NEWS
By Mike Farabaugh | August 25, 1998
Eight years after losing a bitter custody battle in Circuit Court and fleeing the state with her 5-year-old son, a former Finksburg mother was back in Carroll County last night to face kidnap charges.Sharon Elaine Wimperis, 50, was arrested Aug. 5 on a federal warrant at her apartment near Detroit by FBI agents. She was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for parental kidnapping.Federal marshals escorted her yesterday to Maryland, where she was turned over to state police and taken to Westminster to appear before District Court Commissioner Emmett V. Jones last night.
NEWS
December 26, 1998
A mother and son were rescued early yesterday from the second floor of a burning rowhouse in East Baltimore.Firefighters arrived in the 100 block of N. Port St. at 7: 50 a.m after receiving a call from a neighbor, said Battalion Chief Hector Torres.Torres said the single-alarm fire was quickly contained.Mary Anne Geiser, 34, was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital, and her son, David Green, 10, was transported to Johns Hopkins Bayview. Both were listed in stable condition and were being treated for smoke inhalation.
NEWS
By Marcia Myers | December 14, 1997
A Pasadena mother and son died late Friday night in a head-on collision on the Sparrows Point viaduct near Bethlehem Steel Corp.Peggy Watson, 55, and Clarence Charles Fox Jr., 28, both of the 800 block of Swift Road, died in the crash, which also seriously injured Fox's fiancee and an 11-year-old passenger.The driver of the second car, Clifton Ken Phillip, 32, of the 800 block of Corktree Road in Baltimore County, suffered an ankle injury but declined treatment, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.
NEWS
By Greg Morago | August 25, 1996
"The Art Fair," by David Lipsky.Doubleday. 271 pages. $22.50.The novel's narrator, Richard Freely, is a precocious youngster who is shuttled between his artist mother in Manhattan and his writer father in Los Angeles. Their split was brought on by their mother's sudden arrival in the art world.Before she gained fame, their lives were idyllic, but as her work garned attention, the family life crumbled.If Lipsky's book reads so remarkably assured, perhaps it's because his story is drawn from real life: He is the son of painter Pat Lipsky Sutton.
FEATURES
By Ann Egerton | June 29, 1994
Family therapist Olga Silverstein and journalist Beth Rashbaum declare that it takes courage to raise good men because raising sons to be independent and good providers, as well as emotionally open, is so very hard.It has largely been, and still is, the job of mother; indeed, since an estimated 25 percent of the children in the United States -- an unprecedented amount -- have little or no contact with their fathers, it appears that rearing sons (and daughters) is solely the mother's job even more than before.
NEWS
By GARRY WILLS | January 11, 1994
The death of Virginia Kelley, President Bill Clinton's mother, is especially stunning because she was such a survivor. It is a shame to observe that this lively woman did not live to see her son complete his first year in office.She married five times, twice to the same man (Mr. Clinton's stepfather). Three of her husbands died, one in a car accident, one of alcoholism, one of diabetes. One son went to jail for drug possession. These are heavy blows for anyone to bear.It is common to hear that she bore up because she's a strong woman.
NEWS
By Glenn Small | October 13, 1993
By yesterday afternoon, state medical examiners concluded what Baltimore County police already suspected: Ruhama Jane Murphy, 44, and her son, Larry Bruce Price, 22, committed suicide in a Washington Boulevard motel room.But no one seemed to know why."We don't know," said Mary Lou Fisher, Mrs. Murphy's mother. "We just don't know . . . and I'll probably never know why."Police found Mrs. Murphy and her son about 6:15 p.m. Monday in the bathroom of a locked motel room. The pair checked into the room Sunday night, said E. Jay Miller, county police spokesman.
NEWS
By Phyllis Brill | September 14, 1992
As Thelma Semone stood by the front window of her home yesterday waiting for her son to arrive, she looked like any anxious mother with news to tell. But it wasn't any ordinary day.When 57-year-old Roy Semone drove up to the Glen Burnie house and stepped inside, he said hello to a mother he hadn't seen in more than a half-century.Roy Semone was just 10 months old when he was taken from his mother and placed into an orphanage. Until a month ago, he didn't even know if she was alive -- let alone that she lived in Glen Burnie, not that far from his Southwest Baltimore home.
NEWS
By Joanne Wasserman | December 29, 1992
NEW YORK -- Rosemary Holmstrom and her son, C. J., wer watching Magic Johnson talk about the AIDS virus on television when the bright, active 7-year-old asked his mother a natural and innocent question."
NEWS
By Los Angeles Daily News | September 2, 1992
LOS ANGELES -- For almost 30 years, Sherry Cowa searched for her son, not knowing what had become of the red-haired toddler she last saw when he was just a year old.Then three weeks ago, the phone rang and the suburban Mission Hills woman learned her son was alive -- and looking for her."I still can't believe it, even though he's right here," said Ms. Cowan, 48, of David Dills, 30, of North Augusta, S.C., after a friend helped reunite the mother and son Friday as a surprise for Mr. Dills.