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May. 18, Post Time: 10:45AM Entries and comments provided by the Maryland Jockey Club First - Purse $55,000, AOC $25,000-$20,000, 3 yo's & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles Post, Horse, Jockey, Trainer, Odds 1 Aussi Austin, Rosario, R.Rodriguez, 3-1 2 Bob's Gone Wild, Vargas, J.Lopez, 20-1 3 Jarrod's Commando, Karamanos, C.Garcia, 10-1 4 Warrensburg, Boyce, D.Barr, 20-1 5 Benny Or Local, Cruise, D.Kobiskie,...

Aberdeen Christina S. Harris, 22, of the 100 block of Edmund Street, was charged Friday with theft between $1,000 and $10,000 and scheming to commit theft between $1,000 and $10,000. Jennifer N. Herron, 40, of the 200 block of Garner Drive, was charged Friday with disorderly conduct and failing to obey a reasonable and lawful order. Jylbeth Lynch, 28, of the first block of Smith Avenue, was charged Saturday with three counts of theft less than $1,000 and scheming to commit theft between $1,000 and $10,000.

Punch, the satirical weekly founded in London in 1841, will produce its last issue this week. It is losing too much money to be funny.Punch was irreverent, sardonic, mild, subtle, gentle, tasteful and upper class. Humor is alive and well but it tends to be vulgar, crass, loud and insistent, as well as irreverent, sardonic and cutting. Punch could not compete on those terms and be Punch. Some said it ceased being Punch years ago.In its day, Punch was the greatest repository of cartoons anywhere.

Baltimore actor Charles S. Dutton said the murder of John Wood, a retired city sanitation worker who was the inspiration behind the character Dutton played on the 1990s show “Roc,” was difficult to digest. “I wasn't expecting ever in a lifetime that John would go out that way,” Dutton told the Sun on Thursday. Wood, 80, was killed Monday after police said he was in argument that resulted with him taking a punch that caused Wood to fall back and hit his head on a concrete step, which killed him. Police on Wednesday charged Lorenzo Thornton, 25, with second-degree murder.

HATRED IS a beautiful thing, and as I stood in the supermarket checkout line behind the woman in the red ski jacket, I could feel my loathing for her growing steadily.The sign above our heads read: "Express line -- 10 items or less." The woman had 13 items in her shopping cart. I counted them. That's the kind of thing I do in checkout lines.Other people smack their kids or thumb through those stupid tabloids ("Woman Raised By Wolves Asks: What Do I Tell My Fiance?!")Me, I sit there counting how many items others have in their carts.

The legend of Tommy Z, Baltimore's real-life Rocky, continues to grow. Tommy Z, of course, is the boxing name for Tom Zbikowski, who happens to have another job as a safety for the Ravens. But seeing as how there's a lockout on and he's technically not under contract with the team anyway, Tommy Z decided he didn't want to sit around all day watching videos and slamming pizza and getting fat and lazy. So he went back to his first love, which involves punching the daylights out of another person in the ring and possibly getting his own face rearranged in the process.

At recess, locked in a spirited game of punchball, I forgot about my hair, my clothes and just where I fit into junior high school. Everybody forgot about everything else when we played punch.Punchball may have been strictly a Baltimore pastime. It was a sort of poor man's baseball; all that was necessary to play was a ''pinky'' -- a rubber ball about the size of a tennis ball. Pinkies may have been tennis balls shaved to their smooth, pink skin.We got terribly involved in playing punch, and we screamed at each other whole-heartedly about the rules.

The offspring of a Maryland stallion delivered a one-two-three punch yesterday in the inaugural Maryland Spring Breeders' Challenge.Multiple victories by the offspring of Two Punch, on the card that featured Maryland-bred horses at Pimlico Race Course, kept the sire in the national spotlight. Two Punch leads the country in the number of winners in 1994.A son and two daughters of the 11-year-old horse, who stands at the Northview Stallion Station in Chesapeake City, won the first stakes races of their careers, sweeping three of four added-money events.

NEW YORK -- Boxing analogies were all the rage in the Coppin State locker room after last night's 78-73 loss to St. John's. It was only fitting, seeing as how college basketball's answer to "Rocky" had just been outpointed again."

Silver Rod Stable's Tropical Punch, caught behind a wall of horses only a furlong from the finish line, swung out widest of all and accelerated to the front in time to win the $60,000 Politely Stakes for 3-year-old Maryland-bred fillies yesterday at Laurel Park. Tropical Punch, ridden for the first time by Brent Bartram, won by overtaking runner-up Miss Cheers only yards before the pair reached the wire. Her winning margin was a neck in the seven furlongs, run in 1 minute, 24 3/5 seconds.

