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On May 2, 2007, HATTIE DEAN BUNCH loving mother of Bruce, Dalton, George and Ms. Kimberly Bunch. She is also survived by other relatives and friends. Visitation with family Friday noon to 8 P.M. Phillip A. Weatherford Funeral Home, 2431 E. Oliver Street. Service Saturday, Wake 10-10:30 A.M., funeral to follow at Eastside Baptist Church, 2519 Preston Street. Interment King Memorial Park.

Charlotte R. Thom, 85, Hutzler's manager, teacherCharlotte R. Thom, former department store official and retired educator, died Saturday of congestive heart failure at John Knox Village, a retirement community in Tampa, Fla. She was 85.Mrs. Thom, who also had resided at Broadmead, the Cockeysville retirement community, was human resources manager for Hutzler's department store chain in Baltimore from 1948 until 1961. She then taught second grade at Mount Royal Elementary School and retired in 1985.

Edward R. Bunch Jr., a Baltimore firefighter for nearly 40 years and one of the city's first African-American firefighters, died Monday of cancer at his Northeast Baltimore home.Mr. Bunch, 69, was among the third class of blacks to graduate from the city's firefighters academy and work at city firehouses. For many years, he was stationed at the Roland Park firehouse, Engine No. 44."Bunch was active in helping blacks get to where they are today," said Fire Chief Herman Williams Jr., who along with Mr. Bunch joined the department in 1954.

In some editions yesterday, several words were left off the final paragraph of Michael Olesker's column. It should have read: Ten minutes out of childhood, the bunch of 'em, and there they were, preposterously reaching out for papers saying: We now declare you grown-ups all.Pub Date: 5/27/96

Seeing "Pvt. Wars" at the Forum Theater is a little like visiting a "nearly new" store. The play is secondhand and so is the theater, but there's hardly any mothball aroma lingering on the fresh, comic result.The theater, which opened its doors last month, is occupying the same Washington Boulevard building as the short-lived Playwrights Theatre of Baltimore, which closed its doors a year ago.The play, by James McLure, is an expanded version of the one-act that received its first post-Broadway production at Center Stage in 1979.

As they flail at the deficit crunch,The let's-shrink-the-government bunchWants new diet rulesFor mealtime in schools --From now on, kids, let's not do lunch.* * *An American axiom sezAnyone can aspire to be Prez;For proof, take a glanceAt some people in pantsWho pant for a White House addrez.* * *The look that preceded the leapLed to Dan Quayle's decision to keepHis malaprop selfBack home on the shelfIn case he is asked to re-veep.

SAN DIEGO -- I did not bother to bring a notebook to town for a three-hour visit to say a few words at a 20th-anniversary lunch of the City Club of San Diego, the most significant political forum in this beautiful city where the sun usually speaks louder than words. The main speaker was Lowell Weicker, Connecticut's former Republican senator and Independent governor, and I assumed he'd stick pretty much to conventional wisdom and his own ambitions.I was wrong, though, and quickly found myself scrawling notes on an envelope and napkins, beginning with his first line, an angry question: ''I would like to ask the people currently dismantling the greatest country in the world, what the hell is going on here?

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The baseball gods were good to Orioles manager Phil Regan last night. They must've seen the Orioles' pitiful hitting in Minnesota and decided to give the poor man a break.What gifts the baseball gods bestowed in the Orioles' 10-6 victory over Kansas City last night, in the middle of a team-wide hitting slump. Four RBIs from catcher Greg Zaun, who doubled his career RBI total. A grand slam by second baseman Bret Barberie, who more than doubled his season RBI total. Six improbable runs in a fourth-inning rally that began with two outs and nobody on base.

Perennial tennis powerhouse Centennial turned the Howard County Cup Tournament into an Eagles showcase on the way to its eighth Cup title in nine years.Only Howard High's county and tournament championship in 1989 interrupted the Eagle's winning string.Centennial (14-0 regular season) won nine out of its 10 first-round matches and clinched the Cup team championship with a record 64 points, with three titles still to be decided early this morning at the Wilde Lake Tennis Center.Centennial's first individual title came in the all-Eagles' boys doubles finals yesterday with second seed Brett Bunch and sophomore Brian Higgins defeating Eagles sophomore Neil Adler and freshman Matt Ruppert, 0-6, 6-1, 6-3.Adler and Ruppert, who knocked off third seeds Josh Prangley and Brian Naftaly of Atholton in the quarterfinals, 2-6, 6-4, 6-0, stunned Bunch and Higgins with a quick first-set win.Bunch and Higgins, the only seeded team to advance to the boys doubles semifinals, battled back by capturing the second set and holding ground in the third with a 3-3 tie before experience took over in game seven.

