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The former assistant controller of the state medical society has been charged with embezzling more than a half-million dollars from the organization over a six-year period.Phillip H. Moore, 49, of Lansdowne is charged with stealing $552,816.71 from the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland between 1987 and 1993, prosecutors said yesterday. He is to be arraigned April 10 in Baltimore Circuit Court on one count of felony theft.Mr. Moore is accused of taking the money by writing fraudulent checks on organization accounts, said Gary Honick, a prosecutor in the economic crimes unit of the Baltimore state's attorney's office.

Over the 14 years since losing her right arm to a hollow-point bullet, Dana Burke was convinced she could feel herself pointing, pinching or waving as she motioned with the 5-inch-long limb the attack left behind. Still, she had to relearn how to pull her hair back in a ponytail and tie her shoes. It's a struggle to play horsie with her three children using only one arm for support, and she had to start off with a child's fat crayon to learn to write left-handed. But now, she has proof of what she knew all along.

A Calvert County man was charged yesterday after a car plowed into a crowded Chi-Chi's restaurant in Glen Burnie during a celebration of Mexico's national holiday, injuring three people. The incident began Friday night with an argument between a man and his girlfriend in the restaurant in the 8000 block of Ritchie Highway, according to an Anne Arundel County police spokesman. Sgt. Edward Bergin said the boyfriend left the restaurant, got into his 1993 Lexus ES 300, lined up to the entrance, spun his tires and rammed through a double set of glass doors about 10: 45 p.m. The car continued about five or six feet into the restaurant, according to general manager John McVey.

The room is in a state of tranquil silence as six women slowly move their arms and legs in unison. They listen as instructor Jeff Herrod guides them through the precise, fluid motions of t'ai chi ch'uan. Herrod tells the women exactly how and when to step, turn, breathe and pose. Who they are: Mostly women in their mid- to late 60s and some younger class members. They meet on Saturdays at 9 a.m. at the Elementary T'ai Chi studio on Frederick Road in Catonsville. For more than 18 years, Herrod has owned and taught at the studio.

Over the 14 years since losing her right arm to a hollow-point bullet, Dana Burke was convinced she could feel herself pointing, pinching or waving as she motioned with the 5-inch-long limb the attack left behind. Still, she had to relearn how to pull her hair back in a ponytail and tie her shoes. It's a struggle to play horsie with her three children using only one arm for support, and she had to start off with a child's fat crayon to learn to write left-handed. But now, she has proof of what she knew all along.

Highest batting averages July 1-7 ... ... ... ...G... AB... R... H... Pct. Boggs, Bos ... ...6... 23... 11.. 11.. .478 Alomar, Clev.. ...7... 21... 2... 10.. .476 Reed, Bos .... ...7... 30... 8... 14.. .467 Seitzer, KC... ...6... 23... 4... 10.. .435 Sax, NY .. ... ...7... 29... 6... 12.. .414 Alomar, Tor... ...7... 26... 2... 10.. .385 Rivera, Bos... ...7... 26... 7... 10.. .385 Canseco, Oak.. ...7... 29... 6... 11.. .379 Devereaux, Balt.

Who's hot Mike Sweeney, who went 4-for-4, is 7-for-13 on the Royals' road trip. Who's not Preston Wilson of the Marlins is hitless in his past 23 at-bats. Line of the day Alfonso Soriano, Yan kees second baseman AB R H RBI HR 3 3 3 4 0 He said it "I said, `You have a very bad strike zone.' That's all I said. I just asked him, `Please go back at the video and you'll know what I'm talking about,' and I walked away." Mark McGwire, Cardinals slugger who was ejected by umpire Mike Everitt Sunday On deck Troy Mattes will be recalled by the Expos to make his major-league debut as the starter against the Mets tonight.

Position: Right-handed pitcherSize: 6 feet 3, 200 poundsAge: 29Role with Orioles: If the season started today, he'd be the No. 4 starter, between Scott Erickson and Rocky Coppinger. But if the Orioles acquire left-hander Darren Oliver from Texas, as they hope to do, Boskie will be a middle reliever/spot starter.Pluses: Boskie has good stuff and, at times, good control. He gained control of his curveball last summer, which helped him go 10-4 in the first four months of the season.Minuses: For one reason or another, he hasn't pitched consistently.

Four shotgun-toting robbers who turned Valentine's Day into a nightmare for patrons of Chi-Chi's restaurant in Timonium Thursday night may have been responsible for some of the 27 other shotgun robberies in Baltimore County since Jan. 1.Sgt. Stephen R. Doarnberger, a county police spokesman, said 13 commercial establishments have been robbed by shotgun-carrying bandits so far this year. In addition, 14 street robberies during the period have involved shotguns, he said.In January, there were 19 robberies in the county involving shotguns, compared with four such shotgun robberies in January 1990, Sergeant Doarnberger said.

