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About 40 dolphins, which apparently took an unorthodox detour on their spring journey up the Atlantic coast, were spied yesterday visiting the Choptank River near Cambridge.Armed with binoculars and cameras, a group of astonished spectators counted the dolphins as they swam past about 200 yards off the Horn Point Environmental Laboratories."It was kind of impressive. They took about an hour to pass by," said Wayne Bell, vice president for external affairs for the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies, which operates the laboratories.

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.

On February 14, 2007, AUGUSTUS CHASE, beloved husband of Bernice J. Chase. On Monday, friends may call VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 5151 Balto. Nat'l Pike, from 4:00-8:00 p.m. On Tuesday, Mr. Chase will lie in state at St. Johns Catholic Church, 10431 Twin Rivers Road, where the family will receive friends from 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-233-2400.

Dr. Ruth H. Singer, a retired physician who was a state health administrator and later worked in AIDS and HIV treatment at Chase Brexton Health Services, died of pancreatic cancer May 27 at her North Baltimore home. She was 69. "What one loved about Ruth is that she never held back," said Dr. Alfred "Al" Sommer, dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "If something was too soft and dreamy, she insisted on facing the practical nature of the course of action and hoped for an outcome.

On April 17, 2006, MRS. CHASE. Visitation 2140 N. Fulton Avenue Friday, 3 to 8 P.M. The family will receive friends at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witness, 1125 N. Fremont Ave, Saturday 1:30 funeral to follow at 2 P.M.

Although there has been an occasional push from a driver to include a road course in the Chase — I recall Ryan Newman suggesting that Daytona's road course could be a viable venue — don't expect any changes in the current format. The road racing question popped up at Watkins Glen last weekend. "There's nothing on the table," NASCAR President Mike Helton said. "We wouldn't stack races up in the Chase for the benefit of the Chase. The Chase is the last 10 races of the season.

A half-hour police chase of a stolen vehicle through southeastern Baltimore ended about 5 p.m. Tuesday with the driver being arrested after a foot pursuit, according to city police. Police began tailing the stolen silver vehicle about 4:30 p.m. and at one point followed it onto a local highway, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. But most of the chase - which involved the police helicopter Foxtrot - occurred in the city, including the streets of Canton. The vehicle, which Monroe did not identify, was seen by one passerby traveling north at a high rate of speed on S. Clinton Street near Fait Avenue, with police patrol cars in pursuit.

The pursuit and arrest of a burglary suspect disrupted dismissal at a Pasadena elementary school Thursday. Jason Thomas Donaldson, 27, of Severn, faces several burglary-related charges, police said. After a neighbor spotted him trying to break into a home in the 8400 block of Alvin Road, Donaldson led police on a nearly one-hour chase through the Lake Shore neighborhood and onto the grounds of Lake Shore Elementary. Anne Arundel County police responded shortly after 3 p.m. to a neighbor's report of an attempted burglary.

Police pursued a motorist at speeds reaching more than 100 mph Wednesday afternoon after authorities said the driver took off from a routine traffic stop on I-95 in northern Maryland. Police said they had to puncture the car's tires with a spike stick put across a road to force the driver to stop. Police charged Tyree S. Jordan, 25, of the 2800 block of Pebble Beach Drive in Elkton, with numerous traffic offenses, resisting arrest, assaulting a trooper and possession of marijuana and heroin.

A Montgomery County police officer shot himself to death after leading a state trooper on a high-speed chase on the Eastern Shore early Monday, state police said. Jed R. Bylsma, 30, of Gettysburg, Pa., was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Bylsma was observed on radar speeding on westbound U.S. 50 in Talbot County about 1:30 a.m., police said. A state trooper pulled him over near Skipton Creek. Bylsma showed the trooper a Pennsylvania driver's license and said he was an officer with the Montgomery County Police Department, police said.

Range, Bryan Voltaggio's fourth restaurant, is a triumph of style in harmony with substance. Dinner at Range, which will last for hours but feel like minutes, is wall-to-wall pleasure, from the first hand-crafted cocktail to the last bonbon from the in-house chocolatier. There's a lot going on, and Range is as big as its name. The restaurant, open seven days a week for lunch and dinner, occupies the top level of the newly renovated retail atrium inside the Chevy Chase Pavilion.

