Pulaski

On June 24, 2007, NELLIE E. HOOD. On Sunday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike, from 3-8 P.M. On Monday, Mrs. Hood will lie in state at Abundant Life Church, 7302 Pulaski Highway, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Walter Marks Gordon, a retired FBI agent and longtime Towson resident, died of sepsis Saturday at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. He was 85. Mr. Gordon, the son of a farmer, was born and raised in Pulaski, Tenn. He was a 1942 graduate of Martin Methodist College in Pulaski and enlisted in the Navy the next year. He was a pharmacist's mate aboard the Army transport Hunter Liggett in the Pacific during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1946. In 1946, he was appointed an FBI special agent and was a fingerprint and accounting expert in the Baltimore field office for 30 years.

A man was shot by off-duty city sheriff's deputies in East Baltimore last night during a holdup that took place a block from a Fraternal Order of Police union meeting on Pulaski Highway near Clinton Street.Police said three armed robbers entered the Me Too bar in the 3200 block of Pulaski Highway about 8: 50 p.m. and announced a holdup. In the tavern were three customers and two bar employees. All of them fled. The employees ran to a nearby tavern -- Looney's Santa Fe -- where about a dozen off-duty deputies from the Baltimore sheriff's office were holding an FOP meeting.

For Grant Lackey, the routine never varied.Year after year, six days a week, Mr. Lackey rose at 3 a.m. in his Reservoir Hill rowhouse and dressed in coveralls and a brown cap.By 6: 30 a.m., he was on the corner waiting for a No. 5 transit bus and, after transferring to a No. 35 bus, arrived for work at Pulaski Tire Service in the 7800 block of Pulaski Highway in Rosedale, where he had been employed since the early 1970s.Mr. Lackey, 98, died Sunday of a heart attack at his home.Vernell DeShazo, who is a partner at the 24-hour-a-day tire company, said Mr. Lackey worked several days last week but really "wasn't 100 percent."

Police arrest 17 on prostitution charges along Pulaski HighwayBaltimore police reported that a vice operation conducted with Baltimore County police along Pulaski Highway last night resulted in 17 arrests on prostitution charges.Sgt. Brian Matulonis of the city's Northeast District said undercover officers posed as prostitutes and customers, arresting men and women. The eight arrested in the county were taken to the White Marsh precinct, and the nine apprehended in the city went to the Central Booking and Intake Center.

A bank robber's bomb hoax closed a bank and briefly shut down a major roadway in Baltimore County yesterday, police said.A man carrying two bags entered the First Mariner Bank in the 8200 block of Pulaski Highway just after 2 p.m. yesterday, according to police, and handed a teller a note demanding money. The note also implied he had a bomb, said county police spokeswoman Cpl. Vickie Warehime.The teller handed over an undisclosed sum, and the man left the bank but dropped one of his bags as he went, Warehime said.

It didn't take Baltimore County police long to locate the source of a complaint that someone was launching bombs over a Pulaski Highway carwash. Across the street was a man holding an unexploded, 2-foot-long bomb, police said.But it took hours to empty his Rosedale house in the 1200 block of White Ave. of explosives, chemicals, fuses, tubes, caps and how-to manuals -- an array of paraphernalia so extensive that police evacuated six surrounding houses as a precaution.The fallout from the discovery of a basement lab filled with dangerous chemicals triggered a chain of events that stretched from Monday afternoon into yesterday morning.

With shootings and killings piling up in two Southwest Baltimore neighborhoods, police decided it was time to make a public display of force. Yesterday they raided eight houses in one block, sending in a force of 80 officers.Police said the seven people arrested in the 400 block of S. Pulaski St., while not directly responsible, contributed to a violent year in Shipley Hill and Carrollton Ridge. Nine people have been killed and 17 more shot in the two communities since January."I would say that for at least the next two days, this will have an immense impact," said Maj. John L. Bergbower, commander of the Southwestern District.

A stolen Howard County vehicle equipped with an electronic tracing system led authorities to a Baltimore garage described by police yesterday as a "chop shop."Police raided the three-bay garage in the 600 block of N. Pulaski St. and made two arrests. They also recovered five vehicles believed to have been stolen, in addition to the 1998 Jeep Cherokee reported stolen in Howard County.Arrested were Eric Jackson, 29, of the 5400 block of Belle Vista Ave. and Kim Gladney, 36, who told police he lived in the garage.

