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In Baltimore County2nd suspect in rape, robbery and beating surrenders to policeESSEX -- The second of two men charged in a rape and robbery last month surrendered to police yesterday, officials said.James T. Fox, 24, of the 2000 block of Channel Road, Pylesville, is accused of raping a woman and robbing and beating her male companion early on the morning of Jan. 23. He is charged with first-degree rape, assault and robbery. On Tuesday, police arrested Keith A. Miller, also 24, a Pennsylvania man charged in the case.

It broke Wendyln McKinney's heart knowing that her son, Diello Harris, would have to sit outside waiting for neighbors to lift him and his wheelchair into the house and out of the freezing snow or pouring rain.Before she died in February, McKinney had tried for three years to get a ramp at her East Baltimore rowhouse so Diello, who has muscular dystrophy, could come and go as he pleased.Thanks to faculty and staff at Patterson High School, where Diello is an 11th-grader, one of McKinney's lingering wishes has been realized.

Make time for novels this fall: it's essential. Whether it's weather you're after, inquiry, character, the melody of well-crafted verse, or the sheer pyrotechnics of a real writer's imagination, you'll find it all in this season's novels, and you'll be forever glad that you did.Marianne Wiggins' "Almost Heaven" (Crown, 212 pages, $23) is a tour de force about weather and memory, about how love both heals and quakes the heart. It is chapterless, breathless, full of violent psychic unearthings, the lost and found objects of the soul.

NORWALK, Conn. -- Oxford Health Plans Inc. shares fell yesterday amid reports that founder and Chairman Stephen Wiggins will step down in an agreement bringing at least $600 million in new capital and a new chief executive.Oxford Health said it expects to make an announcement about the investment and new chief executive sometime this week. Norman Payson, former chief executive of Healthsource Inc., a managed-care company sold to Cigna Corp. last year, will become chief executive, a person familiar with the situation said.

Javis Wiggins' buzzer-beating put-back lifted seventh-ranked Lake Clifton to a 58-57 overtime victory over No. 2 Southern in the Baltimore City East Division opener for both squads last night."

ANJANETTE WIGGINS gripped the lectern firmly with both hands and began talking. She told 300 Bryn Mawr School students and faculty about the accidental death of her father 12 years ago, when she was 6 and he 37.From her perspective a dozen years later, Wiggins said, her dad's death "is just as much a part of my life as his life was." She said she has come to fear losing her memories of her dad. Memories aren't like rewindable motion pictures, she said. "They're like snapshots." They fade with time.

As she slumped behind the bars of a locked, metal security door of her burning apartment, Phyllis Jewell Wiggins pleaded for help from neighbors to pull her through to safety."

One person was killed and at least two others were injured when a fire raced through a house in the 7900 block of Castlemoor Road in the Lynn Acres section of western Baltimore County early today.The names of the three victims were withheld pending notification of relatives, said county police at the Woodlawn Precinct.The origin and cause of the fire remained under investigation.Reported at 3:06 a.m., the fire trapped the person who died, believed to be a man, in the basement while several other residents fled the house off the 7900 block of Washington Ave. near the Beltway.

Tommy Polley is a quiet young man. In fact, he seems downright humble, considering he may be the best all-around athlete in the city."He's all-universe," said Anthony Wiggins, the quarterback of Dunbar High School's football squad and a teammate of Polley, who plays tight end and onebacker. Oh, did I mention Polley also is a starter on Dunbar's basketball team, perennially ranked as one of the best in the country?At 7 o'clock tonight, Polley, Wiggins and 27 teammates will take the field at the University of Maryland's Byrd Stadium to try to knock off Churchill of Montgomery County.

Death row inmate Kevin Wiggins is back in Baltimore County Circuit Court, seeking a new trial or a life sentence on his 1989 conviction for the murder of a 77-year-old Woodlawn woman.In a post-conviction hearing, he has claimed that he was abused as a child, cited statistics showing that blacks are underrepresented in the county's jury pool and raised questions about the trial attorneys' inexperience.Wiggins, now 32, had no criminal convictions until he was sentenced to death in October 1989 for the murder and robbery of Florence Lacs.

