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On October 2, 2003, ROBERT L. BRAUN beloved husband of Emma E. Braun (nee Roark) devoted father of Jane Braun, Tracy Chauncey and Michele Hott, loving son of Anne L. Stamey, loving grandfather of Stephanie, Nichole, Joshua and Rachel, dear brother of Lawrence J. Braun Jr., and Patricia Catlin. Funeral service will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Avenue on Saturday at 10 A.M. Interment Lakeview Memorial Park. Friends may call on Friday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M.

Award is his to keep Phil Rogers Chicago Tribune On Tuesday, Michael Weiner, head of the players' union, issued a statement asking for everyone to reserve judgment on Ryan Braun, who tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug and faces a 50-game suspension if the finding is upheld. Perhaps Weiner has seen suggestions that the Baseball Writers' Association of America revote to determine the 2011 NL Most Valuable Player. That's ridiculous. Braun was elected as the MVP, and the award should be his to keep.

On March 20, 2003, RUTH A. (nee Barnett); beloved wife of the late Carroll E. Braun Sr.; devoted mother of Nancy Braun Cavey, Carroll Emerson Braun Jr. and Eugene A. Braun; loving grandmother of Amy Klair and husband Roger, Caroline Lowe and husband Charles, Jennifer Floyd and husband Myrick, Jeffrey and Steven Braun; loving great-grandmother of Abagail Klair, Seth and Aryn Floyd. Funeral Services were held on Tuesday at the GARRY L. KAUFMAN FUNERAL HOME AT MEADOWRIDGE MEMORIAL, INC., where the interment followed.

• BREWERS: LF Ryan Braun left Saturday's game against the Diamondbacks after the top of the first inning because of a strained muscle in his ribcage. Braun wasn't involved in any plays in the inning, and the team called him day-to-day.   • NATIONALS: RF Bryce Harper was optioned to Class A Hagerstown. GM Mike Rizzo said the top pick in last year's draft needs more playing time to prepare for the season. Harper, 18, hit .389 in 13 spring games.

On August 21, 2005, EDNA M. BRAUN, beloved wife of the late Christian J. Braun and William E. Armstrong; devoted mother of Mary R. Roos; step-mother of Melvin L. Braun and Bessie V. Siemer; loving grandmother of Donald W. Roos, Sr., Gary L. Roos, David E. Roos and Karen M. Castor; nana of Susan Mayer, Wayne Braun, Ginny Hechert, Richy Siemer and Peggy Gerben. Also survived by twelve great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Family will receive friends Tuesday, 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. at HARRY H. WITZKE'S FAMILY FUNERAL HOME, INC., 4112 Old Columbia Pike, Ellicott City.

On March 30, 2003 JAMES LOUIS, SR., beloved husband of the late Iva G. Braun; devoted father of Ginger V. Reid, James L. Braun Jr., Kathleen M. Jacobs, Johnny R. Miller, Karen S. Spencer and Gary S. Braun; dear brother of Norman Braun, Melvin Shaffer and Mildred Valis. Also survived by 16 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned Brudzinski Funeral Home P.A. 1407 Old Eastern Ave. Essex at Rt. 702 (beltway exit 36) on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Service on Wednesday at 11 A.M. in Piney Grove Methodist Church.

On February 16, 2008, NORMAN (BUDDY) BRAUN a.k.a. "Charlie Brown" of Glen Burnie; devoted brother of Mildred Valis and Melvin Schaffer and brother-in-law of Jim Valis; predeceased by parents James and Susan Braun, also sister Jeanetta Hopper, and brothers Albert, Raymond, James and Donald. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Services will be held on Tuesday, February 26, at 1:45 p.m. in The Chapel at Garrison Forest Veterans Cemetery, 11501 Garrison Forest Road, Owings Mills. Lunchin to follow.

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.0 -- Sam Rayburn, former speaker of the House. WINNING a political race is the easy part.Surviving a political office is quite another.That's the lesson that the freshmen members of the 103rd Congress who were sworn in Tuesday will learn quickly.Even before they raised their hands to take the oath of office, "scandals" surrounding incoming members of Congress began grabbing headlines and stirring talk-show hosts. Among the biggest headline-makers were women, and the criticism of them was premature.