They felt alone for the longest time, the hamlet of Armistead Gardens vs. the aging trash-burning plant less than a mile away; ordinary folks sick of a horizon that always looked gray, tired of the slimy soot that wafted their way from the Pulaski Incinerator.For years the fight was against City Hall. In 1981, when Baltimore sold the trash-burning plant to Willard J. Hackerman, residents had to battle the wealth and influence of the Whiting-Turning Construction Co. owner.It is amazing to the people of Armistead Gardens and their supporters that the little people seem to have won: Hackerman says he's ready to demolish the 41-year-old incinerator and donate the land to the communities that hounded him.Along the way, the fight against the incinerator picked up support from environmentalists, politicians and hundreds of residents in Belair-Edison, Rosedale, Beverly Hills, and other neighborhoods along the U.S. 40 corridor.

It is a house of horrors, and it stands alone on Pulaski Highway, a boarded, narrow two-story brick rowhouse built in 1920, flanked by a freshly mowed lawn. It's all but abandoned next to a Dunkin' Donuts and a BGE substation on a stretch of fast-food restaurants, gas stations and strip clubs. Sister Myra was killed here back in 1994, beheaded by a deranged man who thought the matriarch of one of the most powerful Gypsy clans in the country had put a hex on him. The funeral for Sister Myra - or Deborah Stevens, 62 - brought hundreds of Gypsies to the city to pay homage to their fallen leader in a three-day drunken celebration.

Wish list in hand, Baltimore County Executive James T. Smith Jr. asked state transportation officials yesterday for millions of dollars to pay for improvements to roads, bridges and train stations, but a tough economy means he will not get everything he wants. In a meeting in Towson, Smith told John D. Porcari, Maryland's secretary of transportation, that with an expected influx of residents under the military's Base Realignment and Closure process, "it is imperative that we have the appropriate infrastructure to accommodate the new residents and jobs that we anticipate adding to this area."

A portion of eastbound U.S. 40 will be closed between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Pulaski Street from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. today for a film production, according to city transportation officials. Delays should be expected, and officials recommend that motorists find alternate routes.

The Go-Kart Track at 10907 Pulaski Highway offers children and adults a chance to explore their inner race-car driver. Kids as young as 4 can go 12 mph on a juniors track, while parents can ride with their 3-year-olds in a two-seated go-kart. Go-Kart Track Inc. in White Marsh is open year-round.

IF YOU GO When: Through Sunday Where: AMF Country Club Lanes 9020 Pulaski Highway Purse: $180,000 2006 winner : Sean Rash Today: 10 a.m to 2 pm., 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tomorrow: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday: Pro-Am events and Fan Day, noon, 3:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. Sunday: Finals, 1 p.m. Tickets: www.etix.com

Eugene Patrick Pulaski, a retired foreman and outdoorsman, died Saturday of mesothelioma at his Perry Hall home. He was 81. Mr. Pulaski was born in Baltimore and raised in Highlandtown. He was a 1943 graduate of the old Patterson Park High School and enlisted in the Navy that year. He was a sonar operator aboard ships in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Pacific, and he participated in the landings at Anzio, Italy. He was honorably discharged in 1946. Mr. Pulaski worked as an electrician and foreman for 37 years at Bethlehem Steel Corp.

On June 24, 2007, NELLIE E. HOOD. On Sunday friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike, from 3-8 P.M. On Monday, Mrs. Hood will lie in state at Abundant Life Church, 7302 Pulaski Highway, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Walter Marks Gordon, a retired FBI agent and longtime Towson resident, died of sepsis Saturday at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air. He was 85. Mr. Gordon, the son of a farmer, was born and raised in Pulaski, Tenn. He was a 1942 graduate of Martin Methodist College in Pulaski and enlisted in the Navy the next year. He was a pharmacist's mate aboard the Army transport Hunter Liggett in the Pacific during World War II and was honorably discharged in 1946. In 1946, he was appointed an FBI special agent and was a fingerprint and accounting expert in the Baltimore field office for 30 years.

The Harford County Development Advisory Committee serves as a forum for the review of subdivision and site plans submitted to the Department of Planning and Zoning by those seeking building permits. The committee will review the following proposals at 9 a.m. Wednesday in the second-floor conference room of the Harford County government building, 220 S. Main St., Bel Air: Location: On the north side of Pulaski Highway, east of Joppa Farm Road. Developer: 300 Route 40, LLC/Frederick Ward Associates.

Acquisitions Baltimore-based Phillips Edison & Co., a retail real estate management and development company, acquired Pulaski Plaza, a 112,340-square-foot shopping center in Pulaski, Va. Contracts TVI Corp., based in Glenn Dale, received a $2 million contract to supply gas, biological and chemical agent respirator filter canisters to the U.S. Army. HAZMED Inc., of Lanham, was awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Department of Homeland Security to provide support of the integrated computer-assisted detection system at the various Border Patrol sector headquarters locations.