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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? On Friday, a Baltimore Sun reporter knocked on the door of the Hagers' home.

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 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. ...

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 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.

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.

A Dundalk woman who admitted to arranging her husband's murder two years ago was sentenced Monday to 60 years in prison. Prosecutors say Jaclyn Martin gave her brother money to buy the gun with which he shot Lee Martin outside his Dundalk bar early on May 22, 2010. Jaclyn Martin and her brother, Robert Garner, both pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the scheme. Garner had previously been sentenced to 60 years in prison. Prosecutors say Jaclyn Martin called her husband at the Hops Inn on Railway Avenue just before he stepped out of the bar. They say Garner, with the help of two others, ambushed and shot Lee Martin as he was walking to his house next to the bar. Brandon Roth, who drove the getaway car, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and was sentenced to 20 years with all but seven suspended.

Jean C. Fulton, an artist who worked in watercolors and metal, and with her husband transformed the derelict Monkton Hotel into a venue for artists and vendors, died Sunday of multiple organ failure at Sinai Hospital. The one-time Monkton and Tuscany-Canterbury resident was 79. The daughter of Wallace Oles and Charlotte Lehman Oles, Jean Carolyn Oles was born in Baltimore and raised on Enfield Road in Homeland. The family had founded the Oles Envelope Co. in 1912. After graduating from Bryn Mawr School in 1951, she attended Goucher College.