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THE ROLAND PARK Second Presbyterian Church looked absolutely stunning last Saturday for the wedding of Natalia Pia Melanie Sommer and Richard Matthew Dohler. Thousands of wildflowers, miles of lace ribbons and tulle, and window sills decorated with Singapore orchids set the stage for the nuptials of the daughter of pop music star Donna Summer and her first husband, Helmut Sommer,and the son of Dick and Bonna Dohler, he's an Ellicott City builder.The church was filled with the music of German trumpeteer Langston Fitzgerald and selections of Bach, Beethoven and Vivaldi, played by the church's music director Margaret Budd on the organ.

So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation. And a wave swept this country in the Reagan years, a wave ridden by pundits and politicians seeking power, a wave that said, no mercy, no more. From now on, judges would be severely limited in the sentences they could hand down for certain crimes, required to impose certain punishments whether or not they thought those punishments fit the circumstances at hand.

Last week we learned that adult children of divorce will almost always revert to childish behaviors. Case in point, Briana, the daughter previously known as The Most Reasonable Person in Orange County, dissolved into a impertinent, recalcitrant, petulant brat upon meeting her mother's boyfriend. This week Briana grows up and fights like a big girl … but we'll get there soon enough. Elsewhere in the O.C., there are tiaras to be worn and bling to be bought as Alexis goes all out for her little princesses, and Slade decides to declare Gretchen his queen.

My earliest recollection of the television that arrived in my family's Guilford Avenue home was the broadcast of the 1955 Preakness. We were all fixed on that black-and-white Sylvania mounted high on a wall. Nashua beat Swaps and went on to win the Belmont, too. Nashua was named 1955 Horse of the Year and later bred to many other winners. A number of the horses competing at Pimlico today are his descendants. Not long after that 1955 Preakness, my mother guided me through the recently opened Woodward wing of the Baltimore Museum of Art , where I was dazzled by the portraits of thoroughbred horses and of a tall and distinguished gentleman, William "Billy" Woodward, Nashua's owner.

There are plenty of tragedies and many are easy to comprehend, and deal with. In nost cases, killer are supposed to go to prison. But what do you do with a 92-year-old man suffering from dementia who pushes his wife of 65 years, causing her to fall, break her hip and die. It's a homicide, authorities say, but not one that they're going to prosecute as a crime. The case announced today in Baltimore County opens up a world of questions -- how was the couple cared for? Were they living alone?

The body of a Howard County woman reported missing more than 20 years ago was found buried under floorboards of a shed behind her home, and her husband has been charged in her murder, police said.  Robert Jarrett, 57, of the 6000 block of Claire Drive, reported his wife, Christine Ann Jarrett, missing on Janurary 5, 1991, telling police she walked away from their home after an argument. News reports at the time said she kissed her sons goodnight, and left with $4,000 cash. The reports also said there were "brewing problems at home.

Most homes along Claire Road in a middle-class Elkridge neighborhood have a backyard shed, but underneath one of them, authorities say, a family secret has been buried for more than two decades. Robert A. Jarrett, 57, has been charged with murder after what police believe are the remains of his wife, Christine, were found under floorboards and concrete in the shed behind his home. Christine Jarrett vanished in 1991. Police said at the time that she apparently kissed her two children goodbye, took $4,000 and left because of marital problems with her husband of 16 years.

A 30-year-old Rosedale woman was held without bail last night on charges of first-degree murder and arson after police said she doused her sleeping husband with charcoal fluid and set him on fire.Police said Patricia Ann Hawkins told them she was the victim of spousal abuse and wanted to kill her husband before he killed her."I did it," Mrs. Hawkins, the mother of two, allegedly told officers who arrived at her home about 4:35 a.m. yesterday in the 6100 block of Marquette Road.Milton Hawkins, 32, suffered third-degree burns over 60 percent of his body, mostly his face, head and upper torso, said Capt.

WASHINGTON - A few words on behalf of Dixie Shanahan. Granted, some might consider her a less-than-sympathetic figure. After all, two years ago, Mrs. Shanahan, a 36-year-old from Defiance, Iowa, killed her husband with a shotgun blast to the head. She left his body decomposing on the bed for a year. But there is, as you might expect, more to the story. Mrs. Shanahan, backed up by friends, police reports and photographs of her own blackened eyes, testified that her husband, Scott, beat her repeatedly for years.

MIAMI -- Maybe you remember the cookie controversy. Happened during the 1992 presidential campaign. Questioned about the propriety of working for a law firm that received contracts from a state where her husband was governor, Hillary Clinton responded peevishly: "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas." While many observers denounced the remark -- and rightly so -- as an affront to stay-at-home moms, others seemed less concerned with the insult than with the threat to the status quo they perceived in it. This first lady, they realized, would do more than gaze adoringly at her husband.

