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If you're a big fan, you already knew what was coming in the season finale. But it didn't make it any easier -- or less heartbreaking -- to watch. The majority of the Season 3 "Downton" finale, or the "Christmas special" as its called in the U.K., took place in Scotland, where the whole family (minus Branson) visits the Highlands home of the Dowager's niece, Susan, and her husband, Shrimpy. Most of the trip included bagpipes, hunting, more bagpipes and Scottish reel dancing. But more on that later (and more on O'Brien meeting her Scottish lady's maid doppelganger)

Mary E. Mormann, a homemaker who worked in her husband's antiques business, died Sunday of complications from heart disease and diabetes at St. Joachim House in Southwest Baltimore. She was 88. The daughter of farmers, Mary Ellen Towler was born in Java, Va., where she spent her early years. She was attending grade school in Chatham, Va., when she withdrew and went to work as a nanny for her teacher, family members said. When she was in her teens, she moved to Baltimore with her teacher's family.

WJZ meteorologist Bernadette Woods is leaving the CBS-owned station to join a non-profit firm in New Jersey focused on climate change, she said Wednesday night. Woods, who has been with WJZ for seven years, said she will remain at the station helping with the transition for the next month. After that, she, her husband and their two children will be moving to Princeton, N.J., where she will join Climate Central as staff meteorologist. "I'm very excited about the opportunity in Princeton," she said.

It's not always in the Preakness Stakes, but every year, John Carroll graduate Nicole Stall urges her husband, trainer Al Stall Jr., to find a race for one of his horses on the third Saturday in May. This year, Departing gave Al Stall his second Preakness mount, finishing sixth in the nine-horse race while his wife and her family were treated to another memorable Preakness Day. “I used to always come growing up, and we try and run horses on...

On November 29, 2003 BRUCE SR., beloved husband of E. Helen (nee Berger) and devoted father of Robin Bortner and her husband John, Bruce Jr. and Thomas Heddinger and his wife Kristy; loving grandfather of Michael and Nicole Tachett, Brook Heddinger and Jenna Bortner; cherished son of Genevieve Heddinger. Dear brother of Joan Schittino and her husband Joseph and Joseph Heddinger; brother-in-law of Rosina Reese. Also survived by other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned HARTLEY MILLER-STELLA FUNERAL HOME, CHTD.

A Glen Burnie man has been indicted on charges that he killed his girlfriend's former husband, who still shared her home. A four-count indictment unsealed last week accuses Victor Steven Harper, 48, of the April 5 fatal shooting of Ray William Collignon, 53. Harper is charged with second-degree murder and related counts. Police had gone to the home in the 1500 block of Furnace Avenue in response to a call shortly after 3 p.m. They found Collignon dead, apparently shot in the head, Anne Arundel police said at the time.

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.

I think when I tried to rickroll my husband using our preschooler, I realized we might have a problem. A couple of years ago, Isaac's teachers at daycare asked me one day, half-embarrassed, half-amused, “Does Isaac know the song 'Ice Ice Baby'? Because we're pretty sure we heard him singing it to himself at naptime earlier this week.” Awkward! That one wasn't my fault. My husband had a goofy mix CD in his car that included that song, and unbeknown to either of us, the kid had picked up the words.

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

We all have the nightmare of being late to class, forgetting to study for the exam or being late to a test. At three score and four, I have now lived that nightmare.  I did not awake in a sweat. I did not leap from bed, throw on clothes and run downstairs, only to realize I am no longer in school. I sat quietly at my computer and felt ashamed to take a test one month late. Yes, an entire month for a woman, who, all of her adult life, has been prone to false starts, jumping the gun and trying to be ahead of deadlines.

Margaret N. "Peggy" DeGarmo, a retired construction company business manager and gourmet cook, died Thursday from a tumor at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. She was 84. The former Margaret New was born and raised in Vanderburg, N.J., and was a 1947 graduate of Red Bank High School. "Peggy had been my oldest sister's best friend in elementary school. That's how we met," said her husband of 64 years, Lindley H. "Dig" DeGarmo. The couple moved to Baltimore in 1950, and two years later, they established DeGarmo Constructors and Associates Inc., which did farm, commercial and residential construction.

Jimi Helen McCormick, a first lady of the McCormick spice, seasonings and flavorings firm, died Friday of cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. She was 74 and had homes in Reisterstown and Stuart, Fla. Born Jimi Helen Faulk in Jackson, Miss., she lived in Southern California as a child. After her father's death, she was partially raised by aunts and uncles in Methodist parsonages in Mississippi and Louisiana, where she attended schools. Her mother, Minnie Rae Faulk, was a Washington dressmaker.

Visitors celebrating Virginia's 80th Historic Garden Week at the Gari Melchers Home and Studio at Belmont might not immediately see a connection to Baltimore. The American painter, known for his portraiture, hailed from Detroit. His home, recognized as a National Historic Landmark, is just outside Fredericksburg, Va. It is Melchers' wife, Corinne, who provides the link. Born into a socially prominent Baltimore family in 1880, she married the middle-aged Melchers when she was in her 20s. So what was a nice Baltimore girl doing in Falmouth, Va.?

Madeline L. Healey, a homemaker who was an executive secretary to two Maryland first ladies, died of an intestinal blockage April 5 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The former Annapolis resident lived in Cockeysville and was 92. The daughter of Alva and Nannie Duvall, she was born in Baltimore and raised on Poplar Grove Street in Walbrook. A 1939 graduate of Forest Park High School, she met her husband, William H. Healey Jr., when both were teens living in the same neighborhood.

"What's the second paragraph?" That is my boilerplate response when someone suggests a column idea to me. "Yeah. Right. But where do I go from there?" Not every topic is worth 700 words. So, today I will offer a few words on recent headlines in the news. Call it speed-opinionating. •Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, whose aides told everybody he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he was in fact bedding his mistress in Argentina, has won the Republican primary for his old congressional seat.

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.

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.

Joan D'Angelo, a homemaker and Baltimore Symphony Orchestra volunteer, died of complications from pneumonia March 15 at Bay Woods in Annapolis. She was 90. Born Joan Shumaker in Allentown, Pa., she attended school in Lancaster and was a 1941 graduate of Catonsville High School. She also attended the Bard Avon School in downtown Baltimore. In 1945, she married E. Gordon Leatherman, an insurance business owner. He died in 1995. She raised her family in a house at the corner of Malvern Avenue and Army Road in Ruxton.

Leonard Sachs and Lainy LeBow-Sachs have turned their world outside-in. The renovations and additions to the Baltimore power couple's Reisterstown home make it ideal not only for entertaining large groups, but for entertaining birds, too. Fond of plants and flowering shrubs as well, Leonard commissioned a solarium that defies Mid-Atlantic winters. And the flagstone that was once the exterior of the house is now part of the study and den and informal dining area, giving the house a rustic, masculine quality.