.

Elsie Anna Collison, 93, of Havre de Grace became a great-great-grandmother on Christmas morning at 8:08 a.m. Zandria Jayde Lamon was 6 pounds, 11 ounces and 19.5 inches long. She is the daughter of Christina Lawson Lamon and John Franklin Lamon of Braselton, Ga., granddaughter of Linda Collison Breese and Richard Breese and Steven and Teresa Turner, all of Georgia.

There's no way to sugar-coat it: the Maryland Terps are a mess right now. They were absolutely horrible in that 78-68 loss to Georgia Tech in Atlanta last night. And if they don't straighten out some major issues immediately, the rest of the season could go completely off the rails. Guard play, shot selection, working the ball inside - Maryland was awful in each category. Junior point guard Pe'Shon Howard is struggling so much with his passing and his shot that he's a liability when he's in there.

Maryland is 16-2 at home this season. But the games to watch these days are the road contests. That's not just because two out of Maryland's last three regular-season games are on the road. It's because away games are a litmus test of how evolved you are as a team. It seems almost any ACC team can win in their home arena this season. Consider that Boston College was one point away from beating both Duke and Miami at home. On the road, you've got to be tougher, more mature and resilient.

Someday, Mark Turgeon insists, Maryland will become a formidable road team. To the second-year Terps coach, away games represent a vast, uncharted frontier that Maryland must conquer if it is going to be good. Wednesday night, Maryland allowed Georgia Tech to shoot 51 percent as the Terps dropped another road game, 78-68. They're 2-6 in opponents' arenas this season after going 1-8 last year. The result means its fans can still count Maryland's Atlantic Coast Conference road victories this season not only on one hand -- but on one finger.

On May 29, 2007, GEORGIA A. WHITAKER. On Sunday, friends may call at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4905 York Road where the family will receive friends from 4-8 P.M. On Monday, services will be held at Providence Baptist Church, 1701 Pennsylvania Avenue, where the family will receive friends from 11 -11:30 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

Recent events in Georgia, a former Soviet republic on the shores of the Black Sea, underscore how quickly euphoria can turn into tragedy.In only seven months as president, power went so quickly into the head of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a nationalist hero, that his former allies turned against him in a violent bid to oust him from office. Early Monday, the 52-year-old translator of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Allen Ginsberg slipped out of Georgia, leaving his loyalists to continue the bloody battle against the opposition.

The Towson men's basketball team had four players in double figures and outscored host Georgia State 13-5 in overtime to win, 90-82, on Saturday. Rafriel Guthrie had 23 points, Jerome Hairston had 17 and Marcus Damas and Bilal Dixon each had 14 for the Tigers (14-12, 9-4 Colonial Athletic Association). Towson is 5-1 in CAA road games and has 10 road victories this season, the program's most since 1993-94. Manny Atkins had 26 points and Devonta White had 22 for Georgia State, which fell to 12-14, 7-6. Atkins scored with seven seconds left to make the score 76-75, and White made one of two free throws with one second left to send the game into overtime.

Dylon Cormier and Erik Etherly scored their 1,000th career points within eight minutes of each other as visiting Loyola won for the fifth time in six games, beating Fairfield, 65-60, on Monday in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball game in Bridgeport, Conn. Cormier (Cardinal Gibbons) finished with a team-high 21 points, Etherly added 16 points and a team-high nine rebounds, and Jordan Latham scored 10 points for the Greyhounds (14-6, 6-2 MAAC). "We battled and held them off tonight with big baskets when we needed them," Loyola coach Jimmy Patsos said.