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During the Vietnam War, May, 1968, MAURICE H. MOORE will return home for burial after 39 years. Close casketed remains will lie instate at the WILLIAM C. BROWN COMMUNITY FUNERAL HOME, P.A.; 1206 W. North Avenue on Monday, December 3 from 3 to 7 P.M., where family will receive friends on Tuesday, December 4 at 11AM. Funeral Services 11:30AM, with full military honors. Interment King Memorial Park. www.williamcbrownfh.com

Police are searching for an 8-year-old boy who failed to return home yesterday afternoon from Montebello Elementary School.Police said Antoine Scott of the 3200 block of The Alameda is 4 feet, 1 inch tall, about 75 pounds, with a mole on his left cheek, brown eyes and black hair. He was wearing a blue hooded leather jacket, a gray hooded sweater, a yellow short-sleeved shirt, blue pants and tennis shoes.Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or the Northeastern District at 410-396-2444.

Baltimore County police were looking for a Cub Hill couple who failed to return home yesterday after taking a walk to a mall.Salvator Norman, 85, and his wife, Hortensia, 70, of the 9300 block of Waltham Woods Road left home about 11 a.m. for North Plaza Mall, about five blocks from their home, police said.Police said Mr. Norman, who suffers from dementia, is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and was wearing a black coat and hat. His wife is 5 feet tall, weighs 150 pounds and also was wearing a black coat.

Two Bel Air boys are coming home after their father was arrested and charged in their kidnapping, Maryland State Police said yesterday.John Dressel, 13, and his brother, Paul, 11, were found unharmed, sleeping at a campsite near Flagstaff, Ariz., said Trooper Kevin Wood of the Bel Air barracks.Their father, Scott Dressel, who divorced the boys' mother in 1994, was arrested about 5 miles away by Flagstaff police on the federal warrant of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution and was charged with two counts of abduction.

WHAT a difference a full treasury can make! The latest deficit drama for the city schools is smoothed over when the city finds extra funds (partly from unused snow removal money) and when brimming state coffers make it hard for legislators to deny extra funding for the state's most underfunded and overburdened school system.But money isn't everything. Good procedures -- working smarter, if you will -- can make a big difference, too.Case in point: In the past three years, there has been a sharp rise in the number of foster children who have been adopted into permanent homes -- from 376 in 1994 to about 600 in 1997.

BOSTON -- An anguished wait ended for Orioles first-base coach Carlos Bernhardt yesterday when he received word that his family had survived Hurricane Georges' assault on his native Dominican Republic.Bernhardt, a resident of San Pedro de Macoris, had tried unsuccessfully to learn about his family's fate for four days, but heavy winds had knocked out phone lines to much of the country."I got good news today," said Bernhardt, who learned of his family's health from a police official back home.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Two months after a coup by strongman Hun Sen, what had been the most booisterous voices of Cambodia's nascent civil society are now silent. Dozens of journalists who had worked for media that criticized Hun Sen are in hiding or are exiled in Thailand, and they say it is still too dangerous to return home. Most of the remaining media kowtow to Hun Sen, just as they did when his then-Communist Party ruled Cambodia in the 1980s.The world must keep this in mind when gauging the state of democracy in Cambodia.

Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician's corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,I wept; for I had longed to see him hanged.-- Hillaire Belloc, ''Epitaph on the Politician Himself''BOULDER, Colo. -- Few would have believed that Ferdinand Marcos would be as interesting dead as alive. The few who did were right. The rest of us are simply surprised.Following Marcos' death, it will be recalled, there was an extended period during which neither his corpse nor his widow was permitted to return to the Philippines from Hawaii, the state to which they moved in 1986 after deciding the Philippines was no longer hospitable.

St. Joseph Medical Center yesterday dedicated a new 26-bed "transitional care unit" as part of a broad effort by Maryland hospitals to move into subacute care.St. Joseph was one of nine Maryland hospitals licensed by health planners for the new level of care in an experiment mandated by the 1995 session of the legislature.In addition to those nine, eight others also had subacute services approved in the last half of 1995, and three hospitals had been offering such services before the latest rush.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia -- The most critical -- and probably least feasible -- part of the new Bosnian peace agreement is the right it gives refugees to return home.Few diplomats, human rights experts or refugee officials believe that the provision will work. Its failure would leave a festering sore that many predict will erupt into war again in a matter of months or years.A handful of "confidence-building" refugee-return projects have failed miserably in the past several weeks, with dozens of families blocked from going home.

In Baltimore and across the nation, officials are bracing for new waves of war veterans to return home - amid worries that federal and state budget cuts will threaten programs that offer a lifeline for those facing health and career problems. Demand for jobs and mental health services among veterans is swelling as public and nonprofit organizations struggle to build and maintain a support network to address issues that might not emerge for months or even years. More than 1.8 million Americans have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, creating a need for veterans' services not seen since the World War II generation came home six decades ago. There are 480,000 veterans in Maryland, and their ranks are growing as troops return from the two battlegrounds.

Parbadee Ann Bisnath is finally going home. For 24 days - since a judge ruled that her ex-husband had threatened to kill her with a knife in front of their children but declined to order the man to leave the house they share - the Owings Mills woman, her son, two daughters and their Jack Russell terrier have been living with her attorney. They left their own home in late September after Baltimore County District Judge Bruce S. Lamdin refused to order Gordan Bisnath to stay away from his ex-wife and their house, even though the judge found that the man had previously abused Ann Bisnath and vowed on Sept.

NEW ORLEANS - A Federal Emergency Management Agency official says Hurricane Gustav evacuees whose homes remain uninhabitable can have their hotel costs paid by FEMA. David Garratt, a deputy assistant administrator for the agency, said last night that the aid won't be available for short-term evacuees who fled the storm, spent a few nights in a hotel and then returned home. Rather FEMA's program pays for "extended stays" in hotels for people who can't return to their homes because of power outages, damage or for other reasons related to the storm.

An announcement from President Bush that we will not return to 12-month tours until after the summer will do nothing to relieve the burden of those currently deployed for 15 months - some of whom will not return home until summer 2009. Almost half of the active-duty Army's front-line units are currently deployed for 15 months. Three of these units are on their fourth tour. Almost all have served at least twice. This is the group of soldiers that has borne an immense, disproportionate burden from our wars.

WASHINGTON -- If Iraqis could elect America's next president, chances are good that the next occupant of the Oval Office would be Gen. David H. Petraeus. Barring that unlikely development, Sen. John McCain will do. Or so I hear from an Iraqi journalist with whom I've corresponded the past couple of years, a woman whose family was once courted by Saddam Hussein but who later became a victim of his torturers. Mayada al-Askari, about whom I've written previously, is today a reporter for the Gulf News.

When Angela and Duane Collins house-hunted, they didn't think twice about where. Not that they didn't like the other places they'd lived, but only Catonsville would be home. After all, it's where Angela grew up, and near where Duane was raised. "We chose it to have the home, the family and the support system that we need," Angela Collins said. "We know what the schools are like - we turned out OK; we know the neighborhood hangouts - we have friends there. We always liked it." It's not just that her parents, who still live in the Catonsville house where she was raised, can babysit or that they help each other out. Angela recalled her childhood there, down to the time spent with her grandmother, and she wanted to foster that kind of bond between her parents and her daughter Mackenzie, who is now 2. Lynn and Gary Morningstar watch their granddaughter learn to swim at the YMCA.

After the band had played, the politicians had spoken and the 180 returning members of the Maryland National Guard had been recognized for serving their country overseas at yesterday's "Freedom Salute" welcome home ceremony, it was 3-year-old Evelyn Joseph who took to the stage and received some of the day's loudest applause. Evelyn, in a red dress, white tights and pigtails, walked on stage at Loch Raven High School with her mother, Petronella Henry-Joseph, who received an award for heading up one of the National Guard's family-readiness units.

During the Vietnam War, May, 1968, MAURICE H. MOORE will return home for burial after 39 years. Close casketed remains will lie instate at the WILLIAM C. BROWN COMMUNITY FUNERAL HOME, P.A.; 1206 W. North Avenue on Monday, December 3 from 3 to 7 P.M., where family will receive friends on Tuesday, December 4 at 11AM. Funeral Services 11:30AM, with full military honors. Interment King Memorial Park. www.williamcbrownfh.com

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- To the cheers of supporters who set off celebratory firecrackers and flung pink flower petals, the party of exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced yesterday that she would return to her homeland Oct. 18. It is not known whether Bhutto, who has been in exile in London and Dubai for nearly nine years, would return as nominal ally or nettlesome rival of President Pervez Musharraf. Also not known is whether she might be imprisoned on active charges of corruption.

Graduating from college marks a significant step into adulthood. So it may seem paradoxical that for many grads, moving back home immediately follows. About half of college graduates plan to return home at the end of school this year, according to a 2007 survey from MonsterTrak, a job search engine for students. The stampede home is not a new trend; an equal proportion of students said they planned to move home last year. And plenty of studies show that grads face steep hurdles to becoming financially independent, from student loan balances that average about $20,000 to rising rents for apartments.