NEWS
By Frederick N. Rasmussen and Frederick N. Rasmussen,Sun reporter | November 21, 2007
Warren Gans Blosser, a World War II Navy gunner who participated in the assault on Iwo Jima and later worked as a railroader and insurance agent, died of congestive heart failure Nov. 14 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. The former Fallston resident was 85. Mr. Blosser was born in Smithfield, Pa., and was raised there and in Uniontown, Pa. After graduating from Smithfield High School in 1939, he worked at U.S. Steel's Clairton Works in Clairton, Pa., before enlisting in the Navy in 1940.
NEWS
By LAURA VOZZELLA and LAURA VOZZELLA,laura.vozzella@baltsun.com | October 5, 2008
What makes an artist assemble 193,000 toothpicks?" Pete Hilsee, spokesman for the American Visionary Art Museum, mused the other day. The Baltimore museum boasts a 16-foot scale model of the ocean liner Lusitania made with something the uninspired masses use to pry poppy seeds from teeth. Hilsee invoked that piece as he was pondering another, featuring child-like choo-choo crayon drawings with mathematical calculations on the bottom. Is it art? Is it mental illness? Either way, it's the latest exhibit at the museum of "self-taught and intuitive artistry.
BUSINESS
By Ellen James Martin and Ellen James Martin,SUN STAFF | November 11, 1995
The rapidly expanding Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., based in Baltimore, has bought the assets of an Alabama television station for an undisclosed price, the company announced yesterday.Sinclair, which owns Baltimore's Channel 45, has purchased the building and other assets of WDBB-TV in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said David D. Smith, Sinclair's president.The Baltimore-based broadcast group also has entered into a management agreement to operate the license of WDBB-TV, which is currently affiliated with Fox Broadcasting.
BUSINESS
By Liz Bowie and Liz Bowie,SUN STAFF Bloomberg News contributed to this article | July 22, 1997
Rite Aid Corp.'s appetite for growth continued yesterday as the Camp Hill, Pa.-based company announced it will acquire two privately held drugstore chains to bolster market share in the South.Rite Aid will buy K&B Services Inc. of New Orleans and Harco Inc. of Tuscaloosa, Ala., in a cash deal that will give the company significant market share in new markets in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee and Florida.The company did not disclose terms of the transactions, but a source familiar with the deals said Rite Aid paid from $325 million to $340 million for the companies.
NEWS
August 21, 2003
On Saturday, August 16, 2003 ANN SANDERS, 73, of Spring Hill. She was born in Tuscaloosa, AL and came here 10 years ago from Severna Park, MD. She was Protestant by faith and a member of the Garden Club of Severna Park, MD. She was a Life Master Bridge Player and played bridge in various clubs in the area. Predeceased by son Gary, she is survived by her son Joe Sanders and his wife Amy of Spring Hill; three sisters Patty Templeton of Birmingham, AL; Lorraine Lee of Smyrna, GA; Ercell Sloane of Arkansas; brother Thomas Higginbotham, two grandsons Michael and Kyle.
NEWS
April 21, 1992
Johnny Shines, 76, one of the last of the original "Delta blues" guitarists and singers, died yesterday in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He had been hospitalized since March 18, when his left leg was amputated because of hardening of the arteries. A native of Frayser, Tenn., he spent much of his youth in Mississippi playing acoustic blues with such legendary musicians as Robert Johnson. He moved to Chicago and became a mainstay on the electric blues scene, playing on dozens of records under his own name and as a sideman to other blues musicians.