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Hernias are a common ailment among Americans; more than 4 million people develop the painful condition. And although both men and women develop hernias, female patients may be harder to diagnose. Doctors and patients may not realize the abdominal pain a woman is feeling is because of a hernia. Dr. Hien Nguyen, assistant professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said the pain can be mistaken for other conditions with similar symptoms, such as adhesions from prior surgery, endometriosis, fibroids and ovarian cysts.

Dr. Henry V. "Harry" Chase, a retired internist who served in the Navy during World War II and the Korean War, died June 9 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Somerford Place, a Frederick assisted-living facility. He was 90. The son of Harry Thomas Chase, who was a partner in the Chase-Amato Co., and Catherine Brady Chase, Henry Vincent Chase was born in Baltimore and raised on South Lakewood and Linwood avenues in Highlandtown. He was a 1939 graduate of Mount St. Joseph High School in Irvington, where he was captain of the school's soccer team.

Greg Cantori plans to downsize when he retires. Really, really downsize. His retirement home is 238 square feet - one-tenth the size of the average new American house - and sits in his Anne Arundel County yard. He and wife Renee can hitch it to a truck and take it with them wherever they go. "It's so cheap - that's what's so cool about this," said Cantori, 52, who envisions a surf-and-turf future, alternating between the house and a sailboat. "We bought the house for $19,000.

Police departments around the country are collecting DNA in largely unregulated databases, The New York Times reported today, providing a broader look at a practice The Baltimore Sun revealed in Maryland earlier this year. The largest collections of DNA records are held at the state and federal levels, but local agencies are also free to collect their own samples and keep their own records, which are not always subject to the same rules. New York City, for example, has a database of 11,000 suspects and Orange County, Calif., has 90,000 records on file, according to the Times . Baltimore police had samples from more than 2,000 suspects and more than 3,000 homicide victims, The Sun reported in February .  The state's DNA law, which allows the collection of DNA from people arrested in connection with serious crimes and was recently upheld by the Supreme Court , makes no reference to the local databases.

The Rev. Dr. Harold A. Carter Sr., senior pastor of the New Shiloh Baptist Church, whose legendary preaching spanned generations and brought him an audience beyond his congregation of 5,000 members, died of cancer Thursday. He was 76. In 47 years of ministry, Dr. Carter preached with legends of the civil rights era, before his congregation in West Baltimore and to bigger audiences across America and in foreign countries. And for years, his resounding voice could be heard on Sundays on WBAL-Radio.

They don't make many power couples like this: He's a self-proclaimed whistle blower, the focus of international headlines and Obama administration ire. She describes herself as a "world-traveling, pole-dancing super hero. " Edward Snowden and Lindsay Mills lived in a modest blue clapboard house with white trim here in a Honolulu suburb until about six weeks ago. Their former neighbors described them as quiet and private. On Sunday, Snowden announced that he was responsible for leaking secrets about America's telephone and Internet surveillance pograms to the media, reviving a global debate about Big Brother-style government surveillance of private citizens.

A waterspout zipped across Baltimore harbor Monday afternoon, tossing pieces of a warehouse roof into the air, and at least one other tornado was reported in the area as storms brought heavy downpours and flooding. In Fells Point, cars sat in standing water and sandbags were placed at doors to prevent water from entering businesses. In the Inner Harbor, 1.74 inches of rain had fallen by 5 p.m. - all but a half-inch of it in the span of an hour before 4 p.m. Steve Fogleman, a Glen Burnie attorney and chairman of the Baltimore liquor board, was driving north on Interstate 95 just south of the Fort McHenry tunnel a little before 4 p.m. when he noticed a rotating cloud and something whipping through the air near Silo Point.

Bang Warren dismissed the pounding on her cabin door early Monday morning as "children playing a prank. " Then a horn blared and she heard people running through the halls of the Grandeur of the Seas A fire had broken out in the early morning hours aboard the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship that sailed from Baltimore for the Bahamas on Friday. "Crew members told us to get our life vest on," recalled Warren, a White Marsh resident. "We asked if we could throw on clothes real quick.

On most days in landlord-tenant court in Baltimore City District Court, the only issue is: "Did you pay your rent?" If not, you are on the street. No defense is allowed, such as "I was sick and lost time from work," "My benefit check did not arrive," or even, "We have no hot water and there is mold growing in the apartment because of the leaky roof. " The tenant must be able to pay the full amount to even raise a legal claim that the housing is posing a health danger. If rent due has not been paid, and the tenant cannot pay the full amount, the tenant is summarily evicted.

