Ravine

A man's body was found Saturday in a ravine in Jessup, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. The body, discovered by a resident in a streambed on Max Blob's Park Road about 5 p.m., had apparently been there for some time, said Cpl. Sara Schriver, a police spokeswoman. An autopsy performed Sunday showed no outward signs of trauma. The man was described as white, 40 to 60 years old, between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds; he had a stent placed near his heart.

They called in private investigators and a helicopter pilot, a psychic with an angel etched into her door and a pair of pet-tracking dogs. But of all the methods that Rhonda Fish and Brian Davis used in the search for their missing Yorkshire terrier, it was the most ordinary of occurrences that led to Reilly's return yesterday. One dog barked at another. Six days after the not-quite-3-year-old pup dashed away while out for a walk near a ravine in White Marsh, he was reunited with his owners.

A Taneytown man was in serious but stable condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after the dump truck he was driving plunged into a ravine near Anne Arundel Medical Center's Sajak Pavilion in Annapolis. The man, 41, suffered head, neck and back injuries when the truck he was driving during work on Medical Parkway suddenly went up a dirt construction road and down about 50 feet into the excavation site about 1 p.m., said Anne Arundel Fire Department Division Chief John M. Scholz.

A man's body was found Saturday in a ravine in Jessup, Anne Arundel County police said yesterday. The body, discovered by a resident in a streambed on Max Blob's Park Road about 5 p.m., had apparently been there for some time, said Cpl. Sara Schriver, a police spokeswoman. An autopsy performed Sunday showed no outward signs of trauma. The man was described as white, 40 to 60 years old, between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 180 pounds; he had a stent placed near his heart.

The body of a woman was found in a wrecked car yesterday near Cockeysville, apparently the victim of an accident at least two days ago that no one saw or heard.Police identified her as Joyce Richards, 47, of the first block of Sycamore Lane in Hanover, Pa.Police and firefighters were called to the accident scene, on Falls Road near Shawan Road, shortly before 3 p.m. yesterday afternoon by a telephone company worker."A Bell Atlantic worker on a cherry picker looked down and saw the car," said Lt. Minda F. Foxwell of the Baltimore County Police Department.

The driver of a pickup truck and three men riding in the truck's bed were critically injured when they were thrown into a ravine between the Northwest Expressway and the Metro tracks near the Baltimore Beltway in an evening rush-hour accident yesterday.The 4:30 p.m. collision of the truck and a car created a nightmare for commuters, as rescue workers blocked off the northbound lanes of the expressway -- Interstate 795 -- from the Beltway to Owings Mills Boulevard for nearly three hours. The Metro train that runs along I-795 was closed down for about two hours, and southbound I-795 was closed intermittently, said Chuck Jackson, state police spokesman.

The brief note worried Steven Richards. His wife, Joyce, had written it Monday, saying she had gone to visit her sister in Baltimore, 50 miles south of their home in Conewago Township, Pa."I was concerned because she wasn't here," Richards said yesterday. So he called Conewago police Monday night.He didn't learn where his wife was until three nights later, when he turned on the evening news. There was his car, with the body of his wife inside, being lifted out of a remote ravine in Baltimore County.

Two people were killed yesterday when a sport utility vehicle they were riding in rolled off a highway ramp in southern Howard County and into a ravine, authorities said. County fire Capt. J. Mark Richards said the accident at 9: 23 a.m. occurred as the 1999 Ford Explorer moved off northbound U.S. 1 onto a ramp leading to westbound Route 32. The vehicle went airborne and rolled into a rocky, wooded ravine. The driver, a 38-year-old Laurel woman, was trapped inside, belted into a seat.

KENSINGTON - The jagged angle of the train cars, the fallen tree limbs, an ominous drop of the embankment surrounding sections of the track - all seemed to foreshadow tragedy aboard the Amtrak passenger train that derailed yesterday. But when bystanders and rescue teams reached the muddy ravine surrounding the track, they found dazed passengers who, for the most part, were able to crawl out of the cars relatively unharmed. Some cried from fear, shock or injury, but many of the passengers broke down because they were glad to be alive.

County police charged a Pasadena man with assault Monday after his girlfriend was thrown into a closet in their house in the 7800 block of Outing Ave. and a shotgun was fired through the door.Sheila Rivard, 37, was treated at North Arundel Hospital for injuries sustained in a fight. She was not wounded in the shooting, police said.Her boyfriend, Jeffrey Lee Singleton, 26, was charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, police said.Police said a 15-year-old boy who lived in the residence called from a neighbor's house to report a fight shortly after 9 p.m. While officers were on their way to the house, the boy called again to report hearing gunfire, police said.

They live behind enemy lines, in places like Fells Point, Federal Hill and Canton - otherwise ordinary people with ordinary jobs and ordinary allegiances. Until Game Day. That's when they put on their Sunday best - a football cap here, a jersey there - and head for the local sports bars to watch their charges and flaunt their true colors. Paint them burgundy and gold, not purple and black. They are Redskins fans in Ravens country. Tonight, their worlds collide as Washington hosts Baltimore at FedEx Field in Landover.

Shrugging off a chilly morning drizzle, hundreds of volunteers slogged yesterday along the muddy fringes of waterways in central Maryland packing trash bags with debris in the annual spring stream cleanup. "You can give as much money to environmental groups as you want, but the way you really make a difference is to go out and get your hands dirty," Towson University sophomore Jenny Green proclaimed as she and her brother, Ryan, harvested food wrappers, bottles and other debris strewn along the steep banks of a campus ravine.

A Taneytown man was in serious but stable condition yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center after the dump truck he was driving plunged into a ravine near Anne Arundel Medical Center's Sajak Pavilion in Annapolis. The man, 41, suffered head, neck and back injuries when the truck he was driving during work on Medical Parkway suddenly went up a dirt construction road and down about 50 feet into the excavation site about 1 p.m., said Anne Arundel Fire Department Division Chief John M. Scholz.

KENSINGTON - The jagged angle of the train cars, the fallen tree limbs, an ominous drop of the embankment surrounding sections of the track - all seemed to foreshadow tragedy aboard the Amtrak passenger train that derailed yesterday. But when bystanders and rescue teams reached the muddy ravine surrounding the track, they found dazed passengers who, for the most part, were able to crawl out of the cars relatively unharmed. Some cried from fear, shock or injury, but many of the passengers broke down because they were glad to be alive.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - They had a playoff party at the Kroger grocery store here Thursday. You didn't hear a foul word. You didn't feel the tension of football fans frothing for a Sunday afternoon bird kill. You didn't sense that familiar desire to watch the home team kick someone's sorry rump, whip them six ways to Sunday and drop their quarterback's stinking carcass off the dock for crab feed. No. They were just having fun with their Tennessee Titans. Would they say an unkind word about Baltimore?

When Ravin Chase walked into the Randallstown High gym a year ago, she presented Rams girls basketball coach Anthony Knox with perhaps the biggest challenge of his career. A 6-foot-1 forward with a strong, physical inside presence, Chase brought an element to the Rams that could instantly boost them over .500. She also brought something that could have unsettled the growing chemistry that made the Rams a team on the rise. Not because of her game, her personality or anything similar. Simply because she is Knox's sister.

A girl whose nude body was found in a ravine near Anne Arundel County's Old Mill Senior High School was identified yesterday as Lisa Haenel, a 14-year-old ninth-grader who police said had been stabbed to death.Police said they have questioned several people in the slaying of Lisa, who lived in Glen Burnie, but had not charged or arrested anyone.Lisa's body was discovered about 9 a.m. Saturday by her mother's boyfriend, Phillip Enke, 28, who was jogging nearby.Police said Lisa, of the 300 block of Highland Drive, was last reported seen by her mother, Margaret Haenel, about 6 a.m. Friday.

They called in private investigators and a helicopter pilot, a psychic with an angel etched into her door and a pair of pet-tracking dogs. But of all the methods that Rhonda Fish and Brian Davis used in the search for their missing Yorkshire terrier, it was the most ordinary of occurrences that led to Reilly's return yesterday. One dog barked at another. Six days after the not-quite-3-year-old pup dashed away while out for a walk near a ravine in White Marsh, he was reunited with his owners.

There is a ravine outside the Ukrainian city of Kiev, a ravine called Babi Yar, that holds within its soil the traces of a hideous crime. The place also stands as a weighty indictment against hate. No wonder so many people have wanted to make Babi Yar disappear. The first attempt came in 1943, when the retreating Germans tried to destroy all traces of nearly 34,000 Jews murdered there in the course of two September days in 1941. In the late 1950s, Soviet authorities, annoyed with calls for a memorial to Babi Yar's victims and with the implication that the Germans had plenty of Russian helpers in their effort to exterminate Jews, ordered the ravine turned into a lake.

Two people were killed yesterday when a sport utility vehicle they were riding in rolled off a highway ramp in southern Howard County and into a ravine, authorities said. County fire Capt. J. Mark Richards said the accident at 9: 23 a.m. occurred as the 1999 Ford Explorer moved off northbound U.S. 1 onto a ramp leading to westbound Route 32. The vehicle went airborne and rolled into a rocky, wooded ravine. The driver, a 38-year-old Laurel woman, was trapped inside, belted into a seat.