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On September 4, 2005, ROSALIE B.; belovd wife of Paul H. Wyndham; dear mother of Rodney J. and his wife Carol Wyndham and Paulette V. Wyndham. Also survived by other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services on Wednesday at 11 A.M. Interment Cedar Hill Cemetery.

On September 6, 2008, WYNDHAM P.; beloved uncle of Sylvia D. Friday of CA, Paulette Duncan, Charlene Brodnax and Sharon Shepard of Richard, VA, Todd Duncan, Sr., of CA, Dwayne Hill and Christopher Shepard of VA; great uncle of Todd Duncan, Jr. He is also survived by special friends, Loretta Fuller, Sarah Quarles, Rev. Elizabeth Logan and many others. Friends may visit JAMES A MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1701 Laurens Street, Monday 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at the City Temple of Baltimore Baptist Church, 317 N. Dolphin Street.

On September 6, 2008, WYNDHAM P.; beloved uncle of Sylvia D. Friday of CA, Paulette Duncan, Charlene Brodnax and Sharon Shepard of Richard, VA, Todd Duncan, Sr., of CA, Dwayne Hill and Christopher Shepard of VA; great uncle of Todd Duncan, Jr. He is also survived by special friends, Loretta Fuller, Sarah Quarles, Rev. Elizabeth Logan and many others. Friends may visit JAMES A MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1701 Laurens Street, Monday 3 to 7 P.M. Funeral services will be held on Tuesday at the City Temple of Baltimore Baptist Church, 317 N. Dolphin Street.

Wyndham Weekender Package What's the deal?: Save 50 percent off the second night or the second room at select Wyndham Hotels when you book a stay between Thursday and Sunday through Dec. 31. Participating hotels include locations in Gettysburg, Virginia Beach, New York and a few international cities. What's the savings?: Room rates vary, depending on location, but half-off savings should average about $45-$65. What's the catch?: Must book consecutive nights, and there are some blackout dates.

A three-judge panel at the Court of Special Appeals in Annapolis heard arguments yesterday on the zoning approval for the proposed Wyndham Inner Harbor East Hotel.The challenge, filed by the Waterfront Coalition against the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, seeks to invalidate the zoning.Each side had 30 minutes to argue its case. Typically, decisions are rendered within six to eight weeks.In past action, the coalition -- made up of neighborhood groups from Fells Point, Butchers Hill, Canton and East Baltimore -- has sought to set aside the amendment of the Inner Harbor East Master Plan and to obtain an archaeological investigation of buried train tracks thought to be under the hotel site.

Opponents of the proposed 41-story Wyndham Hotel filed another suit in Baltimore Circuit Court yesterday to block its construction, alleging that the City Council violated its development plan when it approved the project.The suit alleges that the council failed to adhere to its Urban Renewal Plan, which limits the height of any waterfront building on the 20-acre Inner Harbor East tract to 120 feet.The 19-member council amended the plan Dec. 18 to allow H&S Properties Development Corp. to build a 430-foot-high hotel.

Key leaders of the General Assembly said yesterday that they would not support a bill that could block construction of the 41-story Wyndham Inner Harbor East hotel, a project that has been criticized because it would require more than $40 million in public subsidies.House Speaker Casper R. Taylor Jr. and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller said yesterday that they would not support legislation that would force the city to win voter approval before spending public money on the controversial $132 million project.

Amid continuing financial struggles that cloud the company's future, doubts have arisen over whether Wyndham International Inc. will continue its involvement in a $117 million hotel under construction east of the Inner Harbor.Sources familiar with the 750-room hotel said Wyndham has privately told the project's developers -- baking magnate John Paterakis Sr.'s H&S Properties Development Co. and a pair of Atlanta firms -- that it plans to cut ties to the project.If the Dallas hotel company pulls out of its commitment to put its name on the 31-story hotel, it would jeopardize an agreement between the city and the lodging project's developers at a time when millions of dollars in economic development incentives are at stake.

Encouraged by plans for a hotel next to Baltimore's Convention Center, state Del. Howard P. Rawlings decided yesterday to put off his attempt to block the controversial Wyndham tower east of the Inner Harbor.But Rawlings, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, still wants to force the city to get voter approval for both publicly subsidized hotels.The Baltimore Democrat introduced a bill that would require a referendum, even as he said the administration of Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke had relieved "some of the pressure" by backing a second hotel beside the Convention Center.

