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Five young men pulled an 89-year-old woman from her car at a Northeast Baltimore supermarket parking lot yesterday afternoon, threw her to the ground and stole her 1990 Buick Century, city police said.Mabel Louise Emrick, who has lived in the Waverly neighborhood for more than 60 years, said she had pulled into the Superfresh parking lot at 609 Gorsuch Ave. about 1:45 p.m. when the men approached the car."They said, 'Get out of the car and leave your keys in there,' " Mrs. Emrick said. "They waited until I got out, and they pulled me down.

A man was killed after speeding through evening rush-hour traffic on a motorcycle Wednesday on Interstate 95 near the Baltimore northern city/county line, Maryland Transportation Authority officials said. The man was racing with another motorcyclist about 6:30 p.m., and witnesses said the two were performing wheelies as they sped along, an MdTA spokesman said. The man struck a Buick and was badly injured in the crash, while the other motorcyclist left the scene. The man has not been identified pending notification of his next of kin. He was medevaced to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead.

In Flint, Mich., the name Roadmaster means a lot. It conjures up memories of the post-World War II boom years, of portholes on cars, of massive vertical-bar grilles and of hardtop convertibles.The Roadmaster -- which has been revived and is being produced by Buick at the General Motors assembly plant in Arlington, Texas -- is a name from days gone by.It is a flashback to an era when it was taken for granted that American car buyers would drive home anything Detroit's automakers put into showrooms.

Here's a big question: When does old age begin? Will 30 years do it? Is being 50 and the holder of an AARP card with senior discounts enough? Both would be wrong guesses. Until recently, I hadn't thought much about it. Yet, I got the answer to this eminent question without asking. A while ago, I saw my physician for a semi-annual examination and health review. Near the end of our meeting, the doctor declared for the record that I had arrived at old age. Crash the cymbals and blare the trumpets!

Charles F. Debaugh Sr., a retired Brooks Buick service adviser and noted decoy collector, died in his sleep Sunday at his Baltimore County home. The Phoenix resident was 81. Mr. Debaugh was born and raised in Towson, where he graduated from high school in 1939. After attending technical school for a year, he went to work as an auto mechanic for his father, who owned the Debaugh Motors Packard dealership on Pennsylvania Avenue in Towson. After the business closed in 1963, he joined Brooks Buick, also in Towson.

Samuel J. Zito, a sprightly centenarian who had operated Zito Buick Services in Baltimore for 40 years, died of respiratory failure Friday at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. He was 100. Mr. Zito, a 51-year resident of East Lake Avenue who would have been 101 next month, was born in Baltimore. One of seven children of Italian immigrant parents, he was raised on Pennsylvania Avenue, where his father owned a confectionery and fruit store. His entrepreneurial instincts began early, when he was delivering newspapers at the age of 6. He swept the floors of a barbershop after school for 50 cents a week, and as a 14-year-old delivered singing telegrams for Western Union.

A man was killed after speeding through evening rush-hour traffic on a motorcycle Wednesday on Interstate 95 near the Baltimore northern city/county line, Maryland Transportation Authority officials said. The man was racing with another motorcyclist about 6:30 p.m., and witnesses said the two were performing wheelies as they sped along, an MdTA spokesman said. The man struck a Buick and was badly injured in the crash, while the other motorcyclist left the scene. The man has not been identified pending notification of his next of kin. He was medevaced to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead.

POLICE LOG* Wilde Lake: 5200 block of West Running Brook Road: Someone stole a 1988 Buick LeSabre with Maryland license plates VWH-220 Friday.

Kings Contrivance: 9800 block of Rainleaf Court: Someone unlocked the hood on a 1983 Buick between noon Sunday and 9 a.m. Monday, and stole a $40 distributor cap.

Essential Communications, which opened for business Oct. 1, will provide advertising, promotions and public relation services for Boyle Buick of Abingdon.Essential Communications was founded by Meyer Baron, who served as marketing manager for Boyle Buick from 1990.The firm offers writing and production services in all media.In addition to marketing services, Essential Communications creates human resources material such as employee handbooks, manuals and job descriptions.

For Greg Hudnet, being a Ravens superfan is all about the car. Not just any car, but a purple-and-black '52 Buick that Hudnet - aka Birdman - drives to every home game. Decked out with the Ravens logo, customized inside with the autographs of some 50 Ravens and Colts players, his car has become a crowd-pleaser of the first order. And even though Hudnet dresses up like a bird for every game and helps keep his fellow fans in Section 531 pumped, the retired firefighter acknowledges the car is far more famous than he is. "It's just become so popular, it's unbelievable," says Hudnet, 63, who lives in Parkton with his wife of 42 years, Linda.

