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As he entered the final round of fishing on the Louisiana Delta yesterday, Davey Hite knew he finally had a real chance to win the BASS Masters Classic -- and this time he didn't let the big one get away."

A man killed by a police officer Thursday evening in East Baltimore was shot in the back of the head -- a revelation that raises questions about a shooting that has enraged residents in the Barclay Street neighborhood.Homicide detectives are sorting through two distinct versions of what happened when two officers confronted Larry J. Hubbard, 21, after he ran from an Oldsmobile that was reported stolen from Montgomery County on Tuesday.The officers describe a violent struggle with Hubbard before the fatal shooting on a street near the city school headquarters.

Davey Hite, a 33-year-old professional angler from Prosperity, S.C., pocketed $250,000 yesterday for winning the Wal-Mart FLW Tour Championship, the largest cash prize ever paid to the winner of a bass fishing tournament.Hite weighed in 10 pounds, 13 ounces of bass at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Moline, Ill., to edge second-place Tommy Biffle of Wagoner, Okla. Biffle, who weighed in 10 pounds, 1 ounce, took home only $25,000.Hite caught his winning stringer of five bass from an undisclosed area of the Mississippi River using a Gambler Super Tube jig, a Bulldog buzz bait and a top-water frog.

Baltimore has settled a civil suit brought by relatives of a South Baltimore man who died in 1994 of injuries he received while being arrested by two city police officers.Survivors of George T. Hite, 31, sued the city in 1995, charging that the officers used excessive force in arresting him in June 1994, Hite struck his head in a fall during the arrest. He died two months later of complications from the head injury and pneumonia.The case had been expected to go to a jury Thursday after a trial of more than two weeks, said Thomas Cordaro, the Washington attorney who represented Hite's parents.

Who else would know more about climbing over the rest of the pretenders in the Atlantic Coast Conference and taking a shot at Florida State than Chuck Amato?That's an argument that Amato, Bobby Bowden's right-hand man with the Seminoles, could make if Maryland wants to interview him for its head coaching position in football, which came open when Mark Duffner was fired Monday.Amato is among those college assistant coaches who are expected to be interviewed by Maryland.The university doesn't figure to name a successor to Duffner until the second week of December.

Maryland draws first returns today on its recruiting class of 1996 with the signing of shooting guard Kelly Hite and power forward LaRon Cephas, but the players who could make the biggest difference remain uncommitted.Neither Nate James, the 6-foot-6 forward from St. John's Prospect Hall in Frederick, nor Mike Mardesich, 6-11, of Worcester (Mass.) Academy, appears close to signing.James, a top 30 player, and Mardesich, a coveted big man, would turn a suspect recruiting season for Maryland coach Gary Williams into a strong one.But their recruitment will be played out over the next month, and not today, when the NCAA's late signing period opens.

Choices. Everybody makes them -- some for the better and some that turn out for the worst.A week ago yesterday George Cochran, a bass fishing pro from Hot Springs, Ark., knew the unorthodox choices he had made during the BASS Masters Classic on Lay Lake in Alabama were for the better.At a time of year when most of the country's top 41 bass fishermen were expecting to work main channel structure of the Coosa River impoundment for largemouth and spotted bass, Cochran went into the shallows and came out with the $100,000 first prize.

As part of a class, Tyrone Neal Jr. designed the foundation of a house, the blueprint of which was actually used by a neighbor.And someday, Neal likely will pursue a career geared toward building homes, even communities. But for now, the Southern senior wrestler's concentrating on his own back yard.Older brother, Sherrard, now at the Naval Academy, had the right combination of a solid academic background and a county title won as a 140-pound senior.Tyrone Jr. is similarly equipped, having maintained a 3.0 grade average over tough courses such as honors physics, analytic geometry, pre-calculus and advanced English.

Four years ago Charles H. Hodges couldn't tell you what a dock leveler was.Today, the Baltimore engineer shares the patents for a dock leveler that is cheaper and more durable than ones that have dominated the market for four decades.His design, manufactured by Milwaukee-based Kelley Dock Systems since April, now accounts for 75 percent of the company's dock leveler sales. Kelley is ranked as the country's second leading maker of the movable ramps that link truck beds to loading docks."It really is the better mousetrap," said Leslie Gould, a consultant in the materials handling field and associate editor of Modern Materials Handling magazine.

A comatose South Baltimore man died Tuesday night -- nearly two months after he suffered a head injury while being arrested by two city police officers.George T. Hite, 31, was pronounced dead about 9 p.m. at the Greenery Extended Care Center in Baltimore.Thomas C. Cardaro, a lawyer for Mr. Hite's family, said Mr. Hite died after developing pneumonia. The lawyer said an autopsy was completed yesterday, but the medical examiner is waiting for test results before ruling on a cause of death.Mr.

