Hamel

On March 29, 2005, JEANNETTE H. (nee Adams), beloved wife of the late Richard Minnick; devoted mother of the late Richard Minnick, Jr.; devoted sister of Hilda Hamel. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at the Lassahn Funeral Home, Inc., 7401 Belair Road on Monday, at 11 A.M. Entombment Gardens of Faith Cemetery Mausoleum. Friends may call on Sunday from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

A Baltimore couple who ran a cosmetology school were sentenced yesterday to prison in U.S. District Court for falsifying documents and bilking the government out of up to $2.5 million in grant money for the school.Ron Thomas, 60, of the 6300 block of Belair Road was sentenced to a year and a day and his wife, Von Thomas, 60, of the same address, was sentenced to 37 months for fraudulently obtaining federal grants for the Ron Thomas School of Cosmetology, which had branches throughout the Baltimore area.

It's Women Who Kill, Part II, tonight at 9 on WMAR-TV (Channel 2), as Veronica Hamel and Susan Ruttan star in "Deadly Medicine."Last night, in "Wife, Mother, Murderer," ABC offered viewers Judith Light as a woman who poisoned her husband and tried to kill her daughter. Tonight, NBC offers Ruttan as a nurse who kills babies. And, yes, this film, too, we are told, is "inspired by real events.""Deadly Medicine" takes place in Texas. A young pediatrician, Dr. Kathleen Holland (Hamel), has set up a new practice with a nurse, Genene Jones (Ruttan)

On November 21, 2007, IRENE ELIZABETH PAUL (nee Burley) of Forest Hill; beloved wife of the late Charles J. Paul; devoted mother of Charene T. Hamel, Michele M. Milway and Charles F. Paul; loving sister of Leo Burley. Also survived by 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. Family will receive friends at the family owned Evans Funeral Chapel and Cremation Service of Bel Air on Friday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Liturgy will be held at St. Ignatius Church-Hickory, on Saturday at 11:30 A.M. . Interment Darlington Cemetery.

On September 10, 2008, SHARON SMITH, long time resident of South Baltimore; devoted mother of Erik Jason Fowler, Amy Fowler, Sherry Turner, and Jimmy Glover; loving sister of Charlene Darby, Charles Hamel III, Deborah Valentine, Vivian Louden, and Valerie Godfrey. Also survived by nine grandchildren. The family will receive friends on Saturday, September 20 from 10 to 11 A.M. at the McCully-Polyniak Funeral Home, 130 E. Fort Avenue, where a memorial service will begin at 11 A.M. Interment will be private.

A 23-year-old Baltimore County man has been arrested and charged with setting his mother on fire Wednesday at her East Point home, police said. Gordon R. Jenkins has been charged with first-degree arson, attempted murder, first-degree assault and related charges in an attack that police say left his 47-year-old mother in critical but stable condition at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. At about 10:45 a.m., police and firefighters responded to a fire in the 7900 block of Baltimore Street, where Teresa Marie Hamel said her son had entered her bedroom and choked her until she lost consciousness, police said.

As his yellow bus moved west along narrow Folly Quarter Road toward Glenelg Country School yesterday morning, 15-year-old sophomore Matt Hamel was asleep, his stereo earphones on, blotting out the world. Suddenly, "It felt bumpy. I saw the tree coming, and I tensed up," he said. The bus' right rear wheels had run off the paved surface into rain-softened mud. The vehicle then swerved back to the left, across the double-yellow lines, hitting a thick tree in the 12300 block of Folly Quarter Road, Howard County police said.

The circuses are coming to town! That's right, we're talking plural. Over the next week, both the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Cirque du Soleil will be landing in Baltimore for extended stays. Barnum & Bailey, in fact, is already here — opening night was Wednesday (maybe you were lucky enough to watch the elephants lumber from the B&O Railroad Museum to 1st Mariner Arena the other day). Cirque du Soleil will be pitching its tent on the Westport waterfront and offering its first show April 7. Of course, in a perfect world, you'd be able to catch both shows.

You riffle through the day's mail and see nothing but corporate junk mail. Suddenly, you're surrounded by a sweet smell. Vanilla? Pound cake? Is someone cooking in the office?Someone's cooking all right. McCormick & Co. Inc. has, once again, cooked up a way to stand out from all the other companies sending out annual reports at this time of year, and, perhaps, use a little olfactory persuasion to win new investors.For the 18th consecutive year, the Sparks-based company has infused its annual report with a scent.

A school bus bound for a Howard County private school with 14 students on board hit a tree and overturned yesterday morning, seriously injuring the driver. None of the children suffered serious injury, although several complained of back pain and all were taken to Howard County General Hospital for examinations. The children had all been released by early afternoon. The bus was traveling west along narrow Folly Quarter Road toward Glenelg Country School when its right rear wheels ran off the paved surface into rain-softened mud. It then swerved back to the left, across the double yellow lines, hitting a thick tree in the 12300 block Folly Quarter Road, Howard County police said.