Kenna

Royal V. McKenna, a former gift shop owner and an Easton resident, died of pneumonia June 4 at Memorial Hospital at Easton. He was 76. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Mr. McKenna served in the Navy during World War II. He worked in sales before opening a gift shop in Savannah, Ga., in the early 1970s. He closed the business in 1978 and moved to Easton. He was an avid fisherman. Mr. McKenna was a communicant of SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in Easton, where a memorial Mass was offered Friday.

Philip J. McKenna, founder of the Employee Assistance Professionals of America and former president of the National Council on Alcoholism, died Friday of heart failure at his home in Bethany Beach, Del. He was 71. A recovering alcoholic with 33 years of sobriety, Mr. McKenna brought sensitivity and understanding to those with similar problems. The former longtime Joppatowne resident moved to the resort community after retiring last month from Constellation Energy Inc., a division of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. where he had been coordinator and head of the employee medical assistance program since 1974.

If you like the scenery of "Northern Exposure," the themes of "A River Runs Through It" and the acting style of Clint Eastwood, you'll probably love ABC's "McKenna," which will premiere at TC tonight on WJZ (Channel 13).This saga of a family headed by patriarch Jack McKenna (Chad Everett), a tour guide in the Pacific Northwest, contains a little bit of a lot of things you've seen before.For starters, there's the splendid scenery of Oregon's mountains, forests and waterways. Then there's the relationship between a father (Everett)

A Baltimore County Circuit Court judge has imposed a 30-year prison term on Harvey Allen Teets, 28, the man convicted in the bludgeoning death of Kimberly R. Kenna, a guard at St. Timothy's School in Stevenson.Kenna, who worked part time at the school on the overnight shift, was dragged from her guard's shack Feb. 23, 1991, and beaten to death with a wooden club. Her half-naked body was found later that morning floating in a pond on the school grounds.Judge Alfred L. Brennan Sr. sentenced Teets yesterday to the maximum term for his second-degree murder conviction.

A Baltimore County Circuit Court judge handed down a maximum 30-year sentence yesterday to Harvey Allen Teets Jr., saying he wished the man's prison cell could be papered with photographs of the battered body of a St. Timothy's School security guard.Teets, a 29-year-old groundskeeper at the school, was found guilty Oct. 3 of the second-degree murder of Kimberly R. Kenna, 23.Ms. Kenna was killed while she was on duty in her guard shack at the private school on Greenspring Avenue in Stevenson last Feb. 22.Since the conviction, Assistant State's Attorney Stephen Bailey said Teets has told pre-sentence investigators that he had intended to sexually assault Ms. Kenna that night, when he surprised her and beat her to death with a wooden club, then dumped her half-clothed body in a nearby pond.

A Baltimore County jury found a Carroll man guilty of second-degree murder in the death of a security guard at St. Timothy's School.It took the jury five hours Thursday to find Harvey Allen Teets Jr. guilty of killing Kimberly R. Kenna, 23. Kenna's bludgeoned body was found in February in a pond 20 yards from the guard house at which she worked.Assistant Public Defender Patricia L. Chappell, asked for a delayin sentencing to allow her time to prepare psychological evidence onthe 28-year-old groundskeeper, who also worked at the Baltimore County private school.

A prosecutor expressed disappointment over a Baltimore County Circuit Court jury's decision to convict Harvey Allen Teets of second-degree murder the death of Kimberly R. Kenna, a St. Timothy's School security guard."

A Baltimore County jury took five hours to find Harvey Allen Teets Jr. guilty of second-degree murder last night in the bludgeoning death of a guard on the rural St. Timothy's School campus in February.Teets, known as "J.R.," faces a maximum penalty of 30 years for killing Kimberly R. Kenna, 23, who was beaten to death in a guard shack and her half-clothed body dumped into a pond 20 yards away.An assistant public defender, Patricia L. Chappell, asked for a delay in sentencing to allow her time to prepare psychological evidence on Teets, 28, a groundskeeper at the private high school on Greenspring Avenue in Stevenson.

A former cellmate of the man charged with murdering Kimberly R. Kenna, a St. Timothy's School security guard, testified that anger over a domestic dispute may have been the catalyst for the killing.David Lotridge, 23, told a Baltimore County Circuit Court jury yesterday that Harvey Allen Teets Jr. confessed to killing the part-time security guard because "he had a lot of anger toward females" as a result of an estrangement from his wife.Judge Alfred L. Brennan Sr. and jurors listened as Lotridge told of sharing a cell with Teets at the Baltimore County Detention Center following Teets' arrest in March in the Feb. 23 slaying of Kenna, 23, who lived at St. Timothy's.

After a night of drinking and drug abuse that inflamed his smoldering anger against women, Harvey Allen Teets Jr. returned to his workplace at a Baltimore County girls school and beat to death school guard Kimberly R. Kenna, a man who shared a jail cell with Mr. Teets testified yesterday.David Lotridge testified in Baltimore County Circuit Court that Mr. Teets twice admitted to killing Ms. Kenna, 23, once through tears as he sat in their cell at the Baltimore County Detention Center.Mr. Teets, 28, a former groundskeeper at St. Timothy's School for girls, a private high school on Greenspring Avenue in Stevenson, is charged with first-degree murder in Ms. Kenna's death in February.