Hightower

On November 12, 2006 HAYWOOD HIGHTOWER. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 a.m. where the family will receive friends on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Funeral services will follow at 12 noon.

Update 9:48 p.m.: With the Jets picking North Carolina defensive end Quinton Coples, it creates more of an opportunity for the Ravens to land either Alabama linebackers Courtney Upshaw or Dont'a Hightower. The Ravens also like South Carolina defensive end Melvin Ingram, who had 10 sacks in 2011. Ingram could also play outside linebacker.    Update 9:28 p.m.: Like most teams and fans around the NFL, the Ravens couldn't predict the amount of trades in the top 10 picks, but they at least have been able to match up the teams with the players they chose.

On May 13, 2007 DAPHNE NOEL HIGHTOWER. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 1:00 P.M. where the family will receive friends on Friday at 6:00 P.M. Funeral Services will follow at 6:30 P.M.

Each day this week leading up to Thursday's NFL draft, we will highlight one prospect whom the Ravens could draft with the 29th overall pick. Today's player is Alabama inside linebacker Dont'a Hightower, one of four Crimson Tide defenders who are expected to be selected in the first round. Background: Born and raised in Tennessee, the now-22-year-old started as a true freshman for Alabama coach Nick Saban. He blew out his knee in 2009, but returned a year later to captain a Tide defense that allowed an NCAA-best 8.8 points per game.

On April 28, 2006, RUBY C. HIGHTOWER (nee Cottell) of Bel Air, MD., beloved wife of William C. Hightower, devoted mother of Philip I. Hightower and his wife Marilynn and Pat Scholz and her husband Reinhardt, loving sister of Mary Redfern, also survived by 3 grandchildren, Cathy L. Amberman, Michael D. Scholz and Cherie L. Hightower, and 7 great-grandchildren, Timothy, Nicholas and Jessica Amberson, Christy, Samantha, Joshua and Alyson Scholz. She was also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

"The Substitute Wife," with Farrah Fawcett, is such a quiet charmer of a film that you wonder what it's doing on network TV in the '90s.Set on the 19th-century American frontier -- Nebraska in 1869 -- there isn't a rape, hanging, gunfight or massacre in it. Hardly anyone even raises a voice. It's sort of "The African Queen" without the explosion at the end.Fawcett is terrific as an aging prostitute, but she's clearly sharing the movie with Peter Weller and Lea Thompson, who play a homesteading husband and wife named Martin and Amy Hightower.

David Shepeta, 21, of Glen Burnie was sentenced to 15 years in prison yesterday in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court for second-degree murder in the February 2000 death of Robert Hightower, who would have turned 20 tomorrow. The sentence was part of a plea bargain. Shepeta had entered an Alford plea last year, in which he did not admit guilt but acknowledged that sufficient evidence existed to convict him. His testimony against Shane Pardoe helped secure a first-degree murder conviction against him. Circuit Judge Pamela L. North sentenced Shepeta to 30 years in prison, with half of the time suspended, followed by five years of supervised probation.

Two 20-year-old Glen Burnie men have been charged with first-degree murder after they led police to the body of a 19-year-old man who had been missing since he attended a party at one of their apartments last week, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. Shane Earl Pardoe of the 300 block of Lori Drive and David Joseph Shepeta of the 100 block of Kent Road were arrested Wednesday after police interviewed them and reportedly learned the body of Robert Edward Hightower was removed from Pardoe's apartment early Feb. 11. Police said they were then led to Hightower's body in a wooded area near Shot Town Road about 20 miles from Pardoe's apartment.

Herma J. Hightower has barely begun to unpack the boxes that transported her office paraphernalia from Iowa to Baltimore, where she now occupies the director's suite for one of the Internal Revenue Service's largest districts. But she has retrieved a few favorite items that made the trip.There's a giant "good luck" card adorned with the colorful palm prints of children from the day care center Ms. Hightower established in her previous IRS position. And then there's the dinosaur poster with the poignant caption, "History is full of giants who couldn't adapt."