Linda Dennis doesn't want to move. Sadly, it might be her only choice. She says she has received more threats since the windows of her two cars were shattered because of her refusal to sell her aging white Volvo sedan to a drug dealer in her neighborhood near Pimlico Race Course. Dennis discovered the damage Tuesday morning, and I found her while headed to a fatal shooting two blocks away. She talked to me - feeling that going public was the only way to get attention - dealt with her insurance company, got a rental car and drove to the Pennsylvania line to her job as a home health aide.

Youth charged in shooting that killed another boy A 15-year-old boy was arrested yesterday in the fatal shooting of another teenager from his neighborhood, and a key piece of evidence appears to be a letter the suspect is said to have written to the victim explaining that he did not mean to shoot him, according to court records. Derrick Reed, 15, was killed Sept. 23 a few blocks from his East Baltimore home. In charging documents, Detective Napolean McLain wrote that Reed and Dennis Hite had been struggling over a handgun when the weapon discharged and Reed was struck in the abdomen.

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Moves Basketball CAVALIERS -- Waived G Hassan Adams and F Darius Rice. NETS -- Waived G Robert Hite. NUGGETS -- Re-signed G Mike Wilks. Football 49ERS -- Waived LB Hannibal Navies. Signed FB Zak Keasey from practice squad.

FILMS OUT OF AFRICA View a selection of contemporary African films this weekend at the Baltimore Museum of Art. The African Film Festival Traveling Series features eight films over two days, including A Child's Love Story (Un amour d'enfant), Ousmane, My Lost Home (Ma Maison perdue) and Whole: A Trinity of Being. Films, which range in length from 15 minutes to 106 minutes and were all made between 2001 and 2006, come from South Africa, Egypt, Senegal, Algeria, Morocco and Burkina Faso.

For the second straight year under the NCAA's new formula for calculating graduation rates, the Maryland men's basketball team is at the bottom of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the football team is in the league's lower echelon, according to statistics released yesterday by the NCAA. The men's basketball team had a graduation success rate (GSR) of 18 percent for freshmen entering the university between 1996 and 1999. The football team is eighth in the ACC with a GSR of 64 percent. The numbers were in contrast with the athletic department's overall GSR of 76 percent for a second consecutive year.

On Tuesday, January 24, 2005 MRS. LOIS WILSON HITE. She was preceded in death by husband Paul Hite; parents Thomas Oscar and Emma Rebecca Wells Wilson; brother Hudson Wilson and sister Omelia Hamrick; beloved mother of Gary Hite of Ball Ground, GA, Delton Hite and wife Beth of Woodville, TX and Barry Hite and wife Joann of Pasadena, MD; dear sister of Ben Wilson and Hershel Wilson, both of Lattimore and Louise Gold of Shelby; devoted grandmother of...

A former Baltimore police officer was killed in the line of duty Friday in Norfolk, Va., after being shot by an assailant who was still at large, the Norfolk Police Department said yesterday. Stanley Cornell Reaves, 33, was a Baltimore police officer from 1993 until 2004, when he was hired by the Norfolk department. According to Norfolk police, Reaves was flagged down by a person who told him a man nearby was acting suspiciously. He approached the man, who was standing by a parked van, about 4 p.m. Friday.

LEONARD HAMM, the Baltimore police commissioner, could be standing on a street corner watching his officers make a drug arrest, or he might be attending a community event, walking into a barber shop, or just sitting on the front steps of his house. It could happen any time, and often does. Someone recognizes Hamm, walks up to him and says: "Commissioner, I got to get out of the game." His officers hear it, too. At 2 a.m., when only they and the corners boys are on the street, someone will wait for the right moment, out of earshot of his friends, and say: "I got to get out of the game."

On June 4, 2005 RUSSELL THOMAS; beloved husband of 62 years of Ellen Hite (nee Maloney); dear brother of Mary Parks, Helen Menickelly, Nancy, Aubrey, Richard and Jerry Hite and the late Gertrude Acton, Ruth Warren, William and Donald Hite. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Chapel of the Angels, Charlestown on Wednesday from 9 until 10 A.M. at which time a Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated. Interment at 2:30 P.M. at Cedar Hill Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to the Parkinson's Disease Association, 1501 N.W. 9th Ave., Miami, FL, 33136-1404 or St. Agnes Hospice, 3421 Benson Ave., Baltimore, MD 21227.