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Long & Foster employees to help Shepherd's StaffAgents and staff members from Long & Foster Real Estate's Westminster office will participate in the company's annual Community Service Day on Wednesday.The group will volunteer at Shepherd's Staff on Carroll Street, where it will create a back-to-school store and paint and repair the building, inside and outside.More than 30 people from the office are expected to help the Christian outreach program from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday.Maryland Public Television appoints vice presidentMaryland Public Television has appointed Jeff Hankin of Westminster vice president of marketing communications.

A Harrisburg, Pa., firm has been selected by the county to design the proposed $27 million minimum-security jail in Glen Burnie.Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates, which won the $1.01 million contract over two other companies, designed Anne Arundel's correctional system master plan last year. That plan includes the proposed Ordnance Road jail and the subsequent $20 million renovation of the jail on Jennifer Road near Annapolis.The firm also designed the controversial expansion of the Jennifer Road jail, a plan that was abandoned in late 1993.

A consultant presented a plan to the County Council yesterday for a $27 million, six-building minimum-security jail to be built on a site on Ordnance Road in Glen Burnie.The 400-bed jail for minimum-security prisoners and the county's work-release program was included in a 2-inch-thick master plan for the Anne Arundel County Correctional System that was given to council members.The plan, prepared by Crabtree, Rohrbaugh & Associates of Harrisburg, Pa., is required by state officials before they will pay for the customary 50 percent of construction costs.

When Troy Rohrbaugh was a freshman at the Johns Hopkins University, he asked the same question he is being asked now: Why are all the shoes in the tree?"

When Troy Rohrbaugh was a freshman at Johns Hopkins University, he asked the same question he is being asked now: Why are all the shoes in the tree?"And this is what I was told," said Mr. Rohrbaugh, now a senior, . . . Fraternity brothers were always forgetting things, and they'd yell to their roommates to throw them stuff out the window. One time somebody threw down a pair of shoes and it got wrapped around a limb."From then on, any time you wore out a pair of shoes, or your roommate had really smelly feet with a tendency to leave his shoes laying around, they'd end up on the tree."

The only commuter bus service from Carroll County to Baltimore might be discontinued.But the president of the Manchester charter company that operates it says he's interested in working with the county to develop a van shuttle service to the Owings Mills Metro Station.Bill Rohrbaugh, of Bill Rohrbaugh's Charter Service Inc., told the county commissioners Thursday that because of low ridership he's considering eliminating his Westminster-to-Eldersburg-to-Baltimore commuter route because of low ridership -- unless the service is subsidized.

Rohrbaugh's celebratesMANCHESTER -- Bill Rohrbaugh's Charter Service Inc. at 3395 Main St. will celebrate its 20th anniversary at an open house from 2 to 6 p.m. May 31.Tours of the facility will be given and light refreshments served. Prize drawings and tour and travel discounts will be offered.The tour bus company was founded when Bill and Nancy Rohrbaugh purchased Smith Bus Service Inc. with four motor coaches. They have purchased more buses since, and in 1985, began a full-service travel agency.

Genevieve L. Shepp,homemakerGenevieve L. Shepp, 65, died Wednesday at her home iBaltimore. The Hampstead native was the daughter of Effie Alban Rohrbaugh and the late John Ralph Rohrbaugh. She is survived by her mother; her husband, Edward Carr Shepp; two sons, Mark W. Shepp and Dale F. Shepp; four sisters, Mary Jane Reinhard, Kathryn Price, Joyce Black and Dorothy Mandell; two brothers, William Rohrbaugh and Larry Rohrbaugh; and three grandchildren.O. Joe Neal,farmerLIBERTYTOWNO. Joe Neal, 37, died Tuesday at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Unit at University Hospital of injuries sustained in a tractor accident.

Charles H. Bowers, 76, died Friday at Carroll County General Hospital. A retired carpenter, he was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Surviving are nephews, John Moser of Reisterstown and Harry Moser of Finksburg, and a niece, Catherine Miller of Owings Mills.DATELINE: Mount AiryRosemary Fiore, 69, died Friday at Frederick Memorial Hospital. She was the wife of Michael J. Fiore. A member of St. Peter's CatholicChurch in Libertytown, she also was a member of the auxiliary of theDisabled American Veterans.

William L. Rohrbaugh, president of Bill Rohrbaugh's Charter Service Inc. of Manchester and Rohrbaugh's Tours in Baltimore, has been elected to the board of directors of the United Bus Owners of America.A longtime member of UBOA, he will be inducted later this month at the New Orleans Bus Expo '91.UBOA is the largest organization of motorcoach operators in the United States and Canada.An 18-year owner of a motorcoach company,Rohrbaugh's participation in local and national issues on transportation has gained him recognition throughout the country.

The Maryland State Prosecutor enlisted a private consultant to help select the jury that will weigh the theft charges against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon, a potentially costly move that is unusual for prosecutors in criminal cases. Ronald Matlon, a well-known trial consultant and former Towson University professor, assisted prosecutors in the courtroom during the two-day jury selection process that ended Tuesday, State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh said. Rohrbaugh would not disclose Matlon's fees or say how long the consultant has been involved with the case.

A former auditor for the University System of Maryland has been charged with filing inflated payment requests for work hours, the state prosecutor announced Tuesday. William L. Lewis, 53, who was a manager in the system's Internal Auditing Office before resigning in July during the investigation, submitted payroll sheets indicating that he was working 40-hour workweeks when he was not, according to State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh. "A review of Lewis' payroll records revealed that he was not using annual, sick or personal leave for his absences from work," Rohrbaugh said.

Do you think State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh has built a strong corruption case against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon? Yes 64% No 23% Not sure 13% (1,765 votes, results not scientific) Next poll: : Should the federal government authorize more funding for the Cash for Clunkers program, which gives incentives for people to trade old cars for new ones that get higher gas mileage? Vote at baltimoresun.com/vote

Back when I first joined The Baltimore Sun, a photographer and I were coming back from an assignment in Fells Point, and he was doing what all good old-timers do - pointing out significant sites along the way for a newbie. That's where Grace Hartigan paints, that's where the body turned up the other day. Waving toward some low-slung nondescript buildings where tractor-trailers were maneuvering on and off a narrow street, he said something like, "And that's owned by one of the most powerful men in town.

Armchair analysts will no doubt try to play down the significance of the indictments State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh has brought this week against Mayor Sheila Dixon, City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton and bakery magnate, developer and political kingmaker John Paterakis. Mr. Rohrbaugh will be cast as a rogue, Kenneth Starr-like prosecutor bent on taking down Baltimore's powerful Democrats and willing to grasp at any legal technicalities to do it. But the issues raised by those indictments - whether Ms. Dixon perjured herself by failing to disclose thousands of dollars in gifts from someone doing business with the city and whether Mr. Paterakis and Ms. Holton broke campaign finance laws when he helped fund her re-election poll - are fundamental to our trust in our elected officials.

Three subpoenas for witnesses in the criminal case against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon were withdrawn Thursday after her attorneys objected to the legal move by the state prosecutor. The prosecutor, Robert A. Rohrbaugh, attempted to call two current municipal employees and one former employee to testify before a grand jury. "The state prosecutor had no choice but to drop the subpoenas once their presence was known and we moved to have them quashed," Dixon's attorney, Arnold Weiner, said Thursday.

State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh suffered a setback Thursday when a judge threw out perjury charges against Mayor Sheila Dixon and tossed the bribery case against City Councilwoman Helen L. Holton. It was a high-profile loss for an office saddled with a reputation for rarely tackling big cases or landing noteworthy convictions, despite recent successes. Prominent Baltimore defense attorney David B. Irwin said some may look at the dismissals and conclude, "Oh, the state prosecutor's office lost another one."

Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon may have felt victorious Thursday when several of the criminal charges she faces were tossed out by Circuit Judge Dennis M. Sweeney. The ruling may reduce her legal exposure, but she is by no means vindicated. Beyond the legal technicalities and political spin, here's what Baltimore citizens should remember: Ms. Dixon is accused of accepting thousands of dollars in gifts and travel from a developer whose projects received millions in city tax breaks - gifts that she failed to report on her ethics forms.

State Prosecutor Robert A. Rohrbaugh defended Thursday the indictment he brought against Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and asserted in court papers that a jury needs to decide if Dixon falsified ethics forms and stole gift cards intended for needy Baltimore families. In a 37-page filing that responds to the mayor's request to dismiss the charges, Rohrbaugh takes issue with what he called a "self-serving" affidavit filed by the Dixon-appointed city solicitor in support of her defense. He also argues that Dixon's interpretation of the city ethics code would render that law useless, and says it is proper to charge her with both stealing gift cards and receiving them as gifts - noting that a person can be accused of both robbing a bank and receiving the proceeds of the robbery.

On December 20, 2008, ROB; beloved husband of Marisa Rohrbaugh; loving son of Greg and Mary Rohrbaugh; devoted father of Yoly, Erika and Robbie Rohrbaugh; dear brother of Earl and Brian Rohrbaugh; loving grandson of Mary Walker; son-in-law of Erika and Salvador Benita. Also survived by many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, family and friends. Relatives and friends may gather at Charles S. Zeiler and Son, Inc., 6224 Eastern Avenue, on Sunday and Monday, December 28 and 29 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M., where a catholic Prayer Service will be held on Monday at 8 P.M. Interment private.