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(Because questions weren't always audible, they are paraphrased. The answers are verbatim.) Question: Will you take any of the mayor's staff? Answer: I just want to emphasize what's been done right now. Those types of personnel decisions will come later. What's important is that we have a smooth transition and that means an assessment. As I said, I've asked for the department heads, agency heads to provide the status reports so we can do an assessment and have an orderly transition.

Three years removed from a promising rookie campaign in which he led the Ravens in average yards per catch and converted 81.8 percent of his 22 receptions into first downs, Demetrius Williams found himself through the first two months of this season playing wide receiver on the scout team. Despite having gone nine games without a pass thrown in his direction, including three games for which he was activated but did not play, Williams said he has resisted the temptation to become frustrated over his reduced role.

on December 15, 2009 Leroy. Miriam G. Holmes Services at Church of the Open Door, 550 Baltimore Blvd, Westminster on Friday at 11:00 A.M. Interment in Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Finksburg Friends may call Friday 10 A.M. until time of service at the church. Arrangements are by the Myers-Durboraw Funeral Home in Westminster.

In a game they desperately need to win, the Ravens will experience life without Terrell Suggs on Sunday. That it comes against the unbeaten Indianapolis Colts, with unstoppable Peyton Manning flinging touchdown passes, makes for an even more dire setting. It took nine games, three straight losses and a dreadful outing on "Monday Night Football," but the Ravens are back in a neighborhood they appreciate. Underdog is a profile that suits them. After 105 straight games, Suggs, a three-time Pro Bowl linebacker/defensive end, will sit out Sunday with a sprained right knee ligament.

In a game they desperately need to win, the Ravens will experience life without Terrell Suggs on Sunday. That it comes against the unbeaten Indianapolis Colts, with unstoppable Peyton Manning flinging touchdown passes, makes for an even more dire setting. It took nine games, three straight losses and a dreadful outing on "Monday Night Football," but the Ravens are back in a neighborhood they appreciate. Underdog is a profile that suits them. After 105 straight games, Suggs, a three-time Pro Bowl linebacker/defensive end, will sit out Sunday with a sprained right knee ligament.

On Tuesday, November 17, 2009 MICHAEL SENTZ, III, 73, of New Windsor, beloved husband of Carolyn B. Sentz, loving father of Karen L. Logue, Michael Sentz, IV and Kimberly A. Van Cleve, dear brother of Ronald Sentz and Richard Sentz, devoted brother-in-law of Shirley J. Williams. Also survived by four grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held 11 A.M. Saturday at Church of the Open Door, 550 Baltimore Boulevard, Westminster. Interment will be in Pipe Creek Cemetery near Linwood.

In the wake of Vatican plans to make it easier for Episcopalians to become Catholic, the Episcopal bishop of Maryland would like to make one point clear: The door swings both ways. Lost in talk of the splintering of the Anglican Communion, Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton says, is the appeal that the 45,000-member Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has held for former Roman Catholics and others looking for a big-tent church. While attention focused on the conversion en masse last month of a Catonsville-based order of Episcopal nuns to the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland has received three former Roman Catholic clergy in the past couple of months, Sutton says.

A roster full of international and local talent has Crystal Palace Baltimore setting its sights on a championship entering Friday's opener against the Pittsburgh Riverhounds at UMBC. Crystal Palace Baltimore, in its third season in the Second Division of the United Soccer Leagues, returns 12 players from last season's squad that lost in the semifinals to the top-seeded Charlotte Eagles and upset the New York Red Bulls in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Coach Pete Medd said many of those players trained together through the winter and that has helped the team set higher standards.

Death Cab for Cutie [Atlantic Records] *** ( 3 STARS) cds The 2008 Grammy-nominated album by alt-rock band Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs, didn't quite achieve an even balance of light and dark tones. Although not exactly a depressing record, the CD was certainly more lyrically melancholic than its predecessor, 2005's Technicolor-bright Plans. On Narrow Stairs, DCFC crafted a novelistic album whose songs pondered heartbreak while the music vacillated between sunny and partly cloudy.

Gov. Martin O'Malley laid out a blueprint yesterday for a partial return to a regulated energy industry, rejecting a decade-old policy that was intended to lower consumer prices through market competition but is widely regarded as a failure. In the midst of an outcry over budget-busting utility bills, O'Malley unveiled a plan that would allow the state to regulate future power plants if such a move is determined to be in the best interest of customers. The proposal also would allow the state to decide when new plants are built, taking that authority from utilities.