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On July 9, 2007 THOMAS EUGENE of Westminster, devoted husband of Jessica L. Ruff (nee Haynes) son of Patricia Turner Ruff and the late Henry F. Ruff, father of Taylor Emileigh Ruff and Turner Ethan Ruff, brother of James David Ruff and Mary Elizabeth Ricketts, son-in-law of Carla and Lawrence Melocik and Peter Haynes and Vicki Coronel. Funeral services from the Fletcher Funeral Home, P.A., 254 E. Main St., Westminster on Saturday 11 A.M. Interment private. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Taylor E. and Turner E. Ruff Educational Fund, c/o First Financial Credit Union of Maryland, 625 H. Baltimore Blvd.

WASHINGTON -- The chief White House lawyer opened a sober, yet forceful, defense of President Clinton before the Senate yesterday, insisting that the president did not commit any of the offenses charged in the impeachment articles and sharply attacking the Republican case as a "witches' brew" of allegations.At the start of a three-day presentation, White House counsel Charles F. C. Ruff offered an overview of the administration's defense of the president, outlining constitutional arguments against impeachment and disputing some of the facts presented at the Senate trial last week by the 13 House members who are prosecuting the president.

William Randolph Hearst would try anything to boost his newspapers' circulation, offering his subscribers racehorses, gold coins, fabricated stories about starving orphans and yellow journalism that ignited the Spanish-American War.But the scheme hatched by his Washington Herald was so outrageous that he fired the publisher responsible for it. The Herald built a utopian, all-white summer colony north of Annapolis, used its front page to sell lots in "Herald...

Marjorie Ruff Stanfield, a lifelong Randallstown resident and volunteer, died Friday of congestive heart failure at Robosson Court Nursing Center in Randallstown. She was 97.Mrs. Stanfield spent all but the last six months of her life in the granite house that her father, Seymour W. Ruff, a prominent Baltimore stonemason and contractor, built in the late 1800s. "She wanted to die in that house, but it wasn't possible," said a son, Richard Stanfield of Baltimore.After graduating from Randallstown High School, Mrs. Stanfield attended business school.

WASHINGTON -- Winding up a final, impassioned defense of President Clinton in the face of scathing draft articles of impeachment, a White House lawyer conceded yesterday the president "betrayed the trust placed in him" by his family and has already suffered privately and publicly.Delivering a calm yet forceful defense of Clinton before the House Judiciary Committee, White House counsel Charles F. C. Ruff took the administration's recently adopted conciliatory tone step further by describing Clinton's conduct as "reprehensible."

The Howard County Board of License Commissioners has approved a plan by a restaurant in the Main Street district of Ellicott City to add two outside decks, but with limited hours and other conditions for one of them.The board, which also sits as the County Council, voted 4-1 to grant Mill Towne Tavern permission to build a 288-square-foot deck on the rear of the building and a 75-square-foot deck to the front.Board member Dennis R. Schrader was the lone dissenter, arguing that activity on the rear deck would be a nuisance to nearby residents.

WASHINGTON -- The White House tried last month to obtain sensitive counterintelligence information from the FBI about Beijing's plans to influence American politics, but FBI Director Louis J. Freeh rebuffed the inquiry, administration officials said yesterday.The FBI material was sought by Charles F. C. Ruff, the new White House counsel, for a briefing of Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright.In a Feb. 18 letter to Jamie S. Gorelick, the deputy attorney general, people who have seen the letter said, Ruff posed questions about what federal investigators knew or suspected about the involvement of Chinese officials and citizens in a purported plan to make illegal contributions to American political campaigns.

Elizabeth R. Constantine, 78, businesswomanElizabeth R. Constantine, who was a partner in Broadview Management Corp., died of heart failure Monday at home in her native Randallstown. She was 78.She was a partner for 35 years in Broadview Management Corp., which owns and manages Broadview Apartments on University Parkway and Dulaney Valley Apartments near Towson. Both vTC were developed by her late father, John K. Ruff Sr.She was a founding board member and trustee of the old Baltimore County General Hospital, now Northwest Medical Center, in Randallstown and a member of the Woman's Club of Roland Park, the Woman's Club of Randallstown and Piney Branch Golf Club.

A 16-year-old boy killed last month in what police initially thought was a robbery was a bandit himself -- accidentally shot in the chest as he and his partner tried to hold up someone else, police said yesterday.Corey Velshone Armstrong, 17, a next-door neighbor of the victim in the 500 block of Winston Ave., was arrested at home and charged as an adult yesterday with first-degree murder and handgun violations in the death of the 16-year-old.At first, detectives thought the dead youth, Kevin Ruff, had been a victim of an armed robbery.

A prospective restaurant owner in the midst of an acrimonious development dispute in historic Ellicott City has asked the Howard County Circuit Court to review a Board of Appeals decision in a separate case.In the latest dispute, Peter G. Ruff has appealed a board decision letting a Columbia developer build an apartment building for low-income senior citizens on Hamilton Street in the historic commercial district.In May, the board granted the D. A. McDaniels development company a variance in county zoning regulations to build a 12-unit housing project for elderly people with incomes of $18,000 to $24,000 a year near Old Columbia Pike.

On September 22, 2009, JOHN J. SR. of South Baltimore, beloved husband of the late Margaret C. Ruff (nee Marcellino); loving father of John Jr., Michael, Norman, Teresa, Margaret, Michelle, and Mark; beloved grandfather of Sarah, John, Christopher, Matthew, Katie, Amanda, Michelle, Mark Ryan, and Shelby and great-granddaughter Allison. The family will receive friends at the family owned and operated MCCULLY-POLYNIAK FUNERAL HOME P.A., 130 E. Fort Avenue (South Baltimore) on Thursday and Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 PM, where the procession will begin on Saturday at 10:30 AM for a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Mary Star of the Sea Church at 11 AM. In

Housing foreclosures have hit record numbers. It can cost $100 to fill up an SUV. Even Fannie and Freddie might need an advance on their allowance from Uncle Sam. Can the economic news get any worse? Oh, yes. The faltering economy now is coming after something truly precious: the summer carnival. Across the country, carnivals have been canceled outright or their hours shortened as a result of the soaring cost of the fuel that powers the rides, heats the oil for the corn dogs and lights up all those midway attractions.

On May 23, 2008, JOHN W. (JAY), beloved husband of Carrie Ruff. He is survived by one daughter Bettie Riddick, five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, two sisters, Katherine Potts and Gloria Lewis, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, one brother-in-law, other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the family owned Howell Funeral Home, 4600 Liberty Heights Ave., on Wednesday 3-7pm. Family will receive friends at the chapel, on Thursday 11-11:30am. with Funeral Services immediately following.

Sylvia M. Ruff, a homemaker who had been a defense worker during World War II, died of kidney cancer April 7 at Chester River Hospital Center in Chestertown. She was 87. Sylvia Marie Tilley was born and raised in Algonquin, W.Va., one of 14 children. In the 1930s, she moved to Elkton, when she took a job in a powder plant. During World War II, she worked at the old Glenn L. Martin Co. plant in Middle River as a drill press operator and riveter of warplanes. From 1946 to 1986, she lived in Gray Manor, a Southeastern Baltimore County community.

R. Calvert Ruff, a retired die maker and longtime Joppa resident, died of respiratory failure Sunday at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center at Perry Point. He was 79. Mr. Ruff was born and raised in Mathews County, Va., where he graduated from high school. He enlisted in the Army in 1951 and received a medical discharge a year later. He then moved to Baltimore to be near family members. He began working as a die maker in 1954 for Lord Baltimore Press. He left the company in 1979 and took a similar job at Alford Industries Inc., a rotogravure printing plant on Merchant Street in Baltimore.

On March 9, 2008 R. CALVERT. Devoted husband of Gloria Ruff. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M. The family will receive friends at Bethel AME Church, 1300 Druid Hill Avenue on Friday at 10:30 A.M. Funeral Services will follow at 11:00 A.M.

On February 6, 2007 DELORES MARY RUFF. Friends may call at the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME EAST, 1101 E. North Avenue on Sunday after 10:00 a.m. The family will receive friends at Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1900 E. North Avenue on Monday at 10:00 a.m. Funeral Services will follow at 10:30 a.m. See www.marchfh.com.

On July 9, 2007 THOMAS EUGENE of Westminster, devoted husband of Jessica L. Ruff (nee Haynes) son of Patricia Turner Ruff and the late Henry F. Ruff, father of Taylor Emileigh Ruff and Turner Ethan Ruff, brother of James David Ruff and Mary Elizabeth Ricketts, son-in-law of Carla and Lawrence Melocik and Peter Haynes and Vicki Coronel. Funeral services from the Fletcher Funeral Home, P.A., 254 E. Main St., Westminster on Saturday 11 A.M. Interment private. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Taylor E. and Turner E. Ruff Educational Fund, c/o First Financial Credit Union of Maryland, 625 H. Baltimore Blvd.

On July 9, 2007 THOMAS EUGENE of Westminster, devoted husband of Jessica L. Ruff (nee Haynes) son of Patricia Turner Ruff and the late Henry F. Ruff, father of Taylor Emileigh Ruff and Turner Ethan Ruff, brother of James David Ruff and Mary Elizabeth Ricketts, son-in-law of Carla and Lawrence Melocik and Peter Haynes and Vicki Coronel. Funeral services from the Fletcher Funeral Home, P.A., 254 E. Main St., Westminster on Saturday 11 A.M. Interment private. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Taylor E. and Turner E. Ruff Educational Fund, c/o First Financial Credit Union of Maryland, 625 H. Baltimore Blvd.

On Feb. 22, 1935, The Bel Air Times announced the production of the play Incidents in the Life of Douglass by Cornelia Ruff at the Kalmia School as part of the Frederick Douglass Day exercises. Ruff's 48-year teaching career was dedicated to the educational and personal well-being of her students. Born in Bel Air on April 9, 1893, Cornelia Franklin Ruff attended school in Harford County and graduated from Douglass High School and Morgan State College in Baltimore before earning a master's degree in education from New York University.