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On April 14, 2005, ERNEST F. DICK, age 78 of Street, MD, loving husband of Virginia L. Dick and the late Doris Wiley Dick; devoted father of Diana M. Wilson and Donna J. Browning; step-father of Rod, Jim, Gene and Chris Dykes. Also survived by five grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral service will be on Saturday, April 16 at 3 P.M. at Harkins Funeral Home, 600 Main St., Delta, PA., Friends may call 1 hour prior to the service. Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, 8129 Town Center Drive, Baltimore, MD 21236.

John Richard "Dick" Irwin, a tough, accurate veteran police reporter with a heart of gold whose signature Police Blotter became required reading for both crime aficionados and the just plain curious, died Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of complications from diabetes. Mr. Irwin, whose career at the News-Post, News American, The Evening Sun and The Baltimore Sun spanned more than 40 years, was 76. "He had the mutual respect of the police. He was an honest man, and he didn't like when people tried to fudge things with him. He believed that the police had to be as transparent as possible, and he was right," said Bill Toohey, former Baltimore County police spokesman.

On April 16, 2007, DICK EMERSON of Bel Air, MD, beloved husband of Carol Lee Downes Emerson, devoted father of Karen L. Colgain and husband Joe E., and Kimberly A. Dodson and husband Brian E., Kevin R. Emerson and wife Michele M. Also survived by five grandchildren, Ashley Dodson, Jaret Dodson, Chase Colgain, Katelynn Colgain, and Sean Emerson and the late Sarah Lynn Emerson. Services will be held at St. Margaret Catholic Church, Bel Air, MD, on Thursday, April 19, 2007, at 10 A.M. Interment will be in Bel Air Memorial Gardens, Bel Air, MD. Friends may call at McComas Funeral Home, P.A., Abingdon, MD, on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 P.M. Memory tributes may be sent to the family at mccomasfuneralhome.

A forceful friend and an active advocate: These words describe my feelings about business and civic leader Richard E. Hug, whose hard work helped improve Maryland politics (May 7). As a volunteer participant in Bob Ehrlich's campaign for governor, I remember Dick Hug's 24/7 work in raising funds to help achieve election success. Citizen participation in a democracy means work, and that is the kind of volunteer participation and leadership that Mr. Hug gave. Thanks for his fine example.

On February 19, 2003, MERLE B. DICK; loving brother of Elizabeth Balch and the late Robert Dick and Mae V. Gochenour, Leonard Dick and Harper Dick; dear uncle of James H. Gochenour. Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories - Parkville, on Saturday from 9 to 10 A.M., where a funeral service will be held at 10 AM. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

On January 7, 2004, JAMES LYLE DICK of Severna Park, beloved husband of Joan Dick (nee Tallent), dear son of the late George and Emily Elizabeth Dick, dear brother of Virginia Arnold, Alma Collins, Vi Terlinski, Roy, Greg and the late Mike Dick. Also survived by many nieces and nephewsFriends may call at the Barranco & Sons, P.A. Severna Park Funeral Home, Ritchie Hwy at Robinson Rd on Friday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. and Saturday noon to 1 P.M. with Services to follow. Interment Glen Haven Cemetery.

RICHARD E. "DICK" MYERS died peacefully on May 24, 2004 at age 70. Retired co-owner and pharmacist at University Parkway Pharmacy in Baltimore and US Army Veteran. Beloved husband of Ann Hall Myers. Dick is also survived by a sister-in-law Jean Myers of MD, nieces and nephews, Barbara Beckman, Leslie Brooks, the Reverend's Bonnie and Joseph Seitz, William D. Hall, Ruth S. Hall and their families. He was predeceased by his siblings Robert Myers and Eleanor Ford. Calling hours Thursday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. at the Hindle Funeral Home, 271 Main St., Dansville.

RICHARD "DICK" WALTON, 65, died Friday, February 24, 2006 at the Lower Cape Fear Hospice surrounded by his family. Born January 21, 1941, a native of Dundalk, Maryland, Dick and his wife retired to Wilmington, NC in 2003. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Debbie Walton; children, Dr. Stacy Walton Goldsholl and William Shannon Walton; grandson, Aiden James William Walton Butler; and brothers Robert Walton and Dale Alexander. Dick served on the Baltimore County Police Department for 24 years; as a uniform police officer and then a detective for over 20 years.

