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A member of the Bloods gang received a 10-year-prison sentence yesterday in federal court in Baltimore after his conviction on a gun possession charge. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Lanikko Santiago, 26, of Baltimore, to the prison term followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. According to the testimony presented at his two day trial, Santiago was a passenger in the rear seat of a vehicle on Nov. 8, 2006 that was pulled over by Baltimore City Police detectives for a traffic stop.

Ruth Santiago was watching her favorite Spanish-language soap opera when two gunman burst into her two-story, brick rowhouse in East Baltimore Tuesday evening and fatally shot her and seriously wounded her live-in boyfriend, police and relatives said.Santiago, 40, died in the living room of the home, in the 3300 block of McElderry St. in the Ellwood Park-Monument neighborhood, shortly before 8 p.m. Her boyfriend, Rafael Abreu, 51, remains in serious condition at Johns Hopkins Hospital with gunshot wounds to the chest and leg, said police spokeswoman Agent Ragina L. Cooper.

Cubs: In his two starts since coming off the DL, Kevin Tapani has allowed 13 hits but only two runs in 15 innings. ... Henry Rodriguez went 0-for-4, ending his hitting streak at six games. ... Benito Santiago threw out Mike Cameron after he led off the Reds' first with a single and tried to steal second. Santiago has thrown out four of 10 attempted stealers.Reds: The game drew 26,533, the team's best crowd since opening day. ... Dmitri Young's pinch-hit appearance in the eighth was his first appearance in a game since last Friday, when he crashed into the outfield wall in Atlanta.

A spill near the sixteenth pole in the fourth race yesterday at Pimlico sent jockey Manuel Santiago Jr. to the emergency room at Sinai Hospital for tests for possible head injuries.All tests late yesterday afternoon proved to be negative, and Santiago was sent home.Santiago had Ship Out in good position on the rail for at least a second-place finish when the 3-year-old filly appeared to stumble on a hole and went down, throwing her jockey in the five-furlong race on turf.Santiago got up and walked off the track without any apparent injuries, but he was later examined by Dr. Jerome Coller, who sent him to the hospital.

SANTIAGO, Chile -- Two decades ago, Gladys Marin was living in exile when Gen. Augusto Pinochet's secret police abducted her husband, Jorge Munoz, a Communist leader who was never seen again and is presumed dead.Nearly two weeks ago, Marin, now the president of Chile's Communist Party, feared that she, too, would never be seen again after 20 armed plainclothes police officers stopped her car in afternoon traffic and carried her off to jail.Her crime? Marin called Pinochet, who still serves as commander in chief of the army, a blackmailer and a psychopath at a recent memorial service for the 3,200 people, including her husband, who disappeared or were killed during the general's reign.

The Orioles have compiled a list of free-agent catchers they'd like to pursue and have begun contacting agents for the players.The Orioles talked with the representative for catcher Joe Girardi yesterday and assistant general manager Kevin Malone also confirmed the Orioles' interest in Benito Santiago, Kirt Manwaring and Terry Steinbach, all of whom have filed for free agency.Malone said the Orioles would like to pursue those players after the free-agent filing period ends Nov. 14. After that, teams can make offers to free agents.

BOSTON -- Benito Santiago was the first in line in the parade of possible successors considered by the Orioles' front office. The others, in no particular order: Pat Borders, Randy Knorr, Tom Pagnozzi, Santiago again, Charlie O'Brien, and Kirt Manwaring.But Chris Hoiles, even after being passed through waivers, remains the Orioles catcher. Knowing full well the Orioles are trying to replace him, he continues to go about the business of finding his stroke for his usual second-half spurt of hits and homers.

Many people have contemplated the crucifixion of Christ, but there's a young painter in Baltimore who goes further and thinks of himself as an eyewitness to the somber events atop Calvary.Considering this artist only uses his last name in exhibiting his work, it's clear that the artist simply billed as Santiago charts his own way when it comes to matters of religion and personal identity.It's also obvious that Santiago, 24, and a recent MFA graduate of the Maryland Institute, College of Art, will be going a long way in the art world.

With the baseball strike over and the clubs in camp, we're supposed to care once again about things like which pitch a new Oriole considers his best.Frankly, I'm not up for that yet. Not yet anyway.Neither, I'm sure, are a lot of others.The nearly eight-month-long players strike changed the thinking of a lot of people. Now, instead of coming back to the familiar, we find, all too often, that there is no familiar to come back to.The events of recent days have happened with such dizzying speed that it's hard to keep up.The Orioles sign a couple of pitchers named Brown and Jones and one named Orosco and already we're feeling disoriented.

TORRES DEL PAINE, CHILE -- On my first full day in Patagonia, I awoke warm and comfortable, surrounded by fancy bedding and green wood paneling. I remembered where I was. And I turned to the window.While we whimpered in our insignificance, the chunk of icestood there gleaming like an outsize blue-white diamond in a world otherwise gray and wind-lashed. It was a sight, and a reminder: You can find comfort and you can find wilderness. But even if you travel to the end of the Earth to find them in their most concentrated and uncrowded forms, you may not be able to enjoy them simultaneously.

A Howard County judge sentenced an illegal immigrant from Mexico to three years in prison Monday after the 21-year-old man pleaded guilty to two counts of negligent vehicular homicide while driving under the influence of alcohol. Jose Rosendo Algomeda-Santiago will be deported once he serves his prison term, public defender Lou Willemin said after the sentencing. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that. Circuit Judge Louis A. Becker III rejected a request from the families of the two passengers killed - both of whom were Santiago's cousins - to deport him immediately.

A second person has died from injuries suffered in a crash in Howard County over the weekend, and police said additional charges likely will be brought against the driver, whom investigators suspect of being under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident. Victor Guitierrez-Almeida died early yesterday at Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Howard County police said. He and Gilberto Garcia Vasquez, who died at the scene, were passengers in a car that crossed the double-yellow line on Route 32 in Dayton early Sunday and collided with a Dodge pickup truck.

High school is awarded federal grant W.E.B. DuBois High School in Baltimore has received a $3.7 million federal grant to improve mentoring and work opportunities for students, the U.S. Department of Labor announced this week. The school is one of nine high schools nationwide that were awarded a total of $49.5 million. All nine of them, seven of them in Philadelphia, have been labeled "persistently dangerous" under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. DuBois is a small high school created by the breakup of Northern High.

A member of the Bloods gang received a 10-year-prison sentence yesterday in federal court in Baltimore after his conviction on a gun possession charge. U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Lanikko Santiago, 26, of Baltimore, to the prison term followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number. According to the testimony presented at his two day trial, Santiago was a passenger in the rear seat of a vehicle on Nov. 8, 2006 that was pulled over by Baltimore City Police detectives for a traffic stop.

On May 9, 2006, MARY ETTA (nee Jennings) beloved wife of the late Russell A. Rohrbaugh and loving mother of Larry R. Rohrbaugh and wife Sharon, Mark L. Rohrbaugh and the late Linda L. Rohrbaugh, dearest grandmother of Troy Rohrbaugh and wife Amy, and Tracy Collins and husband Michael. Also survived by two great-grandsons. Friends may call at the family owned JOSEPH N. ZANNINO JR., FUNERAL HOME, 263 S. Conkling Street (at Gough) on Thursday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. A funeral service will be held at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 141 S. Clinton Street, Friday, 10 A.M. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be directed to St. Paul's Lutheran Church.

On September 25, 2003, ARTURO PUPKIN of Santiago, Chile, beloved husband of the late Berta Pupkin, devoted father of Dr. Marcos Pupkin of Baltimore, Dr. Juan Pupkin of Israel and Jorge Pupkin of Chile, loving grandather of Dr. Andrew, Claude, and Vivian Pupkin. Also survived by five great-grandchildren. Services and Interment were held in Santiago, Chile on Friday, September 26, 2003.

SAN FRANCISCO - Giants catcher Benito Santiago has watched it happen again and again. He claims that he doesn't take it personally when opposing pitchers walk Barry Bonds to bring him to the plate, but he clearly burns to make them pay. He has succeeded many times during this postseason, and he owns a Most Valuable Player trophy from the National League Championship Series to prove it. He made the St. Louis Cardinals regret all those times they pitched...

SAN FRANCISCO - Giants catcher Benito Santiago has watched it happen again and again. He claims that he doesn't take it personally when opposing pitchers walk Barry Bonds to bring him to the plate, but he clearly burns to make them pay. He has succeeded many times during this postseason, and he owns a Most Valuable Player trophy from the National League Championship Series to prove it. He made the St. Louis Cardinals regret all those times they pitched...

SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds cast a Giant shadow over the National League Championship Series, but in the end his big shoes were filled by the little guys. The San Francisco Giants are headed to the World Series because Benito Santiago and Kenny Lofton and a sparkling cast of understudies stepped up when the St. Louis Cardinals tried to sidestep the most intimidating hitter in the game. Santiago, the most unlikely No. 5 hitter you'd ever want to meet, was named Most Valuable Player for repeatedly making the Cardinals pay for pitching around Bonds, but Santiago was not the only one to make a big statement in the Giants' impressive five-game victory.

SAN FRANCISCO - The 98th World Series is beginning to take shape, and it could come with a built-in theme song: "Born to be Wild." Benito Santiago hit a dramatic two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning last night to give the San Francisco Giants a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals at Pacific Bell Park and push them to the brink of the first Fall Classic involving two wild-card playoff entrants. The Anaheim Angels won their first American League pennant earlier in the day after finishing a close second to the Oakland Athletics in the American League West.