Massey

WASHINGTON - Hugh Caperton, a small coal mine owner from Slab Fork, W.Va,. was driven into bankruptcy after he ran up against the huge A.T. Massey Coal Company, but he got a measure of revenge when a jury awarded him $50 million in damages. When Massey appealed to the West Virginia Supreme Court, however, Caperton knew he was in trouble. Massey's chief executive, Don Blankenship, had spent $3 million of his own money to elect a new justice. "The deck was stacked against us," Caperton said.

The sun rises big and bright and wintry and the wind blusters cold off the low fields when Charlie Stine dons his waders and stomps through the last thin ice on Massey Pond like Indiana Jones in search of the Lost Ark.On this clear sharp morning as winter ends, the Eastern Shore landscape has the spare beauty of a Rembrandt etching of Holland in winter. Charlie Stine -- Dr. Charles J. Stine in the catalog of the Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies -- loves this place. He's been coming to this corner of Kent County for nearly 50 years, drawn by the mysterious ways of the very elusive Eastern tiger salamander.

The small red-and-white candy-striped cottage on U.S. 40 in Ellicott City where Shirley Sause Massey and Pretty Boy, her spotted pony, once lived isn't long for this world, she expects.One of the last remnants of Maryland's mom and pop roadside commercial era on that stretch of highway, her old family homestead is up for lease and will likely be redeveloped -- leveled and replaced -- to fit the retail landscape near Rogers Avenue, she said."The buildings are 50 years old. They were never built with the idea of standing for posterity.

Ben Bagley,64, who produced several hit off-Broadway revues and a much-admired series of recordings of obscure Broadway songs, died March 21 in New York of complications of emphysema. In 1965, his "Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the Eyes of Cole Porter," an anthology of obscure Porter songs, paved the way for Broadway revues, such as "Ain't Misbehavin' " and "Sophisticated Ladies," that surveyed the work of a single composer.Arthur S. Link,77, a former Princeton University historian and leading scholar on Woodrow Wilson, died Thursday in Princeton, N.J., of lung cancer.

"Space Divided by 3" at Goucher College's Rosenberg Gallery is devoted to the work of three members of Goucher's art faculty: sculptor Stuart Abarbanel, installation artist Allyn Massey and photographer Ed Worteck. The show groups these artists not only because of their status as faculty members but also because their work has something in common: a concern with making the media in which they work a noticeable part of the art. Abarbanel leaves chisel and pencil marks on the wood he sculpts.

The woman's voice is calm but insistent. "Can you burn in a metal container so many feet from a building?" she asks 911 operator Bobbie Massey.It's one of many nonemergency calls that Massey will handle on this Friday evening: loose pit bulls, toddlers playing with the phone, a minor traffic accident, men poaching deer near a private school.Working in the county's high-tech 911 bunker under the courthouse, Massey and her colleagues handle 800,000 requests year for police, fire or medical help.

The streak began on a soggy Sunday afternoon 20 years ago this week. It began with little fanfare at Pine Ridge Golf Course in Timonium, at a long-forgotten LPGA tournament called the Greater Baltimore Golf Classic, with a 21-year-old rookie beating veteran Donna Caponi by three shots.Nancy Lopez doesn't recall much about the week or the win."I remember we putted on a temporary green," she said last week.But the victory for Lopez was just the beginning of her march into history.Her streak of five straight victories in tournaments she entered broke the record shared previously by LPGA Hall of Famers Kathy Whitworth and Mickey Wright, and was the third-longest run in professional golf behind Byron Nelson (11 in 1945)

Edgar S. Massey Jr., a Baltimore County educator for 26 years who, as principal of Lansdowne Middle School, was considered a "top of the rung" administrator, died Thursday of cancer at St. Agnes Hospital. He was 48.Mr. Massey of Catonsville became principal of Lansdowne Middle in 1995. He was known by students and teachers as an educator who went out of his way to get to know all those at the school and learn about their lives."He truly cared about everyone at the school," said Kris Marino, an English teacher for three years.