I think after Hurricane Sandy and then the election, I'm going to be OK. Many are stressed out right now and I think these two events are the cause. My wish is that when the election is over, regardless of the results, we may learn from the past two years of negative campaigning and our country return to the process of government in cooperation, community and trust. We have become a society of "I win, you lose" or a bloodbath to the finish line with an application of hate. The division and austere language, the bickering and lame-duck results of our Congress did not exist "then" to the degree as it does "now," neither were citizens of the United States taught to hate fellow countrymen because of their political affiliation.

Clarence Cromwell Boyle Sr., a Harford County automobile dealership owner who served in World War II, died of heart disease at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center on March 27. He was 85 and lived in Bel Air. Born at home on his family's farm in the Level section of Harford County, he was the son of Howard Benjamin Boyle, a county roads supervisor, and Ethel Bowman, a homemaker. Family members said he learned to fly an airplane before he had a driver's license. He practiced at Aldino Airport near his home.

This month, beleaguered General Motors announced that after 83 years, it was finally eliminating its Pontiac division in hopes of averting bankruptcy. This news catapulted me back to another time, when Pontiacs were Kings of the Road. I was also awash in Pontiac nostalgia because the first family car I really remember was a Pontiac. With the outbreak of World War II, automakers ceased production. With the return of peace, Americans were eager to take to the highways once again . The pent-up desire was fueled by cheap gas, big postwar salaries, and a desire to drive the fastest and most stylish models Detroit could provide.

Spring training is just kicking into gear, but baseball is not the only game in South Florida this time of year. In Palm Beach Gardens, less than an hour up Interstate 95 from the Orioles' training facility, is PGA National Resort and Spa, which will host the Honda Classic this coming week. In case you were wondering, Tiger Woods will not be there. He never plays the Honda - perhaps because he drives a Buick - but that just means one of your other favorite golfers will have a chance to win. My money's on defending U.S. Open champion Angel Cabrera.

SAN DIEGO -- Is there anything out there that can trip up Tiger Woods? Nothing in the past six months anyway, at least on the PGA Tour, once again zoned as Woods' personal playground, just as it has been since last July when he started a winning streak at the British Open that reached seven straight yesterday with his fifth victory overall, and third straight, at the Buick Invitational. Woods took the lead with six holes to go at Torrey Pines, wound up with a 6-under-par 66, nudged Charles Howell III by two shots, finished with a 15-under score of 273 and, as is his habit, dug deeper into the history books.

An unidentified man was killed and five others were injured early this morning when a Honda Accord was stuck by a Buick Century in Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood. The injured were taken by ambulance to hospitals and the deceased -- an African-American male believed to be in his early 20s who was driving the Honda -- was declared dead at the scene of the 12: 20 a.m. crash, police said. Police said the Honda was traveling north on Guilford Avenue when the Buick, headed west on East 29th Street, hit the Accord on the passenger side.

Pat Hays Buick has sold its property on Cathedral Street to the University of Baltimore for $4 million.The property sold to UB consists of a 40-space parking lot, the dealership's showroom, offices and service area at 1111 Cathedral St. and two office buildings at 1101-1103 and 1105-1107 Cathedral St.Paul G. Hays Jr. said yesterday he decided to sell the property where he has sold Buicks for the last 17 years because it is tough to operate if your dealership...

In the long, dubious history of celebrities shilling for products, one of the strangest pairings has to be Tiger Woods and Buick. Kirstie Alley shills for Jenny Craig and you think: OK, she let herself go a few years ago, gained all that weight, spoofed herself in that Fat Actress reality show, then turned to a well-known weight-loss program to slim down. Makes sense. Burt Reynolds appears in those "Man Laws" Miller Lite commercials and you think: Fine, aging macho actor with a bad hairpiece, had a big rep as a person who partied, still likes to kick back with a couple of cold ones.

LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Say what you will about Tiger Woods, but he knows how to win. The victories just arrive in different ways. Sometimes, he blows to victory with fury, sometimes he squirms his way to the top and other times victory falls in his lap. Yesterday at the Buick Invitational, Woods' 47th PGA Tour tournament title was gift-wrapped and specially delivered, when Jose Maria Olazabal missed a 4-foot putt for par on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff...