congressional gold medal honorees

Charles Nelson Wells, a retired owner of a printing firm and a World War II veteran later honored for his service with a Congressional Gold Medal, died of a blood disorder Feb. 12 at Sinai Hospital. He was 87 and lived in Lochearn.

For 33 years, James Dixon served the Baltimore Police Department as a black officer in an era of widespread racial prejudice. Police posts were segregated and blacks were not allowed in patrol cars

Lifelong Catonsville resident William Foreman will receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his role as one of the nation's first black Marines.

Seven decades after President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the last whites-only branch of the military to accept African-Americans, the first black Marines are being recognized for their service.

Betty Ford dies: Widow of President Gerald Ford was 93.