The streak began on a soggy Sunday afternoon 20 years ago this week. It began with little fanfare at Pine Ridge Golf Course in Timonium, at a long-forgotten LPGA tournament called the Greater Baltimore Golf Classic, with a 21-year-old rookie beating veteran Donna Caponi by three shots.Nancy Lopez doesn't recall much about the week or the win."I remember we putted on a temporary green," she said last week.But the victory for Lopez was just the beginning of her march into history.Her streak of five straight victories in tournaments she entered broke the record shared previously by LPGA Hall of Famers Kathy Whitworth and Mickey Wright, and was the third-longest run in professional golf behind Byron Nelson (11 in 1945)

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- CompuServe Corp. said yesterday that President and Chief Executive Officer Robert Massey has resigned, effective immediately.Massey's duties will be assumed by Chairman Frank Salizzoni while the company searches for a replacement for Massey. Salizzoni is president and chief executive of H&R Block Inc., which owns about 80 percent of the online service company.The move comes as CompuServe, a pioneer in the online industry, has lost market share to industry rivals America Online Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Peg Massey A memorial service will be held in her honor at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at Divinity Lutheran Church, 1220 Providence Road, Towson, MD 21286.

When it comes to what the therapists call "body image," Marissa Massey doesn't seem to need much bucking up. Before the question was even asked, the inmate at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women had a ready answer: "I love my body. I do." If everyone had that much confidence, Saturday's event at the prison in Jessup might not have been considered necessary. Representatives of the Center for Eating Disorders at Sheppard Pratt and the Girl Scouts set up shop at the prison yesterday to continue their campaign to resist what is considered a pervasive cultural obsession with an ideal body type, usually thin and thinner.

THE PROBLEM : The roots of a city-planted tree have damaged the sidewalk in front of a resident's house. THE BACKSTORY : Ever since Belle Massey moved into her home on Gorsuch Avenue, the roots of a street tree have been popping out of the pavement. "It's pulling itself right out of the ground," she said. By now, the woody tendrils have raised one of the sidewalk tiles, while other parts of the sidewalk have caved in, Massey said. In summer, the Coldstream-Homestead-Montebello resident must sweep away puddles to keep mosquitos away.

WASHINGTON - Hugh Caperton, a small coal mine owner from Slab Fork, W.Va,. was driven into bankruptcy after he ran up against the huge A.T. Massey Coal Company, but he got a measure of revenge when a jury awarded him $50 million in damages. When Massey appealed to the West Virginia Supreme Court, however, Caperton knew he was in trouble. Massey's chief executive, Don Blankenship, had spent $3 million of his own money to elect a new justice. "The deck was stacked against us," Caperton said.

An unprecedented surge in registrations, heightened interest in the presidential and congressional races and organized efforts to get voters to the polls did not give Harford County the record turnout many officials expected. "Given the interest and the high numbers in the morning, I thought we were headed toward 90 percent," said James E. Massey, director of the county Board of Elections. "Toward evening, things got quiet, and we ended the day with a 76 percent turnout." Presidential elections typically draw large numbers, with this year's tally at 114,000 voters, he said.

James Massey, director of the Harford County Board of Elections, typically carries voter registration forms with him. They came in handy last week when he went to the barbershop. Before his trim was complete Thursday, he had given out all the forms - to the barber, the receptionist and a few other customers. "I call it voter outreach," said Massey, whose staff is handling nearly 500 new registration forms a day. "It has been frenetic. A lot of people are saying that they want to vote this year.

The House of Representatives is expected to vote as early as today on a measure that would dismantle the Coast Guard's administrative law system, stripping the service of its judicial role in prosecuting misconduct and negligence charges against civilian mariners in response to claims of bias in the Baltimore-based courts. The measure would transfer all of the Coast Guard's maritime cases to the National Transportation Safety Board beginning in October. Coast Guard investigators typically bring more than 600 cases each year against professional mariners accused of drug use, incompetence, negligence or other infractions while working on the water.

MASSEY -- Sean Jones surveys the lush green expanse of ripening winter wheat that his dairy herd will be munching all year. Fourteen hundred acres - looking in any direction, it's pretty much all you can see. This uninterrupted vista is what convinced the Jones clan (including Sean's parents, two brothers and their families) to pull up stakes in 1995, swapping their farm near Mount Holly, N.J., to come here to Kent County, one of the remaining spots on the East Coast where farming endures as the cornerstone of a rural way of life.

On February 14, 2008: DIMITRA MASSEY WHITTINGTON; devoted wife of Sean L. Whittington. On Wednesday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Rd. from 4:00-8:00PM. On Thursday, Mrs. Whittington will lie instate at Union Memorial UM Church, 2500 Harlem Ave., where the family will receive friends from 10:30AM-11:00AM, with services to follow. Inquiries to (410)655-0015

Were married January 19, 2008 at The New Antioch Baptist Church of Randallstown. The bride, a graduate of BCCC is a Registered Nurse at Sinai Hospital. The groom, a graduate of CCBC-Catonsville, is a Software Developer and a student at the University of Baltimore. The couple will honeymoon in the Western Carribbean.