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For cable TV installer Ian Ruddy, Showtime took on a whole new meaning yesterday.Mr. Ruddy helped deliver a healthy 6-pound, 7-ounce boy to 27-year-old Sherri Hogan, who went into labor on a bathroom floor in her apartment in the 9100 block of Bourbon St. in North Laurel.Mother and child were listed in good condition yesterday at Greater Laurel-Beltsville Hospital.Mr. Ruddy, a 28-year-old subcontractor for Storer Cable, was in the Whiskey Bottom Apartments about 10 a.m. yesterday to install service, including Showtime, for a neighbor of Mrs. Hogan's, when he heard screaming.

On March 28, 2004, MARY EMMA, loving daughter of the late Nelson and Mary Gerstad. Beloved sister of the late Gladys Gerstad. Life long friend of Rev. Charles and Louise Siegman, Louis Hogan, Pat Hogan, Joyce and John Zeiler. Dear god-mother of Dana Huber The family will receive friends in the Lemmon Funeral Home of Dulaney Valley Inc., 10 W. Padonia Rd (at York Rd) Timonium-Cockeysville on Friday from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P.M. A Funeral Service will be held in the funeral home on Saturday, April 3 at 10 A.M. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.

THE EXECUTIVE from the Ben Hogan golf club company was indignant. And maybe he had reason to be.He had just read a column about the "Buy American" crusade in which I said it was difficult to know which products are really American.I had given a number of examples, including these two paragraphs:"Maybe you are a golfer planning on buying a new set of clubs this spring. But only a couple of American-owned companies remain. 'Ben Hogan' might be stamped on it, but the company is owned by some sushi-eater."

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.

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)

Third-ranked Centennial won its first boys cross country title since 1980, and Glenelg senior Edward Hogan won the individual county title yesterday at Howard Community College.Centennial beat runner-up Oakland Mills, 50-78, behind Mark James, Stephen Olenick and Robert Van Allen, who finished third, fourth and fifth, respectively.Hogan, whose brother Gerard won last year's race, slipped on a turn in the first quarter mile but recovered quickly and nearly caught up to the leader, Atholton's Bryan Townsend, by the half-mile mark.

A veteran city police officer who was robbed of his service revolver and a $100 bill in front of police headquarters earlier this month by a couple he met on The Block now is facing an internal investigation, the department said.Police Agent Gerard J. Hogan, 44, has been removed from patrol duties and placed in an administrative position at the Southern Police District to await the outcome of the probe by the department's Internal Investigation Division, police said.They said Agent Hogan, while off duty, went to The Block on East Baltimore Street the evening of Nov. 7 and had a "few beers."

Several weeks into the new school year, the Baltimore City School system informed Jeffrey Hogan that his services as a Govans Elementary schoolteacher were no longer required. Hogan disagreed. Despite his dismissal during a certification sweep, the following Monday found Hogan back at his familiar spot at the chalkboard in Room 105B, cheerily leading his wriggling class of first graders through another day's adventure in reading and arithmetic. It is here, at Govans, where Hogan has worked magic for going on five years.

After languishing on the market for five years, the Roland Park house with Japanese-style gardens and a swan gliding on a backyard pond sold in less than 10 minutes at public auction yesterday.Bob Williams and his wife, Kathleen Hogan, outbid 10 other qualified buyers to purchase the one-story brick house on St. Georges Road for $530,450 -- much less than the home's fair-market value and little more than half of what it was sold for seven years ago."We've been looking for a nice place to raise two little boys," Hogan said, noting that she and her husband had been searching for their dream house since the birth of their first son, Samuel, 3.They live less than a block away from the north Roland Park estate, in a four-bedroom townhouse on Drohomer Place.

It was one promise he knew he could keep. Patrick N. Hogan offered it only sparingly on the campaign trail last summer, when he went door to door in Frederick asking for votes, and people looked at him in shock. Wasn't he a bit young to represent them in Annapolis? they asked him. Well, yes, he answered, but he had experience as an intern in the State House, a degree in politics and a lifelong passion, coming as he did from a family of public servants. Plus, he assured them, he would grow older.