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Annapolis : Naval Academy Doctor charged in sex-tape case A Navy doctor who regularly acted as a chaperon for the Naval Academy men's gymnastics team has been charged with making secret tapes of students having sex in his Annapolis-area home, according to a published report. Cmdr. Kevin Ronan faces charges that include conduct unbecoming an officer for "surreptitious videotaping" of "intimate activities" without the subjects' consent, The Washington Post reported, quoting a spokesman for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, where Ronan had been stationed.

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Can a relatively short hitter win the Masters?It has been done before, most recently by Bernard Langer in 1994 and Ben Crenshaw in 1995. It will be done again, with reigning British Open champion Justin Leonard this year's leading candidate.Told yesterday that he has disproved the theory that players need length to win on the PGA Tour, Leonard said, "I wasn't aware there's a theory that length is everything. It's a great asset. It's a bigger asset on some courses. But if that was true, I probably wouldn't be here sitting and talking to you."

J. C. Snead birdied the 18th hole to complete a round of 6-under-par 66, and opened a four-stroke lead halfway through the Toyota Invitational at rainy Cattail Creek Country Club yesterday.The event in western Howard County, featuring 21 Senior pros, is considered a testing stage for a possible future Senior Tour event in the area. Although many of the pros were effusive with their praise for the condition of the course -- a spikeless facility that does not permit carts on fairways -- there were some reservations about the length of some of the holes.

To a chorus of tiny cries in the busy second-floor nursery, Vivian B. Snead has one emphatic reply, in a voice that is squeaky yet destined to calm:"Granny's here!"Ms. Snead, 72, routinely scrubs up, dons a gown and surgical gloves, and commences scooping up fragile newborns at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she has personally rocked to sleep hundreds over the past six years.The nationally recognized program is a forerunner to about two dozen around the country that have put elderly people in nurseries to hold, feed and diaper infants -- leaving both in the relationship feeling better.

In Baltimore, the killing hasn't stopped, and neither has the Rev. Willie E. Ray, a persistent activist who has crusaded against street violence for almost a decade.Yesterday, he and a band of his loyal supporters were trumpeting the anti-violence message again as they attempted to organize a chain of hands between the east and west sides of the city in his "Love Hands Across Baltimore Crusade."At Mr. Ray's seventh such event in as many years, he had to settle for about 50 men, women and children linking hands on the steps of the city Board of Education headquarters in the middle of a blighted block of East North Avenue.

Tools stolen from store on Ritchie HighwayTwo men stole a saw and drill worth a total of $319 from the Pasadena Black and Decker store on Ritchie Highway Wednesday morning while a third man distracted an employee, county police said.Dannie Snead, 58, told police the three men came in together about 8:30 a.m. One of them asked to see a power tool that was in a back storeroom, police said.Mr. Snead went to get the tool and returned. The man then talked to Mr. Snead while his accomplices grabbed a $124 Dewalt saw and a $185 Dewalt cordless drill.

Everything was in place. White candles flickered on the table. A mouthwatering aroma of roast turkey drifted from the kitchen. Envelopes for the Christmas gift drawing hung from the tree.Yet as her sister, cousins and 84-year-old aunt bustled about putting the final touches on the Thanksgiving feast, Tammy Snead felt sad.This would be the last Thanksgiving her large, close-knit family celebrated in the 10th-floor apartment at the Lexington Terrace housing project in West Baltimore, an apartment she had lived in all her life.

The architectural firm of Ziger/Snead Inc., which was named one of the "emerging design talents" of the 1990s by Architecture magazine, has joined with Charles Brickbauer, a former partner of Peterson & Brickbauer and one of the most respected architects in Baltimore.Peterson and Brickbauer was dissolved after nearly 30 years of operation.Partner Warren Peterson has established his own practice, specializing in residential and commercial design.Partners Steven Ziger and James Snead said they will continue to operate their 10-year-old firm on Designer's Row in Mount Vernon and will create a separate entity, most likely called Ziger/Snead and Charles Brickbauer, to pursue specific commissions.

I thought I had tasted every kind of fish that swims in the Chesapeake Bay. Then in a Richmond restaurant called the Frog and the Redneck, I met a fish called cobia.It was grilled and topped with capers and tomatoes. It was magnificent.I figured it was one of those flying fish, a fish that the restaurant had flown in, at major expense, from some distant clime.But chef Jimmy Snead, the self-proclaimed "redneck" of his restaurant's name, said cobia was a local. By the way, the "Frog" in the restaurant name refers to Jean-Louis Palladin, the Washington, D.C., chef who is a friend and former mentor of Snead.

