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Two Patuxent Institution inmates were arrested in a stabbing yesterday at the prison that left another prisoner in serious condition, a state corrections official said.Warren James Courts, 20, formerly of the 3800 block of Cottage Ave. in Baltimore, was stabbed in the neck with a homemade knife, said Leonard A. Sipes Jr., a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Courts was in serious but stable condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

Gerry Sipes was loading the trunk of her car with files on Light Street in Baltimore yesterday when a man started screaming that a bus was barreling toward her. She jumped onto the sidewalk just in time.A 28,000-pound Mass Transit Administration bus, whose brakes had failed, rear-ended an occupied green Honda Civic about 10 a.m. and pushed it under Sipes' black Toyota, stacking the cars like cordwood.Marsha Netus, the driver of the Civic and Sipes' colleague, was trapped for about 15 minutes and had to be removed by firefighters.

Two Patuxent Institution inmates were arrested in a stabbing yesterday at the prison that left another prisoner in serious condition, a state corrections official said.Warren James Courts, 20, formerly of the 3800 block of Cottage Ave. in Baltimore, was stabbed in the neck with a homemade knife, said Leonard A. Sipes Jr., a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services. Courts was in serious but stable condition last night at Maryland Shock Trauma Center.

An armed robber, who had been moved to the state's maximum security prison because of previous escapes, escaped yesterday from the so-called "Supermax" in Baltimore and was recaptured minutes later a half-block away, a prisons spokesman said.He was the second prisoner to escape from the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center and the first since security was strengthened after a 1991 escape stunned officials.John Lloyd Wells, 37, formerly of Middle River, climbed over the prison wall on Madison Street at 3: 18 a.m. and was immediately spotted by a correctional officer, who drew his weapon and ordered Wells to stop, said Leonard A. Sipes Jr., a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

City and state police recaptured yesterday 30 of the 85 former inmates on supervised release who are being called back to prison because of a Maryland Court of Appeals ruling, state prison officials said.Eighteen of the 30 were arrested in Baltimore, according to state prison officials, but Agent Angelique Cook-Hayes of the Baltimore City Police Department could confirm only that six had been apprehended by city officers. Twelve others were found by state police in nine areas, including Glen Burnie, Annapolis and Laurel.

A man charged with assault was mistakenly released from the Central Booking and Intake Center after an employee did not enter into the facility's computer system that the man was wanted on a warrant, a state prisons spokesman said yesterday.Leonard A. Sipes Jr., spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said the release Monday of Donald R. Walkins, 21, of Southwest Baltimore was the fourth such incident at Central Booking since October.Sipes said three other mistaken releases occurred at the Maryland Penitentiary and the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center, both in Baltimore.

A state Division of Correction employee who had access to the paperwork of an inmate who was mistakenly released from prison resigned yesterday as an investigation of the incident continued.Leonard A. Sipes Jr., spokesman for the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said he could "not say conclusively" that the voluntary resignation had to do with the investigation into the release of Tariq K. Price.Price was released Feb. 18 from the Maryland Reception, Diagnostic and Classification Center in Baltimore despite an eight-year sentence he had recently received for burglary and car theft.

A man being sought in the killing of a 91-year-old Baltimore woman could have been jailed two months before the slaying on a parole violation, but a record noting his status was mysteriously altered in his prison file, authorities confirmed yesterday.The alteration, discovered in a review of records by The Sun, has prompted an investigation of parole officers, including the son of the director of parole and probation, said Leonard A. Sipes Jr., spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services.

Another inmate has been released by mistake from the Maryland prison system -- freed when bail was posted for his brother -- making it the fourth erroneous release since Sept. 30.Russell John Yarborough Jr., 26, was released Saturday morning from the Baltimore City Detention Center when someone posted bail for his 36-year-old brother, who is also named Russell John Yarborough Jr., according to a prisons spokesman.Leonard A. Sipes, spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, said the younger Yarborough, of the 800 block of N. Streeper St., was arrested Nov. 7 and ordered held on $15,000 bail on charges of second-degree assault, burglary, destruction of property and theft.

An autopsy was planned on an inmate at Patuxent Institution who was found foaming at the mouth in his cell early yesterday by an officer making rounds, a state prisons spokesman said.The inmate, Leon Hardy, 37, of Baltimore -- who was serving a life term in the 1980 robbery and slaying of Glenn Harrod, an employee at a McDonald's restaurant in the 5100 block of York Road -- was found unconscious about 3: 30 a.m. in his single-bed cell in the Jessup institution's mental health unit, corrections spokesman Leonard A. Sipes Jr. said.

On April 24, 2009, Henry W. Dorn, age 84, of Wilmington, DE, formerly of Baltimore, MD. Husband of the late Mildred N. (Bartoch) Dorn. Father of Paula Ambrose (Jay), Phyllis Wilson (John), William Dorn, and Robert Dorn (Debbie), all of Wilmington, DE. Brother of Gloria Sipes of Maryland. Grandfather of four. Services are private. Contributions to Compassionate Care Hospice, 5610 Kirkwood Highway, Wilmington, DE 19808. To sign guest register, visit spicermullikin.com (302/328-2213).

