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Five Baltimore area boys basketball players were recently selected to participate in the U.S. Elite Select Basketball Tour in Italy this week. St. Frances senior forward Tevon Saddler , The Baltimore Sun's All-Metro Player of the Year, will be joined by Glenelg Country junior forward Chancellor Barnard , St. Vincent Pallotti junior center Tariq Owens , Calvert Hall sophomore guard Drew Edwards and Mount St. Joseph sophomore guard-forward...

On October 24, 2005, DONNA beloved daughter of Ruth (nee Hess) and the late George C. Head, dear sister of John C. Head, Steven Head and his wife Rena and Jeanne Holden and her husband Jeff, dear aunt of Jason and Andrew Head, Kyle, Lauren and Kelsey Holden. Friends may call at the Sterling-Ashton-Schwab Funeral Home, Inc., 736 Edmondson Avenue (1/2 mile west of beltway exit 14) on Wednesday from 6 to 8 P.M. Services and interment private. In lieu of flowers, family request donations to the Catonsville United Methodist Church Building Fund, 6 Melvin Avenue, Catonsville, MD, 21228.

Dr. Julius Henry "Jute" Taylor, who was a physics professor at what is now Morgan State University for 37 years and also headed the department, died Aug. 27 of heart failure at his Windsor Hills home. He was 97. The son of a brick mason and a homemaker, Dr. Taylor, one of six children, was born and raised in Cape May, N.J. He was a 1932 graduate of Middle Township High School, where he played basketball, was a champion pole vaulter and played trumpet in the high school band.

A 53-year-old Glen Burnie man died of a gunshot wound to the head Thursday that police are investigating as a homicide, officials said. Police found William Collignon, of the 1500 block of Furnace Avenue, dead in his home around 3 p.m. Homicide investigators questioned another person found in the residence, but no charges have been filed, police said. A preiminary investigation shows the shooting occurred in the house.

Kerry Stephens , of Cockeysville, Tamunotari Inyeinengi , of Stevenson, and Rachel Bradley , of Towson have been named to the fall 2012 dean's list at the Savannah College, Savanah, Ga. Caroline Hale and Julia Pfund , of Lutherville were among top students in the University of Delaware Honors Program recognized in a special ceremony on Nov. 4, in Newark, Del. Kristina Kemp , of Towson, received a master's in anthropology from...

Baltimore police officers found a woman lying in a Baltimore side street shortly after sunset Friday. She had been shot in the head. The woman, whom police have not yet identified, is listed in critical condition and is being treated at a nearby hospital. Officers found the woman lying in the 300 block of E. 26 t h St. about 7:05 p.m., according to Sgt. Anthony Smith, a spokesman for the Baltimore City Police Department. Witnesses reported seeing a black man wearing a red and black jacket with a white hat running south on Guilford Avenue after the shooting.

Maryland's women's lacrosse team will head up Interstate 95 this weekend to do something that most coaches usually try to avoid -- play games on back-to-back days. The No. 1 Terps will play at Atlantic Coast Conference foe Boston College on Saturday at 1 p.m. and then hop down to Long Island to meet Stony Brook on Sunday at 4 p.m. Fortunately for the Terps, spring break begins Monday. “We were going to head up there during spring break, so it just so happened that we could knock both games out both with one trip, head up to Boston and then Long Island,” Terps coach Cathy Reese said.

Southwest Airlines Flight 327 from BWI to Boston has been delayed slightly today, but that hasn't dampened the enthusiasm of what looks like an Orioles fan charter. There are dozens of people in Orioles regalia ready to cheer on the team during the critical three-game series that starts tonight at Fenway Park. “I've been a longtime fan, but this is the first time I've been excited about the postseason since the 1990s," said Will Jones of Sykesville.  “I've been a quiet fan for awhile, but now that they are doing a lot better, I'm all riled up.” Jones and Jeremy Martin of Glen Burnie are part of an Orioles sponsor trip, but there are plenty of fans who are on this Southwest bandwagon.

Baltimore police responding to a report of a shooting shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday discovered a 60-year-old man in the 3100 block of Garrison Boulevard in Northeast Baltimore suffering from a gunshot wound to his head, police reported Sunday morning. The man was taken to Sinai Hospital, where he died from his injuries at 11:37 p.m., police said. Homicide detectives are investigating the incident and ask anyone with information to call 410-396-2100.

A 21-year-old woman was found lying with a laceration across her head on the porch of a Edgewood home Tuesday after an apparent assault, the Harford County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday. Deputies are now asking for the public's help in identifying her assailant. About 6:50 p.m., deputies arrived in the 1600 block of Candlewood Court for a report of a stabbing and found Cassandra Tittle, who lives on the same block, on the porch, the sheriff's office said. Tittle was transported to the University of Maryland Medical Center, where she was treated and released.