Let's say the CEO of your company is retiring, but he's going to keep an office at headquarters and the services of the same secretary as the new guy. Awkward! Or how about working at a company where the boss just decided you can no longer work from home, a godsend once you had kids, even as she brings her baby to the nursery she built for him next to her office. Meow! This past week was a veritable schadenfreude-fest for those of us who love nothing more than complaining about our work — unless it's discovering how delightfully awful someone else's office must be. So, the Vatican: On top of the usual workplace issues that must plague the Roman Catholic Church's corporate offices — there's that impenetrable glass ceiling for any women employees, for one thing — this past week brought word of a leadership transition from, um, hell.

Storm trackers are continuing to refine their predictions for a nor'easter set to strike Maryland later this week, calling for strong rain and wind on Wednesday - most heavily along the Eastern Shore - and possibly snow on Thursday. "We're not looking at Sandy-type numbers, but it looks like this thing could pack a pretty good punch," said Steve Goldstein, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, about what residents can expect from the storm on the heels of superstorm Sandy's pounding.

A notable contribution to the language is the nineteenth-century American colloquialism sockdolager (pronounced sahk-DAHL-uh-jer). It means, literally, "knockout punch" or "a decisive blow," figuratively something that settles a matter, the decisive thing. It also came to mean something outstanding or exceptional. The etymology is obscure. Some speculate that it is a fanciful combination of sock , "punch" or "blow," and Doxology . In American Protestant churches the Doxology ("Praise God from whom all blessings flow")

It's a safe bet that President Barack Obama misses the old Mitt Romney - the one who described himself as "severely conservative. " In their first debate in Denver, Mr. Romney outflanked the president by assuming the role of Moderate Mitt, a sweet-tempered fellow we hadn't met before. He promised he'd never reduce the share of the tax burden paid by wealthy Americans, cut federal education spending or restrict access to contraceptives. Mr. Obama seemed flummoxed that the opponent he'd expected was a no-show.

President Barack Obama came out swinging Tuesday night in the  town hall debate with Mitt Romney, and while he didn't land any pure knockdown punches, his base is sure to be encouraged by seeing a a president on TV who once again seemed engaged in the fight to hold the White House. What a difference between this Obama and the distracted, somnambulant character viewers saw in his first debate with a dominant Romney. The Democratic president on the screen Tuesday night at Hofstra University seemed like someone who gave a darn -- at least about some of the troubles this nation is experiencing in these hard times.

One Sacramento wrestling fan gets more then he bargained for at a WWE match. FOX40 shows you why the fan is pressing charges against a wrestler.

London--Punch, Britain's 150-year-old satirical magazine, was taken off life support yesterday.Death is expected within a month.Employees and contributors of the magazine that once rejected the submissions of Charles Dickens as a bit too gloomy, trickled out of its offices in Blackfriars near Fleet Street and were said to have adjourned to a nearby establishment to drown their grief in pizza.Financial and media experts pointed to several likely causes of the journal's decline -- market forces; it was no longer funny; the English have lost their sense of humor; or all three.

A Taneytown man was being held on $200,000 bond Friday at the Carroll County Detention Center after being charged Thursday with first-degree assault.Witnesses at the Taneytown American Legion gave police the name of the alleged assailant and said he had been seated at the bar with another man just before one punch was thrown.When police arrived, the first man was gone and the second on the floor, unconscious and bleeding.Wayne Wilson was flown by state police MedEvac helicopter to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he was treated and discharged Friday.

The Orioles have known since Sunday night that they were playoff-bound. On Wednesday night, they finally learned whom they'll play. The club will begin its first postseason in 15 years at 8:37 p.m. Friday in Arlington, Texas, where the Orioles will have to win a wild-card game against the Rangers to keep their season alive. If the Orioles win Friday night, they'll begin the American League Division Series at home Sunday against the New York Yankees. The Orioles cost themselves home-field advantage in the wild-card round with a 4-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night, surrendering three home runs to third baseman Evan Longoria.

An Edgewood woman who police said punched another woman in the face before pinning her between two cars in a parking lot at The Avenue at White Marsh was arrested Monday. Brandy Tennille Ames, 35, is charged with first-degree assault after police said she and another woman were involved in a "screaming match" Friday night over a parking space that resulted in the physical altercation, police said. Police said Ames was upset because she thought the driver of a Volkswagen took her parking space when she got into an argument with 24-year-old passenger of the Volkswagen.