Awards * MGH, an Owings Mills-based marketing communications agency, received three certificates of excellence from Graphic Design USA for its work on behalf of Texas Instruments; Center for Eating Disorders, Sheppard Pratt; and Lee Read Jewelers. * Mary Sipes, senior sales manager of the Hyatt Regency Baltimore, was named by the National Academy Foundation as its Hospitality & Tourism Professional of the Year. On the board * United Cerebral Palsy of Central Maryland announced the appointment of Melissa Berge to a seat on its board of directors.

With all my work to provide a different and smarter take on crime, readers want only one thing: "They just want to know how many break-ins are on my block." That insightful analysis comes from Robert E. Pierre, a crime reporter for The Washington Post. We appeared together this week on a radio show put together by the federal government's Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency. In English, that's parole and probation for D.C. criminals. Its spokesman, Leonard A. Sipes Jr., who used to speak for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, runs an impressive media operation that consists of TV, radio and blogs - designed to promote the agency but also to discuss criminal justice issues.

On July 12, 2008 Gertrude M. Sipes Friends may call at The family owned Kirkley-Ruddick Funeral Home, P.A., 421 Crain Hwy., S.E., Glen Burnie on Friday from 3-5 and 7-9 P.M. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in St. Gabriel's Catholic Church on Saturday at 10:00 A.M. Interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.. Memorial contributions to the Hospice of Baltimore, 555 W, Towsontowne Blvd., Towson, MD 21204 will be appreciated by the family.

Capt. Wesley J. McClaren, passed away peacefully in his sleep on January 13, 2008, in Annapolis, MD, directly across the river from the institution he loved so dearly; the United States Naval Academy. Capt. McClaren was 86 years old at the time of his passing. He was born in the small town of Elmo, Missouri in April of 1921. Capt. McClaren has lived in suburbs of the Washington, D.C., area since 1959. Capt. McClaren is survived by his current wife, step-children and grandchildren. He was predeceased by his first wife, Barbara Gayle McClaren.

What does it mean to be patriotic? Try finding words to answer that question. Try finding photographs. Last March, more than 30 Marylanders answered New York photographer Bill Hayward's casting call for "Patriot Acts," a collaborative self-portraiture project. Among the 30 historic sites Hayward visited across the country was Fort McHenry, where he interviewed and photographed people and asked them to create their own backdrops using paper, scissors and paint. "The project allows people to take a moment to step back and ask themselves, `What do I really feel about patriotism?

Suddenly on December 21, 2005, GEORGE EDWARD "CORKY" of Westminster. Husband of Katherine "Kassie" (nee Jenness) Sipes. Father of Jennifer L. and Jaki B. Sipes. Son of Darce Ward Corbin and Rev. Arthur Corbin, Sr. Brother of Terry Ann Murphy, Margaret "Margie" Roberts and Robert L. Sipes. Brother-in-law of Dave Murphy and Lonnie Roberts. Son-in-law of William R. and Lilja M. Jenness. Also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Memorial Services will be held at the Pritts Funeral Home & Chapel, 412 Washington Rd., Westminster on Tuesday at 2:00 P.M. Interment will be private.

On Tuesday, December 6, 2005, HAROLD L. WHITE; beloved husband of Irene White (Nee Steinman); devoted father of Jeffrey M. White of Baltimore, MD, Rosalind A. Leibowitz of Hartford, CT; loving father-in-law of Elaine White and Alan Leibowitz; beloved brother of Willard White of Baltimore, MD, devoted grandfather of Jennifer Sipes, Jonas White, Lisa Urban, Michael and David Leibowitz; loving great-grandfather of Braden White, Riley and Delaney Sipes, Zachary...

On October 27, 2005, DOROTHY MARIE (nee Sipes) beloved wife of Donald Treshman, Sr. Devoted mother of Donald Treshman, Jr. and Mary Kathleen De Vage. Loving grandmother of Lisa, Damien and Glenn. Loving great-grandmother of Paul, Tiffany, Daniel and Dylan. Dear sister of Olga Kessler, Kenneth Sipes and the late Norbert Sipes. Friends may call at THE JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME P.A., 8521 Loch Raven Blvd. on Saturday from 7 to 9 P.M. and Sunday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Family and friends are invited to attend a Funeral Mass on Monday in St. Isaac Jogues Church at 10:30 A.M. Interment Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens.

On August 19, 2005, MILDRED LORRAINE (nee Deller) SIPES, formerly of Carney, MD; beloved wife of the late Norval Robert Sipes; sister of Mrs. Lillian Roberts and her husband James, of Ellicott City, MD and several nieces and nephews. Ms. Sipes was predeceased by four brothers and two sisters. Services and interment will be private. Those who desire may direct memorials in Ms. Sipes' name to O.L.P.H. Building Fund, 4801 Ilchester Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043. Please direct inquiries to Slack Funeral Home, P.A. 410-465-4400.