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By Mary Gail Hare | January 9, 2009
Shirley Worcester had just taken down her Christmas decorations and was carrying two bags of trash when she stopped Wednesday night on the porch of her modest waterfront house in Middle River to talk with relatives who had pulled into the driveway. As the 58-year-old grandmother chatted with her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, a boy dressed in black ran past them along narrow Whitethorn Way, her sister-in-law said yesterday. The boy fell, just as two gunshots rang out, she said. The boy got up and continued running.
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By Timothy B. Wheeler | December 4, 2008
In a move hailed by conservation leaders, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced plans yesterday to buy five large tracts of forest, farmland and waterfront for more than $71 million to preserve them from development and enhance public access to the Chesapeake Bay. The governor disclosed the deals to acquire more than 9,200 acres in Cecil, Charles, St. Mary's and Worcester counties as he unveiled a new computerized map of Maryland's environmentally valuable lands,...
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February 28, 2008
On February 22, 2008, NETTIE MILLS WAINWRIGHT. On Friday, friends may call at the VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Baltimore National Pike from 2-8 P.M. On Saturday, Mrs. Wainwright will lie in state at Shiloh UMC, 2655 Worcester Highway, Pocomoke City, MD, where the family will receive friends from 11:30 A.M- 12 P.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-2400.
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By Bradley Olson and James Drew | November 19, 2007
Maryland lawmakers gave final approval last night to a referendum on slot machine gambling, sending to voters an issue that has bitterly divided politicians in Annapolis for years. On a frenzied day of legislating three weeks into a tumultuous special session called by Gov. Martin O'Malley to close the state's projected $1.7 billion budget gap, the Senate approved the referendum as it juggled measures related to taxes, health care and the environment. Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said after the vote that the only way the General Assembly could move forward with slots is through a referendum - and he faulted Republicans for "not participating" in the legislation.
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August 10, 2007
Elizabeth S. Worcester, a former model and retired receptionist, died Saturday of heart failure at St. Joseph Medical Center. The former Roland Park resident was 92. Born Elizabeth Sothoron in Baltimore, she was a direct descendant of George Read, a Delaware signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Robert Oliver, the Baltimore merchant and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad executive whose 68-acre country estate became Green Mount Cemetery in 1839....
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By Sumathi Reddy | January 14, 2007
Police arrested a Baltimore County man yesterday in the killing of a Worcester County woman whose body was found in West Ocean City on Thursday night. Gregory W. Stokes, 30, of the first block of Right Elevator Drive, Middle River, was arrested in Baltimore on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder, according to state police. Stokes is charged in the death of Pamela Balk, whose body was found with a gunshot wound in Mystic Harbor in West Ocean City. Stokes was arrested just after midnight yesterday at a home in the 6200 block of Alumore Way in Southeast Baltimore.
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May 4, 2005
Margaret Noland Smith Worcester, a homemaker and former laundry manager, died of complications from Alzheimer's disease April 27 at the Fairhaven Retirement Community in Sykesville, where she had lived for the past 25 years. The former Eastport resident was 90. Born Margaret Lee Noland and raised in Warrenton, Va., she was a secretary at Fauquier Laundry -- where she met and then married an owner of the family business, Stuart Archer Smith. During his military service and after his death in 1957, she ran the laundry business in Warrenton.
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By Jay Hancock | January 19, 2005
LAST APRIL, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. stunned hundreds of Maryland business leaders by practically begging them to "be dangerous" politically and accusing them of displaying "Patty Hearst syndrome" by snuggling up to liberal captors. Almost as unusual as the message was the medium: a luncheon thrown by Maryland Business for Responsive Government and its president, Robert O.C. "Rocky" Worcester. For the second year in a row, Ehrlich brought gubernatorial prestige and attention to a conservative, pro-markets group long accustomed to neither.
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January 6, 2005
On Tuesday, January 4, 2005, MICHAEL EMMET TAYLOR, age 68, at Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin. Born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, he was the son of the late Nelson Moore Taylor and Norma Elizabeth Coyle Taylor. He is survived by his devoted wife of 42 years, Jean Donnelly Taylor; a son, Brian Taylor and his wife Nina of North East, MD; two daughters, Lynn Goddard and her husband Kurt of Fairfield, Connecticut and Alicia Taylor of Ocean City; five grandchildren; a brother, Timothy Taylor of St. Joseph, Michigan; a sister, Jill Buyan of Los Angeles, CA and several nieces and nephews.
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October 26, 2004
On October 24, 2004 EDWARD J. RYAN, beloved husband of the late Hazel Ryan (nee Swift), devoted uncle of Ruth P. Hays and her husband George and Eileen Ryan of Worcester, MA. Also survived by many great nieces and nephews. The family will receive friends at the family owned RUCK TOWSON FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1050 York Road (beltway exit 26A) on Wednesday from 10 to 11 A.M., at which time a funeral service will be held. In addition the family will receive friends at the Fay Brother's Funeral Home, 9 Hammond Street, Worcester, MA, on Friday from 5 to 8 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated in St. Peter's Church on Saturday at 10 A.M. Interment St. John's Cemetery.