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A 33-year-old Carroll County man accused of beating his doctor-wife with a hammer has been extradited from Georgia and now faces first-degree attempted-murder charges, according to state police. Anthony Soligny of New Windsor was arrested last week near Atlanta on Interstate 85 in Franklin County after a deputy spotted his truck, a spokesman for Maryland State Police said. Police had set up a national alert for Soligny's vehicle. Soligny was transported Tuesday night from a Georgia jail to the detention center in Carroll County.

Rarely will you see Buck Showalter as agitated as he appeared after the Orioles' 6-4 extra-inning loss to the New York Yankees last night at Camden Yards. You couldn't blame the Orioles manager for being in a less-than-sunny mood, either. His team had just lost its season-high sixth straight game -- with all six coming at Camden Yards. (Showalter particularly hates losing at home, considering it a slap in the face to fans who've bought tickets and might have traveled long distances to get to the ballpark.)

The throw-the-bums out mood of the September primary has left District of Columbia voters facing a confounding mix of new faces vying for seats in local government.The all-important mayoral contest gives voters a chance to effect substantial change in a city plagued by drugs, crime, corruption and a worsening financial quagmire. The candidacy of Democrat nominee Sharon Pratt Dixon, perhaps more than the populist, "get tough on crime" campaign of Republican former police chief Maurice T. Turner Jr., promises such change.

A Baltimore judge postponed the trial of a second man accused of nearly beheading three young relatives nine years ago until October so that lawyers have more time to prepare arguments on DNA evidence. Adan Canela, 26, is charged with multiple murder and conspiracy counts in the deaths of three of his young relatives, who were killed in May 2004. His uncle, Policarpio Espinoza Perez, 31, was convicted on murder conspiracy charges in the case earlier this year and sentenced to life in prison last month.

President-elect Clinton faces a world that in 1993 is:Shrinking. By the Concorde, deep-dish television reception, by satellite telephone circuits, fax. No place is remote. The United .. States is in Somalia in part because the images of the starving were in American living rooms every day.Consolidating. Only recently, large blocs of nations were the coming thing. Even the United States seemed not large enough to face a single Europe, now taking effect. Hence the move to turn North America into a trading bloc, wedding Mexican labor to U.S. capital.

A former Baltimore County teacher sentenced to a year and a half in jail for a sex offense against a 13-year-old student now faces federal child pornography charges, according to U.S. District Court documents. Timothy N. Gounaris, 52, of the first block of Cardor Court in Perry Hall, is scheduled for a detention hearing Monday. Gounaris was arrested Friday after the FBI found evidence that he was sharing image and video files of "minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct" on the Internet, court documents said.

ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's billionaire prime minister, made much of his money by offering soap operas and game shows and high-kick dancers on commercial television stations that drew almost half the country's viewers.For a man who won power in part by deploying his vast corporate resources in advertising and television, the unraveling his political fortunes has seemed an extraordinarily unscripted spectacle.Last week the prime minister was summoned before investigating magistrates in Milan to face seven hours of interrogation about suspected corruption at Fininvest, his business empire, an allegation he denies.

BOSTON - There are moments in Jon Stewart's hilarious send-up of civics textbooks, America (The Book), when the truth pops up like a jack-in-the-box. Consider The Daily Show comic's take on political campaigns: "Although the skills needed to woo voters are at times diametrically opposed to those necessary to govern them, the expensive and arduous process exists for a reason: to ensure that those who wish to govern are, if not the most qualified our country has to offer, the ones who want it the most."

No man has meant more to a baseball organization than Cal Ripken Sr., a throwback to another era who sacrificed personal opportunities to labor in the vineyards and do more for the Orioles than they could ever do for him.He brought discipline, a no-nonsense instructional ethic and a working wisdom that prepared players for the demanding major-league examinations that awaited. He asked no plaudits; he derived satisfaction from the results of his coaching and personal example.Now Cal Sr. is competing against a foe that deals in hard stuff.

A grand jury returned a 12-count indictment yesterday against a Queenstown man whose pickup truck slammed into a police cruiser and killed Maryland Transportation Authority Police Officer Duke G. Aaron III in July. Albert Gene Antonelli, 32, faces charges of negligent homicide by automobile, negligent manslaughter while impaired by cocaine and diazepam (also known by the brand name Valium), driving while impaired by drugs, possession of cocaine and marijuana, and several traffic violations.

Late Ravens owner Art Modell might face an easier path to the Pro Football Hall of Fame if the museum follows through on tentative discussions of putting "contributors" in a different voting pool than players. Modell, who brought pro football back to Baltimore, made a list of 15 finalists for the 2013 class, the first time he had gotten that far in the voting since 2001. Modell's death last September at age 87 seemed to spur a reconsideration of his candidacy, which has always been divisive because he moved his franchise from Cleveland.

Maryland's counties and Baltimore face a collective loss of more than $40 million a year and some taxpayers could get refunds if a decision by the state's highest court isn't reversed on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The state Court of Appeals ruled in January that Maryland must offer a credit to taxpayers with some types of out-of-state income to offset the local piggyback tax. Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler asked the court to reconsider that decision, but it rejected that request last week.

The Syracuse women's lacrosse team advanced to the NCAA Division I tournament final four with a 13-9 win over visiting Florida on Saturday. The fourth-seeded Orange (18-3) will make its second straight appearance, and its fourth since 2008, in the national semifinals, facing unbeaten and top-seeded Maryland on Friday at 5 p.m. or 7:30p.m. at Villanova. The Orange extended its winning streak to 13 games. The Gators end the year with an 18-3 record. "We knew it was going to be a tough game against a very good Florida team," said Syracuse coach Gary Gait.

Salisbury transfer Eric Law picked up a rebound on the edge of the crease and scored with 13.4 seconds left to cap a historic comeback and give No. 4 seed Denver a 12-11 win over fifth-seeded North Carolina in the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament quarterfinals at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon. The game, played before an announced 7,749, was the first men's lacrosse quarterfinal held at a venue not on the East Coast. Denver, the first team in men's quarterfinal history to win after trailing by five goals or more, will face No. 1 seed Syracuse in the semifinals Saturday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Broadneck's Ellen McNulty had seven goals and an assist and Aislinn Probst scored four goals and added two assists to lead the No. 12 Bruins (17-3) to a 15-5 win over No. 15 Catonsville (16-3) in the Class 4A-3A state semifinals at Franklin on Saturday afternoon. Probst scored 10 seconds after winning the opening draw, and the Bruins had nine of the first 10 goals in the game on the way to a 10-3 lead at halftime. "We just were trying to stay patient and play our game and score early so we didn't have to fight back at the end," McNulty said.

In February, Duke coach Kerstin Kimel said she wasn't sure any women's lacrosse team was better than Maryland. After Saturday's NCAA quarterfinal, she seemed pretty well convinced. The No. 1 Terps (21-0) had their lethal offense rolling and also forced 15 turnovers en route to a 14-9 victory and a berth in their fifth straight NCAA final four. Looking for their 12th national title and their first since 2010, the Terps are in the final four for a record 21st time. Taking their second win this season over their Atlantic Coast Conference rival at Maryland's Field Hockey & Lacrosse Complex, the Terps continue to make it difficult for defenses to contain an attack that always has seven players ready to score.

The Baltimore mayoral race in the general election will be a re-run of 1987.Absentee ballots counted Saturday made Samuel Culotta the Republican nominee again.He faces incumbent Democrat Kurt L. Schmoke, who won the general election easily four years ago.The absentee count did not change the results of any other primary race in either party.Culotta, 67, a lawyer, has been the GOP nominee for mayor in every election since 1975.However, in Thursday's primary, he received stiff competition from Bruce Price and Joseph Scalia.

Everyone agreed that when Michael Fratantuono threw two men out of his Glen Burnie package goods store in October, one of them spit in his face.The men had been rousted earlier in the evening for drinking beer behind the Sunset Restaurant and Lounge in the 600 block of Greenway S.E., and Mr. Fratantuono refused to sell them more beer when they returned about two hours later.Mr. Fratantuono identified Jeffrey B. Anderson as the spitter, and he was arrested and charged with battery. Anderson, 30, claimed in court that he was taking the fall for his buddy, Billy Hepburn.

If the federal prison that gets Tavon White is anything like the last one I visited, even a charmer such as Bulldog will have a tough time recreating the life of the libertine he had at the Baltimore City Detention Center. White, a reputed leader of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang, is accused of attempted murder; he's been on trial twice for that charge since 2009. Both trials ended in hung juries, and that explains why White, or "Bulldog," had enough time at the jail to get four of its correctional officers pregnant, one of them twice, according to recent federal indictments.

The second-seeded Salisbury women's lacrosse team overcame its first second-half deficit of the season as Shelby Nemecek (Liberty) broke a 7-all tie with just over eight minutes to play in an 8-7 victory over third-seeded Middlebury (18-3) in the NCAA Division III semifinals Saturday at Stevenson. The win sends the Sea Gulls to their sixth national championship appearance in program history, where they will face Trinity (Conn.) College, an 8-6 winner over SUNY-Cortland, today at noon.