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YORK, Pa. -- Mention Harley-Davidson in these parts, and you hear both pride and envy from the people of this city and region. Pride that Harley's mammoth factory here has a big part in making one of America's most iconic products. Envy that the workers who assemble the company's most popular motorcycles here have such a good deal. Now a plantwide strike has brewed resentment among some in this community, who say the workers already have good salaries and generous pension and health care benefits.

NEW YORK -- Buddy Bell, the 55-year-old Kansas City Royals manager, was standing behind the batting cage before the game Sunday, discussing why he is stepping down after the season to spend more time with his family. Bell, who had a health scare last year when it was discovered he had a cancerous tonsil, talked about his daughter, who has Down syndrome, and his 80-year-old mother as primary reasons for wanting to go home to Cincinnati and get out of the all-consuming managerial rat race.

NEW YORK -- Battered by legal and financial troubles, Vonage Holdings Corp. has slipped from its spot as the largest provider of Internet-based phone service, overtaken by cable firm Comcast Corp. Reporting second-quarter financial results yesterday, Vonage said it had slowed financial losses by cutting marketing expenses, but that also meant fewer new subscribers. Vonage also said it had made progress with technology changes meant to sidestep a court ruling that it violated patents held by Verizon Communications Inc., of New York Vonage, based in Holmdel, N.J., gained 57,000 customers for a total of 2.45 million in the three months ending June 30. In that period, Comcast surpassed the 3 million mark by adding 671,000 subscribers for its digital phone service.

86, an 18 year resident of Severna Park died peacefully surrounded by her loving family on Sunday, April 29, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Pasadena. Mrs. York grew up in Maine and relocated to Maryland from Connecticut with her husband in 1989 to be close to her children. She was very active in the Senior Center and was chosen to represent Connecticut Seniors and testify on Capital Hill for the Select Committee on Aging in 1982. She remained active in may roles for the Senior Center, taking computer classes, swimming, yoga and serving Meals on Wheels.

FireLineboro: Firefighters assisted York County, Pa., at 3: 39 p.m. Thursday at a field fire in the 1500 block of Black Rock Road.

YORK, Pa. -- York International Corp., the world's largest industrial-refrigeration company, said yesterday that it will shut three European plants and cut 1,200 jobs, and it warned that third-quarter earnings will fall short of estimates because of weaker sales in Latin America and the integration of an acquisition.York said it will earn 65 cents to 70 cents a share in the third quarter. It was expected to earn 95 cents, the average estimate of three analysts surveyed by First Call.Fourth-quarter earnings will also be below forecasts, the company said.

FireLineboro: Firefighters assisted York County at 9: 46 p.m. Thursday on a second-alarm building fire on Tulip Court. Units were out two hours.Pub Date: 5/17/99

NEW YORK -- Tired of receiving second-class treatment on the payrolls of three of the sport's four Grand Slams, the women who make their living from professional tennis may resort to a boycott to bite the hand that feeds them -- but feeds the men more -- if the three shallow-pocketed Slams don't make a millennial motion toward equality.Billie Jean King calls it a potential "girl-cott." Bart McGuire, the WTA Tour's chief executive officer, calls it a militant maneuver he hopes his troops won't deploy.

A Pennsylvania man accused of driving around a Westminster block with the mother of his child hanging from his car was ordered yesterday held in lieu of $10,000 bail, court records show.Robert L. York, 60, of Littlestown agreed at yesterday's bail review in Carroll County District Court to waive extradition and, if freed on bond, to have no contact with the woman.According to police, York was engaged in a child custody dispute and had repeatedly called the woman at work since April 1. He went to her workplace May 1 and tried to take his son, whom she had taken to work with her, police said in charging documents.

NEW YORK -- CMGI Inc., an Internet firm whose shares have increased more than tenfold this year, has refused to honor an employment contract providing the former president of NBC Television with at least $50 million in company stock, a federal lawsuit alleges.In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan yesterday, Neil Braun says CMGI, an Andover, Mass.-based firm that runs several venture capital funds investing in Internet companies, hired him in February to help de- velop a "strategy for becoming the pre-eminent broadcaster of entertainment on the Internet."

Citing personal reasons, former Orioles catcher Chris Hoiles is stepping down as manager of the York (Pa.) Revolution, a position he has held since before the club's inaugural 2007 season, team officials announced Wednesday. Hoiles, a member of the Orioles Hall of Fame who played in Baltimore from 1989 to 1998, guided York to the independent Atlantic League playoffs last season. "This is one of the toughest decisions I've had to make," Hoiles said in a statement. "I have appreciated the opportunity to join the York community and assist in building the Revolution from the ground up. My family has grown very fond of York and of Revolution fans who supported us during our three seasons here.

