King

On February 22, 2007, BONNIE VICTORIA KING; beloved wife of the late George E. King; devoted mother of Loretta Pfaff, Ronnie, Dennis and Georgie King and Pamela Brown; dear sister of Nadine Davis, Lena Lowther, Thomas Burner and Pauline Runyon. Also survived by eight grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. A Funeral Service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue, on Monday at 12 P.M. Interment Glen Haven Cemetery. Friends may call on Sunday, from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

A Baltimore County woman who said she was abducted in the Old Court area was found locked in the trunk of her car early yesterday after using her cell phone to call police, authorities reported.Sheila King, 35, told county police she was attacked by two men early Saturday morning and hit over the head with a handgun in the first block of Breton Hill Road. King said she was forced into her silver 1988 Subaru and driven to an area near her apartment in the 4300 block of Old Court Road before being locked in the trunk.

JASPER, Texas -- John William King had dreamed of forming his own chapter of a white supremacist group but felt he needed some dramatic event to catapult him into the limelight and attract members.That, prosecutors said yesterday for the first time, is why King and two other young white men chained a 49-year-old black man to the back of their pickup in June and dragged him three miles down a country road until his battered body was torn apart.The case against King, 24, the first of the three suspects to come to trial in the death of James Byrd Jr., opened yesterday before a jury of seven men and five women -- all white except for one black man."

WASHINGTON -- With many of the starters injured or unavailable during the preseason, the reserves of the Washington Wizards got plenty of playing time in the team's five exhibition games. It resulted in a boost of confidence in themselves, as well as from first-year coach Gar Heard.That experience from the past month came in handy in last night's season opener against the Atlanta Hawks at the MCI Center. With shooting guard Mitch Richmond in foul trouble and center Isaac Austin still out of sync, the reserves helped lift the Wizards to a 94-87 victory before an announced crowd of 16,038.

Lamar King spent most of yesterday sitting around his home in Essex with about 40 friends and family members. He didn't know if his phone would ring on the first day of the NFL draft, but the call came late in the afternoon from the Seattle Seahawks.By last night, King was partying at a club, celebrating the good news. This morning, he likely will be on a plane to Seattle.King, 6 feet 4 and 290 pounds, was the Seahawks' first-round pick yesterday, the 22nd player King taken in the draft. He was the second defensive end selected in the first round, two spots behind North Carolina's Ebenezer Ekuban, who was selected by the Dallas Cowboys.

In a peace offering to Carroll's African-Americans, a contrite school board yesterday restored the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, reversing a decision that triggered a wave of protest from the county's small minority community.The action capped a week of public outcry over the board's unanimous vote to keep pupils in school on the King holiday. Scrapping the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader galvanized Carroll's African-Americans and others angered by the decision.An audience of about 50, mostly African-Americans, listened intently at a special board meeting yesterday as board members apologized for not understanding the significance of the King holiday in the black community.

Sixty-five points by two players can lead to wrong impressions.Morgan State coach Chris Fuller, who had the pleasure of watching Rasheed Sparks and Jimmy Fields score 39 and 26 points, respectively, against Florida A&M, feared the effect on his team and told them as much heading into last night's game against Bethune-Cookman."

Sixty-five points by two players can lead to wrong impressions.Morgan State coach Chris Fuller, who had the pleasure of watching Rasheed Sparks and Jimmy Fields score 39 and 26 points, respectively, against Florida A&M on Saturday, feared the effect on his team and told them as much heading into last night's game against Bethune-Cookman."

BLACKS CORNER -- Along Black Schoolhouse Road in northern Carroll County, past an ocean of corn on the left, just around a bend, something strange comes into view.It's a bear. Staring you in the face. Even smiling at you. Just standing there. Right there in Charles King Jr.'s front yard.OK, he's made of wood. But 8-foot-tall animals -- even fake ones -- aren't exactly common in these parts. So passing drivers whose curiosities are sufficiently piqued pull into the King family driveway -- a handful do each week -- to ask about the bear.

TO ME, Martin Luther King Day is much more than a holiday. So, I often wonder what those who didn't know him think and feel about this man, and this special day.I grew up in Huntsville, Ala., where my parents marched with King. When I was 4 years old, I learned about protests and civil disobedience from my parents when they returned from sit-ins at segregated lunch counters.At the same time, I learned why we would not be buying new clothes from the segregated stores at Easter: because King, in conjunction with the local churches, had organized a boycott.

