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The grandmother of Olney native Sgt. James R. McIlvaine, killed Thursday in Iraq, characterized him as a man who longed to please his father, which is exactly what he did when became a Marine in 2001. Sergeant McIlvaine joined the Marines after attending Sherwood High School and graduating from a military school in Virginia. "His father was very patriotic, loved the flag and country," said Patty DeSimone, Sergeant McIlvaine's paternal grandmother, who said her grandson died in combat in Al Anbar province.

Jibri Victorian fields a lot of questions about his school. “Where is Coppin State?” is one. “Is Coppin State even a D-I school?” is another. But more recently, there has been this: “How can I get involved in Coppin State's track program?” It's a welcome change in tone. A Laurel native, Victorian has become the poster child of the Eagles' track and field program. He will run in his third straight NCAA Division I outdoor track and field championships tonight in the semifinals of the 400-meter hurdles.

Sometimes the friends of Kurt L. Schmoke make trouble for him when they should simply shut up. It happens on Park Heights Avenue, in Northwest Baltimore, and in the city's Housing Department, too, and in an election year it does this mayor damage he doesn't need.In the 4300 block of Park Heights Ave., there once was a movie house called the Avalon Theatre, which closed and became radio station WSID, which later moved and left an empty shell, which has been rotting there for more than a decade.

During the week of May 19-25, 2013, Maryland joins the rest of the nation in celebrating National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week. I commend the Maryland EMS providers who respond every day of every month to emergency situations, making our statewide EMS and trauma system a national model for life-saving care. With Gov. Martin O'Malley's commitment to public safety and the well-being of all Maryland's citizens, he has recognized the accomplishments of EMS providers by designating Emergency Medical Services Week in Maryland.

Sometimes, planning can be fruitless.It was for Proud Run in the $75,000 All Brandy Stakes yesterday, as the 5-year-old mare altered her game plan by surging to challenge for the lead, capturing it, then holding off Earth to Jackie for a convincing length victory over a firm turf course at Laurel Park.The daughter of Proud Truth completed 1 1/8 miles in 1 minute, 46 2/5 seconds while scoring her first victory of 1999 after a string of five seconds and thirds."We planned to lay off the speed, but it didn't work out that way," said jockey Mark Johnston.

METAIRIE, La. -- Republican presidential candidate David Duke says he is "proud" of his years as a Ku Klux Klan leader and still believes in "genetic differences" based on race.Duke also said that blacks and other minorities now have the upper hand in America, and that he sees "minority problems as a threat" to the white culture he loves."Obviously the scale is tipped over in their favor, and what happens is the rights of the majority come down," he said in an interview at his suburban New Orleans campaign office.

Jockey Ramon Dominguez had to find an avenue for Crafty Toast yesterday in the $75,000 All Brandy Stakes at Pimlico. The opening appeared just in time and Dominguez adroitly guided the young gray mare through it to overtake Proud Run and prevail by a head at 22-to-1 odds. Crafty Toast, trained at Delaware Park by Bruce Jackson, was supplemented to the race, which attracted most of the top female turf runners in the area. "They sent her to the farm from New York a couple of months ago with the intention of breeding her, but she started to act so fresh and look so good, they kept her training," Jackson said of Bohemia Stable.

The frenzy surrounding the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court paid a short visit to a well-trimmed golf course suburb off Route 40 in Ellicott City yesterday, where the nominee's parents and two sisters crowded around an arsenal of microphones to say how proud they all are. Flooded by telephone calls and several visits from reporters the past two days, Roberts' family members said they coordinated the news conference with...

On a dreary afternoon along North Point Road, the rain made tiny bomb bursts on the hood of Jim Rhoda's truck while he waited for his son outside a car dealership. Like most Americans, he was struggling to define the catastrophic events that have shaken the nation since the terrorist attacks Sept. 11. But closer to his heart, the son he now waited for - bright, handsome, a new father - is a combat Marine, and destiny has summoned him to go into harm's way as war is on the wind. Just like Jim Rhoda himself, when he was young and stood straight as an arrow and looked like a kid on a Marine Corps recruiting poster.

How they did: Seven of the 30 media members whose picks were published in yesterday's Sun correctly picked War Emblem to win the Preakness. No one correctly chose Magic Weisner to finish second, and two were right about third-place finisher Proud Citizen. Here are the media picks again, with horses' names in boldface if the finish was predicted correctly. Reporter, Affiliation First Second Third Tom Keyser, The Sun Proud Citizen Medaglia d'Oro Magic Weisner Steve Anderson, Daily Racing Form Equality Medaglia d'Oro War Eblem Kent Baker, The Sun Harlan's Holiday Proud Citizen Equality Andrew Beyer, Washington Post Medaglia d'Oro Harlan's Holiday War Emblem Dan Farley, Racing Post War Emblem Proud Citizen Easyfromthegitgo Mike Farrell, Bergen Record War Emblem Harlan's Holiday Medaglia d'Oro David Ginsburg, Associated Press War Emblem Medaglia d'Oro arlan's Holiday Ed Gray, Boston Herald Medaglia d'Oro USS Tinosa Easyfromthegitgo David Grening, Daily Racing Form Medaglia d'Oro War Emblem Equality Gene Guidi, Detroit Free Press Medaglia d'Oro War Emblem Proud Citizen Bill Handleman, Asbury Park Press Harlan's Holiday Medaglia d'Oro Equality Ron Indrisano, Boston Globe Medaglia d'Oro Harlan's Holiday Proud Citizen Dave Joseph, S. Fla. Sun-Sentinel Harlan's Holiday Proud Citizen Medaglia d'Oro Steve Klein, Daily Racing Form Proud Citizen Medaglia d'Oro War Emblem Dave Litfin, Daily Racing Form War Emblem Proud Citizen Equality Michele MacDonald, Thoroughbred...

