Hamilton

City police were searching for a 15-year-old Hamilton girl reported missing by her mother after she failed to return home Sunday after attending church with her boyfriend, police said. Akir'e "Angel" Lane of the 2500 block of Hamilton Ave. was last seen Sunday evening at a friend's house in the 1600 block of Heathfield Ave. after attending Truth & Life Family Worship Center in the 6300 block of Sherwood Road in Northwood, said her mother, Erika Lane, who filed a missing-person report. Police interviewed the residents of the friend's house and the boyfriend's family.

The world of Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs gets a little more pressurized each week, with a new performance inviting another critic to weigh in on whether he is worthy of becoming one of the NFL's big-money free agents. Suggs seems oblivious, and for good reason: Whatever stress he is facing this season because of his uncertain contract situation can't compare to other stretches he has gone through in his life. Despite getting his first sack of the 2007 season in Sunday's 22-3 win over the St. Louis Rams at M&T Bank Stadium, Suggs is confident that the body of work from his first four seasons - especially his 40 sacks - will hold up come contract time.

A rookie Anne Arundel County police officer charged with photographing himself fondling a teenage girl during a traffic stop demanded that another young driver he pulled over a month earlier also expose herself to avoid a ticket, the lawyer for the two women said yesterday. The second woman refused to lift her shirt that December evening, but offered Officer Joseph F. Mosmiller, 22, her cell phone number - and he followed up by calling and text messaging her, attorney John T. Hamilton Jr. said.

NORMALLY, WHEN you worry that weather will keep people away from your fundraiser, it's bad weather you're concerned about. For this year's Rotary Club of Baltimore Oyster Roast, however, the sun was out and the temperatures were downright balmy. That had some of the Rotary folks a bit on edge. "You never know whether the good weather is a good thing or a bad thing," said Rotary officer Howard Weisberg. "The best attendance we ever had was when we had a bad snowstorm the night before." Worries rapidly dissipated as hundreds of folks poured into the Fifth Regiment Armory.

Larry Hubbard, the man shot in the back of the head and killed by a police officer last week, was hailed as a martyr at his funeral yesterday -- a theme that continued last night when a raucous crowd confronted mayoral candidates about crime-fighting strategies.One day after the U.S. Justice Department announced its investigation into Hubbard's death at the hands of Officer Barry W. Hamilton, more than 200 people packed a service at Triumph Missionary Baptist Church in the 2200 block of E. Oliver St.There, relatives and friends grieved and swapped stories of two men and two nicknames.

ClarificationAn article in yesterday's editions of The Sun reported that Sgt. Stephen R. Pagotto was the only city police officer convicted of a fatal shooting in the line of duty. The article did not note that Pagotto's conviction was overturned by the Court of Special Appeals, the state's second-highest court. The state is appealing that ruling to the Court of Appeals, which has not heard arguments.Maryland's black legislative caucus demanded yesterday that State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy quickly conclude her investigation into the death of Larry Hubbard Jr. and then send the case to a grand jury for a possible criminal indictment.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Ohio State point guard Scoonie Penn's jersey was missing before last night's NCAA tournament semifinal game against Connecticut.The feeling at Tropicana Field was that Ricky Moore had something to do with it.Moore, whom Connecticut coach Jim Calhoun has called "the best defensive player I've ever had," took Penn right out of the game. As a result, the Huskies took the Buckeyes right out of the tournament.Junior forward Richard Hamilton scored 24 points and sophomore point guard Khalid El-Amin finished with 18 points and six assists as Connecticut advanced to tomorrow night's championship game with a 64-58 victory at Tropicana Field.

As the conflict continues in the Balkans, concerns spread far beyond the war zone. "Do you think I should cancel my vacation in Italy?" one reader asked recently. "Is it still safe to cruise to the Greek islands?" another inquired. "Are American travelers being targeted abroad?" yet another pierced the heart of the matter.Donna Hamilton, deputy assistant secretary of state for consular affairs, senses the uneasiness, too. "We don't tell people whether or not they should go places, but we try to provide information that will help them make wise decisions," Hamilton said recently.

Just days after Hereford High School administrators canceled all performances of a student production they said was violent and vulgar, they decided to let the 40 students in "Musical Comedy Murders of 1940" present an edited version of the show to an invited audience tonight.But the students aren't happy with the compromise. They say the show will lose money because it will run only one night instead of three. They also say the editing changes are not fair and that the administration's response to the excerpt they saw was inappropriate.

