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By LAURA VOZZELLA | March 16, 2008
Has Del. Melvin Stukes ever had any bones broken, like the woman who was brutally beaten on the No. 27 bus? He didn't let on. But the former Baltimore city councilman let it be known that he'd had his heart broken. Which is why he could relate to Sarah Kreager's attackers. "Please tell me what you would do if someone SPAT on you," Stukes wrote in an e-mail. "In a heat[ed] exchange of words. If you don't think words can hurt you then I am sure you have never been in love. Words and [names]
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November 7, 2007
On November 4, 2007, LUCILLE STUKES HALL beloved mother of Mary A. Thompson and Bonita D. Thomas. She is also survived by two grandchildren, a devoted cousin and a host of other loving relatives and friends. On today, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 4-8 P.M. On Thursday, Mrs. Hall will lie in state at Ebenezer AME Church, 20 W. Montgomery Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11 A.m., with services to follow.
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By Brent Jones | October 13, 2007
Midway through a 90-minute meeting yesterday, Lottie Carroll, a tenant of a West Baltimore housing development, heard a list of concessions from the building's management that she never thought possible. The community and laundry room at the Harvey Johnson Towers will remain open three extra hours until 11 p.m. Trash collection will be Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, a switch from Tuesday and Thursday. The security system is being upgraded to include all-night monitoring, and a new company could begin rodent abatement as early as next week.
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By GREGORY KANE | April 13, 2005
WHY DO ALL these things have to happen around the same time? It's getting so a columnist would have to write seven days a week to keep up with all this stuff. Since that's not how we operate around here, I'll have to touch on several topics in the same column. So here goes. A bill to permit slot machines in Maryland once again failed to pass in the legislature, and I have a pretty good idea as to why. No, it's not because those Democrats opposed to slots do so on ethical grounds. They know better than that.
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By Bill Free | December 30, 2004
Kim Rekart is ready to do what few college athletes can bring themselves to do these days. The former Mount Hebron standout will walk away from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., with one year of eligibility remaining as a top Division II soccer goalkeeper. "It's time to move on," said Rekart, who has a 3.86 grade-point average and will graduate in May with a computer information systems/finance double major. "I'm done with my undergraduate work. I obviously gave what was required of me [to the soccer program]
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By Bill Free | March 10, 2004
Every night Levi Stukes walks on the court for the University of Georgia, he finds himself in a perfect situation. The 6-foot-1 freshman guard from Randallstown High has the luxury of starting with four seniors in the basketball tradition-rich Southeastern Conference. "They [seniors] can tell me to slow down a little or don't get down," said Stukes said from Athens, Ga., yesterday as the Bulldogs prepared to head to Atlanta for the SEC tournament. "I believe we can win this tournament if we all play the way we're capable of."
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By Bill Free | March 5, 2004
Kelsen LaBerge could write a book about patience, perseverance and the agony of defeat. They were all a major part of her swimming life for 18 years, especially the past four years at Ohio Northern University. LaBerge (Towson) spent four years chasing what seemed like an impossible dream of a first-place finish in an individual event. So why would anything change in the final event in the final meet of her collegiate career? The big breakthrough came in the most dramatic of fashions at the Ohio Athletic Conference swimming championships at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland last month.
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By MICHAEL OLESKER | December 2, 2003
WELL, THAT was some swell showdown yesterday at City College. Pay attention, children: This is how the grownups look after your lives. Cassandra Jones, chief academic officer for the city's schools, and Melvin Stukes, chairman of the City Council's education committee, wanted to confront City Principal Joseph Wilson about his job, Wilson says. But Jones didn't show up -- and then denied she was supposed to. And Stukes, insulted that the meeting wasn't stacked the way he'd intended, took a powder a few minutes after he arrived -- and then sheepishly came back an hour later, when most of the day's important work was done, and gave a long speech telling everybody what a swell fellow he is. "I do not participate in witch hunts," Stukes then announced.
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By Laurie Willis | August 30, 2003
Ask most political observers, and the race for the 8th District seat on the City Council is clearly between incumbents Helen L. Holton and Melvin L. Stukes. But if you ask challengers David Maurice Smallwood, Beatrice Hawkins and Patrick J. Burns, they beg to differ. "I think out of everybody in the race it's not a real wide field," said Smallwood, 41, director of the city's Ralph J. Young Center in East Baltimore. "I think it's coming down to myself, Helen Holton and Melvin Stukes." Hawkins, 52, owner and president of Hawkins Enterprises, an assisted living facility, said the race is between her and Holton.
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BY A SUN STAFF WRITER | June 24, 2003
Some school board members have been trying to oust the system's second highest-ranking employee, Chief Academic Officer Cassandra W. Jones, angering city leaders who say Jones is being unfairly pushed out. City Council President Sheila Dixon has scheduled a news conference this afternoon to express her support for Jones, who has been in charge of the school system's academic direction for two years. "Baltimore's school system has had more than its share of burnout and constant turnover of talented individuals, with leadership changing every two or three years," Dixon said in a release.