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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.

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.

An eight-year Baltimore police veteran who shot a man twice early yesterday in the Carroll Park neighborhood has been placed on administrative leave while the department investigates the shooting. Police said that the officer, Franklin E. Jerrell, 32, fired two shots at a man who had a pellet gun under his shirt, striking him in the right arm and torso. Jerrell, assigned to the Southwestern District, warned the man three times to show his hands and drop to the ground before he fired, said police spokesman Kevin J. Enright.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: GONFALON A gonfalon (pronounced GAHN-fu-lahn) is a flag suspended from a crosspiece instead of from an upright staff. It often ends in streamers. The word comes from the Frankish gundfano , "battle standard," and the Italian gonfalone . The Italian is particularly appropriate because such banners were the standards of some Italian republics.