James Lyle Dick, a retired telephone cable splicer and outdoorsman, died of cancer Wednesday at his Severna Park home. He was 75. Born in Odenton and mostly raised in Pasadena, he was a 1946 graduate of Glen Burnie High School. He served in the Navy from 1946 to 1948, and was stationed at the old Bainbridge station in Cecil County and at Quonset Point, R.I. In 1950, he joined the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. and worked as a lineman, installer and cable splitter. He worked out of the Glen Burnie and Armiger garages, and retired in 1990.

Dick's Clothing & Sporting Goods confirmed yesterday the October opening of its first three Maryland stores -- in White Marsh, Glen Burnie and Hunt Valley -- setting up a battle with entrenched Baltimore retailers for consumer dollars.The privately held company with headquarters in Coraopolis, Pa., near Pittsburgh, declined to disclose its investment but said each warehouse-sized store would take up 60,000 square feet and employ about 125 people, many of them hired locally."The company is in the middle of an aggressive growth stage," said Joe Queri, Dick's vice president of real estate.

Richard E. "Dick" Hug, a prominent businessman and prolific fundraiser for Republican candidates, died Saturday. He was 78. Mr. Hug was the finance chairman for three Maryland gubernatorial campaigns - Ellen R. Sauerbrey in 1998 and Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. in 2002 and 2006 - becoming known as the $6 million man after he raised that amount for Mrs. Sauerbrey's unsuccessful attempt to unseat Gov. Parris N. Glendening. He belonged to numerous civic boards and associations, including the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, and he served a stint as chairman of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce.

David Poyer is a retired naval officer, and most of the 34 thrillers that he's written draw on his experience serving in the waters of the Atlantic, Arctic, Pacific, Caribbean and Persian Gulf. So it was inevitable that at some point he'd take on the whale of all tales, "Moby Dick. " But try as Poyer might, he couldn't figure out how to write the sequel to Herman Melville's great American novel. Then one day, while the 63-year-old Poyer was teaching a creative writing course at Pennsylvania's Wilkes University, the solution came to him in a flash: "When I'm brainstorming with students, my brain doubles its IQ after a short period of time from my usually reptilian torpor at home," the 63-year-old Poyer said in a telephone interview.

Last week was "Prom Night" and mercifully Wynonna went home. Tonight is "The Best Year of Your Life," and I'm already prepared to feel decrepit and ancient when Aly and Zendaya pick from their limited number of years. During the staircase introductions, Gleb walks down by himself. This is after we saw Lisa take a hard fall in the rehearsal footage montage. Curious! Suspense! Drama! Tom says that Lisa has been ill all day and sitting out rehearsal on doctor's orders. We'll find out later if she's dancing tonight.

The first question Dick Cheney is asked in "The World According to Dick Cheney" is: What's your favorite virtue? "Integrity," he answers. What do you value most in your friends?"

ESPN's Dick Vitale said today that the impending snowstorm expected to hit the Baltimore-Washington region means he won't be able to travel north as planned for the network's broadcast of Wednesday night's Maryland-North Carolina game at Comcast Center. Vitale was scheduled to handle the game with Dan Shulman. “I won't be able to get out there,” said Vitale, who lives in Florida. Vitale called Maryland's season-opening game against Kentucky in Brooklyn, N.Y. ESPN said Fran Fraschilla would replace Vitale on the broadcast.

It wasn't easy for Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau to watch the Ravens win the Super Bowl two weeks ago. He told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Tuesday that “it hurts to see the Ravens win anything.” And that is especially true because he feels the Steelers could have been the ones playing in the Super Bowl. “Do I feel we could have done the same thing they did? I do. I do,” LeBeau said. “It didn't break that way.” The longtime defensive coordinator and zone blitz guru pointed to injuries while bemoaning a lost 2012 season in Pittsburgh.

Philadelphia -- THE SMILING face on the television screen is familiar to Pennsylvanians: Dick Thornburgh, their two-term Republican governor from 1979 to 1987. "Back when I was governor, we did a lot of great things together," he says in one paid commercial in his bed to do, fight for Pennsylvania -- again."Thornburgh is also featured in television ads run by Wofford, appointed to the Senate by Democratic Gov. Robert Casey after Republican Sen. John Heinz died in a plane crash last April.