On June 30, 2009, WILLIE MAE KING, beloved wife of the late Charles King and dear mother of William, Eleanor and Lorenzo. Viewing at the JOSEPH L. RUSS FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 2222-26 W. North AVe., on Monday from 4 to 6 P.M. Wake at Friendship Baptist Church, 6000 Loch Raven Blvd, on Tuesday from 10 to 10:30 A.M. when funeral service will begin.

James Emory Bond was the grandson of a slave. He was born in a log cabin in Baltimore County in 1889. He had little education, but strong hands and a strong back and a solid work ethic. He served in the Army, then moved to the city, got a job, bought a house and married a woman named Isabella in 1916. They had 10 children. They lived on Mount Street, a few blocks from Union Square. H.L. Mencken was among the whites James Emory Bond sometimes engaged in conversation as he walked along the border between the races of that long-gone West Baltimore.

One was a Quaker, a nurse involved in the civil rights movement, sitting among the tens of thousands gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial. One was a New Yorker who had made a last-minute pilgrimage. Another was a seminary classmate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., standing near him on the platform, stepping closer as King strode to the podium - a sign of support for a man who was a lightning rod for controversy. And then there was the Rev. Vernon Dobson, a civil rights activist who worked with King, stunned as 250,000 people were hushed into silence by a sermon that revolved around four simple words.

Man sentenced in 2004 shooting A Baltimore man was sentenced yesterday in Baltimore County Circuit Court to 30 years in prison in the fatal shooting of a great-grandfather who was walking through his Dundalk neighborhood the night before Halloween in 2004. Jose Antonio Bassat, 30, was convicted in January of second-degree murder in the death of George Linwood King, 73. The 30-year sentence was the maximum that could have been imposed, prosecutors said. Bassat was accused of fatally wounding King -- known to his neighbors as "Mister George" -- while shooting at a group of young boys who had been throwing eggs and firing BB guns in the Turners Station neighborhood.

A 35-year-old Elkton woman identified by authorities as a "person of interest" in a hit-and-run that killed a veteran Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer in December was sentenced yesterday to a year in jail on an unrelated traffic charge. Kerri King was convicted of driving on a suspended license in November in Harford County. King, who was identified as the owner of the sport utility vehicle involved in a fatal incident on New Year's Eve, has been held at the Baltimore City Detention Center since January, authorities said.

Joyce King may well have saved Sarah Kreager's life. On Dec. 4, Kreager and her boyfriend, Troy Ennis, boarded the No. 27 Maryland Transit Administration bus heading toward downtown Baltimore. What happened after they boarded is in dispute. Kreager claims that when she sat down, some girls from Robert Poole Middle School told her to either move or be moved. Kreager said the girls, along with some boys from the school, attacked her and Ennis, leaving Kreager bleeding from head wounds, her left eye swollen shut and the socket broken in two places.

The Hampden resident who came to the aid of a woman beaten aboard a city bus testified yesterday that she saw a group of children kicking and punching the victim but said she could not identify any of the teens accused in the case. Joyce King told the court that she was sitting in her dining room when she heard a crash outside her house. She ran to her window and saw an MTA bus. "I saw the back door of the bus flying open," King said. "A girl came flying out." Others followed, and King watched as a group of students beat a woman who was later identified as Sarah Kreager, 26. King said she ran out of her house.

On February 24, 2008; SUSAN F. KING; beloved wife of Wayne S. King. On Friday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road, from 4:00 - 8:00 PM. On Saturday, Mrs. King will lie instate at Gospel Tabernacle Baptist Church, 3100 Walbrook Avenue, where the family will receive friends from 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 655-0015. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation in memory of Susan F. King.

On the night before Halloween in 2004, a group of young boys ran around their Turners Station neighborhood in Dundalk, tossing eggs, firing BB guns and making mischief. "They had no way of knowing," Baltimore County prosecutor Jennifer Schiffer told a jury yesterday at the opening of a murder trial, "the fury that their actions would create." When one egg hit a woman squarely in the chest, a teenager at the party she was attending ran after the boys with a sword. Later, people at the party called some friends, who went looking with a gun for the boys.

The owner of a sport utility vehicle that that police say was involved in the hit-and-run death of a Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer on New Year's Eve was granted a postponement on unrelated traffic charges in Harford County District Court yesterday. Kerri J. King, a 35-year-old mother of four from Elkton, faces two charges in a Nov. 20 incident in Havre de Grace, where she was ticketed for driving on a suspended license and driving 59 mph in a 35 mph zone, authorities said.