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Believe it or not, a seventh-generation member of the Flying Wallenda family plans to walk a high wire above Baltimore's Inner Harbor on May 9. Nik Wallenda's feat will promote the opening next month of a new Ripley's Believe It or Not "odditorium" in Harborplace's Light Street Pavilion. It's also a tip of the hat to a similar wire act by his great-grandfather Karl Wallenda, who walked between two cranes above the harbor in 1973 to open the fourth annual City Fair. "When I was approached about this, I was so excited because of just that," the 33-year-old Wallenda said.

After No. 6 Lake Clifton surrendered its lead for the first time midway through the third quarter of Saturday's Class 2A North regional final against No. 7 Edmondson, the Lakers turned up the pressure. With its defense focused and Edmondson forced into off-balance jumpers, Lake Clifton turned a close game into a decisive, 72-53 victory before a raucous overflow home crowd. Aaron Parks had 25 points and Lionel Green added 20 for the Lakers, who will play South Carroll in Friday's 9 p.m. state semifinal at Comcast Center.

The past and future for Shane Walker are back home in England. He left there in 2005 to pursue a basketball career in the United States that included playing for two high schools in three years and a college career that began at the University of Maryland and will end next month at Loyola. He will return to London this spring with hopes of playing for the host country in the Olympics this summer. It is the present that consumes Walker, a 6-foot-10, 222-pound forward who is the only senior who starts and plays regularly for the Greyhounds (18-5, 11-2 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference)

Mary C. Walker, a retired Peabody Institute director of alumni relations who had been a special assistant to the school's director, died of cardiovascular disease Dec. 22 at the Edenwald Retirement Community. She was 100. Her friends at the music school often said that the C in her name stood for Conservatory, not her middle name, Catherine. Born in Baltimore, she was the daughter of William W. Walker and Mary Catherine Shafer Walker. Her mother's family had a pork packing business near the Lexington Market.

Ann Fligsten, a noted land-use attorney in Anne Arundel County, has long voiced her opinion on planning and zoning issues, testifying before the County Council and meeting with county officials. As chairwoman of the Growth Action Network, Fligsten helped organize a lawsuit filed last month alleging that the County Council violated state law by passing several amendments to a zoning bill that would allow development that opponents believe is prohibited by long-established county guidelines.

Fans of medical dramas such as 'ER', 'Grey's Anatomy' and ' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ' certainly had plenty to enjoy in Sunday night's episode of 'The Walking Dead,' aptly titled ' Bloodletting '. In this episode, little Carl Grimes finds relief for his gunshot wound in the caring hands of surgeon/veterinarian Hershel Greene, one of several new additions to the cast of characters. Carl Grimes is in a bad way though, as the bullet fired from Otis' rifle has shattered into half a dozen jagged little pieces that need to be painstakingly removed in a process requiring medical equipment that Hershel does not have in his Civil War-era farm house.

For wide receiver Mike Sims-Walker, his first day back on the Jaguars' practice field Thursday was a homecoming. "It feels great, man," he said. "I can't stop smiling. I'm home. " The Jaguars signed Sims-Walker on Tuesday, even though they decided he was not in their plans at the end of last season and let him leave in free agency. Their judgment seemed to be vindicated when the St. Louis Rams cut him after he caught 11 passes for 139 yards in the four games he played in. And in his final game for the Rams, against Washington, he dropped two passes on the same drive.

An unexpected reunion took place on Tuesday when the Jaguars and receiver Mike Sims-Walker agreed to a deal one day after the St. Louis Rams released him. "Back to where it all begin but as a better Player and Man," Sims-Walker wrote in a post on his Twitter feed. The move brings Sims-Walker back to the team that drafted him in 2007, just seven months after the Jaguars told him they were moving in a different direction. The Jaguars did not re-sign Sims-Walker in March, opting to sign Jason Hill to a two-year deal instead.

On Sept. 18, Barbara and Allen Walker, of Felton, Pa., were surprised with a party to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their wedding. The two were married Dec. 16, 1961 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Bel Air where they continued to live until their retirement. The party was at Jarrettsville Gardens. The couple's three children, Catherine Arnold and husband, Douglas, of Kearneysville, W.Va., Deanna Kipp and husband, Daniel, of Felton, Pa., and Allen Walker II and wife, Candace, of Bel Air, hosted the party.