Doug O'Neill is back in Baltimore, this year to spoil a Triple Crown instead of take the next step toward winning one. A year after bringing I'll Have Another to Baltimore just two days after winning the Kentucky Derby, then frantically absorbing as much of Baltimore as he and his crew could before winning the race, the Southern California trainer arrived Sunday to join this year's entry, Goldencents. The mood around the same Barn D stalls he occupied last year was more workmanlike Monday, even after O'Neill watched the disappointing 17th-place Derby finisher roar down the Pimlico stretch under jockey Kevin Krigger.

As many times as it rolls around, I never outgrow the FlowerMart, which opened Friday and runs through Saturday. It's held in May and timed to take advantage of the best part of Maryland's spring. Any event that draws so many families, especially babies in strollers, mothers and grandmothers, to a hallowed Baltimore neighborhood gets my vote, even if, truth be told, I am not much of crab cake fancier. Mount Vernon has long fascinated me. I was not long free of those baby carriages when I was taken along Charles Street and spied an exotic retail mix of first-floor and basement-level shops selling old maps, rare clocks, books, antiques or other items not found at Woolworth's.

A 30-year-old Baltimore man is jailed without bail in Harford County facing multiple criminal and traffic charges after leading police on a wild car chase through Edgewater Village on Tuesday. Gregory Jamal Turnipseed appeared via closed circuit TV from the Harford County Detention Center at a bail review hearing in District Court in Bel Air Wednesday afternoon, where the judge denied bail. According to charging documents and electronic court records, Turnipseed, whose address is listed as the 400 block of Lyndhurst Street, is charged with unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and resisting arrest and with 16 separate traffic infractions, including speeding, driving a vehicle without the owner's consent, fleeing and eluding, reckless driving and negligent driving.

The Sun editorial board never fails to agree with every tax and fee our governor thrusts upon the citizens of Maryland ("The rain tax sham," April 18). The governor has created 37 new taxes and fees during his seven years in office, and though he claims to have made cuts in the state budget, the facts show the budget has increased substantially. Rather than ask questions, The Sun prefers to take a few cheap shots at a report done on Fox News, which actually researched the story.

Betty Jane Bivins Chase, a retired Baltimore public schools personnel worker, died of respiratory failure April 16 at the Levindale Geriatric Rehabilitation Center. The Randallstown resident was 75. Born Betty Jane Bivins in Baltimore, she was the daughter of James and Margaret Thomas Bivins. Raised in Lothian in Anne Arundel County, she was a 1956 graduate of Wiley H. Bates High School in Annapolis. She was a member of the Starlighters Drama Club and the Future Teachers of America.

A suspect fleeing from police died after hitting another vehicle and striking a tree near the intersection of Broadway and Biddle streets in East Baltimore late Friday, police said. The accident occurred shortly before midnight after officers assigned to a specialized unit that focuses on narcotics and gun offenders attempted to stop a green SUV. Police said they observed behavior that indicated the passenger was armed. The driver died and the passenger is listed in serious but stable condition, police said.

Detectives in Aberdeen received a tip they hoped would be their big break: A prisoner seeking leniency said he knew the man who abducted the mother of Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. But nearly nine months after the bizarre kidnapping, no suspect has been identified and police still don't know of a motive in the case, in which Violet R. Ripken was taken from her home by an unknown assailant and safely returned nearly 24 hours later. Michael Wayne Molitor claimed last year to know what happened and gave police a name; in return, police helped persuade a judge to grant him bail after a string of drug offenses.

Many teams would be hard-pressed to win at a consistent rate without their conference's Specialist of the Year and one of the top midfielders in the country. But that's exactly what Denver is doing. Despite the right knee injury that has sidelined senior Chase Carraro, the Pioneers have picked up three straight victories and risen to No. 8 in The Sun's rankings. Coach Bill Tierney said the posterior cruciate ligament in Carraro's right knee is improving to the point where he has returned to running on the practice field.