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IF YOU are considering jumping into day trading, Alpesh Patel, a day trader himself, suggests that you first answer these questions: Can you spend three hours a day evaluating data to trade effectively?Can you afford to commit $5,000 to open an account?Do you have the temperament to engage in something so volatile?"Even successful day traders lose money in bad markets, so only try your hand at day trading if you can tolerate high risk and stress," Patel advises.MARKET WATCH:"Crossing of 10,000 by the Dow average was important, not because one index reached a big, fat round number, but because stocks climbed so much recently -- and so much of the advance was in a tiny number of stocks -- mostly large growth issues," notes Bradlee Perry of David L. Babson & Co. Inc."

The wife of a Union Memorial Hospital doctor was charged with fatally stabbing her husband in the neck early yesterday at his North Baltimore apartment, according to city police and court documents.Dr. Vinesh Patel, 26, died of multiple stab wounds to his neck and chest that he suffered in his bedroom. His wife, Dr. Alpna Patel, a 27-year-old dentist, was charged yesterday with first-degree murder and use of a deadly weapon. She was being held in the Central Booking and Intake Center without bail and could have a bail hearing today.

An assault suspect who led police on a winding foot chase through Odenton neighborhoods early Saturday gave officers all they needed to find him -- footprints in the freshly fallen snow.Rudolph Allen Shacklett, 23, of the 1200 block of St. Andrew Lane in Odenton was charged with second-degree assault, four counts of fourth-degree burglary and resisting arrest.The chase started about 2 a.m. after Manubhai J. Patel, a clerk at a Dunkin' Donuts in the 1500 block of Annapolis Road, called police to the store.

A man posing as a security guard stole $330 from a Glen Burnie Dunkin' Donuts restaurant Saturday by claiming he was checking for drug money, county police said.Arvn Patel, an employee of the store in the 7100 block of Ritchie Highway, told police a man dressed in a security guard uniform walked into the store shortly before 11 p.m., said he was an agent of the "Federal Security Agency" and needed to record the serial numbers of all the $10 and $20 bills in the cash register as part of an investigation into drug money in the neighborhood.

A thug who menaced a store clerk with a screwdriver Friday got more than he bargained for when the victim blasted him in the face with pepper spray, county police said.Denish Patel, 35, the cashier at the Food Max in the 1600 block of Annapolis Road, said the man came in about 9:20 p.m. and browsed through the store. He heated some food in a microwave oven, then, when he went to the counter to pay for it, pulled ascrewdriver from under his shirt and ordered Mr. Patel to open the cash register, police said.

Executives plead guiltyThree former executives of Par Pharmaceutical Inc. have pleaded guilty to filing false applications with the Food and Drug Administration.Ashok H. Patel, Barry S. Geller and Ratilal K. Patel admitted in Baltimore federal court to filing false applications for a generic form of Maxide, a prescription used to treat hypertension, said U.S. Attorney Richard D. Bennett.@

Somehow, before he fell bleeding to the floor of his Country Corner Store in Oella, Jagdish "Jay" K. Patel managed to call 911, and then telephone his wife and his landlord."

Baltimore County police arrested a third suspect yesterday in connection with the armed robbery and shooting of an Oella grocery store owner last Friday.Kenneth Larmont Pittrell, 22, of the 600 block of Markham Road in Baltimore was arrested about 12:30 a.m. Monday. Police went to his home after getting information from an anonymous tipster Sunday afternoon.Mr. Pittrell was held without bail on charges of attempted murder, armed robbery and a handgun violation in the robbery of the Country Corner Store in Oella.

LONDON -- Sara Thornton entered the 12th day of her hunger strike in the Holloway prison here yesterday, and her woeful face is bothering Britain's conscience. It poses the question whether men and women are equal before the law.She is 36 years old and a murderer. She put a knife into her husband, Malcolm, while he was drunk. He had abused her during the 10 months of their marriage: On one occasion he knocked her unconscious; on another he broke a glass over her head. He was forever taunting her; he called her a whore.

The Maryland Board of Pharmacy announces that the following people passed the September pharmacy examination and are licensed to practice pharmacy in the state:Awotunde, OmotayoBanks, ConstanceConner, RobertDaramaja, OlubunmiDelfino, DariaEkwunife, ElefredaFord, Jolene R.Gebremariam, NebiatGebremical, RuthIzadi, FaribaLam, Ping-ChingLee, KarenMeadows, MicheleMensah, AlbertMorris, Daryl-SueObi, Winifred C.Ogbuchi, SampsonOkojie, Iguade G.Pak, Jim SuPark, FeleciaParnell,...

A Reisterstown pharmacist was arrested Tuesday morning on federal charges claiming he illegally sold more than 23,000 prescription pills. The amount is the equivalent of 63 kilograms of cocaine or nearly 28,000 pounds of marijuana, federal authorities said. A six-count indictment, unsealed Tuesday, alleges that Ketankumar Arvind Patel, 47, used his Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy at 11813 1/2 Reisterstown Road to fill phony prescriptions for the anti-anxiety medication Xanax, along with thousands of Oxycontin and Percocet pills, both of which contain oxycodone.

A Columbia woman pleaded guilty to felony theft and conspiracy to commit theft in Baltimore Circuit Court yesterday as part of an elaborate plot to defraud the city school system of millions of dollars. Ashita Patel, 47, conspired with a business associate, Rajiv Dixit, to create a fake maintenance firm and to bill the school system for unnecessary work, according to attorneys with the Office of the State Prosecutor. At the time, Dixit was head of the school system's facilities and maintenance department, and he had the authority to sign off on invoices.

So many historic structures have been threatened with demolition in Baltimore lately that it almost seems hard to believe when someone moves to save a building. Especially when that someone volunteers to do so, rather than having to be prodded. That's what an Odenton developer wants to do with the Furncraft building, an early 20th-century warehouse at 301 Fallsway that has been home to a furniture store for the past 65 years. If all goes according to plan, the 100-year-old building will be reborn by mid-2008 as a 63-room Sleep Inn, within easy walking distance of downtown and the Inner Harbor.

In Baltimore, where a downtown hotel stay easily costs $200 a night, a developer has ambitious plans that would bring three alternatives to the budget-conscious traveler. Sanket Patel, an Annapolis-based developer, plans to build side-by-side hotels, a $35 million project, on Front Street near the base of the Jones Falls Expressway. One would be a 63-room Sleep Inn to be built in the old Furncraft building. He would demolish the former Hillen Tire shop next door to build an 11-story Cambria Suites.

The Baltimore engineering company recruited Raj Patel from Ontario, Canada. In the hope that he would stay for good, the firm applied for a green card from the federal immigration service to ensure that Patel would be able to live and work permanently in the United States. Patel seized the opportunity, expecting to become a legal permanent resident within a year. Two years later, he is among an estimated 350,000 skilled professionals forced to live in limbo as their applications meander through a huge backlog of immigration cases, a wait that can take a decade.

Nilesh Patel owns a Subway sandwich store in Odenton. It's in a quiet part of town, he says, and since he took ownership of the establishment a year ago, things have gone smoothly. "It is a real good area, you know. It is real quiet," Patel said. But on April 3, the window of his store was smashed with a rock, the cash register was pried open and his safe was stolen. He said $2,281 was taken, and the store was damaged. Plus he lost a sense of security. "The employees who work nighttime, they are a little scared to work.

MAROJEJY NATIONAL PARK, Madagascar -- Since daybreak he has been scanning the treetops for the creatures that move as if by pogo stick and look as if they wear white fur coats and big, black, round sunglasses. It is after 2 p.m., and the dense, hilly rain forest has yet to give primatologist Erik Patel a glimpse of Propithecus candidus, the rare monkeylike lemur known as the silky sifaka. It is one of the world's 25 most-endangered primates, the animal order that includes humans. Fewer than 1,000 silky sifakas are thought to exist, all of them in this rugged patch of northeast Madagascar.

Raghid Shourbaji finds it difficult to put into words. There's something about Ramadan that is just different from the rest of the year. "You feel it almost in the air everywhere," said the Clarksville man, a board member of the Howard Council Muslim Council. "Not only among Muslims -- even among non-Muslims. It's a serene and peaceful feeling that you get during this time." With the sighting of the first crescent of the new moon this evening, Muslims in Maryland and around the world will begin the observation of Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and a period of fasting, prayer and good works.

When floodwaters swept through their home, Marianne and Steve Konka began asking themselves: Do we salvage or rebuild? Two years ago, Tropical Storm Isabel sent two feet of water rushing into their five-room house in Bowleys Quarters. The water subsided in a day. But in its wake, there were sloped walls, a warped floor and a foundation as twisted as any pretzel. "The house was like a funhouse after that, everything was crooked," said Marianne Konka, 49, a nurse at St. Joseph Medical Center.

Oakland Mills is getting another last chance. Despite doubts about the licensees, Howard County's liquor board has unanimously approved a license for a new restaurant to replace the closed Last Chance Saloon - a hopeful sign for village boosters who watched a plan for a replacement restaurant fail last fall. "I'm very excited. When the Last Chance left our village, it really did leave a hole," said Barbara Russell, the village's representative on the Columbia Council. "It was a big draw.