On October 5, 2009 FRANK J. WIGGINS. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME EAST, 4210 Belair Road Thursday 1-8 p.m. The family will receive friends Friday 10 a.m. at the Faith Lutheran Evangelical Church, 1900 E. North Avenue. Funeral Services will begin 10:30 a.m. Interment St. Stanislaus Cemetery. Inquiries to 410-488-5947.

On July 17, 2009, MARIE LILLIAN NOTTAGE; beloved Mother of Geraldine Wiggins; loving son-in-law, Coleslee Wiggins. On Friday, July 24, 2009, Mrs. Nottage will lie instate at St. John Baptist Church, 8910 Old Annapolis Road (21045), where the family will receive friends from 10 to 11 A.M. with services to follow. Interment at Columbia Memorial Park. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.

Lineups have changed, musical tastes have changed. But Tony! Toni! Tone! has turned 21, and founding member D'wayne Wiggins thinks that's pretty cool -- and maybe a little amazing. "Toby! Toni! Tone! is legal, 21 years old," Wiggins says with a laugh over the phone from Oakland, Calif., where he, a brother and a cousin founded the R&B trio in 1988. "We are like the soul version of the Rolling Stones." This weekend, the Tonys, as Wiggins refers to the group in shorthand, will be playing at Baltimore's eighth annual African-American Heritage Festival, part of a steady stream of musical talent that will also include Anita Baker, Teena Marie, En Vogue, Raheem DeVaughn, Terence Blanchard, Eric Roberson, Fertile Ground and Laura Izabor.

A Baltimore man petitioned Tuesday to have Mayor Sheila Dixon removed from office, arguing in court papers that Dixon "holds power unlawfully" because she was sworn into office by Gov. Martin O'Malley instead of by the city's clerk of the court. The petitioner, David A. Wiggins, also wants a Baltimore judge to install him as the interim mayor. "I had other names, but they backed out," said Wiggins, a paralegal and drug rehabilitation counselor. Wiggins fears that his case, which he filed without the assistance of a lawyer, will not be taken seriously.

On May 29, 2009, CHERYL D. HARRIS-WIGGINS. On Friday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES (RANDALLSTOWN), 8728 Liberty Road from 4 to 8 P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Harris-Wiggins will lie in state at New St. Mark Baptist Church, 3905 Springdale Avenue, where the family will receive friends 10 to 10:30 A.M with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 655-0015.

Frederick Malcolm Ray, who led choirs and played the organ at churches across the region, died July 6 of Alzheimer's disease at Arden Courts, a care facility in Pikesville. The former Social Security Administration employee and chaplain's assistant in the Navy was 87. Mr. Ray was born the 11th of 13 children in Carthage, N.C. World War II interrupted his undergraduate studies at Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C. After serving in the States, he earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1952 from what was then Morgan State College and in 1973, a professional certificate in social work from the University of Maryland.

Charles County crash kills four teenagers Four high school students were killed when their car went out of control and veered into the path of another vehicle in Charles County. The crash occurred Tuesday in Dentsville as two of the students at La Plata High School were heading home from basketball practice, authorities said. A fifth student was injured, along with the woman driving the other vehicle. The victims were 16-year-old Jonathan Chapman, who was driving the car; Tavonne Alston, 16, and Dionnte Swinson, 15, both of La Plata; and Donte Segar, 14, of Hughesville.

On April 2, 2007, DEMPSEY WIGGINS, beloved husband of Thelma Wiggins. The family will receive friends at Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue on Tuesday, April 10, 2007, from 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday at First Mt. Olive Freewill Baptist Church, 809 Saratoga Avenue. Family Hour 10:30 to 11 A.M., service will follow. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery.

On July 5, 2006, CHARLES JEROME SR., Survived by sons, Alonzo J. and Charles J. Wiggins Jr., daughter, Tracie C. Wiggins-Barrow, seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild and a host of other family and friends. Friends may call the WYLIE FUNERAL HOME P.A. of BALTIMORE COUNTY 9200 Liberty Road on Tuesday from 6-8PM. Services Wednesday at Bethel AME Church, 1300 Druid Hill Avenue 11:00 am Wake 11:30am Funeral. Interment Following. Inquiries @ www.wyliefuneralhome.com or 410-655-9200.

On July 4, 2006, SHERRIE G. WIGGINS Friends may call at the MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Ave., on Monday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at 11:30 A.M. Services will follow at 12.