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The Orioles had grown accustomed to having top-five overall picks in baseball's first-year player draft over the past six years, but last season's success forced the the organization to play a waiting game in the opening round Thursday. Despite picking from an unfamiliar spot, the Orioles continued their recent trend of drafting arms in the first round, selecting North Carolina high school right-hander Hunter Harvey with the 22nd overall pick. The Orioles' selection of Harvey marked the fifth time in six years that they spent their first pick on a pitcher - the only exception being their selection of Manny Machado, now their starting third baseman, in 2010.

Hit by falling art sales and a sluggish economy, a once-thriving Baltimore gallery and frame shop that made its reputation promoting local artists and cultivating new collectors for their works will close in December after nearly 16 years in business. The Gomez Gallery, 3600 Clipper Mill Road in Hampden, which during the 1990s helped establish the careers of such artists as Connie Imboden, Soledad Salame, Nancy Scheinman, Joan Erbe and Deborah Donelson, will go out of business after its final exhibition of Imboden's photographs ends Dec. 15. Walter Gomez, the Venezuela-born artist-entrepreneur who founded the gallery in 1988 with business partner Gary Knight, and who has run it as sole proprietor since 1992, said sales in recent years were down 40 percent from their high in the booming art market of the 1990s.

Suddenly, on July 4, 2006 LUIS J.; devoted son of Akeshia Burley, grandfather Alphonso Pryor, Godmother Regina Springfield, four sisters, three brothers and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Carlton C. Douglass Funeral Service, P.A., 1701 Mc Culloh St., on Wednesday from 1 to 9 P.M. Family will receive friends Thursday 11 A.M. to 12 noon at the Dynamic Deliverance Cathedral, 630 Linwood Ave. Interment Trinity Cemetery.

In a world filled with the loud and the blatant, the classical guitar - a plug-free, not unplugged instrument - offers a rare, inviting balm. And when Manuel Barrueco's hands are at work, the guitar speaks volumes, without ever having to raise its voice. There wasn't any doubt that Barrueco had talent when he entered the Peabody Institute to study guitar in the early 1970s. The extent of that talent, though, came as a surprise. "We knew by his second year that this was a kind of player we had never seen before," says Ray Chester, head of Peabody's guitar department.

Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo had a number of concerns going into the 2011 season, but depth at slotback wasn't one of them. While none of those playing one of the key skill positions for the Midshipmen in their triple-option offense was an established star, several had moments when they stood out. The depth chart changed last week in a 40-14 win at Western Kentucky, though the mindset about slotback remains the same as Navy (2-0) prepares for its trip to play 11th-ranked South Carolina (2-0)

Coach Ken Niumatalolo was not all smiles after Navy's 40-14 win over Western Kentucky at Houchens-Smith Stadium on Saturday night. In fact, he was in tears. Late in the second quarter, his senior slotback Aaron Santiago went down with an arm injury on his last carry and would not return to the game. "He is going to be out for a while," Niumatalolo said. "A great, great kid. I'm going to be honest with you, I was kind of in a daze in the second half. Our team was playing great, but to lose one of your guys like that, who has just been a phenomenal human being, it is hard to see that.

Barbara Cecelia Santiago, a Bel Air office manager, died of a stroke Monday at University of Maryland Medical Center. The Churchville resident was 67. Born Barbara Cecelia DePalma in Bethpage on Long Island, N.Y., and raised in Albany, she married Paul John Santiago Sr. in 1959. They moved to Maryland in 1965, when he became a professor of chemistry at Harford Community College. In 1980, she earned her associate's degree there. Mrs. Santiago had worked for the past decade at the Northeastern Office of the Legal Aid Bureau in Bel Air. "She was the heart of the office," said Dorcey Berndt, its chief attorney.

It used to be that his playing wasn't the only thing about Santiago Rodriguez that was hot. The Cuban-born, American-trained pianist got bent out of shape whenever he saw less talented players achieve celebrity."

Orioles officials spent two days in Philadelphia talking trades, following up on previous discussions and opening new talks with other teams. Ultimately, the Orioles came away empty-handed, but with the sense that some teams are quite ready to start swapping."

Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo tried to lighten the mood at practice last week, finishing one session with a 40-yard dash between pair of plebe defensive linemen who don't play and preaching to his Midshipmen that they needed to forget their six-game losing streak when they stepped onto the field Saturday to play Troy. In retrospect, what it really took for Niumatalolo and his team to forget what he called a "Halloween October" was a win -- any kind of victory would do. That it came in a 42-14 dismantling of Troy before an announced Senior Day Crowd of 33,359 at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium certainly allowed the Midshipmen to savor it a little more.