NEW YORK -- Zurich Financial Services AG, Switzerland's biggest insurer, will eliminate about 400 jobs in the United States, including in Baltimore, as prices for commercial insurance fall. The cuts amount to 4 percent of the staff at the division selling coverage to businesses, said Mike Foley, the chief executive officer of Illinois-based Zurich North America Commercial. "It's a competitive marketplace, and we need to be delivering top-tier results," said Foley. "To do that in a challenging rate environment requires the utmost focus on expenses."

YORK, Pa. -- Barack Obama's campaign headquarters sits on the edge of downtown York, next to a store selling hip-hop clothing. A few blocks away, Latin music blares from an open window draped with a Puerto Rican flag facing Hillary Clinton's office. Halfway between lies prime real estate that has become the latest reminder of York's troubled racial past. Mayor John S. Brenner wants to erect a statue at George and Market streets as part of an initiative he calls "Healing York," an effort to soothe lingering pain inflicted by a deadly race riot nearly four decades ago. But disagreement over the design is causing damage of its own. At meetings, "people are crying; they're angry," said Adrienne McNeil, a Baltimore County native and executive director of York County Community Against Racism.

Louis Stephen Matte, a retired machinist and Columbia resident, died of lymphoma Saturday at Howard County General Hospital. He was 88. Mr. Matte was born in Farrell, Pa., and raised in Pittsburgh, Wyoming and Montana. He earned a bachelor's degree from Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., and during the Korean War was an Air Force sergeant. In 1953, Mr. Matte moved to York, Pa., where he worked for Sylvania Electric Co., which later became a part of Verizon. He retired in 1983. In York, he was a member of the Masons, Knights Templar and the Harrisburg Shriners.

NEW YORK -- Battered by legal and financial troubles, Vonage Holdings Corp. has slipped from its spot as the largest provider of Internet-based phone service, overtaken by cable firm Comcast Corp. Reporting second-quarter financial results yesterday, Vonage said it had slowed financial losses by cutting marketing expenses, but that also meant fewer new subscribers. Vonage also said it had made progress with technology changes meant to sidestep a court ruling that it violated patents held by Verizon Communications Inc., of New York Vonage, based in Holmdel, N.J., gained 57,000 customers for a total of 2.45 million in the three months ending June 30. In that period, Comcast surpassed the 3 million mark by adding 671,000 subscribers for its digital phone service.

NEW YORK -- Buddy Bell, the 55-year-old Kansas City Royals manager, was standing behind the batting cage before the game Sunday, discussing why he is stepping down after the season to spend more time with his family. Bell, who had a health scare last year when it was discovered he had a cancerous tonsil, talked about his daughter, who has Down syndrome, and his 80-year-old mother as primary reasons for wanting to go home to Cincinnati and get out of the all-consuming managerial rat race.

NEW YORK -- In a beige brick Gothic church on an East Bronx thoroughfare, the future archbishop of Baltimore found a home that he never really left. Our Lady of Solace on Morris Park Avenue became the spiritual center for Edwin F. O'Brien, who prayed here with his parents and brothers, served as an altar boy, studied at its now-shuttered grammar school and received confirmation in the Catholic Church with the saint's name of James 57 years ago. Though his family would eventually move to the city's northern suburbs and a series of prominent church posts would carry him even farther away, O'Brien returns here each spring to confer the sacrament of confirmation on a new generation of Roman Catholics from his old neighborhood.

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86, an 18 year resident of Severna Park died peacefully surrounded by her loving family on Sunday, April 29, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Pasadena. Mrs. York grew up in Maine and relocated to Maryland from Connecticut with her husband in 1989 to be close to her children. She was very active in the Senior Center and was chosen to represent Connecticut Seniors and testify on Capital Hill for the Select Committee on Aging in 1982. She remained active in may roles for the Senior Center, taking computer classes, swimming, yoga and serving Meals on Wheels.

86, an 18 year resident of Severna Park died peacefully surrounded by her loving family on Sunday, April 29, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law in Pasadena. Mrs. York grew up in Maine and relocated to Maryland from Connecticut with her husband in 1989 to be close to her children. She was very active in the Senior Center and was chosen to represent Connecticut Seniors and testify on Capital Hill for the Select Committee on Aging in 1982. She remained active in may roles for the Senior Center, taking computer classes, swimming, yoga and serving Meals on Wheels.