Hallock

Fritzi Hallock never planned to become a landlord. But after she married and moved into her husband's Mount Washington home last summer, Ms. Hallock, a 30-year-old senior associate with Legg Mason Realty Group, felt she didn't have a choice.Few condominiums in Baltimore City were selling. And to recoup the closing and renovating costs she'd put into her two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo near Johns Hopkins University, she would have had to sell it for about $25,000 more than she paid for it -- a near-impossibility.

A clerk at a Shell gasoline station food market in Jessup foiled a robbery attempt Tuesday night when he fought with a man who demanded money, county police said.The man walked into the store in the 2700 block of Annapolis Road shortly after 9 p.m. and went behind the counter. He demanded money from the clerk, who put up a fight, police said.The bandit gave up and ran east on Annapolis Road.The suspect was described as a white male about 30 years old and 5 feet 11 inches tall. He weighed about 150 pounds and had dirty-blond hair.

*TC Pieces of column too short to use:Wait. Hold on. I'm having mental blockage! Somebody help me. The Maryland Court of Appeals has reversed the murder convictions of two men in the Jay Bias murder, saying the case was tainted because prosecutors attempted during jury selection to keep women off the panel. But the trial jury ended up having eight women and four men. And this was an unfair trial? Oy. I'm slapping my forehead. My eyes glaze over. This is a system?*Questioning the government is one of the great American pastimes, and mostly it's healthy -- in a democracy, it's downright therapeutic.

A few observations from the first sentencing of a waterman who was part of the black market that stole millions of dollars worth of striped bass from the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. It was nice that U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte recognized that his decision on prison time, fine and restitution for Thomas Hallock would be watched by officials, recreational anglers and watermen along the East Coast. He called it a "serious crime" that "deserved time." What a breath of fresh air when compared with state district court judges - especially those on the lower Eastern Shore and Southern Maryland - who don't seem to mind seeing the same bad actors again and again because the puny penalties are just the cost of doing buinsess.

Gordon Parrish Hallock, who as director of the state's Office of Seafood Marketing created the Maryland Seafood Festival and preached nationwide of the bounty of the Chesapeake Bay, died Sunday of cancer at his home in Shady Side, Anne Arundel County. He was 75.Known as Maryland's "Seafood Ambassador," Mr. Hallock combined a gregarious personality with a seemingly insatiable appreciation of seafood.He came by his love of the region's bivalves, crustaceans and fish naturally, as a waterman's son born on Parrish Creek, off the West River, in Shady Side.

On May 25, 2006, CHARMAINE C. (nee Barton); beloved wife of William R. Mc Kim; devoted mother of Kimberly A. Hallock and her husband Thomas, Terri L. Butschky and Daniel L. Mc Kim. Also survived by three grandchildren, two sisters and one brother. Funeral services will be held at the Connelly Funeral Home of Essex, 300 Mace Avenue, Tuesday at 1 P.M. Interment Garden of Faith Memorial Gardens. Visiting hours Sunday only, 3-5 and 7-9 P.M.

The formation: I-formation, pro right.Action: At the snap, the offensive linemen lock into their pass-protection sets. Fullback Ty Hallock (49) leads through the hole and running back James Allen (20) fakes taking a handoff from quarterback Steve Stenstrom on a play-action fake. Tight end Alonzo Mayes (85) runs a 10-yard pattern and cuts across the middle. Both outside receivers run stutter-step routes to freeze the cornerbacks, then try to jet by them on go routes.Stenstrom can throw to flanker Curtis Conway (80)

On February 20, 2003 BENJAMIN WEINER beloved husband of the late Gertrude Weiner (nee Geller); loving father of Nanette Weiner of Waldorf, MD and Pembroke Pines, FL; devoted brother of Joseph Weiner of Leonardtown, MD and Rebecca Cohn of New Orleans, LA and the late Harry Weiner, Ike Weiner and Betsy Hallock; loving grandfather of Marc Warfield and Kimberly Willette and great-grandfather of Zachary Willette and Sarah Warfield. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS. INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mt. Wilson Lane on Monday, February 24 at 1 p.m. Interment at Beth Hamedrosh Hagodol Cemetery, Rosedale.

On May 11, 2004, BERNARD M. IMBER, beloved husband of Pearl Imber (nee Schwartz), beloved father of Susan Smith of Ellicott City, MD and Nancy Sellman of Owings Mills, MD, beloved father-in-law of Corbett Smith and David Sellman, devoted brother of Doris Hallock, Dena Gerber and Adele Cohen all of Balto., loving grandfather of Max, Zoe and Olivia Sellman, Abigail, Elyse and Carly Smith. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road (at Mt. Wilson Lane) on Thursday, May 13 at 2 P.M. Interment In Shaarei Tfiloh Cemetery, Windsor Mill Road.

A 35-year-old Odenton man was charged with kidnapping and sexual assault after a woman was forced into a car in Baltimore, police said.The woman was walking along Hanover Street in Baltimore at 4:29 a.m. when a man with a gun pulled up next to her and forced her into his car, police said. The man drove to Anne Arundel County, sexually assaulted the woman and later stopped on Oakton Road near Route 175.After demanding and receiving $150, the man started choking the woman, police said. She managed to fight him off, then ran to a nearby house.