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Alivia Keller, 2 1/2, gets a helping hand from her mother, Liz Keller, Tuesday while the two play basketball with a family friend, Jackie Brown, at Elgin Park in Hagerstown.

'My heart hurts because of a loss to the world' By LAURA ERNDE and SCOTT BUTKI / Staff Writers Patrick Roy, a sailor aboard the USS Cole, is pictured above. Patrick's mother, Kathy Brown, speaks outsie her Keedysville home Friday while family friend Michael Walsh listens. photo: RIC DUGAN / staff photographer Above, a flag flies at half-staff outside the post office in Keedysville, Patrick Roy's hometown.

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- A family friend says "Howdy Doody Show" writer Edward Kean has died at the age of 85. Kean was the primary writer for the show and penned the theme song to which millions of American children sang along each week during the show's run on NBC from 1947 to 1960. Family friend Del Reddy said Monday that Kean died Aug. 13 at a nursing care facility in Oakland County's West Bloomfield Township from complications of emphysema. Reddy says the New York City native wrote the song "It's Howdy Doody Time," which was sung during the show's opening.

Bicycling friends of a Hagerstown man killed in Nevada on Sept. 13 are gathering Friday at 7:30 a.m. at the Long Meadow Shopping Center to honor their friend. A family friend said the bicyclists will ride Lloyd W. Clarke's favorite 45-mile course in his memory, ending up at the Hagerstown Seventh-day Adventist Church on Robinwood Drive for a memorial service. The Washoe County (Nev.) Sheriff's Department said Clarke, 43, was killed in a biking accident.

James E. Maloy Jr., age 61, of Hagerstown, Md., and a resident of NMS nursing home passed away Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. He was born on March 6, 1950, and was the son of the late Patsy Maloy and James Maloy Sr. He is survived by a sister, Debra Smith and her husband, Bill, of Hagerstown; a foster sister, Debra Green and her husband, Bill, of Smithsburg; four brothers, Ronald Malloy and his wife, Barb, of Funkstown, Merle Maloy and his wife, Barb, of...

Ronald Eugene Oberholzer, 75, of 8652 Downsville Pike, Williamsport, MD 21795, passed away Thursday, April 12, 2012, in his home after battling an illness for the past year. He was born Sept. 24, 1936, to Preston and Esther (Hoover) Oberholzer in Waynesboro, Pa. He married Clara Mae (Noll) on April 29, 1978, in Leitersburg. He worked his early years at the shoe factory and cold storage before going to Frick Co., where he worked from June 1961 to June 2002. He is survived by his children, Babbette Oberholzer Canales of Livingston, Texas, Corey Bingaman of Waynesboro, Scott Noll of Dallas, Pa., Kelly (Noll)

Friends are rallying around a family that lost its home to fire this week. Proceeds from an arts and crafts fair Saturday will benefit the family, said Dee Weichert, a family friend. The family of eight was left homeless Tuesday morning after a fire caused more than $30,000 in structural damage to their duplex on Garlinger Avenue. Vendors can pay $10 for a space at the arts and crafts fair, planned for 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in the multi-purpose building at the Washington County Agricultural Educational Center, Weichert said.

HAGERSTOWN - A Hagerstown man was sentenced to 20 years in prison - with eight years suspended - Monday after pleading guilty to second-degree sexual offense. The remaining charges against Michael Blaine Shatzer - second-degree assault and fourth-degree sexual offense - were dismissed in exchange for his plea. Shatzer, 44, of 221 Summer St., was charged in April. Charging documents allege that he forced a boy to have oral sex with him about 14 times at Shatzer's home from April 2000 to August 2001.

HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. -- Authorities have identified the 3-year-old Berkeley County, W.Va., boy who died Friday afternoon in a mobile home fire near Hedgesville as Shawn Thomas Fishburn of 1717 Allensville Road. His father, Thomas Robert Fishburn, 24, of the same address, was being treated at the Washington (D.C.) Hospital Center for second- and third-degree burns to more than 50 percent of his body, according to a press release from West Virginia State Police First Sgt. E.D. Burnett.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. - A Shippensburg, Pa., man was killed Thursday when the motorcycle he was riding struck a deer on Shippensburg Road in Menallen Township, according to Pennsylvania State Police in Adams County. Walter T. Eichelberger, 60, of 155 Fogelsanger Road, was on Shippensburg Road at about 7 p.m. when the 2006 Honda Rebel he was riding struck a deer running across the road, police said. The motorcycle then struck an embankment, police said. Eichelberger was wearing a helmet, police said.

