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October 9, 2009
On October 5, 2009 LORETTA ANN. Beloved mother of Lisa Vogel and Paula Vogel Neuber; sister of Carolyn, Audrey, Cathy and Buddy; grandmother of Jayde and Tessa. Beloved daughter of Carolyn Stiepler and the late Sylvester Oliver. Friends may call at Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. where services will be held at 7:30 P.M. Interment private.
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By Nick Madigan | September 17, 2009
After days of public displays of profanity and abuse - in Congress, at the U.S. Open tennis championships, during the MTV Video Music Awards - news came Wednesday of another such incident closer to home. Baltimore County police released details of the arrests of two women accused of dispensing an obscenity-laden tirade against a police officer who pulled them over Monday night in Randallstown after noting that a rear light on their car was not working. The driver, Kelli Dorschell Oliver, 40 - whose father, Baltimore County Councilman Kenneth N. Oliver, pleaded guilty in July to two counts of campaign fund violations - was charged with resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and second-degree assault after the police officer reported that she had bitten, scratched and kicked him as he tried to place her in handcuffs.
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September 11, 2009
What Maryland thinks : The Baltimore Police Department plans to install a surveillance camera in a bar on Oliver Street linked to drug dealing and violence. Should the city place cameras inside private businesses as a crime-fighting tool? Yes 45% No 51% Not sure 4% (847 votes, results not scientific) Next poll: : The Supreme Court has signaled that it may do away with long-standing restrictions on corporate funding of campaigns. Should corporations and unions be free to contribute directly to candidates?
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | August 22, 2009
Catherine M. Travagline, a retired benefits manager and avid gardener, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The longtime Jarrettsville resident was 51. Catherine Michele Oliver was born in Baltimore and raised in Dundalk. She was a 1976 graduate of Patapsco High. Mrs. Travagline earned a bachelor's degree in business from Towson University in 1980, and a master's degree in business from Loyola College in 2000. She had been a benefits counselor for Koch Benefits Services for five years before retiring in 2005 because of failing health.
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By Arin Gencer | July 29, 2009
Sharon K. Brown pointed to a chart with rows of construction-paper people under the title "Favorite summer activities." "Is this a bar graph?" she asked the four children sitting in front of her. "Yeah, but it's people," Veronica Zulauf, 8, said. Indeed, Brown said, the graph had pictures. "So what kind of graph is it?" "It's a pictograph," Kyle Nuckols, 8, said. "Because it has symbols." So began a math lesson in Brown's summer-school class at Baltimore County's Oliver Beach Elementary, where she has taught for more than a decade.
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By Nick Madigan | July 29, 2009
Baltimore County Councilman Kenneth N. Oliver pleaded guilty Tuesday to pocketing $2,300 donated to his political campaign, but he did not have to account for an additional $15,000 that prosecutors say he mishandled. As part of a plea deal, the 64-year-old Randallstown Democrat agreed to pay a $2,500 fine and to serve 50 hours of community service observing the work of an accountant who is an expert in the proper use of campaign accounts. He also must serve a six-month period of probation, which will be supervised until he pays the fine and court costs.
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July 19, 2009
On July 13, 2009, LAWRENCE E. OLIVER, SR., loving husband of Alvenia Oliver. He is also survived by his loving children Saundra Brown, Jacqueline Johnson, Renee Davis, Lawrence Jr., Gregory and Steven Oliver; three brothers and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Monday after 9. Family will receive friends on Tuesday at Payne Memorial A.M.E Church, 1714 Madison Ave, at 11:30. Followed by funeral services at 12.
NEWS
June 21, 2009
On June 17, 2009 OLIVER (LEITH), age 90, Wellston, Ohio, died unexpectedly Wednesday morning June 17, 2009 at Holzer Medical Center-Jackson ER. Born in Baltimore on April 23, 1919. He was son of the late Albertus and Gertrude Myers. He was a veteran of the US Navy and was a self-employed home builder and designer. He was instrumental in the design and development of the beautiful Montgomery Meadows home sites in the South and of Wellston. Besides his parents he was predeceased in death by his first wife Ethel Conway Myers in 1998 and four brothers and three sisters.
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May 13, 2009
Cell phone planted at prison yields two arrests A contraband cell phone planted by law enforcement and corrections officials in Baltimore's Supermax prison was used to record inmate conversations, uncovering multiple crimes, including a home invasion plot that resulted in a killing. Kevin Dorsey, 26, and Rodney Lockett, 25, were charged Tuesday with the armed robbery in which two people were shot and one died. More charges will likely follow from the investigation, dubbed "Operation Dial-a-Cell," said U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein.
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By Mary Gail Hare | January 28, 2009
Baltimore County Councilman Kenneth N. Oliver, who already faces charges of violating campaign finance laws, has missed a deadline to file his annual campaign finance report. The second-term Democrat, who represents the Randallstown and Woodlawn areas, has been fined $10 a day since the Jan. 21 filing deadline, a state elections official said. Oliver said yesterday that he attempted to file the annual report electronically several times Monday but did not succeed. "Every time I tried to file, the computer kicked it back," he said.