Ringgold

On January 21, 2007 INEZ SAVORY RINGGOLD. On Thursday, friends may call at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4905 York Road where the family will receive friends from 3:00-8:00 p.m. On Friday, services will be held at Fountain Baptist Church, 1215 E. Monument Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11:00 a.m. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

As a Baltimore judge handed a three-year prison sentence to her longtime boyfriend for the latest in a series of assaults against her, Denice Ringgold stood next to the prosecution table in Room 5 of the Eastside District Court. For a second, she smiled.She thanked District Judge Alan J. Karlin and Assistant State's Attorney Bobbie Dickens, who both told her that bringing charges against Lawrence T. Bell -- 43 and no relation to the politician of similar name -- may have saved her life. But Ringgold, 39, knew better: It was Bell's life, not her own, that likely had been saved.

The Supreme Court refused yesterday to review a ruling against a Baltimore journalist who sued the city's former Police Department spokesman over access to governmental information.The court rejected an appeal by Terrie Snyder without comment and refused to revive her 1995 suit against Samuel Ringgold, the department's former public affairs director.Snyder, a free-lance reporter for the City Paper, called the decision "outrageous and truly frightening.""By refusing to consider this case, the court has said that it's all right for government officials to discriminate and turn down requests for information from reporters who don't report what's to their liking," Snyder said.

The Baltimore Police Department's chief spokesman for the past five years confirmed yesterday that he is close to accepting a job in the private sector and might leave within a month.Sam Ringgold, a former reporter for WMAR-TV (Channel 2), would say only that he is negotiating with two companies and that Police Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier is aware of the job offers. Ringgold earns $65,000 a year.Ringgold, hired in March 1992, served as a voice for the department during the waning days of Commissioner Edward V. Woods as the former chief endured pressure to resign because of the city's escalating homicide rate and charges that the department was corrupt and inept.

The man found tied to railroad tracks behind a West Baltimore school placed himself there, and falsely stated that three youths had forced him from his home and put him on the tracks, city police said last night.Police spokesman Sam Ringgold said the 66-year-old man is mentally ill and made up the story after being found tied with telephone cord to the tracks behind Carver Vocational-Technical High School on Friday evening.Ringgold said it was doubtful that charges would be lodged against the man.Pub Date: 1/14/97

A man shot and wounded two Baltimore police officers last night inside a West Baltimore rowhouse before one of the officers fired back and killed the suspect, touching off a near-riot by grieving neighbors and relatives.The shooting at 9: 30 p.m. in the 700 block of W. Lanvale St. in the Upton neighborhood brought an angry reaction from more than 100 people who gathered outside, screamed obscenities and threw bottles at police and the news media.For about 1 1/2 hours after the shooting, the crowd raged.

A Morgan State University cheerleader who had been sick for several days was found dead in her dorm room yesterday by her mother, police said.Sheronda Conaway, 20, a sophomore from Fort Washington, was found about 3 p.m. in bed in her dormitory room in the 1700 block of Argonne Drive, said Sam Ringgold, a police spokesman. Police are ruling it a questionable death, pending an autopsy."We're trying to do a rush on the autopsy," Ringgold said.Conaway had been sick, and her mother came to school to take her to the doctor, Ringgold said.

Baltimore police have begun a preliminary investigation into allegations that the police union president called a city councilwoman a vulgar term, raising questions about how much leeway an officer has in criticizing elected officials.Councilwoman Sheila Dixon, a 4th District Democrat, filed a complaint yesterday with the department's Internal Investigation Division (IID), which assigned an investigator to the case. Officials could decide the case has no merit and discard it or launch a formal investigation into the charges.

A traffic light is likely to be installed within two weeks on Reisterstown Road near where a 7-year-old boy was hit and killed by a police cruiser Saturday afternoon, Baltimore's Public Works Department director George G. Balog said last night."

Baltimore police were searching last night for a West Baltimore man who escaped from the homicide unit at police headquarters while being questioned in the death of his girlfriend's daughter.It was the second escape of a suspect from police headquarters this year.Joenathan Porter, 25, of the 1300 block of N. Carey St. has been charged in a warrant with first-degree murder in the death of 9-month-old Brandi Ingram, said police spokesman Sam Ringgold.Homicide detectives received a call about 2: 30 a.m. yesterday from doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center who said they were treating a 9-month-old-girl for severe head injuries and that it did not appear likely she would survive.