It was an embarrassment of riches for me this Mother's Day, I'm not going to lie. All I really wanted was to spend time with my husband and our sons -- and to get a picture of me with the boys. I take the vast majority of the pictures in our household, but I don't appear in that many of them. I got all of that and more, including waffles for breakfast, my favorite Thai food for dinner, farmer's market cupcakes for dessert, a card on whose envelope my 3-year-old wrote "Mommy" all by himself.

Alice Pinkham Davies, who helped thousands of clients with their business careers as the co-owner of a resume writing service, died of Alzheimer's disease Thursday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. She was 85 and lived in Towson. Born Alice Arnold Pinkham in Washington, she was a descendant of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins, settlers of Massachusetts who arrived aboard the Mayflower. Her father was a Harvard-educated National Cash Register executive and her mother a homemaker. Raised in Milton, Mass., she was a 1944 graduate of Milton High School and spent a year at the Brimmer and May School in Boston.

It's been about a year and a half since former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager and her husband, Henry, reportedly left their South Baltimore rowhouse for new digs in Manhattan. But Henry Hager still owns the Baltimore place — and the couple still enjoys a property tax break that's supposed to be available only to owner-occupants. The Hagers' tax credit this year is small: a $296.40 discount on a tax bill approaching $9,000. Still, why would they get any break as absentee owners?

From The Aegis dated April 30, 1987: A Harford woman was sentenced 25 years ago to five years in prison, which equated to "one year for each bullet she fired into her husband's body. " The woman never denied shooting her unemployed husband, but said she did it because she feared the man she had lived with for 19 years and feared for her children. Not only did her husband abuse his step-daughter, he also fought with his two sons with the woman. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Robert Jarrett shuffled over to the red plastic chair and sat down, then used both of his shackled hands to slide on a pair of glasses. It was the 57-year-old's first court appearance after his arrest Wednesday night on charges that he killed his wife, Christine Ann Jarrett, who had gone missing more than 20 years ago. Little insight into the case was offered at the brief hearing Friday in Howard County District Court. Jarrett, who said he works as a steamfitter, did not have an attorney, and a prosecutor asked only that Judge Pamila J. Brown reaffirm his no-bail status, saying the severity of the charges makes him a flight risk.

A reader passed on this tip to me the other day, about car break-ins this week along the eastbound lanes of Northern Parkway, near York Road and Belvedere Square: My husband was the most recent victim last night when he returned to his car after dinner at around 9 p.m. to find his passenger side window smashed. Fortunately, nothing was missing but the replacement estimate is $400 (just shy of our $500 deductible). Anyway, my husband learned that his was the 30th car to be broken into in as many days along this short stretch of road.

From The Aegis dated April 30, 1987: A Harford woman was sentenced 25 years ago to five years in prison, which equated to "one year for each bullet she fired into her husband's body. " The woman never denied shooting her unemployed husband, but said she did it because she feared the man she had lived with for 19 years and feared for her children. Not only did her husband abuse his step-daughter, he also fought with his two sons with the woman. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

A 25-year-old Baltimore woman, one of the 70 members of the Salisbury-based 115th Military Police Battalion scheduled to leave yesterday morning, never arrived at the Parkville Armory. Four hours before she was to depart for Fort Stewart, Ga., Telayia Marshall, 25, was killed in a car crash during a domestic dispute with her husband, police said. Marshall, who lived with her husband, Leroy, 26, in the 5900 block of Daywalt Ave., was arguing with him inside a car near Charles and Mulberry streets about 2:30 a.m., according to reports.

A Dundalk woman who was sentenced last week to 60 years in prison in her husband's murder pleaded guilty Thursday to assaulting an officer at the Baltimore County Detention Center last August, said Deputy State's Attorney John P. Cox. Jaclyn J. Martin, 31, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor second-degree assault in an altercation with a woman officer on Aug. 21 and was sentenced to the time she has served since the charge was filed on Aug. 31. ...

The body of a Howard County woman reported missing more than 20 years ago was found buried under floorboards of a shed behind her home, and her husband has been charged in her murder, police said.  Robert Jarrett, 57, of the 6000 block of Claire Drive, reported his wife, Christine Ann Jarrett, missing on Janurary 5, 1991, telling police she walked away from their home after an argument. News reports at the time said she kissed her sons goodnight, and left with $4,000 cash. The reports also said there were "brewing problems at home.