Every woman who ever kept a diary probably has experienced the fear that someone would somehow discover it and spill its contents to the world.But in the spirit of a 12-step program -- setting your most intimate thoughts free will unburden you and possibly help others -- this book contains the personal writings of 50 African-American women and girls, both celebrated and unknown.And what interesting reading it is: These sometimes rough, unedited musings provoke anger, fear, joy and just about any other dial on the emotion scale.

On October 27, 2009, PUGH C. BUNCH, JR. Friends may visit the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue, on Friday after 11 AM with family hour from 5 to 7 PM. The family will receive friends at Ark Church, 1263 E. North Avenue, on Saturday at 10 AM. Funeral Services will follow at 10:30 AM.

Theft charges dropped against school employee Prosecutors dropped a Baltimore District Court case Tuesday against a former public schools employee accused of stealing payroll checks. In July, Latanya Bunch, 37, was charged with three counts of theft over $500 and four counts under $500, but prosecutors declined to prosecute this week. Their reason was not immediately available. Bunch, who worked as a secretary at Reginald F. Lewis High School, says she lost her job over the charges, which she says she's innocent of. This is the second time Bunch has been charged with crimes that prosecutors ultimately dropped.

Sinai chief to head heart association board 3 The president and chief operating officer of Sinai Hospital of Baltimore is the new chairman of the American Heart Association board of directors. Neil M. Meltzer, 53, will be responsible during his one-year term for the association's business affairs, public relations and fundraising, and will preside over Cabinet meetings. Meltzer said Friday he wants to attract additional funding for cardiac and stroke research, impact the debate over proposals to overhaul the nation's health care system, and assist in efforts to reduce childhood obesity.

Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. John McCain. George W. Bush. Ted Stevens. If you can't find some humor in that bunch ... man, you ain't tryin'. And rest assured, the men and women of DeFace the Nation, Second City's all-political revue, will be tryin' with everything they've got when they appear at Towson University's Stephens Hall Theatre. For decades, the satirists and absurdists of second City have been taking aim at the entire range of the political spectrum, leaving no ideology unchallenged, no sacred cow unscathed.

A bunch of years ago, I wrote a story about a group of children from the little upstate Pennsylvania town of Archbald. These kids dominated a national contest sponsored by a soft drink company in which boys and girls in different age groups took jump shots from different spots on the basketball court. So how did a bunch of kids from a town in the middle of nowhere, competing against talent from cities such as New York and Los Angeles, account for so many championships in a basketball shooting contest?

Baltimore police are looking for Kevin Randolph, a 21-year-old Baltimore man, in connection with the April 1 killing of Darius Bunch. Bunch was shot about 1 a.m. in the 800 block of N. Franklintown Road in the Poplar Grove community. He was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead. Bunch had also been shot a year ago, on April 10, in the 700 block of N. Longwood St., which is about a block away from where he was mortally wounded in April. Police described the suspect, Randolph, as "armed and dangerous" and a suspected member of the Crips gang.

There comes a point when you just have to roll with it. The Orioles swept a two-game series against the Boston Red Sox in dramatic fashion and now have won four of their first five games against the defending World Series champions and New York Yankees. It might be way too early to ask "Why Not?" but it's not too early to join in the fun. And, make no mistake, the Orioles are having quite a time. All you had to do was watch the walk-off handshake session to see that. They had their bills turned up to emulate the goofy way closer George Sherrill wears his cap. They had the look of a team that no longer thinks it has to keep pulling rabbits out of those hats to beat the best teams in the American League, even though that's pretty much what they did in each game against the Red Sox. This time, it was Jay Payton lining a grand slam into the left-field bleachers to turn around another late-inning deficit.

Blue Jays@Orioles 7 P.M. [MASN2] Steve Trachsel, who in the early going has been the Orioles' most consistent starter, is scheduled to pitch. It's also Adam Jones T-shirt night, so be prepared to see a bunch of No. 10's in the stands. Alternate suggestions are the Capitals-Flyers NHL playoff game (7 p.m., Comcast SportsNet and Versus) and The Magnificent Seven (8 p.m., AMC).

On April 1, 2008, DARIUS beloved son of Drusilla. He is also survived by three sons, Darius Jr., Darian and Damario, one daughter, Adaria, three brothers, Jermaine Boston and Jerome and Ezra Bunch, two sisters, Lennea and Chsade and other family members and friends. Friends may call WYLIE FUNERAL HOME, P.A., 638 N. Gilmor Street on Sunday from 12 to 4 P.M. Family will receive friends on Monday 10:30 A.M. Wake and 11 A.M. Funeral Service at Unity United Methodist Church, 1433 Edmondson Avenue.

An armed career criminal and a gang member charged in separate cases as part of the federal anti-gun program known as Exile were sentenced to federal prison this week. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. sentenced Donta Tyrone Gillie, 26, of Baltimore yesterday to 15 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The judge enhanced Gillie's prison time because the defendant was an "armed career criminal," a legal category based on at least three prior felony narcotics convictions, according to prosecutors.