On December 12, 2008 STANLEY E. beloved husband of Felicia Ringgold; devoted father of Stanley Ringgold, Jr.; cherished son of Alethea Ringgold and the late Rev. Clarence C. Ringgold; also survived by three grandchildren, one sister Shirley Ringgold, two uncles Frank and John Brown, two aunts Ellin and Martha Brown, a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the CHATMAN- HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road Friday 1-8 p.m. The family will receive friends at Mt. Olive Baptist Church, 816 York Road, Towson, MD Saturday 11:30 a.m. Funeral Services will begin 12 noon.

On September 21,2008, JULIA C. GRIFFIN. Survived by daughter, Tonda Coleman of GA, Son, Duane Griffin, brothers John R. Jackson and Clyde R Ringgold , sister, Winfred Parks, seven grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and a host of other family and friends. Family will receive friends at the family owned WYLIE FUNERAL HOME of BALTIMORE COUNTY, 9200 Liberty Road Monday for the 11:00am visitation 11:30 am memorial service. Inquires www.wyliefuneralhome.com .

On September 2, 2008: THOMAS WESLEY RINGGOLD. Beloved husband of Mrs. Antoinette J. Reeve Ringgold. On today, friends call Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services (EAST), 4905 York road, where the family will receive friends from 3:00-8:00 P.M. On Monday, services will be held at Fountain Baptist Church, 1215 E. Monument Street where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11:00 A.M. with services to follow. Inquiries to (410)433-7500.

When Lindsay Major Ringgold returns to her Elkridge condominium each day, the sight of a modest American flag on the patio of her first-floor unit gives her comfort. Along with a large yellow ribbon tied to a tree nearby, the flag is a poignant reminder of her husband, Sgt. James Ringgold, a member of the Army Reserve serving in Iraq. "It makes me think of him," she said, explaining her emotional attachment to the fraying flag that has flown since August 2006, just after the couple bought the unit and were married.

Harford County police said they believe the shooting of a 24-year-old man outside a Belcamp restaurant Saturday morning stemmed from an altercation between the victim and the suspect several years ago. They have issued a warrant for a Bel Air man in connection with the shooting. Reginald Leon Bolden, 24, of the 2700 block of Forge Hill Road is sought on the charges of attempted first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault and weapons charges, the sheriff's office announced yesterday.

On January 21, 2007 INEZ SAVORY RINGGOLD. On Thursday, friends may call at Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4905 York Road where the family will receive friends from 3:00-8:00 p.m. On Friday, services will be held at Fountain Baptist Church, 1215 E. Monument Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11:00 a.m. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.

On April 10, 2006, ARNETTA B. HART; beloved mother of Barbara Brown, Edward Ringgold (Carolyn), Constance Fatherly (Julius). She also leaves to cherish her precious memory a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue, from 1 to 5 P.M., on Sunday, April 16, 2006. Funeral Services will be held in the sanctuary of New All Saints Catholic Church, 4406 Liberty Heights Avenue, at 10:30 A.M, Monday, April 17, 2006.

Sarah Parker Koppelman Banks, a volunteer and homemaker, died of congestive heart failure March 16 at the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville, where she lived for the past 14 years. The former Roland Park resident was 91. Born Sarah Parker Koppelman in Baltimore and raised on Millbrook Road in Guilford, she was a 1932 Bryn Mawr School graduate. In 1937 she married William Bradford Banks, a former president of the old Lord Baltimore Press on Eastern Avenue. After the firm was purchased by International Paper Co., they lived in Southbury, Conn.

RINGGOLD, Texas -- Two days after a fierce brushfire swept through this rural cattle town, cinders still smoldered in the ruins yesterday. The air was heavy with the smell of smoke and everywhere there were mangled metal, ash heaps and ugly swaths of black, charred earth. "It came up on us so fast there was nothing to do but get out of the way and watch the town burn," said Kent Hanson, 49, who lost 300 acres of land in the blaze. Here in Ringgold and elsewhere across Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, frequent high winds and a lingering drought have turned bone-dry communities into giant tinderboxes.

On Friday, May 27, 2005, LILLIAN M. RINGGOLD, 88, at her residence in Churchville. A Visitation will be held Wednesday, June 1, 2005, 7 to 9 P.M. and Thursday, June 2, 11 A.M. to 12 P.M. at John Wesley United Methodist Church in Abingdon, MD, where Funeral Services will also be held on Thursday, June 2, 2005 at 12 P.M. Interment will occur at John Wesley United Methodist Church Cemetery. Services provided by Lisa Scott Funeral Home, P.A., 552 Lewis Street, Havre de Grace, MD www.dmvobits.