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A Howard County man was killed Saturday when he was struck by a car after he stopped to examine flat tires on his vehicle on the shoulder of Interstate 97 near Millersville, state police said.Police said Eric Van Sutton, 25, of the 6200 block of Turnabout Lane, Columbia, had stopped on the shoulder of southbound I-97 near Benfield Boulevard about 3 a.m. to examine three flat tires on his car. They said he stepped into the road to flag down an oncoming 1998 Ford Taurus and was hit.Sutton suffered multiple injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Beatrice Sutton Carroll, a homemaker and local political activist known as "Mom Bea," died Friday at Catonsville Common Nursing Home from Alzheimer's disease. She was 86 and lived in the Ashburton neighborhood for 40 years.During the 1950s and 1960s, Mrs. Carroll worked as a secretary to the Colored Women's Democratic Campaign Committee of Maryland and Women Power Inc., two influential grass-roots political organizations that helped reshape city and state politics by registering thousands of blacks in West Baltimore to vote.

Largo center Candace Sutton wasn't supposed to play last night because of a sprained ankle. It's a good bet St. Frances coach Jerome Shelton wished she hadn't.Sutton, a 6-foot-6 senior bound for the University of North Carolina next fall, scored only six points, but her presence on both offense and defense helped visiting Largo (2-0) to a 66-61 win over second-ranked St. Frances (2-1) at the College of Notre Dame.The Panthers' Shanell Watson led all scorers with 22 points, and Adrienne Harris led the visitors from Prince George's County with 14. Four of Largo's five starters scored in double figures.

There was little Eric Van Sutton couldn't do musically. He had a soulful, mellow voice, penned meaningful lyrics and played a variety of musical instruments skillfully. Perhaps his greatest asset was the energy and vibrancy he brought to each piece of music."That's what set him off from others. He was always upbeat and always happy. That came through in his music," said Hazelene Chase, who managed Kaliche, the reggae, jazz and fusion band in which Mr. Sutton played.Mr. Sutton, 25, was killed early Saturday after he stopped his car on the shoulder of Interstate 97 near Millersville to examine its tires.

In the year of El Nino, a mudslide of brown-uniformed Hammond wrestlers swept over the senior-dominated Howard County Big 10 Wrestling Championships last night at Hammond.The Golden Bears broke their own county record by scoring 254 points, sent 10 wrestlers to the finals and won their third straight county title and fifth in six years. Hammond had six champions.But Kevin Sutton (26-3) of runner-up Oakland Mills won the most valuable wrestler award for dominating the tournament's most competitive weight class at 125 pounds.

Don Sutton is a worthy Hall of Fame selection. Tony Perez would have been, too.He played in five World Series and seven All-Star Games. His RBIs are the most of any eligible player not in the Hall. And he was the leader of every team he ever played for, including the Big Red Machine.Was he the best player on that club? No.Did he win batting, home run or RBI titles? Never.Still, Perez drove in 90 or more runs for 11 straight seasons in a less offensive era, and finished with more RBIs than Mike Schmidt.

Walter B. Ward Jr., 70, editor and restaurateurlter B. Ward Jr., a former Evening Sun editor and founder of restaurant chain, died Monday of cancer at his home in Potomac. He was 70.Mr. Ward joined The Evening Sun as a copy boy in 1945 and rose to assistant city editor. He left the newspaper in 1969 and entered the restaurant business the next year as a founding partner of Sir Walter Raleigh Inns Inc., a chain of restaurants in the Baltimore-Washington area. In 1993, he retired as secretary-treasurer.

The night Don Sutton registered his 300th victory, a 5-1 three-hitter against the Texas Rangers a dozen years ago, he said: "I don't need bells and whistles to make me feel good about something."He did, however, feel that the sheer weight of the pitching numbers he had piled up with five teams over 21 seasons had earned him a spot in the Hall of Fame. And fairly early on in his career, Sutton let it be known that 300 victories and the Hall of Fame were a couple of the "mountains" he planned on climbing.

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- They came from different places. Different backgrounds. Different eras.Don Sutton, the son of a tenant farmer, won 324 games and was one of the most steady and consistent pitchers of his generation.Larry Doby, the brilliant young Negro leagues outfielder who followed closely in the footsteps of Jackie Robinson, hit 253 major-league home runs, but is better known as the first black player in the American League.Sam Lacy, the sports editor and columnist for the Baltimore Afro-American these past 54 years, crusaded for the inclusion of black players in the major leagues and, yesterday, was included in the large class that was inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame.

The Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, which lists 26 candidates this year, is actually a series of choices that can be broken down into three categories:No-Brainers. (Players so obviously deserving that even a 6-year-old, or H. Wayne Huizenga, would know to vote for them.)No-Chancers. (Players who consider it an honor just to get nominated.)Hmmmmers. (Players who fall somewhere in between those two categories, meaning their candidacy is a worthy subject of debate.)This year's ballot, due later this week, is long on Hmmmmers.

On August 31, 2009, RALPH A. SUTTON. Survived by a host of family and friends. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, Sept 8, from 3 to 7 P.M. at the Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue. The wake will be held on Wednesday, September 9, at 10 A.M. New Bethlehem Free Will Baptist Church, 1400 N. Eden Street, with funeral service to follow at 10:30. Interment Garrison Forest Veteran Cemetery.

On May 28, 2009 ROBERTA ROSS beloved daughter of the late Robert and Fannie Smallwood; mother of the late Shelley Sutton; she is survived by grandson Ryan Sutton; sisters Claire Dorsey, Jeanette Colona and Nellie Taft; brothers Augustus (Gus) and Ishmail (Melvin); in-laws Hubert Dorsey, Pauline and Elaine Smallwood and Eunice Thomas and a host of family and friends. The family will receive friends on Tuesday, June 2 at the Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue from 3-7 p.m. The wake will be held on Wednesday, June 3 10 a.m. at Emmarts U.M. Church, 7100 Dogwood Road with the funeral service to follow at 11 a.m. Interment Arbutus Memorial Park Cemetery.

On December, 16, 2008, MR. SUTTON. Visitation at 2140 N. Fulton Ave. on Monday 5 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends in the chapel on Tuesday at 12 P.M. Funeral to follow at 12:30 P.M.

On December 16, 2008, ; devoted wife of Shade Sutton. Friends may visit the family-owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST 1101 E. North Avenue on Friday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends at Holy Temple Holiness Church 2016 W. Pratt St. on Saturday at 9:30 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 10 A.M.

On December 13, 2008, MARY E. SUTTON, survived by her husband James Sutton. The family will receive friends at the Howell Funeral Home, on Friday, December 19, from 3-7pm. The Wake will be held on Saturday, December 20, at the Howell Funeral Home Chapel, 4602 Liberty Heights Ave., at 11:30 a.m. with Funeral Service to follow at 12 Noon. Interment private.

On December 13, 2008, MARY E. SUTTON, survived by her husband James Sutton. The family will receive friends at the Howell Funeral Home, on Friday, December 19, from 3-7pm. The Wake will be held on Saturday, December 20, at the Howell Funeral Home Chapel, 4602 Liberty Heights Ave., at 10:30am. with Funeral Service to follow at 11am. Interment private.

When the Rev. Canon Eugene T. Sutton was elected the 14th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, the first person he called was his 94-year-old grandmother, a devout Baptist who lives in a Washington nursing home. "Her prayers for me have made all the difference in the world," Sutton said. But more than that, he knew she could appreciate the twists of history that led to his election. Sutton, who will be consecrated tomorrow as the state's first African-American bishop, is the great-great-grandson of slaves.

Maryland Episcopalians elected the Rev. Canon Eugene Taylor Sutton, canon pastor of the National Cathedral in Washington and an advocate of environmental causes, as the diocese's 14th bishop yesterday on a single ballot. Sutton, 54, the first African-American elected to lead the diocese in its 227-year history, also works as director of the Cathedral Center for Prayer and Pilgrimage. If the majority of bishops and standing committees of the national Episcopal Church consent, he will replace Bishop Robert Wilkes Ihloff, who retired in April.

Shirley Sutton was returning home from a morning of errands when she noticed a car behind hers pull off to the side of the road near her Pikesville townhouse. As the petite grandmother gathered her things from the back seat of her Jaguar, two women grabbed her, squirted pepper spray in her face, threw her against the garage wall and forced her back into her car. For several minutes, they drove around, holding Sutton at knifepoint until she convinced them that she had neither an ATM card nor a PIN number, and offered the robbers her $25,000 Cartier watch.

Nearly four years ago, Rashida Suber barely knew Coppin State existed. "I was like, `Where is that?'" she said. "`I've never heard of that. Is that Division I?'" Suber had just lost her basketball scholarship from Marshall after failing to meet eligibility standards. The West Baltimore school and Rider were interested in her. Sufficiently assured that Coppin was Division I, the 5-foot-8 guard from Reading, Pa., found comfort with the Eagles, who have leaned on her talents in turn. As Coppin (23-6, 18-0)