James Harrison

Today N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh JETS: Out: QB Quincy Carter (personal reasons). Questionable: DE John Abraham (knee). Probable: LB Kenyatta Wright (foot). STEELERS: Questionable: LB Kendrell Bell (groin/flu). Probable: RB Jerome Bettis (ankle); CB Ricardo Colclough (shoulder); LB Clark Haggans (groin); LB James Harrison (groin); RB Verron Haynes (knee); RB Duce Staley (hamstring); CB Deshea Townsend (hand). St. Louis at Atlanta RAMS: Questionable: WR Isaac Bruce (groin/hand); RB Arlen Harris (hamstring)

PITTSBURGH - James Harrison carries his Ravens grudge with him to work daily, at his side. He carries it in the form of the tag on his duffel bag: Rhein Fire, No. 53, Harrison. The Ravens were the ones who sent him to NFL Europe, an atrocious experience that lasted a forgettable month and a half and ended in an injured left knee and a decision that he would never go back to Germany "for love or money." The Ravens were the ones who, soon after his return to America, gave him his unceremonious release June 17. Oh, and they unceremoniously released him to sign his Rhein teammate and tight end, Daniel Wilcox, who called to tell Harrison the signing news, only to find that his buddy's misfortune was the reason why. You bet this Steelers linebacker was ready to vent.

Susan Hurley Harrison's legal trail has vanished nearly as mysteriously as she did.No criminal charges have been filed in the killing of the Ruxton socialite, who disappeared in 1994 and whose remains were found two years later in a remote part of Frederick County. Last week, a $17 million wrongful death suit, brought by her children against her estranged husband, James J. Harrison Jr., was settled privately.And now, many of the documents in the civil case file have been removed from the Baltimore County courthouse and returned to lawyers in the case -- removing even those details from the public eye."

Four years after Susan Hurley Harrison disappeared -- and 18 months after her body was found -- her frustrated family is asking the government to turn over criminal records they say are critical to their wrongful death suit against Harrison's estranged husband.The prosecutor overseeing the investigation of the Ruxton woman's death acknowledges that James J. Harrison Jr. is "the target of the investigation."No one has been charged in the case, but Mrs. Harrison's sons say the state should give them the material they need in their $17 million civil suit that blames Mr. Harrison for their mother's death and accuses him of abusing her for years.

Lawyers for James J. Harrison Jr., a suspect in the unsolved killing of his estranged wife, Susan Hurley Harrison, yesterday accused her sons of using a civil suit to help prosecutors implicate Mr. Harrison.While conceding that "James Harrison is the primary target" in the criminal investigation, his lawyers asked the Baltimore County Circuit Court to postpone action on the $17 million civil suit until a criminal investigation is complete.The suit filed in July by Jonathan Hawkes Owsley and Nicholas Barrett Owsley, the Ruxton woman's grown sons by another marriage, blames Mr. Harrison for their mother's death and accuses him of abusing her for years.

The Timonium home of James J. Harrison, under scrutiny for months after his estranged wife was slain almost three years ago, was swarming with detectives yesterday.State and Baltimore County police hauled away several envelopes of personal papers after a 10-hour search of the house in the 600 block of W. Timonium Road.They were seeking anything, said sources, that might link him to the areas where Susan Harrison's car or her remains were found. Officers gave no specific reason for the search.

Susan Hurley Harrison, the Ruxton woman whose skeletal remains were found last month in rural Frederick County, died of head injuries, the state medical examiner said yesterday in ruling her death a homicide.But even with the autopsy results, investigators acknowledged that they still do not know where she was killed or what weapon was used."We always felt this was a homicide, and we have operated that way since the beginning," said state police spokesman Michael J. McKelvin. "This is another piece of the puzzle."

Francis J. HarrisonMarketing executiveFrancis J. Harrison, retired vice president for marketing at the Noxell Corp., died Monday of a respiratory disease at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.Mr. Harrison, who was 62 and had homes in Stevensville and Sarasota, Fla., retired in 1987 after working for the company since 1963. He was a former resident of Lutherville.He had earlier done marketing work for Nestle USA.Born in Jamestown, N.Y., he served in the Air Force during the Korean War.Mr.