A Glen Burnie man convicted of first-degree murder lost his bid for a new trial yesterday when an Anne Arundel County judge said she did not believe defense claims that jurors wrongly discussed the case. The ruling sets the stage for sentencing Shane E. Pardoe, 21, who could receive up to life without parole for his role in the death of a neighbor, Robert E. Hightower. After a hearing in which testimony was taken over three days this spring from defense witnesses who made the allegations and from jurors and alternates who heard the case against Pardoe, Circuit Judge Pamela L. North upheld the verdict.

Ozzie Newsome, you could make a lot of Ravens fans happy Thursday. As the team's general manager, you have a chance to do something in this NFL draft that people around here have talked about forever. That's right, you have the chance to draft the eventual successor to Ray Lewis. How long have we been talking about finding his heir apparent? At least six or seven years, right? But now you've got a shot at this kid Dont'a Hightower, the big, high-impact linebacker from Alabama.

On June 8, 2009, LLOYD H. SMITH; devoted husband of Eleanor Hightower Smith and beloved father of Lorne and Lynn Smith. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Tuesday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends on Wednesday at the Concord Baptist Church, 5204 Liberty Heights Avenue at 10:30 A.M followed by funeral service at 11:00 A.M.

On November 15, 2008, WILLIAM H. JR. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Thursday after 8 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Friday at 9 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 9:30 A.M.

On May 13, 2007 DAPHNE NOEL HIGHTOWER. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 1:00 P.M. where the family will receive friends on Friday at 6:00 P.M. Funeral Services will follow at 6:30 P.M.

On November 12, 2006 HAYWOOD HIGHTOWER. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 a.m. where the family will receive friends on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Funeral services will follow at 12 noon.

On April 28, 2006, RUBY C. HIGHTOWER (nee Cottell) of Bel Air, MD., beloved wife of William C. Hightower, devoted mother of Philip I. Hightower and his wife Marilynn and Pat Scholz and her husband Reinhardt, loving sister of Mary Redfern, also survived by 3 grandchildren, Cathy L. Amberman, Michael D. Scholz and Cherie L. Hightower, and 7 great-grandchildren, Timothy, Nicholas and Jessica Amberson, Christy, Samantha, Joshua and Alyson Scholz. She was also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.

On a quiet, tree-lined street in Silver Spring, shaken neighbors were still struggling yesterday to understand the deaths of Dorothy and George Bechtold, whose bodies were found after their son walked into a Florida police station and confessed he had killed them.The youngest of the couple's five children, 23-year-old Brian Antonio Bechtold brought his Rottweiler dog named Ox when he walked into the police station in Port St. Joe, a town about 30 miles east of Panama City, and told Sgt. Timothy Hightower he wanted to turn himself in for murder.

Co-workers of Emilia D. Raras -- the woman charged with hiring a hit man to kill her daughter-in-law -- testified yesterday that they knew of the custody battle between her son and Sara J. Williamson Raras, and of the elder Raras' friendly association with the man accused of killing the woman. The witnesses, who worked with Raras, 63, and Ardale D. Tickles at a Baltimore County nursing home testified that Raras and Tickles were seen talking on several occasions in the employee lounge and at the nursing station before Sara Raras, 35, was killed at her home on Meadowfield Court in Elkridge.

Does hip-hop have heart?" a journalist repeatedly asks in G, as though the answer is both mysterious and revelatory. Of course, as anyone who's ever heard Diddy sing "I'll Be Missing You" can attest, hip-hop has plenty of heart. And that's pretty much the problem with G, too: It tries way too hard to find answers that everyone already knows. Envisioned as an African-American version of The Great Gatsby, with hip-hop replacing jazz as the soundtrack of Long Island's opulent Hamptons community, G tells its story in strokes way too broad for its own good.