Hogan

The Internet was buzzing with reports of Hulk Hogan possibly appearing at WrestleMania 25 to face either John Cena or Chris Jericho. I have no idea whether there is any truth to these rumors, but I don't want it to happen. ( For more, go to baltimoresun.com/ringposts)

BOISE, Idaho -- Ahh, the rituals of camping. Crawling out of the sleeping bag on a cool summer morning with the smell of sizzling bacon wafting from the skillet. Grabbing that first cup of camp coffee and greeting the day by opening up your laptop to see if Wall Street is being kind to your stock portfolio. "It used to be that when campers would make reservations at an RV park they would ask if the park had water, electricity and sewer," said Kelly Hogan, chief executive of NomadISP, a Boise company that has installed wireless access in more than 300 parks and campgrounds.

IT'S ONLY four small buildings that are home to, among other things, goats, rabbits and tilapia. But it's a first for Gov. Parris N. Glendening.Next week, Garrett Community College in Western Maryland will have a ceremony to dedicate the complex as the "Parris N. Glendening Advanced Technology Center for Sustainable Land Use."The center's four buildings include two that are used for agriculture and aquaculture demonstration projects -- one for raising goats and rabbits, the other for tilapia, an African fish that has become a staple of American aquaculture.

FREDERICK -- This time no one would applaud his courage or send sympathetic letters. Neither would supporters of a disgraced president address him as "Benedict Arnold" and "Judas," or send him packages of human excrement. This time,for former Maryland Republican congressman Lawrence J. Hogan, there would be only televised echoes of Watergate summer.When the House of Representatives voted last week to launch an impeachment inquiry of President Clinton, Hogan sat at safe distance, at home in a white wicker chair, watching the debate unfold on C-SPAN.

SEATTLE -- He is not John Daly or Tiger Woods. He does not wow you with his swing or his looks or his fan club, which is probably along the lines of Bill Gates'. He is a golfer, the way a golfer is supposed to look, which means a receding hairline and a protruding midsection and a soft, round face.Mark O'Meara is 41, a father and husband who lives in a wealthy gated community. His outlet in life is washing his cars. He's also the best golfer in the world right now.Mark O'Meara is the best golfer in the world.

A 62-year-old woman died yesterday in a two-alarm fire that raced through the second floor of her Northeast Baltimore home, a fire official said.Fire Inspector Michael Maybin said firefighters found the body of Anna Mae Ross of the 700 block of Bartlett Ave. in a second-floor front bedroom. Maybin said a female occupant escaped without injury and a firefighter suffered minor burns.Maybin said that firefighters saw no evidence of a smoke detector in the rowhouse and that an autopsy was set to determine the cause of Ross' death.

Towson University has narrowed its search for a new men's lacrosse coach to four candidates, two sources close to the selection committee said yesterday.The finalists are Washington College coach John Haus, Nazareth coach Scott Nelson, Loyola associate head coach Bill Dirrigl and Navy assistant Matt Hogan. The nine-member committee has interviewed Nelson, Dirrigl and Hogan and will meet with Haus today.One source said the committee expects to make its recommendation to school president Hoke Smith over the next few days.

WASHINGTON - A federal judge struck down yesterday the 1996 law that gives the president the power to delete individual items from spending bills he signs - a budget-cutting tool that President Clinton said has saved the taxpayers more than $1 billion.The ruling by Judge Thomas F. Hogan of the U.S. District Court in Washington nullifies the line-item veto that Clinton has used to cancel 82 items since last summer. The dispute will now go directly to the Supreme Court, with instructions from Congress to rule on the line-item veto swiftly, probably by this summer.

A man being held on charges of assaulting a Baltimore police officer and stealing her service weapon during the weekend faces charges of breaking into a woman's home this month and tying her up in front of her children.Givette Hogan called police after seeing a man she believed to be the suspect being arrested on the evening news Saturday.Yesterday, police charged Donald Cradup, 35, who was being held in jail without bail, with armed robbery and first-degree assault.Cradup, of the 2200 block of N. Calvert St., is charged in a three-week spree that includes an attack on a 78-year-old woman who was beaten and robbed of her car keys in front of her Charles Village rowhouse, police said.

PeopleDr. Mary P. Hogan, a Columbia obstetrician and gynecologist in practice with Drs. Esposito, Mayer, Hogan & Associates P.A., has been elected president of the professional staff at Howard County General Hospital. She will oversee the hospital's nearly 600-member medical and dental staff, preside at executive committee meetings, serve as ex-officio member of clinical departments and medical staff committees and be a member of the hospital's board of trustees. She succeeds Catonsville neurosurgeon Dr. Charles J. Lancelotta, who served a one-year term.

