Chad

Orb's path to the finish line in the second leg of the Triple Crown remains uncrowded. Normandy Invasion, the fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, dropped from contention for Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness on Sunday. Trainer Chad Brown and owner Rick Porter decided to stick with their original plan and point the horse toward prestigous races for 3-year-olds later in the summer. That leaves Orb, the colt co-owned by Baltimore County resident Stuart Janney III and Ogden Mills "Dinny" Pipps' stable, with only seven confirmed challengers at this point.

Moving to Maryland has been a learning experience for Chad Barnhill, general manager of the Horseshoe Baltimore Casino that will fill the sweeping vacant lot currently greeting drivers coming into the city on Russell Street. At home within the walls of a casino - he's worked for Caesars Entertainment since graduating from college in 1994 - this is the first time he's overseen the building of a new facility. When he's not meeting with city officials regarding building permits, he's addressing neighborhood associations concerned about what plopping a casino near their houses might mean.

Idress Deby says he captured the capital of Ndjamena and sent President Hissene Habre packing in order to bring multiparty democracy to Chad. Although Mr. Habre and the United States and France said that Mr. Deby was armed to some extent by Libya, which he and Libya deny, he is the general who with French help defeated the Libyans three years ago.Nobody can fault Mr. Deby's speedy repatriation of 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war. But the world should hold...

Chad Schulze's golf career has weathered several errant shots, but beginning Monday night, the Cockeysville resident will have his best chance yet at realizing his dream as a professional golfer. Schulze, 34, is a contestant on the popular Golf Channel reality show Big Break Mexico, where he's competing against 11 other contestants for a shot at playing in a PGA Tour event. The show, in its 19th season, pits six men and six women in golf-related challenges that test their strength in all aspects of the game.

On Monday, March 28, 2005 CHAD EDWARD ZELLMER of Glen Burnie; cherished son of Charles and Karen Zellmer; beloved brother of Charles Zellmer, Jr.; dear grandson of Charles Smithell, the late Laverne Smithell and the late Lothia Zellmer. Also survived by many aunts, uncles and cousins. The family will receive visitors at the family owned Singleton Funeral Home, 1 Second Ave. SW (at Crain Hwy), Glen Burnie on Wednesday from 4 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Ceremony will be held on Thursday at 9 A.M. in the funeral home chapel.

YESTERDAY Bengals receiver Chad Johnson promised to top his past celebrations against the Ravens if he scores Sunday. "I have something special, special, special for the city of Baltimore. Hopefully, I can get in the end zone so I can show you all what I've got in store." BEFORE RAVENS-BENGALS ON NOV. 6, 2005 "No one has broken up a pass or stopped any passes that have come my way. Therefore, no one has gotten that `Yes' check for stopping me. But it's fairly easy. All you have to do is stop me one time, and no one has done that."

NEW YORK -- We've debated their validity, their existence and their relevance. We've questioned them, manipulated them, dimpled them, dissed them, punctured them, impregnated them, punched them and then hung them. Why our sudden animosity? Where is our respect? If we are indeed a nation of protecting the innocent until they are proven guilty, why are we, like an angry impatient mob of schoolyard bullies, making scapegoats of them and trying to make them responsible for our country's division and inde- cision?

One year ago, I found myself fleeing a firefight out in the eastern deserts of Chad with Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner. Mr. Hosseini and I had traveled by World Food Program planes and Toyota truck for several days to meet with Darfur refugees who had found shelter in remote desert camps run by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees just across the Sudanese border. One day, rebels backed by the Sudanese regime in Khartoum attacked a camp we were in, and we had to run for our lives.

DJAWARA, Chad -- There was no time for grave markers. But around some of the dirt mounds, the victims' shoes were laid out neatly like slippers beside a bed. Wild animals had unearthed body parts and human bones from the hastily dug mass graves. As local elder Abdullah Aziz Ibrahim walked through the pasture, he held his breath against the stench. "They killed us one by one," he said. He stooped over the grave of one former neighbor to try to cover the man's exposed skull with branches and leaves.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Thousands of frightened Chadians took advantage of a lull in fighting yesterday to flee N'Djamena when rebels withdrew from the capital after two days of heavy clashes with government troops. Officials, however, warned that battles probably were not over, and rebel leaders vowed to attack again. "Rebels still have a capability of fighting," said Capt. Christophe Prazuck, spokesman for the French Ministry of Defense, which has 1,900 troops deployed in the central African country and has evacuated nearly 1,000 foreigners.