LOS ANGELES -- At Hamilton High School, a grand old building in a gritty slice of West Los Angeles, Ruth J. Simmons surveyed a roomful of 35 black and brown female faces and saw her own.Striding through the Hamilton library, with its posters of Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg announcing "Reading is Power" in Spanish and English, Simmons shook each hand and introduced herself as the president of Smith College. "You're the president?" one girl asked, incredulous.Called the Jackie Robinson of higher education when she became the first black woman to head a top-tier college or university in 1995, Simmons has embarked upon what she calls a "personal crusade" to bring more disadvantaged students to her campus and similar institutions nationwide.

George Hamilton burst on the scene in the final days of Old Hollywood - one of his first credits was Vincente Minnelli's "Home From the Hill" (1960). He soon embodied all the fashion-plate allure of big-studio stardom with his own glints of humor and hedonism. He learned the studios' lessons about swank, verve and glamour without swallowing them whole. Irony became him - and becomes him. Over the past five decades, he's gone from youthful bon vivant to silver fox without losing his je ne sais quoi.

On August 3, 2009 LORRAINE ROBINSON HAMILTON devoted wife of Thomas Hamilton. On Friday, friends may call Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services (East), 4905 York Road where the family will receive friends from 4:00 to 8:00 P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Hamilton will lie in state at Israel Baptist Church, 1220 North Chester Street where the family will receive friends from 10:00 to 11:00 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 433-7500.

Matthew Porterfield, whose Hamilton was one of the breakout hits of the 2006 Maryland Film Festival, hasn't finished his next film yet - in fact, all he has is some test and audition footage. But he's bringing what he has to this weekend's 11th annual festival anyway, unwilling to pass up any invitation to show his work - ny work - to a receptive audience. "It's so tricky, trying to get films made right now," Porterfield said from New York, where he was busy doing pre-production work on the new film, to be called Metal Gods.

Paul Bancroft Clifford, a veteran and retired Baltimore insurance executive, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease Thursday at his home in Ocean City. He was 78. He was born in Boston to Stewart H. Clifford, a pediatrician, and Ellinor Burnett Clifford, the daughter of Paul M. Burnett, who was a president of Baltimore-based Monumental Life Insurance Co. It was a family business that he would eventually join, rising to the position of senior vice president. Mr. Clifford graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass.

The other evening, I was rereading a signed copy of Hamilton Owens' book, Baltimore on the Chesapeake, which he presented to The Sun library in 1941. There is no inscription save a quick "Hamilton Owens" written in black ink in a tight script on the book's flyleaf. I last looked at the book, a whimsical popular history of the city published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., probably 30 years ago. What prompted me to pick it up again was the death of Hamilton Owens' son, Gwinn F. Owens, at 87, on March 22. Gwinn, who had been a longtime reporter and editor, was the first op-ed page editor of The Evening Sun's "Other Voices" page when it was unveiled in 1979.

Frank Joseph Hamilton, retired founder of Profit Programming Inc. and a former bank director, died Feb. 19 of prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Cedarcroft resident was 76. Mr. Hamilton was born and raised in Chicago. He graduated from St. Ignatius College Prep in 1951, and earned a bachelor's degree in economics in 1954 from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He studied law for a year at Marquette University before enlisting in the Marine Corps in 1956, where he served as a member of the ceremonial drill team in Washington, and as an economics and accounting instructor at the Marine Corps Institute.

On January 2, 2009 WILLIAM D. HAMILTON beloved husband of Margaret A. Hamilton (nee Findley); devoted father of Deborah Lee Hubbard and her fiance Eric Aist, Patricia Anne Mally and her husband Steve; dear brother of Mary Pikus of Orlando, FL; loving grandfather of Susan, Tommy and Billy Hubbard and Steven and Shannon Mally; also survived by eight great-grandchildren. Funeral Services will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue on Monday at 11 a.m. Interment Oak Lawn Cemetery.

On December 21, 2008, Carl Edgar Hamilton Visiting at the Lassahn Funeral Home, Inc., 7401 Belair Road (Overlea) on Friday, December 26, 2008, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 11:00 am. Interment private.

On December 21, 2008, Carl Edgar Hamilton Visiting at the Lassahn Funeral Home, Inc., 7401 Belair Road (Overlea) on Friday, December 26, 2008, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 pm. Funeral services will be held on Saturday at 11:00 am. Interment private.

Morris L. Taylor, a retired wholesale liquor salesman, died Wednesday of complications from a broken hip at St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 86. Mr. Taylor was born in Baltimore and raised in Hamilton. He attended city public schools and enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1942. During World War II, he served with the shore patrol, said a son, Robert R. Taylor of Parkville. Mr. Taylor was a longtime employee of McCarthy-Hicks, a Baltimore liquor distributorship. He retired in 1988. A resident of Cockeysville for more than 40 years, Mr. Taylor had been a Baltimore Colts season ticket holder, and he enjoyed gambling trips to Las Vegas.