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A 58-year-old Baltimore County firefighter died Friday afternoon after he suffered a suspected heart attack during training, officials said.

Robert Fogle III, a 27-year veteran and career firefighter, was participating in exercises at the Sparrows Point training facility when he became ill. He was taken to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

"It just reminds us about the sacrifice that our first responders do each and every day and the risks that they take to be fit and capable of helping others," Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz said.

Officials said Fogle had gone with an engine crew and medic crew from the Pikesville station to the Sparrows Point facility for routine training at 1 p.m. They first did "operations readiness training," which involved firefighting skills such as climbing stairs and lifting ladders, said Fire Chief John Hohman.

After a break, the group went to "the maze," a trailer where firefighters must use their breathing apparatus to navigate through an unfamiliar area. No smoke was used, Hohman said.

When it became clear Fogle was in distress, he was quickly removed and treated, Hohman said.

"It wasn't long at all. The maze is designed in such a way that when something like this happens, they can dismantle things and get somebody out fairly quickly. The crew was right there," Hohman said.

It was there that Fogle suffered an apparent heart attack and was rushed to the hospital, where he died.

All firefighters complete the training annually, Hohman said. This is the first death at the training center. He said there will be an internal investigation into Fogle's death.

Fogle's death is considered a "line of duty" death, Kamenetz said, the first in the county in 2014.

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SHEFFIELD, Alabama -- Sheffield police have charged a man in connection to a brutal scene they encountered early Saturday.

Sgt. Ray Terry, who is leading the investigation, said Bobbie Dean Dickerson is charged with attempted murder, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree theft. He said Dickerson was found at a home on 13th Street where a woman was held against her will and assaulted for hours.

The woman told police Dickerson worked for her as a handyman. She said he came to her home while intoxicated early Saturday. She told police an altercation ensued and Dickerson held her hostage and assaulted her for four hours. He allegedly threw her down and cut her throat during the attack.

Terry said patrol officers responded to the home and found the woman in bad shape and with incisions on her throat. They applied first aid and CPR until paramedics arrived. She was treated locally before being flown to Huntsville Hospital for surgery. Terry said she has since been released.

Dickerson remains in the Sheffield City Jail.

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VOL. 129 | NO. 103 | Wednesday, May 28, 2014

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Janet Dykes has joined the Family Safety Center, Memphis and Shelby Countys center for victims of domestic violence, as controller. In her new role, she is responsible for all finance, accounting and human resources functions, in addition to providing leadership and coordination in the organizations administrative, business planning, accounting and budgeting efforts.

Hometown: Memphis

Experience: Mid-South Food Bank, chief financial officer, 2005-2014; Girls Inc. of Memphis, finance and administration director, 2001-2005; biomedical research organizations in California in finance positions, 1990-2000.

Family: Four kitty cats at home; two sisters in Memphis; one brother in Atlanta and many nieces and nephews in various places

Favorite quote: Cherish your yesterdays, dream your tomorrows and live your todays. Anonymous

Whats playing on your stereo right now? Movie soundtracks, classic rock and The Beatles!

Activities you enjoy outside of work: Cooking, traveling, reading, swimming, playing games and watching reality TV

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In honor of Father's Day, we want to highlight the best home improvement projects completed by fathers (or father figures) and their kids working together. Describe the project in 150 words or less, and send us a photograph of the project. Your information and photo may be published on cleveland.com and the print edition of The Plain Dealer.

Here's what to do:

Email your information to jwashington@plaind.com. Please include the name, age, city, daytime phone and email address for both the son or daughter and father to the letter. Your phone and email address will not be published. Attach a digital photo of the project to the same email. Handwritten information and film photographs will not be accepted.

The deadline for entries is Monday, June 8. Entries will be posted on cleveland.com during the week of June 8.

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hide captionWhen laundry's too much of a hassle, there are on-demand services to pick it up and do it for you, with the tap of an app.

When laundry's too much of a hassle, there are on-demand services to pick it up and do it for you, with the tap of an app.

Sick of doing the laundry? The latest hot Silicon Valley startup, Washio the subject of a new profile in New York Magazine lets you press a button on your phone and someone will come and pick up your laundry, or your dry cleaning.

If you actually prefer to do your own laundry in the Bay Area but the dryer's broken, the startup Handybook provides on-demand repairs for less than the cost of a traditional handyman. It offers superfast housecleaning services, too.

hide captionWashio offers on-demand laundry pickup and delivery for $1.60 a pound.

Washio offers on-demand laundry pickup and delivery for $1.60 a pound.

Other tasks can be handled with the same ease, thanks to the proliferation of niche startups. In San Francisco, you can order gourmet meal-delivery from SpoonRocket with the tap of an app, use Postmates to deliver virtually any item or BloomThat to send flowers on demand.

And of course, in several American cities you can easily open an app to get yourself an Uber ride instead of God forbid, standing at the corner and waiting for a cab to come by.

This is all to say that the excitement for niche services like these and the willingness for venture capitalists to fund them is quickly eliminating all your first world problems.

By solving these "problems," we're getting our time back less time stuck in traffic to pick up a meal, a few minutes saved by not having to make a phone call to order flowers, our weekend hours spared from the hassle of laundry. Arguably, this new free time will allow for more satisfying lives. At least that's the collective promise of these services. (As I've blogged about before, technologists tend to solve the problems they can see, so this situation also underlines the need for more socioeconomically, racially and age-diverse technologists.)

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Contact Toys for Tots 262-633-1379 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays between 8 to 11:30 a.m. for more information. Toys for Tots is located at 800 Center St., the same hours. Toys and supplies also can be dropped off at any fire station east of the interstate, Kortendick's Hardware and Wells Fargo Bank on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

Dress for Success Racine

The mission of Dress for Success Racine is to promote the economic independence of disadvantaged women by providing professional attire, a network of support, and the career development tools to help women thrive in work and life. Job-ready women come to Dress for Success Racine by referral from a range of nonprofit or job placement agencies. Each client receives one suit for her interview or job fair and additional clothing when she becomes employed. Every woman deserves a success story.

What we need:

Donations are accepted by appointment at 5540 Durand Ave., Suite B-296, Racine. Call 262-898-5530 to make a donation appointment or for more information. More information is also available at http://www.dressforsuccess.org/racine.

Racine Theatre Guild

Call Beth or Doug at 262-633-1250 or stop by 2519 Northwestern Ave. from noon to 6 p.m. weekdays. For further information on RTG, visit http://www.racinetheatre.org.

River Bend Nature Center

Donations may be dropped off at the River Bend Nature Center located at 3600 N. Green Bay Road, Caledonia, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. If you have any questions regarding items, programs or volunteer opportunities please feel free to call us at 262-639-1515 or email info@riverbendnaturecenterracine.org.

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