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A surgeon who spent the past two years helping treat patients at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center is not licensed to practice medicine, flunked licensing exams at least 11 times and was convicted in 1985 of attempted bribery in an effort to get an advance copy of one such exam, Maryland and Ohio records show.Dr. Arthur B. Boyd Jr., 48, whose permanent home is in Shaker Heights, Ohio, "deceived" Shock Trauma when he applied for a three-year training fellowship there in 1993 by claiming to hold a license, said Joel Lee, a Shock Trauma spokesman.

152,000 trees planted; goal of 1 million by 2011 Maryland officials are making progress toward their goal of planting 1 million new trees across the state by 2011. As of May 30, agencies including the State Highway Administration and the Department of Natural Resources had completed the plantings of about 152,000 trees. The trees, which were planted by inmates, comprise nearly 250 acres at eight state parks across Maryland. Funds for the trees' purchase come from the Federal Highway Administration's Transportation Enhancement Program.

Three people were killed in traffic accidents on Maryland highways yesterday, two of them the occupants of a Cadillac from Florida that was hit in a chain-reaction crash on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Anne Arundel County.The other victim was a man who died after being ejected from a van on U.S. 50 at the Prince George's County side of the Patuxent River Bridge.State police said two men and two children were injured and a third man was killed when a 1989 Mazda van ran out of control on the rain-slicked surface of the John Hanson Highway about 7:45 a.m. yesterday.

A 13-year-old girl was seriously injured when she was thrown from a vehicle in an accident yesterday in Anne Arundel County, authorities said. Two other people were injured in the four-vehicle crash at Route 2 and Harwood Road shortly after midday, said Battalion Chief Matthew Tobia of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. The girl was taken to Children's National Medical Center in Washington. A 59-year-old man was taken to Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly with serious injuries, while a third person was treated for minor injuries at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick.

State Police reported that three people, including a 2-year-old Prince George's County boy, died in separate traffic accidents over the weekend.Also killed were a 14-year-old Queen Anne's County boy and a 27-year-old Laurel woman.And in Rhode Island, a Prince George's County woman was killed yesterday when she was struck by a tractor-trailer on southbound Interstate 95 while she stood outside her car after it collided with another on the icy roadway.In Prince George's County, Jerome Deal, 2, of Largo, wandered onto Addison Road in Seat Pleasant about 5:30 p.m. yesterday, county police said.

A 32-year-old man who was impaled through the chest when a wooden fence post came hurtling through a pickup truck window early yesterday remained in critical condition last night at a Prince George's County hospital.Steven Terrance Callahan of the 1500 block of Meyers Station Road in Anne Arundel County was alert as firefighters pulled him from the 1976 Chevrolet pickup truck and cut off a portion of the post so he could fit inside a helicopter. The accident happened within two miles of his home.

State police got their man, then lost him, when the driver accused of leading troopers on a 20-mile high-speed chase Monday near Annapolis checked out of the hospital where he was taken after the collision that ended the pursuit.This is the first time in memory that state police have lost a suspect, spokesman Mike McKelvin said.Anthony Lee Henson, 20, of the 5200 block of Audrey Ave. in Brooklyn Park is wanted on 10 charges in connection with the chase. Mr. McKelvin said Mr. Henson was not home Tuesday.

A 70-year-old Columbia man was in critical condition at Prince George's Hospital Center yesterday, a day after he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle on Route 32.According to Howard County police, Han Xiang Liu was crossing Route 32 near Broken Land Parkway about 6 p.m. Tuesday when a Honda driven by a Silver Spring man hit him.Liu flipped onto the hood of the automobile and then fell to the ground.The driver of the Honda, Nelson Obdulio Reyes, 25, was not injured.Pfc. George Williams is investigating the accident.

A series of early morning fires yesterday in Prince George's County kept firefighters busy on Christmas.Five suspicious fires burned in the Bowie area, four destroying cars, said Mark Brady, Prince George's County Fire Department spokesman.The blazes are suspected to be the work of one or more arsonists.Firefighters responded about 5: 30 a.m to extinguish the first automobile fire at Bosworth and Brunswick lanes in Bowie.Less then 20 minutes later, firefighters were battling another car fire a few miles away on Bermuda Lane in Bowie.

UPPER MARLBORO - A 66-year-old Prince George's County man died Saturday after he lost control of his van and it overturned, state police said yesterday. Charles Allan Mink was driving his 1992 Chevrolet van west on Route 4, east of U.S. 301, at 3:40 p.m. when he lost control, possibly as a result of a medical condition, police said. Mink, a Riverdale resident, was pronounced dead at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly.

Prince George's Hospital Center, the largest medical facility in the state's second-largest county, could close within months, sending its largely indigent patient population into the already crowded emergency rooms of hospitals in the region, including neighboring Anne Arundel and Howard counties, officials say. "It's not just a financial issue but the impact on the health delivery system in Maryland," said Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown, a former delegate from...

An Anne Arundel County driver died Friday after his motorcycle struck a box truck in Davidsonville, police announced yesterday. County police identified the motorcyclist as Kevin M. Morris, 24, of Riva. Morris was driving a 2005 Suzuki west on Central Avenue, also known as Route 214, just west of Patuxent Crossover. About 4 p.m. Friday, Morris' vehicle collided with a truck, which was turning left from the eastbound lane into Renditions golf course. The driver and passenger in the truck were not injured, according to authorities.

A Bladensburg man was charged with first-degree murder and other offenses yesterday in the fatal shooting of a Prince George's County police officer in Laurel on Tuesday. Robert M. Billett, 43, could face the death penalty if he is convicted in the death of Cpl. Steven F. Gaughan, authorities said. Gaughan died at Prince George's Hospital Center late Tuesday afternoon, hours after a shootout outside a Laurel apartment complex. Billett, who was wounded, was in stable condition yesterday, police said.

A Prince George's County police officer died yesterday afternoon, hours after a traffic stop outside a Laurel apartment complex escalated into a shootout that left the alleged gunman wounded. Cpl. Steven Gaughan, 41, of Greenbelt was wearing body armor but not a uniform when he was shot in the arm and abdomen, police said. The 15-year veteran died after surgery at Prince George's Hospital Center. "This is one of the hardest things for a police chief to deal with," said Prince George's Police Chief Melvin C. High.

A 30-year-old man was fatally shot Thursday night outside an apartment building in Cheverly, Prince George's County police said. Mosi Butler was found in the 3500 block of 55th Ave. about 8:45 p.m., suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Butler, who lives on that block, was taken to Prince George's Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. Investigators have no suspects and have not determined a motive for the shooting, police said. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Prince George's Police Department's homicide unit at 301-772-4925.

COLLEGE PARK - A man was fatally shot yesterday morning during a struggle with another man on a College Park bicycle trail near U.S. 1, Prince George's County police said. About 10:15 a.m., county police received a 911 call from a person reporting hearing a gunshot on the trail near a wooded area and behind townhouses on Berwyn House Road, said Officer Debbi Sabel, a police spokeswoman. Lamont Whitted, 26, a town resident, was found bleeding from a chest wound and died soon after at Prince George's Hospital Center, she said.

A 30-year-old man was fatally shot Thursday night outside an apartment building in Cheverly, Prince George's County police said. Mosi Butler was found in the 3500 block of 55th Ave. about 8:45 p.m., suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Butler, who lives on that block, was taken to Prince George's Hospital Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said. Investigators have no suspects and have not determined a motive for the shooting, police said. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Prince George's Police Department's homicide unit at 301-772-4925.

A Howard County Detention Center inmate on work-release in Landover died yesterday after he lost consciousness while trying to turn on water for a series of buildings, according to Howard County government and Prince George's County fire officials. Frederick Duffy Coonradt, 40, had been serving a 180-day sentence for violating probation on a charge of driving while intoxicated, according to a news release. He was on a job site about 10:30 a.m. with Associates Plumbing of Laurel, a company for which he had worked for three years, when he went down a 10-foot manhole to turn the water back on for some buildings in the 1200 block of Capital View Drive, according to officials in both counties.

UPPER MARLBORO - A 66-year-old Prince George's County man died Saturday after he lost control of his van and it overturned, state police said yesterday. Charles Allan Mink was driving his 1992 Chevrolet van west on Route 4, east of U.S. 301, at 3:40 p.m. when he lost control, possibly as a result of a medical condition, police said. Mink, a Riverdale resident, was pronounced dead at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly.