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Philip Thomas Clark Sr., a retired jack operator who had worked for the Acme grocery store chain for more than three decades, died Sunday of complications from diabetes at Seasons Hospice at Northwest Hospital. The longtime Baltimore Highlands resident was 83. Mr. Clark was born in Baltimore and raised in Hamilton. He attended city public schools. He enlisted in the Navy at the end of World War II and did not see action, family members said. After leaving the Navy, he went to work in the 1950s for Acme, where he was a jack operator, moving pallets with an electric forklift.

A man was shot in the stomach in the 2100 block of Echodale Ave. on Saturday evening, city police said. Officers responded to the scene in the Hamilton Hills neighborhood about 8:30 p.m. after receiving a report of gunshots fired, according to spokesman Detective Jeremy Silbert. The man was taken to a local hospital, he said. There have been several shooting deaths this year in a neighborhood not known for violent crime near the Baltimore County line. In January, a 38-year-old autistic man who lived with his mother was killed in front of their home in the 5600 block of Plymouth Road.

HAMILTON: Jamie Hamilton, of Churchville, a 2011 graduate of McDonogh School, has been accepted to the University of Miami in the fall, where he will pursue a career in Industrial Engineering. He is the son of Jimmy and Kris Hamilton, of Churchville and grandson of Sue and Harold Petty, of Darlington, and Jim and Rose Hamilton, of Churchville.

Brian R. Murphy, a Social Security Administration senior technical adviser and Army veteran, died Friday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The lifelong Hamilton resident was 59. The son of a Baltimore Life Insurance Co. regional manager and a homemaker, Brian Robertson Murphy was born in Scranton, Pa., and raised in Hamilton. He attended Northern High School and later earned his general educational development diploma. Mr. Murphy studied biology at Morgan State University before enlisting in the Army in 1974, where he served with the 82nd Airborne and attained the rank of sergeant.

The first two regular season games between the Chesapeake Bayhawks and Hamilton Nationals produced results you might expect when two playoff caliber lacrosse teams collide. The Bayhawks managed to hang on and win both north-of-the-border games in close fashion, beating the Nationals by four goals in May and one goal two weeks ago. However, the outcome of Saturday night's contest was anything but predictable. The Bayhawks suffered their most lopsided loss this season as a flurry of first-half Hamilton goals led to a nine-goal run by the Nationals that lasted from 3:19 left in the first quarter until Brian Carr oll scored one minute into the second half.

This is not a story from my media beat. It's only a footnote to the story in the Baltimore Sun this week about City Councilman Robert Curran telling a resident in his district that if he wanted to get police to respond more quickly to a 911 call, he should lie and tell them there is a gun involved. Just a footnote, but I think it's an important one. You can read the story by Sun reporter Rebekah Brown  here . I was the resident who...

There's no way for any of us to know how Josh Hamilton feels these days, but if you ask him he will do his best to let you know. That says a lot in itself. The guy who might have the best idea about what swirls through Hamilton's head is Dodgers coach Manny Mota. It was Mota who had the misfortune to line a ball into the seats at Dodger Stadium in 1970, striking 14-year-old Alan Fish in the head. The teenager died four days later. "I'm sad for Josh, because I know how he feels now," Mota has said.

When Baltimoreans turn on the TV and see Donna Hamilton, they see a comfortable, familiar face — someone they probably think they know, someone they might want to sit down with for a cup of tea. Her home, it turns out, has the same feel. The longtime anchor for WBAL-TV has spent years working to create a home that feels effortless. Lived in for 30 years now, the Baltimore house, a cottage really, is the sort of place with a cozy, lived-in aesthetic. Altogether underdesigned — by design.

Raymond Hamilton "Ray" Leonard Jr., a retired police chief, decorated Korean War veteran and former amateur fighter who had been chairman of the Maryland Boxing Hall of Fame, died Feb. 18 of heart failure at a niece's home in Myrtle Beach, S.C. The longtime Morrell Park resident, who moved to Myrtle Beach last year, was 82. Mr. Leonard, whose father was a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad boilermaker who worked at the Mount Clare shops and whose mother...