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Richard H. Groves, the president and publisher of the Daily Record legal and business newspaper, yesterday said he is leaving that post.Groves said the parent company of the Maryland newspaper, Dolan Media Inc., had asked him to move to one of its other newspapers. He would not identify the newspaper, saying only that it is the Southeast.Groves said he was not given the option of remaining at the Record."I didn't want to leave Baltimore, so I decided to resign," said Groves, 57. He called his departure "amicable" and did not rule out a return to Dolan Media.

Herbert A. Davis, a Baltimore real estate broker and decorated World War II veteran, died Monday of progressive supranuclear palsy at Keswick Multi-Care Center. He was 87. "Herb was always very enthusiastic and just a great guy," said Dorothy F. "Patsy" Ross, who works in real estate sales for Chase Fitzgerald & Co. "He was enthusiastic, positive and was always thinking on the bright side, and he really knew the business," said Mrs. Ross. "He was a great salesman. " Judy L. Bushong, a real estate agent, worked with Mr. Davis for 28 years.

Philip D. Kirby, 62, executive vice president, treasurer and a director of the Daily Record Co., died Thursday of cancer at his residence in Towson.Mr. Kirby began his career with the publishers of the Daily Record and Warfield's Business Record as controller in 1985.Previously, he had been treasurer of the Bagby Furniture Co., which he joined in 1984. And, from 1955 to 1974, he had been vice president of finance and treasurer of Environmental Elements Corp., a division of the Koppers Co.Edwin Warfield IV, chairman and publisher of the Daily Record Co., said of Mr. Kirby that "he was a trusted adviser with a great sense of humor."

The publisher of The Daily Record announced Thursday that a former editor at several Maryland newspapers will become editor of the Baltimore-based business and legal affairs newspaper on Jan. 14. David B. Simon, 36, will replace Tom Linthicum, who retired as vice president and executive editor in December, The Daily Record reported. Simon, who most recently worked for the University of Chicago's fundraising arm as a senior writer in medicine and biological sciences, had been managing editor for news and opinion at The Gazette in Gaithersburg until June, The Daily Record said.

Warfield's Business Record and the Daily Record, two business and legal publications in Maryland, will merge on Oct. 19, the papers' publisher said yesterday.With the formation of the new Daily Record, Dolan Media Inc., the owner, hopes to increase circulation and advertising revenues, provide expanded state coverage and more in-depth banking coverage. The new publication will come out six days a week, Monday through Saturday.During the week, the format and content will be similar to the Daily Record, while readers will recognize aspects of the weekly Warfield's on Saturday, said Richard H. Groves, president and publisher of both publications.

The Daily Record Co., a news and printing company that was sold three months ago, has lost about a half-dozen management and editorial employees in recent weeks, including the company's former president and its legal affairs editor.The departures started about a month ago when former president Robert Dawson, whose title was changed to vice president soon after the company was sold in May, announced he would leave to become publisher of the Real Estate Review, a publication of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors.

ONCE, Edwin Warfield IV was one of the best-known names in the publishing business in Maryland. Then, he basically vanished. After selling the Daily Record and Warfield's business magazine, which he had built into solid publications, Warfield chased the dot.com dream in Florida, buying and starting online technology and business publications with his own money and backing from Wall Street financier Bruce Wasserstein, among others. But the dot.com boom caused him a setback - personally and professionally.

Keith F. Girard, editor-in-chief of the Daily Record since 1991, was fired from the Baltimore legal and business journal yesterday.Girard, who cleaned out his desk and refused to sign a severance agreement he considered unacceptable, said his dismissal involved a disagreement with the paper's publisher over a photograph of Adolf Hitler that ran on the front page of the Dec. 8, 1998, edition.The image of Hitler, superimposed over a photograph of the BT Alex. Brown investment building at One South Street, accompanied a lead story about a proposed merger between Germany's Deutsche Bank AG and Bankers Trust of New York, Alex.

Herbert A. Davis, a Baltimore real estate broker and decorated World War II veteran, died Monday of progressive supranuclear palsy at Keswick Multi-Care Center. He was 87. "Herb was always very enthusiastic and just a great guy," said Dorothy F. "Patsy" Ross, who works in real estate sales for Chase Fitzgerald & Co. "He was enthusiastic, positive and was always thinking on the bright side, and he really knew the business," said Mrs. Ross. "He was a great salesman. " Judy L. Bushong, a real estate agent, worked with Mr. Davis for 28 years.

In an effort to better accommodate advertisers, Warfield's magazine will publish twice a month instead of monthly beginning next week."In recent years, advertisers have begun to insist on added value in their advertising vehicles. . . . By going biweekly, the opportunities for our advertisers expand dramatically," said Edwin Warfield 4th, publisher of Warfield's and the Daily Record.Warfield's, established five years ago, is a glossy magazine that features profiles of Maryland business leaders and coverage of real estate and other local financial issues.

Already an author and a Hall of Famer, Cal Ripken is adding foodie to his resume. The Oriole great has launched a line of hamburgers. According to the Daily Record, Ripken and Roseda Beef, a Baltimore company, have teamed up to sell Ripken Gourmet Burgers at Giant. Mmmmm. Ripken burgers. The six-ounce meat patties will be available only in the Maryland, D.C. and Virginia area, the paper says. They cost $9.99 for four. They have apparently just hit stores.

The Daily Record has named AscendOne Corp. founder and Ellicott City resident Bernie Dancel one of its 2011 Innovators, an award created to recognize businesses and individuals who have had a positive effect and tremendous impact in Maryland. The Daily Record, a Baltimore-based business publication, will honor the 2011 Innovators at a dinner Oct. 26, at which time the 2011 Innovator of the Year will be announced. Dancel is one of 24 finalists. The Innovator of the Year recognition notes Ascend One's experiment in telecommuting that has resulted in nearly half of the company's employees working from home.

Suzanne Fischer-Huettner has been named publisher of The Daily Record, becoming the first woman to head the 122-year-old legal and business newspaper, the company said Friday. Fischer-Huettner, one of the youngest ever to step into the publisher's job at age 37, had been associate publisher since 2000 and vice president of sales since 2003. She replaced Christopher Eddings, publisher since 1997. Eddings was promoted this week to director of publishing operations at The Dolan Co., parent of The Daily Record.

An outside auditor will review "quality of life" arrests made by Baltimore police over the next three years as part of an $870,000 settlement between the city and the NAACP and ACLU that is expected to be approved today by the city Board of Estimates, according to a city official. A lawsuit filed in 2006 on behalf of 14 people alleged that their arrests indicated a broad pattern of abuse in which thousands of people were routinely arrested without probable cause. The suit also alleged that the so-called "zero tolerance" system was endorsed and enforced by city officials under the tenure of then-mayor Martin O'Malley.

The old Chesapeake Restaurant on North Charles Street could become a combination seafood restaurant and upscale mini-grocer under a plan that has tentative approval from the Baltimore Development Corp. The city's quasi-public development arm has entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement for the property with a group that includes restaurateur Qayum Karzai and investor Michael Schecter. The deal was first reported by The Daily Record. "We're happy about it, and I think BDC is very positive about it," Karzai said Tuesday.

It looks like the AST Dew Tour will be coming back to Baltimore next year, despite a number of kinks that still need to be ironed out. Both the AST Dew Tour and the Maryland Stadium Authority would not make it official yesterday, but David A. Raith, the acting executive director of the Maryland Stadium Authority, was quoted in The Daily Record as saying a deal was in place for the action sports event to return to Camden Yards on June 19-22. Raith did not return calls from The Sun seeking comment.

Already an author and a Hall of Famer, Cal Ripken is adding foodie to his resume. The Oriole great has launched a line of hamburgers. According to the Daily Record, Ripken and Roseda Beef, a Baltimore company, have teamed up to sell Ripken Gourmet Burgers at Giant. Mmmmm. Ripken burgers. The six-ounce meat patties will be available only in the Maryland, D.C. and Virginia area, the paper says. They cost $9.99 for four. They have apparently just hit stores.

Warfield's magazine said yesterday that it will cease publication after more than five years of covering Maryland business. Its publisher said the biweekly glossy will be replaced by a weekly tabloid called Warfield's Business Record."

Three join the board of business financier Michael A. Mobley, executive director of j-ref, a small-business financier in Howard County, has announced that Victor R. McCrary Jr., Elizabeth Hess and Allen Stott have joined the private not-for-profit organization's board of directors. Their terms will run for three years. McCrary, of Clarksville, is the business area executive for science and technology at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in North Laurel. Hess is principal consultant, BullsEye Computing Solutions Inc. of Ellicott City.

In rejecting legal challenges to the years-long imprisonment of hundreds of Guantanamo Bay terrorism detainees, a federal appeals court in Washington this week applied what might be called the Las Vegas doctrine. In effect, the District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals said what happens in Cuba stays in Cuba. That's where any similarity to Vegas ends, though - or to any other place on the American mainland where core values of justice are guaranteed. The 2-1 legal ruling is an affront to those values.