Arundel school system reduces furlough days 2 The Anne Arundel County Board of Education voted Wednesday to cancel one of its planned furlough days for all school system employees. The board voted unanimously to reduce the number of furlough days to between one and four. Principals and senior and executive staff will incur the most days; teachers will have two. The move, which was recommended to the board by Superintendent Kevin M. Maxwell, was possible because of a number of cost-saving actions, school officials said.

Maryland's public university system is poised to become the first in the country with a policy on student displays of pornographic films, a direct response to legislative demands made after a screening earlier this year of a XXX-rated film at the University of Maryland, College Park. Though work on the policy is continuing, it has stirred many of the same free-speech concerns that raged when the university briefly quashed student plans to screen the pornographic epic "Pirates II: Stagnetti's Revenge" in April.

The Internet was buzzing with reports of Hulk Hogan possibly appearing at WrestleMania 25 to face either John Cena or Chris Jericho. I have no idea whether there is any truth to these rumors, but I don't want it to happen. ( For more, go to baltimoresun.com/ringposts)

On October 11, 2008 KATHERINE JEAN HOGAN survived by a host of family and friends. The family will receive friends on Thursday, October 16 from 3-7 p.m. at the Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Avenue. The wake will be held on Friday, October 17 11 a.m. at the Howell Funeral Home Chapel, 4602 Liberty Heights Avenue with funeral service to follow at 11:30. Inquiries 410-664-6800.

On August 31, 2008, ROSE M. (nee Pullara) beloved wife of the late Joseph C. Onorato, Sr., devoted mother of Joseph C. Onorato , Jr., and Rosemary Hogan; mother-in-law of Patrice M. Onorato and the late Steven M. Hogan; loving grandmother of Joseph C. Onorato, III, Nicholas J. Onorato, Steven M. Hogan, Jr., and Brandon J. Hogan; great-grandmother of Vincent, Nicholas and Lucas Onorato. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday at 10:30 A.M., at St. Anthony of Padua Church.

Baltimore police have identified two men who were fatally shot Friday while they sat in a sport utility vehicle at a Northwest Baltimore intersection. Quinton Hogan, 23, of the first block of Solar Circle in Parkville and Donell Rogers, 21, of the 2600 block of Ashland Ave. were shot as they sat in a black Jeep Cherokee at Wabash and Rogers avenues about 9:45 a.m., police spokeswoman Nicole Monroe said. The Jeep was stopped at a traffic light in the southbound lane of Wabash when a small white sedan pulled up next to it and gunfire erupted, police said.

On June 30, 2008, GENE KAILER, originally from Baltimore; he had been living in Maine where he is survived by his wife, Dolores Johnson Kailer; father of Kelley Kailer, Debbie Pilat, Mike Kailer, Shelley Kailer and Bobby Kailer and grandfather of six grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Maine's Veterans Home, 44 Hogan Road, Unit D, Bangor, ME, 04401.

To maintain their lifestyle after a job loss, Ginny and Jim Kallioinen built a house of plastic cards. Now it's in danger of tumbling down. While they are paying their bills on time, their overall debt, including first and second mortgages, has reached scary proportions, consuming nearly 70 percent of their total gross pay. That includes some debt for which they are only paying the interest, not principal. Their story might ring true with a lot of other indebted couples. To fight inflation, the Federal Reserve has boosted short-term interest rates in recent years, and that raised rates on credit cards, home equity loans and adjustable home loans - squeezing people such as the Kallioinens, who live outside Orlando, Fla. "We want to retire someday," Ginny, 55, wrote in requesting a Money Makeover.

State Sen. Patrick J. Hogan, an authority on higher education and a strong pro-slots voice in the General Assembly, will resign from the legislature to become head of government relations for the University System of Maryland, he said yesterday. The move leaves a scramble to fill his Montgomery County Senate seat and the significant possibility that he will be replaced by a Democrat who does not support expanded gambling. Hogan was a Republican when he was elected in 1994, switched parties and became one of the top lieutenants of Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller.

BOISE, Idaho -- Ahh, the rituals of camping. Crawling out of the sleeping bag on a cool summer morning with the smell of sizzling bacon wafting from the skillet. Grabbing that first cup of camp coffee and greeting the day by opening up your laptop to see if Wall Street is being kind to your stock portfolio. "It used to be that when campers would make reservations at an RV park they would ask if the park had water, electricity and sewer," said Kelly Hogan, chief executive of NomadISP, a Boise company that has installed wireless access in more than 300 parks and campgrounds.