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Maryland: Acquisitions NexCen closes deal for MaggieMoo's NexCen Brands Inc., a brand acquisition company, said yesterday that it has closed on a deal to buy ice cream shop companies MaggieMoo's International LLC and Marble Slab Creamery Inc. for $37.1 million. Columbia-based MaggieMoo's operates 184 stores in 36 states and Houston-based Marble Slab currently has 370 stores in 35 states, Canada and the United Arab Emirates. Meredith Cohn Earnings Laureate profit increases 29% Laureate Education Inc., the operator of online and foreign universities that's facing stockholder opposition to a proposed $3.2 billion buyout, said yesterday its profit rose 19 percent in the fourth quarter.

Martin F. Yannuzzi, a retired television engineer and supervisor, died of cancer Sunday at his Baynesville home. He was 84. Born in Farrell, Pa., he moved to Baltimore with his parents and grew up in South and Southwest Baltimore. He was a 1940 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School. He served in the merchant marine and graduated from the U.S. Maritime Training Services' Gallups Island radio school outside Boston. In November 1950, he joined the staff of the old WAAM-TV, later WJZ-TV, and remained with the station until his retirement in 1988.

Thomas Edward Doyle, a retired aircraft production supervisor, died Wednesday of pulmonary fibrosis at Keswick Multi-Care Center. The Towson resident was 84. Born in Baltimore and raised on Barclay Street, he was a 1940 graduate of City College, where he played on the varsity baseball team. He served in the Marine Corps in the Pacific during World War. He was an aircraft production supervisor at the Glenn L. Martin Co., later Martin Marietta, from 1946 until 1978 when he retired. He then worked at Westinghouse Corp.

Dr. Betty Jean Boulware, former chief of the Enoch Pratt Free Library's neighborhood services division, who earlier in her career had been a branch manager and district supervisor, died Feb. 2 of respiratory failure at Gilchrist Center for Hospice Care. The Hamilton resident was 58. She was born Betty Jean Shearin in Henderson, N.C. At age 7, she moved with her family to a Wolfe Street rowhouse in East Baltimore. While attending Dunbar High School, from which she graduated in 1966, she fell in love with a classmate, Henry Ernest Boulware Jr., whom she married in 1974.

Three workers at a Kent County nursery were injured yesterday after lightning struck near them as they sought shelter from a storm, a farm supervisor said. The day before, an Oxon Hill teenager was struck and killed by lightning while waiting at a bus stop. The 2,000-acre Angelica Nurseries Inc., in rural Kennedyville, employs about 200 Hispanic migrant workers, said supervisor Chris Atkinson. He was called to the scene because he is trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Atkinson said the employees were following procedures by trying to get to a Ford Econoline van because of reports of violent storms in the area.

Juanita Pearl Morrison, who was a supervisor at then-Rosewood State Hospital for 35 years, died Sunday of undetermined causes at Homewood Retirement Center in Hanover, Pa. She was 76.The former Reisterstown and Westminster resident was a licensed practical nursing supervisor at Rosewood in Owings Mills from 1936 until retiring in 1971. Born Juanita Pearl Dennison in Cumberland, she graduated from high school in Flintstone, Allegany County, and received her nurses training at Rosewood.Mrs.

A former employee at the ARC of Howard County is suing that organization, claiming superiors ignored her attempts to expose theft of funds and then fired her.Last year, state officials scrutinized ARC after a program coordinator pleaded guilty to stealing more than $19,000 from four mentally disabled people, and a string of thefts from clients were committed by employees and employees' relatives and friends.ARC is the largest nonprofit source of services for the mentally disabled in Howard County, among them a residential care program.

Elmer J. Goldstein, a retired attorney whose career with the Social Security Administration spanned more than three decades, died Sunday of heart failure at Sinai Hospital. He was 88 and lived in Randallstown.Mr. Goldstein began his SSA career in the late 1930s when the agency was in its infancy. He'd worked for the agency in Washington and New York City before moving in 1954 to Baltimore, where he remained until retiring from SSA in 1972."He was known for his cogent and lucid analyses of disability cases," said his son, Robert Goald of Cockeysville.

Stopping short of closing school on Jewish holidays, the Carroll County school board approved yesterday a policy on religious observance that permits teachers and students to miss school without penalty.The unanimous decision occurs two months after members of the Jewish community urged the board to consider closing school on the Jewish holy days of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Parents complained that students were missing exams or events on those days and couldn't be considered for perfect-attendance awards, even if they were the only days missed.

In changes designed to make Baltimore emergency response efforts safer and more efficient, city officials unveiled yesterday their new state-of-the-art emergency communications system.For the first time, 911 or 311 calls to fire and police departments, paramedics and the Department of Water and Power are being routed through one $60 million computer system and can automatically prompt response from all the agencies."This is one of the most sophisticated communications systems anywhere in the world," said Patricia A. Sturmon, a spokeswoman for Motorola, which designed the system.

Norman Earl Banks, a retired National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration supervisor and former Northeast Baltimore resident, died Sept. 15 of cancer at Health Care Windemere in Orlando, Fla. He was 78. Born in Baltimore and raised on Stanwood Avenue, he was a 1949 graduate of Polytechnic Institute. In 1950, Mr. Banks went to work as a draftsman for the Navy's Hydrographic office in Suitland. He transferred in 1972 to NOAA, where he was section chief of the nautical charting division until his retirement in 1986.

In the latest but perhaps not the last development in its investigation into a trading scandal at the former Baltimore investment firm Ferris Baker Watts, the Securities and Exchange Commission has fined a senior executive $75,000 for failing to respond to red flags indicating that a broker under his supervision was involved in a stock manipulation scheme. The SEC ordered Louis J. Akers, who was Ferris' vice chairman, to hand over another $19,187 in improper gains and $5,973 in interest, and prohibited him from acting as a supervisor to brokers, dealers or investment advisers for a year.

An Annapolis municipal employee who oversees the city's minority and small business outreach has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the city alleging she is the victim of sexual harassment and racial discrimination at the hands of her supervisor. Ruby Singleton Blakeney, the city's director of small and minority business enterprise, said that her direct supervisor, Mike Miron, director of economic affairs, has engaged in "petty, retaliatory behavior" since she filed the suit in federal court in Baltimore.

A former employee of the University of Maryland University College improperly used a corporate credit card to purchase $8,800 in electronic equipment and had it shipped to her home, according to a state legislative audit released last week. The audit says that in August and September 2005, the employee used the card to buy laptops, music players, cameras and other items. Upon discovering those transactions, auditors found four other purchases worth $2,800 that could not be accounted for on campus.

Ananias "Lump" Lumpkin, a retired maintenance supervisor whose career at The Sun spanned more than 40 years, died of cancer Tuesday at his Baltimore home. He was 80. Mr. Lumpkin was born in Ino, Va., the son of a farmer. He spent his early years on his father's farm in King and Queen County, Va., before moving to Baltimore in 1939. "He was raised by his uncle and aunt because Baltimore had better educational opportunities at the time," said a son, Harry Nathaniel Lumpkin of Stafford, Va. He was a member of the track team at Douglass High School, where he met his future wife, Hazel Butler.

Peter John Tasch Sr., a former Burger King district supervisor who later owned and operated an Eldersburg cafe, died of heart failure Nov. 25 at University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 56. Mr. Tasch was born in Philadelphia and was raised there and in Hatboro, Pa. He attended schools in Philadelphia and Neshaminy, Pa. Mr. Tasch worked for many years for Burger King, becoming district supervisor of stores in Atlantic and Cape May counties in New Jersey and Bucks County in Pennsylvania.

John C. Taliaferro III, a retired vice president of sales and international operations at an upstate New York pump manufacturer, died Nov. 7 of pneumonia at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 91. Mr. Taliaferro was born in Baltimore and raised in Bolton Hill. He was a 1935 graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., and earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Harvard College in 1939. When he was growing up in Bolton Hill, one of his childhood acquaintances was Thomas Garrison Morfit III, who later earned fame as Garry Moore on radio and TV, and as host of the TV game show I've Got A Secret.

Car crash near Chase leaves driver dead Baltimore County police were investigating a car crash that killed the driver of a Chevrolet Corvette early yesterday near Chase. The driver was thrown from the Corvette after it hit another car and a tree at Ebenezer and Earls roads about 2 a.m., said Cpl. Robert Carman. The driver, whose identity was not released, was pronounced dead at the scene, he said. No further details were immediately available from police. Andrea K. Walker Funeral procession today for Balto.

John P. "Rocky" Rockstroh Sr., a retired Bethlehem Steel Corp. supervisor and a senior partner in a firm that specialized in helping businesses reorganize, died Tuesday of lung cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The Sparks resident was 69. Mr. Rockstroh was born in Baltimore and raised on Foster Avenue in Highlandtown. He was a 1957 graduate of City College and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Loyola College in 1976. He was an Army reservist. From 1957 to 1966, Mr. Rockstroh managed Earl Scheib automobile paint shops in Baltimore and Washington, and sold forklifts for S.W. Betz Co. In 1966, he went to work at the Bethlehem Steel factory at Sparrows Point in the hot strip mill and was supervisor of personnel development at the time of his retirement in 1999.

William R. Carter, a retired Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. supervisor and a decorated World War II veteran, died Wednesday of heart failure at Bonnie Blink, the Maryland Masonic Home in Hunt Valley. He was 86. Mr. Carter was born and raised in Northeast Baltimore. He was a 1940 graduate of Polytechnic Institute. He worked at Western Electric Corp. before enlisting in the Army in 1942. He served as a staff sergeant with the 3rd Signal Company of the 3rd Infantry Division in Europe.