Since her daughter's death a year ago, Jonna Vinci said she has been hearing stories about what a wonderful person Samantha Kelly was. “I've been proud all year,” Vinci said Sunday afternoon during an event at The Improved Order of Red Men Tribe 84 in Williamsport to raise money for a scholarship program in Kelly's honor. Members of the championship Williamsport High School girls volleyball team made the memories even sweeter for Vinci. Members of the team - of which Kelly once served as the captain - presented Vinci with a ring that had Kelly's name, team number and “in memory of” inscribed on it. Vinci showed the silver ring as she and her husband, Brian, checked people in at the fundraiser.

Local resident Jane Fishack Berlin recently celebrated her 90th birthday at a dinner held in her honor. Family and friends gathered Jan. 20 at the Olive Garden restaurant near Valley Mall to commemorate her day and recognize her years of love and devotion to others. Jane is the proud and loving mother of four children, 10 grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. Over the years, she has provided day care and in-home baby-sitting services in both Waynesboro, Pa., and Hagerstown.  Altogether, she has baby-sat for more than 30 years touching the lives of more than 30 children.

This month is about budget-conscious meals. The next several recipes will focus on seven ingredients or fewer - not including the basics that every kitchen should have such as water, salt and pepper, butter and the like.  This recipe is an easy recipe using the cast-iron skillet we first started with at the beginning of the year. By now it will be well-seasoned and ready to assist in this deliciously easy recipe. I prefer small cuts of filet mignon to prepare this dish, but a ribeye or sirloin will work just as well.

Ronald Eugene Oberholzer, 75, of 8652 Downsville Pike, Williamsport, MD 21795, passed away Thursday, April 12, 2012, in his home after battling an illness for the past year. He was born Sept. 24, 1936, to Preston and Esther (Hoover) Oberholzer in Waynesboro, Pa. He married Clara Mae (Noll) on April 29, 1978, in Leitersburg. He worked his early years at the shoe factory and cold storage before going to Frick Co., where he worked from June 1961 to June 2002. He is survived by his children, Babbette Oberholzer Canales of Livingston, Texas, Corey Bingaman of Waynesboro, Scott Noll of Dallas, Pa., Kelly (Noll)

James E. Maloy Jr., age 61, of Hagerstown, Md., and a resident of NMS nursing home passed away Monday, Jan. 30, 2012. He was born on March 6, 1950, and was the son of the late Patsy Maloy and James Maloy Sr. He is survived by a sister, Debra Smith and her husband, Bill, of Hagerstown; a foster sister, Debra Green and her husband, Bill, of Smithsburg; four brothers, Ronald Malloy and his wife, Barb, of Funkstown, Merle Maloy and his wife, Barb, of...

In a light breeze against a blue sky, dozens of green balloons waved a final farewell Tuesday to Logan Jace Sellers, a 2-year-old boy who died last week of injuries Hagerstown police allege were inflicted by his mother's boyfriend. "I love you, Logan. I'll never forget you, baby," his mother, Amanda Sellers, said before her son's funeral at the Douglas A. Fiery Funeral Home in Hagerstown. "He was a very lovable child. A very happy child," said Logan's father, Robert Sellers III. "For somebody to actually do this to my 2-year-old son, I can't see any reason for it. I just can't.

Donald Mongan didn't know Logan Sellers' family. But the Morgan County, W.Va., resident said he was so overcome by the boy's death that he traveled to Hagerstown's City Park so he could be among more than 100 people who remembered the child Monday night. Logan, 2, died Monday after he was taken off life support at a Washington, D.C., hospital, according to Assistant State's Attorney Brett Wilson. The boy was taken to Meritus Medical Center last week with injuries police determined to be suspicious in nature.

Special to The Herald-Mail Is it possible that snacking on chocolate could be good for you?   Recent studies regarding the potential health benefits of chocolate may suggest so.    Chocolate might not just be for curing a sweet tooth anymore. Cocoa solids contain compounds called antioxidants and phenols, which have been shown to help prevent high blood pressure and improve heart health.   Dark chocolate contains the highest amount of these beneficial compounds.

Khalil Mohamed Atteya, known by his family as Niko, would've loved the music, food and other activities that were featured at a Sunday event at the Fayetteville Fire Hall, his aunt said. But Olga Panagos said there will be a bigger party if Niko returns home. The 11-year-old Fayetteville boy has not had contact with his mother's side of the family since he was allegedly kidnapped by his noncustodial father on Aug. 1 in Egypt. Panagos' family and friends helped her organize a fundraiser.

Emily Gray Spickler was determined to make her own way in the world. And the 19-year-old aspiring fashion journalist from Shepherdstown, W.Va., was doing just that before her life came to an unexpected end this week while studying abroad in Australia. "Gone too soon," Spickler's mother, Jill Spickler, said in a telephone interview Wednesday. Three days before what would have been her 20th birthday, the 2009 Jefferson High School graduate was found dead Monday in her dormitory residence at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Australia.