Autopsy

Construction workers in Jessup found a body lying in woods in the 8900 block of Good Harvest Court Thursday morning, according to Howard County police. The decomposing body of a man had no identification when found behind a house about 10:22 a.m. Police are working to find out the man's identity and whether his death was the result of foul play. Anyone with information may call 410-313-STOP. The body, which was too decomposed to identify the man's race, was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy.

An Annapolis teenager was charged as an adult Monday with first-degree murder in the weekend slaying of a 2-year-old-girl. Timothy Darnell Height, 17, was picked up about 6 p.m. Saturday at a friend's home and questioned about the death of 2-year-old Amoir Faith Turner, Annapolis Police Chief Michael A. Pristoop said at a Monday afternoon news conference. The toddler was found dead in bed in the Bywater neighborhood shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday, and early autopsy results show that she suffered several injuries, including a fractured skull, a broken leg and possible sexual assault, Pristoop said.

Dr. Grover M. Hutchins, who had been director of autopsy services at Johns Hopkins Hospital and was a world-renowned pathologist in the field of cardiac and pediatric pathology, died April 27 at a hospital in Windhoek, Namibia, from head injuries sustained in a fall. He was 77. The longtime resident of the Warrington Condominiums in Guilford was on a world cruise with his wife of 53 years, the former Loretta Bajkowski, a real estate agent, at the time of his death. "Grover Hutchins will be sorely missed, not only for what he did for science, but for the many friendships he developed and nurtured over the course of his 50 years at Hopkins," said Dr. Edward D. Miller, dean of the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Baltimore County police have identified an intruder shot to death by a homeowner during a burglary early Sunday in Perry Hall. He was Marvin Cook Jr., 29, whose address was unknown. Police said he broke into a house in the 4200 block of Chapel Road shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday and was shot by William Bozman Sr., 68, who was awakened when the suspect entered his bedroom. Cook was convicted of attempted murder in 2002 and was arrested on several other occasions for drug offenses, according to Cpl. Mike Hill, a spokesman for the Baltimore County Police Department.

Gaines Adams , an All-America defensive end at Clemson whose career never blossomed in the NFL with Chicago and Tampa Bay, died Sunday in Greenwood, S.C., after going into cardiac arrest. He was 26. He died at Self Regional Hospital after going into cardiac arrest about an hour before at his family's home in Greenwood, said Marcia Kelley-Clark, chief deputy coroner for Greenwood County. An autopsy showed an enlarged heart, a condition that can often lead to a heart attack, Kelley-Clark added.

Ben Roethlisberger's fourth concussion since 2006 apparently won't put him on the bench. Roethlisberger will play Sunday at M&T Bank Stadium as long as he continues to pass postconcussion tests, coach Mike Tomlin said Tuesday. The tests measure a player's memory and reflexes, among other factors, before and after he has been injured. "He felt normal. He felt fine," Tomlin said of Roethlisberger's first round of testing. "The battery of tests that he took showed that he had no symptoms.

University of Maryland pharmacologist Carrie John died from an allergic reaction and not because she injected a seemingly tainted batch of the narcotic buprenorphine, according to the state medical examiner. "There was nothing in her system to cause her death, no drugs," said Dr. Zabiullah Ali, the pathologist who investigated her death Sept. 27. "It was an allergic reaction to something she injected," Ali said Thursday in response to questions from The Baltimore Sun. "But what it is, we don't know."