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Akron, Ohio — She disappears into a back room to find her hat and gloves. Nearly 13 years have passed since someone killed Priscilla Lollar’s oldest child, and in that time, she says, she has never visited his grave. She has thought about what that moment would be like, and deep down she knows it is something she needs to do. But she’s afraid that pain would soon follow, and so instead, Priscilla has chosen for years to feel nothing. Early on Jan. 31, 2000, Richard Lollar and a childhood friend, Jacinth Baker, were stabbed to death in Atlanta. This...

IT’S USUALLY TOUGH to get kicked out of Philadelphia’s Fraternal Order of Police. You really have to screw up. Worse than, say, the cop who allegedly beat his girlfriend with a closed fist and left her a voice mail threatening to “stomp your f---ing heart out.” Or the officer convicted of child endangerment for pointing a loaded Glock at a kid who changed the radio station in his truck at the Police Academy. Or the cop who allegedly forced a suspect to perform oral sex on him in his police cruiser. The local FOP, which represents about 14,600 current and...

Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was talking about “evil” - which is a subject he knows oh so well. The Baltimore Ravens heralded linebacker told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio that the NFL lockout could cause higher crime rates: “Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game. There’s nothing else to do, Sal.”

NFL linebacker Ray Lewis and former cornerback Reggie Howard lent a helping hand to a 10-year-old Newburgh boy whose mother drowned herself and her other three children when she drove her van into the Hudson. The pair of gridiron greats joined Lashaun Armstrong last night at a Manhattan fund-raiser for the United Athletes Foundation, where some $20,000 was raised for the boy. "I like to thank the UAF for fund-raising this money for my family and I'd like to thank Ray and Reggie for being there for me and taking care of me when I need help," Lashaun said during...

COMMERCIALS CAN'T HIDE LEWIS' PAST Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 12:00 AM The Daily Herald Ray Lewis came on the television screen Sunday in one of those commercials that's run during an NFL game. Lewis looked like some sort of a glorified pledge trainer, and the young men clad in football uniforms around him looked groggy from excessive hazing.He was standing amid a huddle of football players, chanting loudly. Lewis would shout, "What time is it?!" and the pledges would answer, in unison, "Game Time!!" In a similar spot, Lewis, a perennial all-pro linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens, tells a...