Wedding date: Feb. 16, 2013 Her story: Abby von Kelsch, 37, grew up in Stafford, Va. She works for Booz Allen Hamilton as a disaster consultant. Her mother, Linda, is a retired librarian and her father, Hank, is a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer who owns a construction company. His story: Chad Omweg, 35, grew up in Charlottesville, Va. He is a welder. His parents, Beth and John, are retired. Their story: Abby and Chad met in October 2007 in Park City, Utah, after Abby left Baltimore to become a member of the U.S.A.

Chad Wells is leaving Alewife. His last day at the downtown tavern is Saturday. Wells is headed to Annapolis, where he will be "re-concepting" an existing restaurant - he wouldn't say which one. But the chef, probably best known for his culinary experiments with snakehead and other invasive species, was excited about shaking up the conservative Annapolis dining scene. "I want to a be a front runner in establishing local and invasive food in Annapolis," Wells said. "I want to put my heart out there with food.

A day's worth of some excellent storm coverage by CNN was all but shredded during the Piers Morgan show Monday night when meteorologist Chad Myers reported that the New York Stock Exchange was under three feet of water and the hip-shooting host ran wild with the report that turned out to be false. What a shame for all those CNN correspondents in places like Rehoboth Beach, Ocean City and Asbury Park who spent the day and night standing in cold ocean water and rain doing such a fine job of reporting the story.

Chad Barnhill, an 18-year veteran of the gambling industry, was named general manager of Harrah's Baltimore at a press conference Tuesday at the planned site of the casino. Most recently the assistant general manager at Horseshoe Casino and Hotel in Bossier City, La., he has worked with Caesars, which along with Rock Gaming leads the group licensed to run Baltimore's facility, since graduating from college. "He's one of the best," said John Payne, Caesars president. "He's so focused on finding great employees who can ensure customer satisfaction.

Divas still in demand Ron Fritz Baltimore Sun Will Chad Johnson get another shot in the NFL? I hope not. The tired acts of Terrell Owens, Plaxico Burress and Johnson need to be shelved for good. After allegedly assaulting his wife, Johnson should worry more about staying out of jail than trying to get back onto the football field. Are NFL teams really hurting that badly for wide receivers that these divas keep getting chances? Maybe. Randy Moss got his third — or is it fourth?

And then there was one. Michael Phelps came up golden again today swimming his last individual race, the 100-meter butterfly. He has just his leg in the 400-meter medley relay left to swim in these Olympic Games - or any other for that matter. “I'm just happy that the last [individual] one was a win,” Phelps said. “That's all I really wanted coming into the night.” His gold medal in the 200 IM on Thursday marked the first time a male swimmer has won the same event in three straight Olympics.

MIAMI - As many as 1,700 Miami-Dade County voters invalidated their presidential ballots because they mistakenly punched the chad immediately below the one corresponding to their preferred candidate, a California researcher has found. Those voters penetrated a meaningless chad - one that didn't correspond to any candidate - probably because their punch cards were not properly aligned with ballot books in the voting booth, said Anthony Salvanto, a faculty fellow in the political science department at the University of California at Irvine.

WASHINGTON - There is a patron saint of disputed elections, and his name is St. Chad. Thirteen hundred years before "dimpled chad" stalled America's transfer of power, the name Chad came to mean wrongfully holding office and stepping down selflessly in the name of unity. The year was A.D. 664, in Dark Ages Britain, just as the Latin and Celtic churches were uniting after a big fight over the date of Easter. A monk named Wilfred was named bishop of York and went off to Paris to be consecrated.

Chad Gauss has left the City Cafe. His last night as the Mount Vernon restaurant's executive chef was Saturday. Gauss will be opening his own restaurant in the old Hampden Food Market. The 3,000 square-foot restaurant, to be named the Food Market, will include seating for 90 in the dining room, a 12-seat bar and an open kitchen whose focus, Gauss said, will be "basically blue-collar food in a white-collar execution. " Gauss's partner in the Food Market is Elan Kotz, a familiar front-of-house presence at Aldo's in Little Italy.

Chad Wells, the executive chef at Alewife Tavern, is at it again. Wells hosted a few endangered species dinners this past year, featuring Maryland's notorious snakehead. Coming up on Monday, January 9, Wells will present a Campfire Dinner at Joe Squared at Power Plant Live , the new home for the Food = Art series of monthly dining events. All of the food on Wells' campfire menu is food people can kill themselves, conceivably anyway, and all of it will be prepared backwoods style -- with limited ingredients, cast-iron pans, smoke and fire.