A big part of the Orioles' 45-19 start this season is that they have yet to lose a road trip. A closer look:Dates .. .. .. ..Cities (Games) .. .. .. .. ..Res.4/4-4/9 .. .. ...Tex (3), KC (2) .. .. .. ...W, 3-24/16-4/21 .. .. .Chi (2), Bos (2) .. .. . ...T, 2-24/29-5/1 .. .. ..Minn (3) .. .. .. .. .. .. .W, 3-05/12-5/18 .. .. .Oak (2), Ana (2) .. .. .. ..W, 5-2Sea (3)5/23-5/29 .. .. .Cle (3), NY (2) .. .. .. ...W, 4-2Det (1)6/6-6/15 .. .. ..Chi (4), Bos (4) .. .. .. ..W, 7-4Atl (3)Pub Date: 6/16/97

What has three bedrooms, three and a half baths and a whole lot of Baltimore star appeal? Michael Phelps' Fells Point condo. And it looks like it could be yours if you've got a spare couple million. The listing was spotted (with the help of Sun reporter Jamie Smith Hopkins) on the website of chi-chi Realtor Heidi Krauss. (The news was reported in strangely mysterious fashion by The Real Estalker blog earlier this week.) Phelps name is not mentioned in the listing. But the address is. And according to property records, it's the very Fell Street Michael Phelps bought in October 2007 for $1.69 million.

As we all know, it's not necessarily what you do that matters but how you do it. In response to the Maryland General Assembly's mandate to slash an additional $40 million from this year's fiscal budget, the state's Medicaid Advisory Committee (MAC) and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) are being forced to consider a series of radical cost-cutting measures for the state's Medicaid program. Make no mistake: Spending must be curbed. It's how costs are contained that matters.

Coal Fire could be just another pizza joint. But its location — albeit storefront — in the Ellicott City development of Shipley's Grant gives it a certain cachet. So does the fact that the pizzas, which you can see being prepared in the open kitchen, are cooked in a coal-fired oven. Hence the name, which, as it turns out, is the moniker for a trio of eateries in the area. One in Gaithersburg, the one in Ellicott City, which opened in April of this year, and the newest edition, in Frederick, which premiered in late June.

Paula Callou, countess de la Motte-Thierry, a longtime Baltimore resident and an award-winning dancer who taught dance worldwide, died Jan. 31 at the Avow Hospice in Naples, Fla., from complications related to a series of strokes. She was 89. Ms. Callou, whose birth name was Paulette Suzanne Calloustian, was born in Paris, the second-oldest of five sisters. She began studying ballet at age 6, entering the Paris Opera Ballet at 9 years old as a "petit rat de l'Opera," a distinguished title for young ballet students, according to her son, Marc Wienert.

Dr. Chi-Tsung Su, a plastic surgeon and teacher who helped establish the prominence of the burn center at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, died of cancer Dec. 27 at his Towson home. He was 74. Born in Taiwan, he earned a medical degree at the National Taiwan University. He moved to Baltimore in 1964 and became a Union Memorial Hospital surgical intern and its chief resident. Among his teachers was Dr. Bowdoin Davis, a plastic surgeon whose father, Dr. John Staige Davis, wrote a 1919 plastic surgery textbook, the first U.S. text in the field.

Hazel Irene Bailey Brown, a retired nurse who was active in nursing professional organizations, died of old-age complications Monday at her West Baltimore home. She was 98. Born Hazel Irene Bailey in Baltimore and raised on Division Street, she was the daughter of a mother who was a seamstress and a father who owned a tailoring business in South Baltimore. Family members said she had childhood memories of accompanying her grandfather to Ebenezer African Methodist Church on Montgomery Street, where he lit the coal fire in a stove early Sunday mornings.

ANNAPOLIS -- When a trade association turns 180 degrees on an important issue, there's a legislative axiom that usually helps point to the reason: "Follow the money."Case in point: The state physicians association, known as Med-Chi, is one of the strongest supporters this year of a bill to prohibit doctors from referring patients to medical facilities in which the doctor has a financial interest. Referrals would be allowed in those cases only if the physician actively participates in running the facility.

The state board that licenses and disciplines physicians should distance itself from the medical establishment and open its records to the public, legislative analysts say.The 15-member Board of Physician Quality Assurance, which by law has only three non-physicians, should also add two more consumer members, according to a review by the legislature's Department of Fiscal Services.The recently released audit concludes that while the board's performance has improved in its three years of work, several major changes are still needed to ensure the competency of Maryland's doctors.