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Hernias are a common ailment among Americans; more than 4 million people develop the painful condition. And although both men and women develop hernias, female patients may be harder to diagnose. Doctors and patients may not realize the abdominal pain a woman is feeling is because of a hernia. Dr. Hien Nguyen, assistant professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, said the pain can be mistaken for other conditions with similar symptoms, such as adhesions from prior surgery, endometriosis, fibroids and ovarian cysts.

A motorcade of police vehicles escorting wounded military service members from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to New York City will cause roving lane closures on multiple area highways Wednesday morning, according to Baltimore Police. The motorcade will begin at Walter Reed in Bethesda at 7 a.m. and is expected to impact morning commutes in the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan area, police said. The motorcade will travel northbound along Interstate 495 and Interstate 95. krector@baltsun.com twitter.com/rectorsun

The Sun (Sept. 7) reported a homicide in March had occurred in the close-knit community of Pumphrey, when in fact it did not occur within the boundaries of Pumphrey. The mobile trailer park where the killing took place has no ties to the neighborhood. Pumphrey is a historic community, established in 1860. Pumphrey has been in existence almost as long as the Sun. As a longtime subscriber of The Sun, I am appalled as well as many residents of the Pumphrey community. With crime on the rise, we do have our share of small petty occurrences, as most communities do. Conversely, we do not deserve this ownership as stated in the article.

A Baltimore City police officer was taken to a local hospital for smoke inhalation after he attempted to alert residents about a two-alarm fire in the Bolton Hill neighborhood Saturday afternoon. Fire department spokesman Capt. Roman Clark said the officer suffered minor injuries. He was treated at the scene and transported to the hospital as a precautionary measure. The blaze in the 1800 block of Eutaw Place began around 2:30 p.m. and was placed under control about two hours later, he said.

County police reported break-ins at two homes along a short stretch of Davidsonville Road on consecutive days.The first incident is thought to have occurred between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday in the 3200 block, where someone kicked in the front door of a home and stole a television and a videocassette recorder, valued at a combined $600, police said.Between 5: 30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday, a break-in was reported in the 3100 block, where a stereo, a television and several other items were taken, police said.

Each time a thundering jetliner passes overhead these days, Stacie Huffman warily scans the sky for plunging debris.Only a twist of fate saved the high school sophomore from aluminum part that a Delta Airlines 727 dropped on her tennis match in April at Mount Rainier High School near Seattle. Just a few seconds before her coach beckoned her, Stacie, 16, was leaning on a fence at ground zero."There was a loud bang," she recalled. "I turned around and this big piece of metal was crashing into the fence 10 feet away."

KOFI APEA Orleans-Lindsay was just a number -- one of 54,000 Maryland convicts on conditional release -- until he allegedly killed an undercover state trooper 19 days ago. The 23-year-old dope dealer simply didn't stand out in the bizarre world of the Maryland Division of Probation and Parole. Yes, he had missed eight meetings with his probation agent, had failed three drug tests and skipped 61 others. But he had also kept 12 probation appointments and passed 45 drug tests. So nothing was done to lock him up. Until it was too late.

In the soft autumn mist, the Tokyo parks are filled with young couples strolling together, doing what, more or less, their parents, grandparents and great ancestors have all done before.It would all merge into the hazy fog if not for the jarring new act known to occur. A kiss.Traditionally, the Japanese don't. Not in public. Not, it is said, even in private. Pornographic videos are sold at convenience stores, and there's nudity on late-night television. But lip-to-lip contact is something else.

1 The State Highway Administration will be widening U.S. 1, between Route 175 and Meadowridge Road. This construction will occur over the next few years.

Two road resurfacing projects in eastern Baltimore County are expected to cause some traffic delays on Interstate 695 over the next few months. The State Highway Administration will spend $4.2 million to resurface the inner loop of the Baltimore Beltway between Eastern Boulevard and the CSX railroad bridge. The project will include repairs to the outer loop between Interstate 95 and Perring Parkway. Construction crews will patch and resurface the road and ramps, raise reflective road markers and replace traffic barriers and signs.

A Northwestern High School student was cut across his right thumb on Thursday after an altercation with another student outside the school. According to Baltimore City Public Schools, a male and female student were teasing each other off school grounds at the corner of Fallstaff Road and Park Heights Avenue. The teasing escalated, school system spokeswoman Edie House-Foster said, and the female cut the male student across his right thumb. Baltimore City Public Schools police took the girl to the state Juvenile Services department while the boy was taken to Sinai Hospital and treated for a superficial cut, House-Foster said.

A second man has been arrested and charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a Cheesecake Factory employee during an early morning fight near the Inner Harbor restaurant, Baltimore Police said Tuesday. The move to arrest Derek Schuler, 24, of Glen Burnie, contradicts previous statements from police that he had tried to diffuse the situation and wouldn't be arrested. According to new charging documents, Schuler had in fact joined in the April 7 fight that left 20-year-old Anthony Black bleeding profusely in front of the World Trade Center building downtown.

Collisions closed lanes along I-95 south and the outer loop during Thursday's commute. A four-car collision closed one southbound lane and the left shoulder of I-95 before White Marsh Boulevard at exit 67. The accident had cleared as of 8:25 a.m., according to the State Highway Administration. A three-vehicle collision also shut down a southbound lane and the left shoulder of I-95 near MD 32 in Howard County. Both had reopened as of 8:10 a.m. Earlier, a three-vehicle collision briefly shut down two lanes and the shoulder of the outer loop at Edmondson Avenue, according to the State Highway Administration.

The Deputy State Fire Marshal is calling for the public's help as officials work to solve a series of suspected arsons in the Cambridge area of Dorchester County. The latest fire occurred 10:17 p.m. Friday, April 5, and involved a two-story, vacant home at 812 Fairmount Avenue, according to the State Fire Marshal's Office. Officials said three other fires occurred on March 20 and March 26. The first fire March 20, at 11:44 p.m., occurred at 617 High Street and involved a vacant two-story single family dwelling.

The Baltimore City Fire Department is investigating the cause of a fire Sunday morning at 3023 La Rue Square in the Cherry Hill neighborhood, according to Lt. Paul Novak. The fire occurred around 11:30 a.m. on the second floor of a two-story dwelling. The residence was occupied at the time, but no one was injured, Novak said. Damage to the residence was extensive, but limited to the second floor, he said. Text BUSINESS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun Business text alerts

Forward. It's more than a presidential campaign slogan. It's also a directive on the second Sunday of March - this weekend - for clocks in the United States to move forward one hour under daylight-saving time. This means more afternoon sun. The official clocks of the United States government will change by an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation, which regulates daylight savings and time zones in the country. Clocks detached from today's omnipresent Internet will have to be changed manually - unless you are in the rare places in the United States, such as parts of Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and other island territories that don't prescribe to the change.

The State Highway Administration has announced road work along Interstate 70 where some Carroll countians may travel. Several bridges will be resurfaced on I-70: over the Continental Gas Line west of Marriottsville Road; over Route 97 west of Sykesville; over Route 27 at Mount Airy; over Bill Moxley Boulevard west of Mount Airy; and over the CSX railroad line just past the Frederick County line. Also, median shoulders along I-70 bridges will be widened and new traffic barriers installed on all bridge approaches.

It's Friday the 13th, and whenever that happens in February (in a non-leap year). March delivers another. Worse still (for the triskaidekaphobes among us), this year brings a third Friday the 13th in November. Such triple threats occur in 14 or 15 years per century. The last was in 1998; the next is in 2015. Friday falls on the 13th more than any other day. Just our luck

Bernice Troy, a geriatric nursing assistant in Baltimore for the past 20 years, has been spat on and cursed, scratched and punched on the job. A patient once slammed Jo Samrow, a nurse in Southern Maryland, into a wall so violently that she developed a large hematoma on the back of her head. In recent weeks, these nurses and other health care workers have shared their stories before lawmakers in Annapolis with one goal in mind — reducing assaults in Maryland health care facilities.

Traffic in downtown Baltimore was being effected Wednesday morning by Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. crews blocking lanes of S. Charles Street between Pratt and Lombard streets for emergency repairs to a 12-inch-wide gas main, according to Rachael Lighty, a company spokeswoman. Lane closures will be in effect "until the work is complete," Lighty said. No estimate for when that will occur was given. Also Wednesday morning, a two-vehicle collision on Interstate 95 in Howard County, prior to Route 175, had closed one lane and the right-hand shoulder as of 8:30 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation.