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On February 18, 2005, DONALD E. STEER; beloved husband of Eleanor C. Steer. Arrangements private.

After finishing in the bottom third of their division last season and missing the playoffs, many members of the Pallotti boys soccer team felt their season was not up to the standards they had set for themselves. They finished the season with a record of 3-11-1. This season, the team has a different feel to it. With 12 seniors on the roster, Pallotti could field its best team in a long time. "It's the best team we've had in the past few years," said longtime head coach Steve Shurman.

Four Black Angus steers escaped from a farm near Mount Airy and were struck by five vehicles in four separate accidents Saturday night.In the most serious of the accidents, Michael G. Vlahos Jr., 49, of Mount Airy was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore after his motorcycle struck a steer on Ridge Road near Watersville Road West at 9:27 p.m. Saturday, said state police said.Mr. Vlahos was in good condition yesterday, a spokeswoman said.Officers said the same steer was struck by a 1986 Ford Taurus traveling behind Mr. Vlahos and driven by Barbara Gail Asner, 50, of Randallstown.

When John Harbaugh walked off Heinz Field last January after a playoff loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, he never imagined that the Ravens would go through such a dramatic transition period. Since then, the Ravens have fired two offensive assistant coaches, lost another one to the Oakland Raiders, promoted a defensive coordinator, waived three of their best players and lost three more starters through free agency. "No, I wouldn't be honest to say anything other than no, I didn't expect this," Harbaugh said.

A 36-year-old California man died yesterday afternoon at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds after being thrown from the steer he was riding at Atlantic Stampede '99 Rodeo.Dean John Berkan of Sacramento was tossed from the steer about 12: 15 p.m. and hit his head on a side rail of the enclosure. Montgomery County police said Berkan then was stomped or gored by the steer.Berkan was transferred to Suburban Hospital, where he died at 2 p.m.Pub Date: 10/03/99

When Tony Valdez arrives in Maryland today for the Atlantic Stampede '93, he will do what he has done in other rodeo rings across the country -- wrestle 500-pound horned steers to the ground.Broad shouldered and slim-hipped, the 32-year-old Mr. Valdez will be competing with the best of the chute doggers for a first-place finish and a silver belt buckle the size of Texas.And when he's not dodging steer horns or dusting dirt from his cowboy duds, you'll find him in a more chic Western outfit, riding in the back of a vintage convertible as Chili Pepper, Miss International Gay Rodeo Association.

BOVINOCIDE. That's what the folks at PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, would have you believe Officer Ian Cameron of the Baltimore Police Department committed April 18. You may have heard the story by now. It ran on WJZ earlier this week and in Dan Rodricks' column yesterday. About 9:30 a.m. on the day in question, a steer escaped from a slaughterhouse on Pennsylvania Avenue in West Baltimore. Perspicacious critter must have known what was afoot. He roamed the nearby area until he ran into a dead end in an alley behind the 1900 block of Herbert St. Officers from the police emergency unit and a SWAT team were dispatched to the scene.

Eight-year-old Jason Vanisko admitted he was a little sad about selling his 1,708-pound steer, Michael, at the 4-H livestock sale at the Howard County Fair. He had raised the animal for more than a year, bottle-feeding it when it was a calf. "I'm sad to let it go," he said. But he was happy to auction his lamb, a 122-pounder named George. "I'm not sad to sell my lamb," said the Ellicott City resident. "It's mean. It head-butts me, and it tries to get away." Jason's emotions about the animals didn't change anything.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Rachel Steer shoots as well as she skis, which is good news for the U.S. Olympic team and bad news for the caribou. The biathlete and avid sportswoman from Alaska is trying to make the squad that will travel to Turin, Italy, in February for the Winter Games. It would be a great finish to a career that includes a strong showing on the World Cup circuit and participation in the 2002 Olympics. The leaders of her sport and the U.S. Olympic movement are promoting her as possible medal material.

