Honduras

LOUIS CORIO, 78, Northern Cambria, formerly of Joppa, MD, died July 28, 2006. Born May 8, 1928, in Spangler, PA, the son of Joseph and Mary (Petrone) Corio. Preceded in death by wife Catherine (Pietrowicz) Corio, who died January 20, 1988. Survived by four sons Joe (Denise) Corio, Dittmer, MO, Ed (Kem) Corio, Shrewsbury, PA, Louis (Debbie) Corio, Belcamp, MD, and John (Yvonne) Corio, Joppa, MD; and daughter Mary (Donald) Heying, Laurel, MD; 12 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; Leader of Boy Scouts of America Troop 877, Dulaney Valley District, Baltimore Area Council for twenty-five years.

Enrique's Journey: The Story Of A Boy's Dangerous Odyssey To Reunite With His Mother Sonia Nazario Random House / 293 pages / $26.95 The flood of illegal immigrants into the United States is old news. Sonia Nazario provides a freshness to that old news by joining names and faces to the controversy. In an astounding, disturbing book, the Los Angeles Times reporter risks her life by following the path of a Honduran teenager to the United States in search of the mother who left their Central American village a decade earlier.

Police Blotter is a sampling of crimes from police reports in Baltimore and Baltimore County. Baltimore Northeastern Arrest -- Oman Hernandez, 25, of Honduras was arrested Dec. 8 in Houston on a warrant charging him with first-degree murder in the stabbing of Blanca Dubon, 15, who was found Sept. 12 in a car in the 6100 block of Loch Raven Blvd. Dubon died that day at Good Samaritan Hospital. Hernandez is being held pending an extradition hearing, said city Homicide Detective Tommy Martin.

BOYS SPORT CROSS COUNTRY Bryant Brown, Mervo STATS -- He clocked a personal best of 17 minutes, 43 seconds to win the Sept. 28 Eastside title over a three-mile course at Herring Run Park, establishing himself as the Mustangs' No. 1 runner and a contender for this year's Baltimore City crown. A "B" student, the senior won last year's indoor titles in the 1,600- and 3,200-meter runs. SIDELINES -- He won an Amateur Athletic Union regional crown in the steeplechase in Hampton, Va., in July, and finished eighth at the ensuing junior national championships in August in Louisiana.

MEXICO CITY - A proposal by Guatemalan President Oscar Berger to establish a Central American rapid-reaction force to combat drug traffickers and gangs is gaining strength, although opponents say it could become a tool of U.S. interests and threaten the region's sovereignty. Several countries in the region are proceeding with plans for such a force, which would include at least 500 soldiers, sailors and pilots. The force would be used to stop drug shipments in the air, on land and at sea while fighting the growing influence of gangs and organized crime in urban centers and in remote drug-trafficking sites.

ABOUT 10 YEARS ago this month, the sort of debate that could rage only at a newspaper or a magazine or in academia was renewed at this newspaper. The issue was courtesy titles, as in mostly whether to call men Mr. and women Mrs. or Ms. The debate had been taken up earlier in the newspaper's history, but not for about four decades by the time I came to it. At the time, all men and women over 18 in The Sun's pages were identified in second reference as...

Let Negroponte prove mettle as intelligence czar I take exception to The Sun's editorial critical of the nomination of Ambassador John D. Negroponte as the new national intelligence director ("Company man," Feb. 20). Having known the ambassador for a quarter-century, I would describe him as a person of honesty, loyalty, decency and intellectual probity. The Sun questions his dedication to the rule of law and democratic norms. I personally heard Mr. Negroponte reaffirm his commitment to these values in discussions with foreign ambassadors in New York.

ABU GHRAIB and Guantanamo are world-famous outposts of the American intelligence-gathering system - and they are two of the worst stains on America's reputation in recent memory. The New Yorker magazine recently reported on the third leg of that shameful stool: a policy of "extraordinary rendition," by which the United States has shipped prisoners to countries where it is quite clear they will be tortured. As it happens, the United States is now preparing for a reworking of its intelligence apparatus, and last week President Bush nominated John D. Negroponte, the ambassador to Iraq, to the new post of national intelligence director.

MEXICO CITY - Gunmen thought to be street gang members opened fire at a bus in Honduras on Thursday night, killing 28 people, including four children, who were on their way home from work and Christmas shopping. The attack occurred about 7 p.m., authorities said, in one of the poorest sections of the northern Honduran city of San Pedro Sula. Several men in a pickup truck cut in front of the moving bus, which was carrying more than 70 passengers, and opened fire with automatic weapons. A spokesman for the Security Ministry, Leonel Sauceda, said 28 passengers were killed and 29 wounded.

Sheila Audrey Hewitt, a homemaker who was secretary-treasurer for several area horse clubs and traveled to show horses from her family's farm, Bella Vista, died Thursday at St. Joseph Medical Center of complications from hip surgery. She was 80 and had lived since 1967 on the farm in Baltimore County near Hampstead. Sheila Audrey Grey-Wilson was born in British Honduras, now Belize, where her father was an official in the colonial government. In 1945, she came to the United Stated, then married and began a family in New Orleans.