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Right-hander Daniel McCutchen, whom the Orioles signed to a minor league deal this winter and was sent out of camp March 23, has been suspended for 50 games for violating the league's drug policy for using a banned substance. According to a Major League Baseball press release, McCutchen tested positive for Methenolone and a metabolite of Trenbolone. The suspension begins immediately. McCutchen, 29, was 1-0 with a 6.14 ERA in 7 1/3 innings over seven games this spring with the Orioles.

With a confrontational streak of fire-red in his hair, Eli cannot help but be noticed when he shows up in an Iowa high school, an unwilling transplant from San Francisco, where his father recently died. Even as he draws attention to himself, Eli does not let people in easily, using a defense mechanism of glibness, mixed with snark, to keep them at bay -- starting with his mother. But Eli, the center of Daniel Talbott's affecting play "Slipping," which is receiving its Baltimore premiere from Iron Crow Theatre Company, cannot disguise the fact that he's a romantic at heart.

Chuck Beck, son of Charles and Darlene Beck, and Ashley Williams, daughter of Daniel and Debbie Williams, announce their engagement. Both are graduates of Harford Tech High School, where they met. Beck is a member of Plumbers and Steamfitters Local 486 and Williams is a registered nurse at Franklin Square Hospital. The proud parents are and Daniel and Debbie Williams. The couple plan to be married this month with a reception at the Del Capri in Dundalk. They will honeymoon in Jamaica.

Daniel David Holtzman, a retired Social Security analyst and World War II veteran, died of a heart attack March 8 at Sinai Hospital. The Owings Mills resident was 92. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Jacob Holtzman, a maker of straw and felt hats, and Matilda Holtzman, a homemaker. He grew up in West Baltimore on Bentalou Street and played at Easterwood Park. Family members said he played softball, baseball, basketball, tennis, and ran track and swam. In later life, he attended reunions of friends from Easterwood Park.

This spring's competition for the fifth spot in the Orioles' starting rotation came a little bit closer to a conclusion Saturday when the team optioned left-hander Zach Britton to Triple-A Norfolk. The team also optioned infielders Jonathan Schoop and Yamaico Navarro to Triple-A and reassigned right-hander Daniel McCutchen to minor league camp. Those moves trim the Orioles' spring roster to 40 players. In five Grapefruit League outings this spring, the 25-year-old Britton had a 6.10 ERA, allowing 13 hits and seven runs in 10 1/3 innings with seven strikeouts and four walks.

A decade ago, Maryland's three largest banks were based in Baltimore. Allfirst, the biggest with nearly $17 billion in assets, fell victim to a foreign-exchange trading scandal that resulted in the bank being sold to a New York institution. Out-of-state competitors bought out the other two several years later. Throughout that time, Sandy Spring Bank in Olney operated and grew in their shadow. Today, it's the largest bank headquartered in Maryland, with assets at nearly $4 billion as of the end of last year.

For years, McDaniel had the enviable comfort level of knowing that when the score was tight, the offense could turn to Gibbs Preston and then D.J. Rickels to take charge on attack. With Rickels graduating after last season, a void opened on attack. Sophomore Pat Bivons (10 goals and seven assists) and senior Pat Woglom (13, 1) have tried to fill the role, but coach Matt Hatton said the team is still looking for that go-to leader. “I don't know if it's necessary, but it's nice to have someone behind the goal or goal-line extended that wants the ball in his stick in critical situations,” he said Thursday morning.

Despite a rocky initial outing testing his low three-quarters arm slot in Tuesday's intrasquad game, right-hander Daniel McCutchen said he's ready to experiment with his new delivery in a Grapefruit League game. McCutchen, a non-roster invitee who spent the 2012 season in Triple-A, is slated to throw his second bullpen with the delivery today and hopes to pitch in a spring game later this week. He said the Orioles suggested he test a new delivery after pitching coach Rick Adair saw him fielding PFPs.

Helen B. Wolfe, an outspoken advocate of women's rights who also had been a member of the faculty of McDaniel College for more than a decade, died March 5 from cancer at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster. She was 79. With a head of thick white hair, flashing porcelain-blue eyes and an outsized personality, Dr. Wolfe made an instant and lasting impression on those she met, friends said. "When she came to the college, she had already had a distinguished career and in that sense showed a lot of the younger women the variety of roles she had undertaken," said Joan Develin Coley, who retired as president of McDaniel College in 2010.

T.J. Hanzsche, Sam Jones (Severna Park) and Gabe Voumard had hat tricks and long pole Pat Kiernan posted a career-high seven caused turnovers and picked up seven ground balls Saturday to lead host Navy to a 12-11 victory over Lafayette in men's lacrosse at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium. The Mids (3-3, 1-1 Patriot League) and the Leopards (2-5, 0-1) traded goals in every quarter except the second, when Navy took a 4-3 halftime lead. In the fourth quarter, Jones put Navy up 12-9 with 2 minutes, 18 seconds to play.