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Paul D. Imre, a retired Baltimore County public health official and decorated World War II veteran, died of a heart attack Saturday at his Columbia home. He was 83. Born in New York City, he enlisted in the Army immediately after his graduation from the Bronx High School of Science. He became an infantry paratrooper in World War II. He parachuted into Carentan, France, two days after the Allied invasion began and fought his way through the country until he reached Belgium. During heavy fighting in the Battle of Bulge in January 1945, he was wounded in the back by shrapnel near Mande St. Etienne.

John Joseph Curry Jr., a retired accountant and World War II veteran who fought at the Battle of the Bulge and later guarded high Nazi officials before the Nuremberg trials, died of heart failure Friday at Oak Crest Village. He was 84. Mr. Curry was born in Baltimore and raised on West Saratoga Street. He was a 1942 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art before being drafted into the Army in 1943. The Army sent Mr. Curry to the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he studied basic engineering, before assigning him to the 11th Armored Division in Europe.

Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle underwent surgery on his injured neck and will be out for at least a month. Coach John Harbaugh announced Rolle's operation yesterday after the team's final practice before meeting the AFC South-leading Tennessee Titans tomorrow. Harbaugh said Rolle felt tingling in his shoulder and compared the injury to a stinger. Fabian Washington, who immediately becomes the starting cornerback opposite Chris McAlister, said Rolle - like Washington himself - was hampered by a bulging disc in his neck.

Otis E. Lee Sr., a retired railroader, World War II veteran and longtime Edmondson Village neighborhood activist, died Saturday of heart failure at Bon Secours Hospital. He was 90. Mr. Lee was born in Whitestone, Va., and was raised in Bordentown, N.J., where he graduated from high school. Mr. Lee served with the 95th Engineer Regiment of the Army Corps of Engineers from 1941 to 1945. "We were segregated but proud," Mr. Lee said in a 2007 Maryland Public Television documentary that highlighted Marylanders who served in World War II. "Because whatever we were doing, we were doing for our country.

Norbert L. Grunwald, an Austrian-born U.S. Army veteran who was taken prisoner by the Nazis during the Battle of the Bulge and later worked in American intelligence and for a brokerage in Baltimore, died of complications of prostate cancer Friday at his Baltimore home. He was 83 years old. Mr. Grunwald was born in Vienna, Austria. When he was 13, Nazi forces took over his country, and he fled alone and on foot to Poland. On the first night of his journey he was picked up by the Nazis, said his wife, Louise.

William King Pound, a decorated World War II tank commander who fought at the Battle of the Bulge and later established an advertising agency, died of primary lateral sclerosis May 8 at his Catonsville home. He was 82. Born in Baltimore and raised in the Ten Hills neighborhood, Mr. Pound was a 1942 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School. After briefly attending Loyola College, he enlisted in the Army in 1943. He was a gunner on an M5 light tank assigned to the 4th Armored Division of Gen. George S. Patton Jr.'s 3rd Army when he landed on Utah Beach in June 1944, two weeks after the D-Day Normandy invasion.

Henry J. Roth cheated fate in 1944 when severely swollen feet earned him a coveted seat on a train to an English hospital, weeks before his Army division was pounded by advancing Germans in the Battle of the Bulge. Sixty-three years later, a faded relic from his foxhole arrived at Roth's home in Catonsville. Roth, an 85-year-old retired accountant, received the package this week from Belgium. As his mailman and wife looked on, Roth opened the box and pulled out a dark green canvas duffel bag, emblazoned with stenciled lettering: "Henry J. Roth 33383648" It didn't take long for Roth to recognize the bag. It had once contained some of his Army gear and a picture of his wife.

August T. McColgan Sr., a decorated World War II veteran who went on to handle one of the Army's toughest public relations assignments, died of cancer Thursday at Stella Maris Hospice. The longtime Towson resident was 86. Born in Baltimore, he graduated in 1938 from Mount St. Joseph High School. He joined the 5th Regiment of the Maryland National Guard in 1935 while still in school. When the Guard was called into federal service in 1941, he was assigned to train soldiers at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia.

STERLING, Va. -- About 55 million youngsters are enrolling for classes in the nation's schools this fall, making this the largest group of students in America's history and, in ethnic terms, the most dazzlingly diverse since waves of European immigrants washed through the public schools a century ago. Millions of baby boomers and foreign-born parents are enrolling their children, sending a demographic bulge through the schools that is driving a surge...

Stung by criticism from parents about a plan that would ban fatty, sugary snacks at after-school concession stands, the school board is planning to revise its proposed nutrition and wellness policy, deemed one of the most strict in the country. Several booster club members and parents of students in other after-school activities had complained that the policy - being drafted to meet a state mandate - would hurt fundraising, sending school officials back to the drawing board. "They were concerned that we went a little too far by regulating what is sold after the school day is over," Raymond Brown, the school system's chief operating officer, said of the public response.