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BRAD DELP, 55 Lead singer of Boston Brad Delp, the lead singer for the rock band Boston, was found dead Friday. Police responded to a call for help at 1:20 p.m. and found Mr. Delp dead in his home in southern New Hampshire. Lt. William Baldwin said the death was "untimely" but that there was no indication of foul play. Mr. Delp apparently was alone at the time of his death. The cause of his death remained under investigation. Police said an incident report would not be available until tomorrow.

Allison Barnabe is soooooo tired of people asking her what it's like to be a triplet. It's just like being any other kid, she says. Fortunately for her, some of the attention has been diffused lately, now that she and her sisters, Nicole and Corinne, attend school with another set of triplets: Kyle, Dylan and Bryan Ruygrok. The six youngsters, all 12 years old, are seventh-graders at Ellicott Mills Middle School. Last year, said Principal Michael Goins, a third set of triplets, two girls and a boy, also attended the Ellicott City school.

Suddenly, On February 4, 2007 MICHAEL ANTHONY BROWN, Born October 18, 1960 in Baltimore, MD. Beloved son of Lee and Hester Brown, loving father of Andrea Brown and the late M. Alania Brown, dear brother of two sisters, Linda Coleman, Alesia Koritzer and three brothers Keith Brown, Karl Brown and Myron Brown. Also survived by two sisters-in-law and two brothers-in-law. Memorial Service Saturday, February 10th, 11am at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witnesses, 4002 Ridgewood Rd, Baltimore, MD 21215.

James J. Kotmair, a retired Lockheed Martin Corp. systems analyst, died Saturday of pneumonia related to Lou Gehrig's disease at his Village of Cross Keys home. The former Roland Park resident was 62. Born in Baltimore and raised on Ostend Street, he was a 1963 Calvert Hall College High School graduate who earned a bachelor's degree in history at what is now Towson University. He served in the Army in an intelligence unit in Vietnam for three years. He later served in the Maryland National Guard and attained the rank of sergeant.

On March 26, 2007 YVETTE survived by two sisters, 2 brothers, 2 brothers-in-law, 1 sister-in-law, 1 uncle, aunts, nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Carlton C. Douglass Funeral Service, P.A., 1701 McCulloh St. on Wednesday 1 to 9 P.M. Family will receive friends Thursday 11 to 11:30 A.M. with services following. Interment King Memorial Park.

LOS ANGELES -- David C. Colby was Wall Street's favorite managed care money man. He helped build WellPoint Inc. into the nation's second-largest health insurance company. Portfolio managers and brokerage analysts voted him the industry's best financial officer four years in a row. The water-cooler talk was that he was a natural to move into the chief executive suite. He was 53, earning more than $740,000 a year and had just received stock options then valued at $1.6 million, along with the title of vice chairman, when WellPoint asked him to resign.

Alexis Ayala, 15, is the youngest in a hair-hanging sister act in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.When the Yak met Alexis earlier this fall, he asked her if hair-hanging hurts.Yup, it does, Alexis says. "But I don't think about the pain when I'm performing."What does she think about? "I concentrate on doing the tricks," she says.While Alexis and her two big sisters are hanging about 30 feet above the floor, they perform acrobatic movements and amazing spins. They even juggle fire.

Sisters will be sisters: competing, fighting, wearing each others' clothes without permission. And even vying for the same scholarship.The latter led to a small measure of tension around the Khatib family's Charles Village household recently when sisters Alwafaa, 16, Asmaa, 11, and her twin, Bushraa, each applied for a $1,000 scholarship from the Carson Scholars Fund, a program started in 1996 by Dr. Ben Carson, director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns...

Two sisters have filed a lawsuit against Monica L. Coleman, co-founder of the bankrupt downtown financial advisory firm of Coleman Craten LLC, alleging that she defrauded them of about $200,000 in retirement money.And a former bar owner, who closed her bar and restaurant to relocate it in the Coleman Craten Financial Club downtown, is suing Coleman, alleging that Coleman reneged on a promise to pay her $150,000, and failed to repay a debt of $39,000.In both lawsuits, Monica Coleman's husband, Richard A. Coleman Sr., is for the first time named as a co-defendant.

NEW YORK -- What does a new U.S. Open champion do the day after her big victory?If the champion is Serena Williams, she teams with her sister Venus and goes out and wins the women's doubles title.The Williams sisters defeated Chanda Rubin and Sandrine Testud, 4-6, 6-1, 6-4."I've now won all three events," she said. "I'm thinking maybe next year I should try to enter the men's event and see if I can at least win a round. It's a pretty exciting [thought]. Just hope not to play anyone like Andre or Pete in the first round."

My mother gave birth to four daughters in five years, and my sisters and I grew up fighting like cats in a pillowcase. She didn't help matters much by giving each of us a capsule description and then using those descriptions almost in place of our names. I was the oldest and her "rock of Gibraltar." Cynthia was born 14 months later, and she was "a joy to behold." Ellen came two years later and she was "a breath of spring." Poor Elizabeth, born last and when my mother was pretty much at the end of her rope, was "the pain in the ass."

On October 10, 2009, MACEO, beloved husband of Angela Ligon; devoted father of Andrea Hancock and Erica McClary. Also survived by seven grandchildren; one brother Richard; six sisters Lavonia, Johnnie Mae, Eugenia, Lorraine, Cynthia and Pauline; two sons-in law Bryan Hancock and Troy McClary; one sister in law Ellen; five brothers in-law Benjamin, Johnny, Vernon, Michael and Glen. A host of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the CHATMAN-HARRIS FUNERAL HOME, 5240 Reisterstown Road, Thursday 1 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at Dalton Baptist Church, 4302 Garrison Blvd.

Just 14 months removed from a stroke, Dr. Ludi Cueto is planning to be in Rome on Sunday to see Pope Benedict XVI canonize a 19th-century French nun. The Baltimore physician figures she owes her one. After her collapse last year, Cueto, her family and friends began petitioning Jeanne Jugan, who died in 1879, for help. Today, she says, she is completely recovered. While the Catholic Church has not investigated her case, Cueto credits Jugan's intercession for her current good health. She is one of about two dozen members, associates and friends of the Little Sisters of the Poor, the order that Jugan founded in France in the 1840s and which has its regional headquarters in Catonsville, who are making the trip from Maryland to St. Peter's Square for the Mass at which Jugan is to be recognized as a saint.

MYRTLE IRENE (TECHENTINE) PIERCE of Baltimore passed away at Gilchrist Hospice Care on September 21, 2009. She was 86 years old. She was preceded in death by her husband Zan Pierce, brother George Techentine and sisters Grace Paone and Marge Orlando. She is survived by daughter Cheryl Bankard and husband Leon of Baltimore, son Lee Pierce of Fallston and granddaughter Sherie Claybrook and husband Jason of Richmond, VA and two great-grandchildren Dylan and Caroline. Also surviving are her sisters Helen Seitz and husband Charles of Baltimore, Dorothy McCabe of Sharon, PA, Rose Kadelock of Philadelphia, PA, Darlene Griffith and husband Ralph of Hershey, PA and brother Paul Techentine of Mahanoy City, PA and numerous nieces and nephews.

On September 12, 2009; beloved husband of Eleanor (nee Damesyn) Stillwagoner. Survivors include two sisters, Ardella Nutter and Geraldine Wyke and sister-in-law, wife of the late Charles Stillwagoner; also brothers, Robert, William and Russell. A special "Thank You" to our neighbors and Damesyn family members who aided in his care, namely Richard Damesyn, Zenona Paska and Genevive Seman. To Sandra Seward, Kathleen Seward and Robert Goodman may you be blessed for your caring aid. A Mass of Resurrection is to be offered on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 at 11 A.M at St. Francis de Sales Church, 1450 Abingdon Road, Abingdon, MD, 21009.

On September 2, 2009, FREDERICK LONESOME (BUS); devoted husband of 51 years to the late Mary Lonesome (nee Hines). He is survived by his daughter, Zara Hamm of Baltimore, MD, and son and daughter in law, David Michael and Carlene Hamm of Rancho Cucamonga, CA; and two grandsons, four granddaughters, seven great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter. Out of nine brothers and sisters, he is survived by his sister, Grace Shelton (nee Lonesome), four sisters-in-law, and a host of nephews, nieces, grand-nephews and grand-nieces.

On August 28, 2009, ROBERT A. KREIS, SR., age 56. He is survived by his mother Eleanor, wife Fern, three sons Adam, Ben and Robert Jr. Also survived by one brother Jack, two sisters Janet and Mary Lou, one grandson, one granddaughter, one niece, three nephews, one daughter-in-law, two brothers-in-law, and a sister-in-law. He loved fishing and hunting, most of all he loved his family and friends. He will be dearly missed.

The shooting deaths of two sisters in the southern Anne Arundel community of Lothian on Wednesday are just the latest tragedy for a grieving family. One of the sisters spoke in February at a funeral for her nephew, who was killed fighting in Iraq. Cheryl Timmons read a letter that the soldier's wife, Breon Matlock, had written to Army Spc. Michael Benson Matlock Jr. After the couple's first date, she wrote, "from then on it was us. ... You said, 'If we love each other we can make it work.

In a move that religious scholars say is unprecedented, 10 of the 12 nuns at an Episcopal convent in Catonsville left their church Thursday to become Roman Catholics, the latest defectors from a denomination divided over the ordination of gay men and women. The members of the All Saints Sisters of the Poor were welcomed into the Catholic Church by Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, who confirmed the women during a Mass in their chapel. Each vowed to continue the tradition of consecrated life, now as a religious institute within the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Suddenly on August 10, 2009 JEREMIAH, devoted husband of Viola. He is also survived by two daughters, five sons, numerous grandchildren, two sisters, two brothers, two sisters-in-law, one brother-in-law and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Life Center Church, 2030 Aliceanna Street on Sunday 4 to 8 P.M. Family will receive friends Monday 10:30 to 11 A.M. at the House of God, 171 Wiltshire Road, Essex, MD. with services following. Interment Mt. Zion Cemetery.