Broadneck High School athletic director Ken Kazmarek announced yesterday the hiring of Jonathan Braun as head coach of the boys soccer team.Braun, a former head coach at Southern High in Harwood, will replace Kevin McMullen, who resigned last month to take a teaching/coaching position at Thomas Johnson Middle/High School in Frederick County.McMullen, the only boys soccer coach Broadneck has had since opening in 1982, coached the Bruins to a 91-35-10 record in his tenure, reaching the state Class 4A finals in 1990.

Helen M. Braun, a homemaker and former department store art director, died Wednesday of complications from surgery for a broken hip at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 95. Born Helen Mary McCaffray, the Mount Washington native was a 1927 graduate of Mount St. Agnes High School and earned a degree at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She became a fashion artist for the May Co. and later was art director for the old Hochschild Kohn department store in downtown Baltimore, overseeing its newspaper advertising design.

Ethel S. Braun, president of the Baltimore real estate brokerage E.G. Rock Inc. for 55 years, died Jan. 6 of heart failure at her Glen Arm home. She was 98. Ethel Segerman was born in Baltimore and raised on Mount Royal Terrace. After graduating from the old Mount St. Agnes High School in 1930, she moved to California, where she lived for two years in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. She returned in 1932 to Baltimore, and six years later married Wilson J.C. Braun Sr., who worked for the old Glenn L. Martin Co. in Middle River.

Confess. You're a closet Real Housewives of New York City fan. I can't tell you how many times the subject of that show has come up at recent soirees. Atlantic Trading Co.'s comptroller, Jan Braun, fully admits to being so into the show that she and sis, DC-ite Jill Bushkoff, hitched a train ride up to the Big Apple recently to see "housewife" Jill Zarin speak at a Friars Club luncheon. Braun says it was a gathering of only about 50 folks, including all the Housewives. Sans one. If you know the show, bet you know who. That's right - Kelly Killoren Bensimon, the newest cast member ... the one none of the others seems to like.

On February 16, 2009, ANNE LOUISE STAMEY (nee Reynolds-Braun); beloved wife of the late Ned C. Stamey; devoted mother of Lawrence James Braun, Jr. and his wife Jean, Patricia Stamey-Catlin and the late Robert Leo Braun; mother-in-law of Emma Braun; loving grandmother of Jane Louise Braun, Tracy Chauncey, Christine Samuels and her husband Brian, Michelle Hott and her husband Doug, Lawrence James Braun, III and his wife Kimberly, Robert James Batton and...

Murder and mayhem were Matt Jablow's bread and butter as a WBAL newsman, Baltimore police spokesman and America's Most Wanted producer. Now he's offering more life-affirming fare as a "Webumentarian." Jablow left America's Most Wanted in July to start a video production company, Frodo Productions, named for a Hobbit. Baltimore's Ronald McDonald House has hired him to make a documentary for its Web site - a "Webumentary," as Jablow put it - on a family it serves.

Andrew Braun, a janitorial supply salesman and former synagogue administrator, died Tuesday at Seasons Hospice at Northwest Hospital Center. The Owings Mills resident was 85. Mr. Braun was born in Budapest, Hungary, and in 1927 moved with his mother and twin brother to Cleveland, where his father was a physician. He was a 1941 graduate of Glenville High School in Cleveland and began his college studies at Ohio State University. Mr. Braun left college in 1942 and enlisted in the Navy, where he served stateside with the medical corps.

Many fantasy baseball title runs received major shots in the arm last season from the call-ups of Ryan Braun and Hunter Pence. Whether you already had these guys stowed on reserve rosters or you scavenged them as soon as they hit the free-agent pool, they were huge contributors from the day they hit the big leagues. The important thing to know going forward is that neither player's excellence surprised savvy owners. In this age of information glut, it's not enough to know every player in the big leagues.

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Declaring that voters are "ready to take the next great step" and elect a woman as president, Carol Moseley Braun formally entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination yesterday. Despite struggling to raise funds and organize a traditional campaign operation during her six-month exploratory campaign, the former senator from Illinois announced a full-fledged White House bid with speeches at the University of Illinois-Chicago and at historically black colleges in Washington, D.C., and Columbia.

WASHINGTON -- A second American company recalled Heparin products yesterday as China announced that it was clamping down on production of the blood-thinning drug's main ingredient to prevent further cases of contamination. B. Braun Medical Inc. withdrew 23 lots of Heparin products after learning that it had received a contaminated ingredient. The Bethlehem, Pa., company described the recall as precautionary. It said it had not received any reports of side effects, even though the suspect lots have been sold in the United States and Canada.