The Clip 'n' Curl at the Agriculture Center was crowded late Thursday afternoon.Hair dryers were whirring and the scent of mousse andhair spray was in the air. One patron's dark hair was being spiked, another's long tresses were teased.Beauty -- or something akin to it -- was slowly emerging from thegreen-and-white tent set up behind the livestock barns.But it wasn't easy: Coiffed cattle aren't always content."You don't push it," said Bryan Harris, 15, of Westminster, who quickly unplugged the hair dryer (actually a vacuum)

When John Harbaugh’s Ravens host Jim Harbaugh’s 49ers on Thanksgiving night, it will be the first time in NFL history that two brothers go up against each other as head coaches. The fun family affair is one of the most compelling matchups on the NFL’s 2011 schedule, but their father, Jack, who has been on the Ravens’ sideline in the past, does not plan on showing up at M&T Bank Stadium to take in the historical moment. “No way. And Jackie [Harbaugh] and I have talked about it, and we will not be within two time zones of that venue, I promise you. We’re going to stay as far away from that as we can,” Jack Harbaugh told Jerry Coleman on "Sports with Coleman" on FOX 1370-AM a couple of months ago. “We’ve seen these two guys compete for about 47 years, so … we’ll allow other people to enjoy it with us here in Milwaukee, [where we will be]

If sheer emotion and raw emotion were enough to make law, a bill making it tougher to get away with just a traffic ticket after killing someone on the road would be a done deal. At a hearing last week before the House Judiciary Committee, family members who lost the most important people in their lives to the bad driving of others expressed sorrow, anger and frustration that a bill providing stiffer penalties for lethal negligence behind the wheel has been bottled up in that panel for many years.

The story is getting a little too familiar: Baltimore County Superintendent Joe A. Hairston decides that someone he has worked with has developed a unique and crucial product, and the school district adopts it on his say-so, without checking to see if someone else could do the work better or cheaper. That was what happened in the case of the Articulated Instruction Module grading system developed by Mr. Hairston's former top deputy, and it was the case with the EduTrax data management software, which was created by a man who worked for Mr. Hairston when the superintendent ran a school district in Georgia.

William John Salladin II, a former insurance executive who headed All Risks Ltd. for more than three decades, died Friday of prostate cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. He was 67. Mr. Salladin, the son of an insurance executive and a homemaker, was born in Proctor, Vt. The family moved to Rumson, N.J., and then to Towson in 1957. After graduating from Towson High School in 1961, Mr. Salladin attended the University of Maryland, College Park. An animal lover, Mr. Salladin was 14 when he began working for a Towson veterinarian and had planned on studying to become a veterinarian.

Maryland Republicans will provide clues to how they plan to mend a divided and demoralized party when they meet Saturday to choose their leader for the next four years. Whoever is elected to chair the state party can look forward to a season of change: Gov. Martin O'Malley and the Democrat-controlled General Assembly will be redrawing legislative and congressional districts, term limits mean the next gubernatorial race will be for an open seat and, for the first time since 1998, former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. is unlikely to be the party's nominee for governor.

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman is moving on three fronts to reorganize the regional bus system known locally as Howard Transit, which also connects to the city of Laurel and to Arundel Mills and BWI Thurgood Marshal Airport. Ulman is studying a citizens committee's recommendations on the subject and wants to hire a new, higher-profile county transit coordinator. Meanwhile, the county is moving to buy a vacant 6-acre bus maintenance facility in Savage to serve as a publicly owned base for the system.

A NAFTA primer with Ross Perot:Interviewer: "Mr. Perot, exactly why are you opposed to NAFTA?"Perot: "Are you through? Can I get a word in here?"Interviewer: "Well, I was just trying to . . ."Perot: "I know what you're tryin' to do. The American people know what you're tryin' to do. And b'lieve me, they're not gonna stand for it anymore."Interviewer: "Please, go ahead with your . . ."Perot: "If I could just finish one sentence without interruption . . . now, you ask me why I'm opposed to NAFTA.

Children don't believe their parents had a life of their own before they were born, just as children don't believe their parents actually did anything to bring them into being. So I purchased a pair of tickets to the revival of "Hair" at the Kennedy Center Opera House in order to prove both points to my 20-something daughter. She bailed on me. She was sweet about it, but she had a work commitment and — what irony here — I could not argue that seeing "Hair" trumped a job. So I went with my friend Betsy who, coincidentally, had a role in the Paris production of "Hair" while studying abroad during her sophomore year of college.