The life of an independent bookstore owner is perilous these days. Having to fend off deadly competition from giant Barnes & Noble, online merchants such as Amazon, and big box stores including Target and Walmart. Still, even with that cut-throat atmosphere, you wouldn't imagine that an indie owner could end up near the top of the Central Intelligence Agency. Until Avril D. Haines came along. Haines, the former co-owner of Adrian's Book Cafe in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood, has been named CIA deputy director, the number two position in the spy agency, The Baltimore Sun's John Fritze notes.

The life of an independent bookstore owner is perilous these days. Having to fend off deadly competition from giant Barnes & Noble, online merchants such as Amazon, and big box stores including Target and Walmart. Still, even with that cut-throat atmosphere, you wouldn't imagine that an indie owner could end up near the top of the Central Intelligence Agency. Until Avril D. Haines came along. Haines, the former co-owner of Adrian's Book Cafe in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood, has been named CIA deputy director, the number two position in the spy agency, The Baltimore Sun's John Fritze notes.

A former Baltimore resident and Fells Point business owner, Avril D. Haines, has been named deputy director of the CIA -- the first woman to hold the second-highest position at the agency. Haines, 43, previously worked as a White House deputy assistant and deputy counsel for national security affairs. Prior to that, she served as a legal advisor in the State Department. President Obama named her to the post Wednesday. Before she joined the federal government, Haines co-owned Adrian's Book Cafe in Fells Point and served as president of the Fells Point Business Association in the late '90s.

Veronica Alford had been friends with Edith Turnage for 20 years. After Turnage's daughter died in an accidental shooting at the hands of her friend's son, Alford sent flowers, balloons and a teddy bear. She asked about the funeral but never heard back. Turnage could not fathom the charges that would be leveled against her friend. How could Alford have helped drag 13-year-old Monae Turnage's body down an alley and bury it in pile of trash? How could she have arranged to hide the gun that killed the girl?

On most days in landlord-tenant court in Baltimore City District Court, the only issue is: "Did you pay your rent?" If not, you are on the street. No defense is allowed, such as "I was sick and lost time from work," "My benefit check did not arrive," or even, "We have no hot water and there is mold growing in the apartment because of the leaky roof. " The tenant must be able to pay the full amount to even raise a legal claim that the housing is posing a health danger. If rent due has not been paid, and the tenant cannot pay the full amount, the tenant is summarily evicted.

For more than two decades, Baltimore fund companies Adams Express Co. and Petroleum & Resources Corp. had been under the direction of a single CEO and chairman. But with the retirement of Doug Ober this year, the two have seen a shake-up at the top. Longtime director Kathleen McGahran, who is based in Florida, was named chair. And to find a CEO, the companies went to Massachusetts. Mark E. Stoeckle had been the chief investment officer of the U.S. Equities and Global Sector Funds for BNP Paribas Investment Partners in Boston before he was tapped to take over as CEO in February.

On the day Exelon's gleaming new office tower opens on Harbor Point, I wonder if anyone will remind the company, "You didn't build that. " Remember the hubbub during the 2012 campaign when President Barack Obama said that? His point was that successful businesses don't get that way all by themselves — they had some help, including from the government that built the roads and public infrastructure necessary to open and run a private business. The remark drew much huffing and puffing from opponents who thought Obama was trampling on everything from the American dream to self-made individualism to Steve Jobs' grave.

When people talk about the top places to work, the same words pop up again and again - purpose, flexibility, collaboration, respect, challenging and rewarding. Does that describe your company? Do you enjoy going to work? Does it feel more like a team or even a family? The Baltimore Sun is seeking nominations for its third annual list of the region's top workplaces. Last year, 80 companies were recognized as Top Workplaces in the Baltimore area, with nursing home operator FutureCare topping the list for large employers for a second year in a row. Anyone can suggest a company - employees, customers, executives, even interns.

For more than two decades, Baltimore fund companies Adams Express Co. and Petroleum & Resources Corp. had been under the direction of a single CEO and chairman. But with the retirement of Doug Ober this year, the two have seen a shake-up at the top. Longtime director Kathleen McGahran, who is based in Florida, was named chair. And to find a CEO, the companies went to Massachusetts. Mark E. Stoeckle had been the chief investment officer of the U.S. Equities and Global Sector Funds for BNP Paribas Investment Partners in Boston before he was tapped to take over as CEO in February.

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Thank you, Baltimore Sun, for featuring a same-sex couple in your Scene section this past Sunday. The article "A step delayed 12 years" (June 2) shows a loving male couple in white dinner jackets on their wedding day in Maryland. The article describes how both men met, their wedding day plus the participation of both families in the ceremony and reception. It was truly moving to see this story featured in a major Maryland newspaper and I'm guessing this is a first for the Sun. Of course, all of this is possible because our state lawmakers passed the same-sex marriage bill last year, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed the bill and a majority of our state citizens voted to uphold the law. Bravo to The Sun and the state of Maryland!