Ruby

Vocalist Ruby Glover, a vibrant link to Baltimore's rich jazz heritage, died Saturday, a day after collapsing onstage during a performance at the Creative Alliance in East Baltimore. On Friday night, Ms. Glover was thrilled to see a full house gathered for a House of Ruth benefit where she was among the performers. With her silver cropped hair, Ms. Glover, 77, appeared as radiant and polished as ever on stage, recalled friend Megan Hamilton. Emcee Stan Stovall from WBAL-TV introduced Ms. Glover, who performed with the Tom Reyes Trio.

On April 6, 2007, JOEL N.; beloved husband of Ruby Badger; devoted father of Kimberlyn Pratesi, Michele Haas Bull and Joel Badger Jr.; grandfather of Zachary Arnold, Nathan Pratesi, Tommy Bull and Kasie Pratesi; loving son of Velma Badger and the late Vance Badger; brother of Ronald Badger and Carol Sue Conrad. Friends may call at Gonce Funeral Service P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway on Tuesday from 3-5 and 7-9PM, where services will be held on Wednesday at 10AM. Interment Glen Haven Memorial Park.

Ella May Ruby does not let 1,000 apples and 150 pounds of dough intimidate her. A baker for most of her 79 years, she can easily take those ingredients and turn them into flaky, golden dumplings for today's Apple Festival at Piney Run Park in Sykesville.She and her husband, Jack, have run the festival since it started 13 years ago. She directs the production, making sure volunteer dumpling-makers have a steady supply of butter, flour, sugar and cinnamon. She relies on unwritten recipes handed down from her grandmother.

A generally shy 3 1/2-foot ball python was confined as evidence yesterday -- the alleged weapon in an assault on a Carroll County sheriff's deputy."We took him as evidence because the Sheriff's Department asked us to take him," said Nicky Ratliff, executive director of the Humane Society of Carroll County Inc.Deputy Royce Ruby Jr. was in the unusual position of drawing his gun and ordering a suspect to drop the snake."

A Carroll County sheriff's deputy experienced rare moments of action in back-to-back road patrol shifts, arresting two burglary suspects a little more than a day after fending off an elderly telephone-wielding Finksburg woman.Deputy 1st Class Royce Ruby laughed about the incidents yesterday during an impromptu news conference at which more than $4,400 worth of equipment reported stolen from a Westminster lawn and garden center was displayed.Ruby has spent 5 1/2 years with the sheriff's department, the past six months as a road patrol deputy.

A Carroll County judge has again ruled that a Westminster woman may appeal her conviction in the suffocation death of her 4-month-old daughter in Taneytown in August 1996.Circuit Judge Raymond E. Beck Sr. issued a five-page opinion Nov. 3 permitting Lisa E. Ruby to appeal her manslaughter and child abuse conviction because public defender Daniel M. Shemer failed to file an appeal within 30 days after her sentencing.She was sentenced in June to 10 months in jail, the time she had spent in jail awaiting trial and sentencing.

U.S. Foodservice Inc., a Columbia-based food distributor, announced yesterday that it has received a five-year contract, valued at about $900 million, to supply the Ruby Tuesday restaurants across the country.Ruby Tuesday, based in Mobile, Ala., operates 388 restaurants in 33 states.U.S. Foodservice, which changed its name in February from JP Foodservice Inc., has been serving Ruby Tuesday restaurants in the Northeast for about five years, said company spokeswoman Bonna Walker. The new agreement triples U.S. Foodservice's business with Ruby Tuesday, making the restaurant chain one of its top five customers.

THE TRUTH of the matter is that raising children is colossally important job but also a monumental drag.Thus, skeptics may make crooked smiles at Rep. Bill Paxon's announcement that he is sacrificing a successful political career to spend more time with his 21-month-old daughter, Susan Ruby. Her mother is Susan Molinari, a former GOP representative from New York.Only last week, Mr. Paxon, a Republican from Buffalo, was feverishly working the phones to replace Texan Dick Armey as House majority leader.

A former Taneytown woman who served 10 months in jail for suffocating her 4-month-old daughter in 1996 was convicted in Towson District Court yesterday of drunken driving.Lisa E. Ruby, 21, of Westminster was sentenced to 63 days in jail, the time she has been incarcerated since her arrest on Dec. 16, prosecutors said.Ruby was immediately returned to the Carroll County Detention Center to be held without bail pending charges that she violated the terms of probation stemming from her 1997 conviction in the death of Tabitha Meekins.

A Westminster woman who served a controversial 10-month jail sentence for the manslaughter death of her 4-month-old daughter was ordered back to prison yesterday.With her head bowed, Lisa E. Ruby, 22, stood before Carroll Circuit Judge Luke K. Burns Jr. and conceded that she drove while intoxicated in December, a violation of her probation in the manslaughter case.Without comment, Burns reinstated the balance of the nine-year sentence he had imposed in June. He had suspended all but 10 months of that term and placed Ruby on five years' probation with strict conditions.

On August 2, 2009, ANNIE RUBY PAGE. On Thursday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road, from 5 to 8 PM. On Friday, services for Mrs. Page will be held in the Vaughn C. Greene Chapel - Randallstown, where the family will receive friends 10:30 to 11 AM with services to follow. Inquiries to (410)655-0015.

Ruby G. Caulford, a homemaker who was active in her church, died of heart failure Saturday at a granddaughter's Bel Air home. She was 102. Ruby Halsey, the daughter of a railroader and a homemaker, was born in Independence, Va. She attended a one-room school in Bridle Creek, Va., until moving with her family to Nebraska in 1914. After returning to Independence briefly, she and her family settled in Dublin, Harford County, in 1921. After graduating from Dublin High School in 1926, she was married the next year to Byron Caulford.

On May 25, 2009, RUBY C. (nee Cuthbertson); beloved wife of the late Gilbert H. Morrison; devoted mother of Christina M. Whitsel, Kimberly A. Froehlich, Michelle D. Mills, and the late David C. Morrison; cherished grandmother of Dawn, Amy, Angela, Sarah, and Anthony. Also survived by six great-grandchildren. A funeral service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk, Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue on Friday at 12 noon. Interment Sacred Heart of Jesus Cemetery. Friends may call Friday, 11 A.M. to 12 noon.

On May 10, 2009 Walter Melvin, JR. Friends may call on Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at the ECKHARDT FUNERAL CHAPEL P.A., 11605 Reisterstown Road, Owings Mills. Funeral Services will be held on Friday at 10:00 A.M. at the Covenant of Grace Presbyterian Church, 820 Nicodemus Road, Reisterstown. Rev. Dr. Herbert Ruby, III officiating. Interment in Lake View Memorial Park. For those desiring memorial donations may be made to: Alzheimers Association, 1850 York Road, Suite D, Timonium, MD 21093.

On April 15, 2009, LUCY ANN CATANZARO; mother of William Catanzaro and daughter in-law Joann Catanzaro; devoted friend of Ruby Snyder. Family members and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1328 Sulphur Spring Road, Arbutus, MD 21227 on Friday from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. where a funeral service will be held on Saturday beginning at 11 a.m. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery. www.ambrosefuneralhomes.com

On April 4, 2009, Ruby May Acree, Services will be held at the family owned McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Bel Air, MD, on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at 8 p.m. Friends may call at the funeral home in Bel Air, on Tuesday from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions be made to Harford Hospice, 8003 Corporate Drive, Suite G, Baltimore, MD 21236. Memory tributes may be sent to the family at mccomasfuneralhome.com

On March 20, 2009, RUBY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS. On Friday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Williams will lie in state at First Baptist Church of Cherry Hill, 823 Cherry Hill Road, where the family will receive friends from 11 to 11:30 A.M with services to follow

On December 8, 2008, AGNES RUFFIN; loving mother of Ruby Newman and William Ruffin. She is also survived by 15 grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, 4300 Wabash Avenue on Sunday after 10 A.M where family will receive friends on Monday 11:30 A.M followed by funeral service at 12 noon.

Treasury bill auction sees interest rate drop WASHINGTON : Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in yesterday's auction for the second consecutive week, with the rate on three-month bills falling to the lowest level in a month. The Treasury Department auctioned $28 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.71 percent, down from 1.85 percent last week. An additional $27 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 1.925 percent, down from 1.98 percent last week.

On August 17, 2008, RUBY THELMA BURLEY. Family will receive friends at the family owned and operated Howell Funeral Home, 10220 Guilford Road, Jessup, MD on Thursday, August 21, 2008 from 3 to 8 P.M. Funeral services will be held on Friday in the sanctuary of John Wesley Methodist Church, 6922 N. Ritchie Highway, Glen Burnie, MD. Wake 10:30 to 11:00 A.M. Service will follow. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.