Defense attorneys for the six officers involved in the Freddie Gray case on Wednesday filed a motion to switch venues, claiming that they "cannot receive a fair and impartial trial in Baltimore City."
Candace S. Simms, who worked for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for five decades and was a community activist and longtime active communicant of St. James Episcopal Church, died Aug. 28. The Ashburton resident was 72.
Dr. James L. Fisher, whose tenure as president of Towson University coincided with unparalleled physical expansion, increased student enrollment and a name change during the 1970s, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke.
Susan K. Macfarlane, a longtime civic activist whose interests ranged from the antiwar movement to supporting the building of Thanksgiving Place at Stadium Place on the site of the old Memorial Stadium, died August 2 at her Roland Park Place home.
Lawrence Edward Farinetti Sr., a retired steelworker who was a Back River advocate, died at a local hospital Aug. 23 from complications of lung cancer. He was 77.