Jesse Tyson Sr., a retired mason who was known for his grilling skills, died April 27 of kidney failure at his Edgemere home. He was 70. The son of a mason and a homemaker, he was born in Clarksville, Va., and was raised in Edgemere. He was a graduate of Baltimore County public schools. Before retiring in 2006, Mr. Tyson worked locally for more than 30 years as a mason, and was "exceptionally proud" of his designs and craftsmanship in building fireplaces, family members said.

We are all Boston. It's something we said on Monday, when we were at a loss for words to describe our shared sorrow and horror at the marathon bombings, when we knew no other way to express our solidarity with a city reeling from terrible loss. Four days later, it is something we said as we cheered along with all those gathered on a quiet street in Watertown as police captured the second suspect in the bombings alive, put him in a squad car and drove away. We say it now out of pride for a city that responded to tragedy in a way we all hope we would and brought a terrifying week to a close with a professionalism and dignity that represents the best in us all. We now know just enough details about the two men believed to be responsible for the bombings to invite speculation about what could have led them to commit such a terrible act. The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was a promising amateur boxer who experienced troubles in this country.

Your browser does not support iframes.   When Orioles first baseman Chris Davis flailed at a changeup in the dirt Tuesday for the last out of the third inning, he says he was really frustrated. So he snapped. And so did his bat. Over Davis' knee in one quick motion. "It was misbehaving, so I put him in timeout," Davis said about snapping his bat. "It's not something I am proud of. It's not something, 'Hey, I can break a bat over my knee.' But in that situation out there, I knew I wasn't going to get a lot to hit and I still continued to swing at a ball in the dirt.

April, in these parts, is irresistibly transformative. Vibrant life and color rise up and relentlessly overwhelm a drab winter's landscape, inspiring notions in the human heart of renewal and redemption. And with it comes another baseball season and all its manifestations of new beginnings and the grand possibilities that await in the lush green days ahead. So it was supposed to be 45 years ago. 1968 had dawned with the stunning reports of the Tet Offensive, a sobering reality that stretched deep into March, concluding with a sitting president declining to seek re-election, and bringing to us a reluctant familiarity with places called Khe Sanh, Hue, Lang Vei and My Lai. Our weariness longed for April's explosion of daffodils, bright green leaves, and baseball.

It was a human moment that wasn't revealed in the box score of the Orioles' 5-3 road split-squad loss to the Phillies in Clearwater -- a father finally getting to coach his son in a sport to which they have both dedicated their careers. Orioles bench coach John Russell, who managed the team's road split-squad team with manager Buck Showalter back in Sarasota on Saturday afternoon, had never had the opportunity to coach his son, Steel, before Sunday's game.  Steel Russell, a left-handed hitting catcher whom the Orioles drafted in the 32 nd round last season out of Midland Junior College in Texas, jumped at the chance to get on the team's travel roster to Clearwater for Sunday's game.

It's not every day a Harford County high school team wins a state championship, and it had been largely unheard of for a girls basketball team to make it to the state final game until but a few years ago. Sports editor Randy McRoberts pointed out Wednesday in The Aegis , sister newspaper to this one, that in the modern era of high school sports – which began in 1973 when Title IX went into effect stipulating that girls have the same athletic...

WILLIAM BOZEL, JR., born September 22, 1926 in Balitmore, MD, died suddenly November 27, 2007 in Cairo, GA. He was a proud career United States Marine. Private interment was held in Tallahassee, Florida on December 1, 2007.

We armed Iraq, we trained Iraq, and if we attack, Iraq will do us proud.This is make or break for the world trade talks and no one cares. As an issue, trade does that to people who aren't in it.

It's about time Maryland got its own comic book. Well, maybe not its own comic book, but at least prominent display on the cover of a comic book. This month's first issue of DC Comics' "Justice League of America," available Feb. 20, is being published with a series of alternate covers. The cover itself is a variation on the iconic World War II photo of soldiers raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. In  Justice League of America's version, members of the league (including Catwoman, Green Lantern and Green Arrow)

The Dunbar gym was sweltering during the Poets' boys basketball game against Baltimore City rival Edmondson earlier this season. It wasn't any different than countless other nights in past decades when the team had a big matchup, but the atmosphere was still new to Dunbar's transfer guard Daxter Miles. "There was a lot of emotions involved, a different vibe. That was the game so far," Miles said. "I know a lot about Poet Pride. You can see from all the banners on our wall. … It's great tradition here and an honor for me to play here.