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He was the high school football star from small-town South Carolina who joined the Army and learned to repair tanks. He became a strapping soldier whose crisply pressed uniform reflected ambition and a no-nonsense attitude -- traits he parlayed into a job as a drill sergeant.Now, 12 years into a military career that has included assignments in Germany, Korea and Somalia, Sgt. Delmar G. Simpson is the human ground zero of the unfolding Army sexual misconduct scandal. He faces a chilling array of charges, including nine alleged rapes of three women and counts of sodomy, assault, threats and fraternization.

Sen. Ben Cardin accurately described the danger of the sequester's "meat-ax approach" to debt reduction and the fatigue of the American people with budget showdowns that do little more than kick the can down the road. ("No to sequestration," Feb. 20). But in the final analysis, Senator Cardin's article is more of the same - one politician's vision, among many others, of what a fair and comprehensive deficit reduction plan should be. What is missing is a commitment to a specific plan of revenue increases and spending cuts.

Venice, Calif. -- Dennis Reid, an astrologer along this beachfront strip of tarot card readers, spray-paint artists and street comedians, inserts a disc into his laptop computer, pulls up the chart of O. J. Simpson and scrolls to June 12, the day his former wife was murdered."

The Bowie State University student charged with fatally slashing her randomly assigned roommate in their shared suite last year was acquitted Thursday of every charge against her, as jurors apparently believed she was acting to protect herself in a sprawling melee. After about 21/2 hours of deliberation, jurors found Alexis Simpson, 20, not guilty of first-degree murder and a host of lesser charges in the September 2011 slaying of 18-year-old Dominique Frazier. They rejected even the idea that Simpson acted in a grossly negligent way in the death.

Gill-Simpson Inc., a Baltimore-based electrical engineering and construction firm, on Monday said it had bought a Pennsylvania company that specializes in providing services to the energy infrastructure market. The firm, which traces its roots to 1932, bought Hopwood, Pa.-based W.R. Casteel Co., which employs 110 people. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. W.R. Casteel has customers in the renewable energy, industrial and utility, and commercial and institutional fields. Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

SUNDAY6 p.m. PST O. J. Simpson and ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson leave dance recital for their daughter in West Los Angeles.6:30 Nicole Simpson and nine others dine at the Mezzaluna restaurant in Brentwood.8:30 p.m. Ms. Simpson leaves Mezzaluna. Someone calls restaurant to report she left her glasses behind. Waiter Ronald Goldman offers to return them.Between 9:45 p.m. and 11 p.m. Ms. Simpson and Mr. Goldman are killed.11:45 p.m. Mr. Simpson flies from Los Angeles to Chicago.MONDAY12:10 a.m. PDT - Bodies of Ms. Simpson and Mr. Goldman found.

On October 5, 2006, MITCHELL SIMPSON; son of Mary Simpson. Viewing on Thursday, October 12, 4 to 6 P.M. at the Joseph L. Russ Funeral Home, 2222-26 W. North Avenue. Wake on Friday, 10:30, followed by funeral service at 11 A.M., at St. Institutional Baptist Church, 655 N. Bentalou Street. Interment at Mt. Zion Cemetery.

Anne Walker Simpson and Steven Frederick Truitt were married on July 16, 2005. The wedding ceremony and reception were at Aspen Wye River Institute, Queenstown, MD. The Reverend Michael G. Walllens, Chaplain of Saint Paul's School officiated. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth H. Simpon, of Darien, CT. She was attended by Matron of Honor, sister, Elizabeth Thomas and Maid of Honor, sister, Katherine Simpson. Her bridesmaids were Eliza Brewer, Kathryn Haggerty, Katherine Kemp and Alison Murphy.

Disney's newest feature, "The Lion King," features a frightening depiction of a stampede. But this could be only the second-scariest one of the summer.No. 1 has to be the rampaging of the experts toward the cameras and the keyboards in the wake of the O. J. Simpson case. Sort of a running of the bull.It's not enough, apparently, that two people were murdered, that two young children lost their mother, that a well-known person is accused of the crime, that his surrender to authorities was preceded by a bizarre freeway parade carried live on television.

THE FIRST QUESTION many Americans asked about the second O. J. Simpson trial was: Why? The Constitution prohibits double jeopardy -- trying a person twice for the same crime. If Mr. Simpson was tried for first-degree murder and acquitted, how could he be tried again for the deaths?The catch is that the second trial involved civil charges, not criminal charges. The penalties are different -- imprisonment or even death for guilt in the criminal charge of first degree murder, but only financial penalties for the civil charges of being found liable for a death.

If the Bowles-Simpson commission deficit reduction plan is dead, somebody evidently forgot to tell Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson. Their proposal to reduce the deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade fell one vote short of the majority needed to force congressional action, and President Barack Obama, though saying nice things about the effort, didn't pick up the plan and sell it to the American people. But now, nearly two years later and on the eve of a presidential election, the framework Messrs.

It's a story that simply won't go away. It's an upper-class soap opera, and even after the passage of 75 years it still packs a sentimental punch and draws a willing audience into the glittering world of the British aristocracy. It is the saga of England's Edward VIII (he reigned for less than a year and was never crowned), who found it simply impossible to continue with his royal responsibilities without the love of an ambitious commoner from Baltimore, Wallis Warfield Simpson, the Belle of Biddle Street, who was determined to bag a royal and crash her way into the upper strata of British society.

Rose Givens Simpson, a retired Social Security Administration clerk, died of pancreatic cancer Oct. 20 at her daughter's home in Diamond Bar, Calif. The former West Baltimore resident was 97. Born Rose Givens in Baltimore and raised on Caroline Street, she was a 1932 Dunbar High School graduate. During World War II, she worked at the Curtis Bay Ammunition Depot. She later worked at the Social Security Administration's downtown location in the Candler Building. She retired from its Woodlawn headquarters.

It was O.J. all over again. A jury ignores a mountain of evidence against an arrogant defendant accused of murder, and the public is first shocked, then outraged. When word came that the verdict was imminent, crowds gathered outside the Orlando, Fla., courthouse and at the site where little Caylee Anthony's body was found and in front of televisions across the country. As was the case with Simpson, the jury had deliberated for less than a day. Certainly the verdict would be guilty.

The wind has been known to whip rather fiercely around golf's ancestral home, as anyone who saw Round 2 of last year's British Open can attest. As mist gave way to bright sunshine at St. Andrews, play was shut down for more than an hour when 35 mph gusts off the North Sea began pushing balls around the greens. That said, one has to wonder about the Machiavellian thought process that led some 19th Century rules-maker to penalize an ill gust. If the wind moves your ball while you're standing over it, it's a stroke.

At a time when much of the English-speaking world is fixated on the royal wedding, it's worth pointing out that if it weren't for the original Baltimore bad girl, Wallis Warfield Simpson, Friday's nuptials might not be taking place. Without her, there might be no reason to obsess about Kate Middleton's dress. There'd be no gossip about the guest list. (Fergie and Simon Cowell were both royally snubbed.) There'd be no "sweet William" soaps or official royal wedding rose petal jelly for tourists in London to snap up. "If Wallis Simpson had never been born, King Edward VIII might not have abdicated the throne," says Hugo Vickers, the British-born author and royal expert who will be providing commentary about the wedding for the Associated Press Television News.

On July 28, 2004 BRIAN S., beloved husband of Barbara (nee Bruner), devoted father of Jason Simpson, Shawn Webber, Scott Simpson, Ashley Simpson and Brandon Simpson; loving son of Walter and Mary Simpson; dear brother of Mark and Craig Simpson and the late Rex Simpson; grandfather of Brady Scott Simpson. Also survived by many relatives and friends. Friends may call at the CONNELLY FUNERAL HOME OF DUNDALK, P.A., 7110 Sollers Point Road, on Friday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Service will be held on Saturday 11 A.M. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

Gill-Simpson Inc., a Baltimore-based electrical engineering and construction firm, on Monday said it had bought a Pennsylvania company that specializes in providing services to the energy infrastructure market. The firm, which traces its roots to 1932, bought Hopwood, Pa.-based W.R. Casteel Co., which employs 110 people. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. W.R. Casteel has customers in the renewable energy, industrial and utility, and commercial and institutional fields. Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts