Santana

The bodies of two Carroll County men were unearthed yesterday from the basement of an Arbutus home where they were alleged to have been murdered over a $1,200 marijuana debt, state police said.A former Howard County parks worker who lived in the house was charged with killing Esteban "Steve" Santana Jr., 31, and Kurt J. Benkert, 26, both of the 1100 block of Deer Park Road near Westminster.The men were reported missing when Mr. Santana's red Ford pickup truck was found abandoned about 1 p.m. Thursday in Patapsco Valley State Park.

Johan Santana Twins pitcher He is 7-1 in 11 starts since losing his first three. Andy Pettitte Astros pitcher He has given up 17 home runs, equaling his total for all of last year.

Maryland Natural Resources Police halted their search yesterday for two Westminster men in an isolated portion of Patapsco State Park near the Carroll-Baltimore County line and are now considering the possibility of foul play in the disappearance.Police began searching Thursday afternoon for Esteban "Steve" Santana, 31, and Kurt J. Benkert, 26, after Mr. Santana's 9-month-old daughter was found strapped in a car seat alone in her father's pickup truck in the Theodore McKeldin section of the state park.

"American Me" is an Hispanic-American's Horatio Alger story: how a smart young man rises in the world. Unfortunately, the world he choses to rise in is the underworld, and the source of his anger, the fuel for his fury, the font of his savagery, is racism.The movie works out an explicit chain of consequences, representing racism as rape. In the zoot suit riots of 1943 in Los Angeles, a young Mexican woman is raped by a gang of white sailors; the child born of this union is, ipso facto, rejected by his father and develops pathologically as a result.

On January 1, 2005, JANE M.; beloved aunt of Mark and Linda Richards, David and Julie Richards; great-aunt of Keith and Matthew Richards and Mary Elizabeth Santana; great-aunt of Kevin and Kelly Richards, Anthony and Elexys Santana. Friends may call at the Thomas J. Skarda Funeral Home, 2829 Hudson Street, on the corner of Linwood Avenue, on Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral Services will be held at the Messiah Lutheran Church, Potomac Avenue and O'Donnell Street, on Wednesday at 11 A.M. Interment in Oaklawn Cemetery.

Are you ready for yet another lawyer as the new prime-time hero for the '90s?There's another one arriving tomorrow night at 9 on WBAL-TV (Channel 11) with the return of "Wiseguy." And it's a happy homecoming for viewers.Steven Bauer replaces Ken Wahl as star of the revamped show. Wahl was fired as star of the show after he got in a dogfight with executive producer Stephen J. Cannell and CBS last year.Bauer plays Michael Santana, a former U.S. Attorney who was disbarred sometime during the 1980s for a violation of ethics.

Santana / Nissan Pavilion Guitar god Carlos Santana and his band play Saturday at Nissan Pavilion in Bristow, Va. The concert begins at 7 p.m. and will take place rain or shine. Santana announced last week that he plans to donate all net proceeds from the summer tour to the fight against the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Tickets are $20-$59.50 and are available through Ticketmaster. Call 410-481-SEAT or visit www.ticketmaster.com. For more information about the band, visit www.santana.

It's a fact The Cubs were 14-24 in one-run games entering the weekend. Milestone Carlos Delgado of the Blue Jays is closing in on his seventh consecutive 30-homer, 100-RBI season. The number 10: Consecutive decisions won by Twins Milestone left-hander Johan Santana.

Owning Santana Minnesota Twins left-hander Johan Santana may be baseball's best pitcher. But no one has told Orioles left fielder Jay Gibbons, who sometimes sits out against tough left-handers. Gibbons had two doubles against Santana last night in three at-bats, making him 8-for-15 with five RBIs against the two-time American League Cy Young Award winner. No happy feet Miguel Tejada's bat is ready for the season, but his feet may not be. The Orioles shortstop singled against Santana in his first at-bat and crushed a bases-empty homer in the sixth.