Residents battling construction of the Wyndham Inner Harbor East Hotel headed back to the courtroom yesterday with their third lawsuit, this one challenging the legality of the hotel's tax exemption.Judge Richard T. Rombro took the matter under advisement, after about two hours of arguments.At issue is whether the city had the authority to grant a tax exemption under which the Wyndham is to pay $1 a year for 25 years -- an agreement that hotel opponents say amounts to about $85.6 million in lost property taxes over 25 years.

On September 5, 2006, PAUL H., beloved husband of the late Rosalie Wyndham; dear father of Rodney and his wife Carol Wyndham, Paulette and her fiance Larry McKnight; brother of Robert Wyndham, Margaret J. Ward, Mary P. Booth and William O. Wyndham. Friends may call a the Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway, on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Services will be held on Saturday at 10 A.M. Interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

DeAngelo D. Hunter, a hotel worker and Baltimore resident, died Tuesday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after being stabbed. He was 24. Mr. Hunter was stabbed late Monday night in the 3300 block of Old Frederick Road. Police said yesterday that they had made no arrests in the case. Mr. Hunter was born in Baltimore and raised in Edmondson Village. He attended Walbrook High School, where he was shortstop on the school's varsity baseball team. He earned his General Educational Development diploma and was a former employee at the Baltimore RESCO waste-to-energy plant in Westport.

Downtown Baltimore will get a second Sheraton hotel when the 707-room Wyndham Baltimore Inner Harbor takes on a new flag by year's end. The 27-story twin towers will operate as the Sheraton City Center after an overhaul of the hotel's rooms and public spaces, officials said yesterday. The property, at 101 W. Fayette St. in Charles Center, is just a few blocks north of the Sheraton Inner Harbor at 300 S. Charles St. The reflagging will be the property's fourth brand, after previously operating as a Hilton and an Omni.

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In the Region Publisher sues Legg Mason, says reports were pirated Legg Mason Inc. is accused in a federal lawsuit of handing out "thousands" of copies of analysis documents from Lowry's Reports Inc. to employees and customers without paying for them. The prominent brokerage bought a subscription to Lowry's, then supplied complete copies of reports to workers and customers, allowing them to avoid "the modest subscription cost that thousands of honest financial advisers at competitor firms pay each year," the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, alleges.

NAACP President Kweisi Mfume urged travelers yesterday to avoid patronizing the Omni, Radisson, Wyndham and Starwood hotel chains - an action that could have a substantial economic impact on those corporations. African-Americans spend more than $4.6 billion annually in travel and tourism, Mfume said at a news conference at the headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Northwest Baltimore, where he issued grades for 11 of the hotel industry's major chains.

A Baltimore Circuit Court judge has ruled that a lawsuit to block construction of a 31-story Wyndham Hotel in Inner Harbor East may proceed, but he has declined to stop the hotel's progress while the suit goes forward.In an opinion issued Wednesday, Circuit Judge Richard T. Rombro dismissed a similar suit brought by the Scarlett Place Residential Condominium Association and the Waterfront Coalition, an umbrella group of nine homeowner and business groups, saying the groups lacked standing to challenge the procedures the City Council followed when it passed two bills in December to make way for the hotel.

The state's second-highest court has upheld a Baltimore Circuit Court ruling that said the 31-story Wyndham Inner Harbor East hotel does not violate a master plan created to guide development in the area near Little Italy.The Court of Special Appeals' ruling on a lawsuit challenging a city ordinance permitting the Wyndham essentially ends a community group's chances to further stall or derail the $134 million project on planning grounds.John C. Murphy, an attorney for the Waterfront Coalition Inc., said the group intends to petition Maryland's highest court to hear the case.

The Omni Inner Harbor Hotel, owned by Wyndham International, will operate under the Wyndham flag next week. "We as a corporation have long thought that Baltimore was a critical market for Wyndham," said Fred H. Stern, vice president of communications for Wyndham International Inc., based in Dallas. "We've always wanted to be part of the downtown hotels." The flag change at the 707-room hotel, which is the largest in the state, coincides with a $6 million upgrade to the West Fayette Street property.