The manager of a Steak and Egg Kitchen in Pikesville was shot and critically wounded yesterday during a morning robbery, and the suspect was arrested minutes later.Baltimore County police said Andre W. Davis, 27, of the 1600 block of Spray Court in West Baltimore, was shot in the chest during a struggle with the robber, who confronted him in the rear of the restaurant as he counted money before making a bank deposit.Mr. Davis was flown to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he was listed in critical condition.

Man, 23, sentenced In East Baltimore killing A 23-year-old Baltimore man was convicted and sentenced yesterday to 45 years in prison for the murder of an acquaintance, who identified his killer seconds before dying in the middle of an East Baltimore street. Prosecutor Richard Gibson primarily relied on testimony from the victim's niece, who heard the gunshots from her residence in the 1000 block of Broadway about 2 a.m. Nov. 4, 2007. She ran to her uncle's side. There, Norman Smith, 30, repeated, "Brando shot me."

A Baltimore police officer who was a member of the police commissioner's protective detail was acquitted yesterday of two misdemeanor charges in Harford County, according to the state's attorney's office there. Other related charges were dropped. Officer Robert Snead had been accused in February of pulling a gun on Monty Arrington, a man who is married to Snead's former girlfriend. Ivan Bates, Snead's defense attorney, said Snead was in the neighborhood to see family members who live there and never pulled a gun on anyone.

Lynn Shiner heard the news as she drifted off to sleep Sunday night, and when she awoke yesterday morning, she thought maybe she had dreamed it. A few taps on the keyboard, though, confirmed that the crime, however nightmarish, was no dream. Three children killed in a Baltimore hotel room, allegedly by their father, who had been engaged in a pitched custody battle with his estranged wife. "I see a judge denied her request," Shiner said, referring to a petition for a protective order that the children's mother, Amy Castillo, had filed against their father a couple of years ago after this threat: "He ... did tell me that the worst thing he could do to me would be to kill the children and not me so I could live without them."

Two city police officers, including a member of the police commissioner's security detail, face criminal charges in unrelated incidents. Officer Robert Snead, a member of Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III's security detail since July, faces handgun and other charges stemming from a confrontation with the husband of his former girlfriend. Another officer, Lakisha Davis, a six year veteran, has been charged with going on an $8,000 spending spree using a debit card that had been erroneously issued.

On January 5, 2008 RUTH REICHE SNEAD beloved wife of the late John Elwood Snead; dear mother of John Elwood Snead, Jr., Catherine Snead MacMurray and James Arrington Snead; dear grandmother of John Peyton Snead, David Ramsay Snead and Donald Hoos MacMurray III; dear great-grandmother of John Peyton Snead, Jr. and William Crosby Snead. A Memorial Service will be held Saturday 11:30 A.M. at Brown Memorial Woodbrook Presbyterian Church. Please omit flowers. Contributions may be made to Campaign for Gilman School, 5407 Roland Avenue, Baltimore, 21210 or Baltimore School for the Arts, 712 Cathedral Street, Baltimore 21201.

Ruth R. Snead, a native of Germany who fled Nazism in her youth and later moved to Baltimore, died Saturday of complications from surgery at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The longtime Homeland resident was 91. Anna Ruth Reiche was born in Magdeburg, Germany, and raised in the Tiergarten in Berlin. Her father, Arthur Reiche, was married to an American, Catherine "Flirty" Garvin. After his death, she married Hermann Marks, a prominent banker and finance minister who served during the administration of Paul von Hindenburg, president of Germany from 1925 to 1934.

Annapolis : Naval Academy Doctor charged in sex-tape case A Navy doctor who regularly acted as a chaperon for the Naval Academy men's gymnastics team has been charged with making secret tapes of students having sex in his Annapolis-area home, according to a published report. Cmdr. Kevin Ronan faces charges that include conduct unbecoming an officer for "surreptitious videotaping" of "intimate activities" without the subjects' consent, The Washington Post reported, quoting a spokesman for the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, where Ronan had been stationed.

The morning crew from 98 Rock has arrived at Orioles' camp, so be sure to listen this week. My guess is I'll be on the air at some point, proving once again that I have the perfect face for radio. (This is where I'm counting on a female reader to chime in with something like, "Oh no, Roch, I met you recently and you're much better looking in person than your photo." Or something like that. Be creative.) ... A few readers have asked about Esix Snead. He once stole 109 bases in a single minor league season, but he has no chance of making the Orioles.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Val Majewski ripped a double to center field with one out in the 10th inning, scoring pinch runner Esix Snead from first base and giving the Orioles a 3-2 victory yesterday over the New York Mets that ended their five-game losing streak. Napoleon Calzado reached on an infield hit. Snead replaced Calzado and scored on Majewski's one-hopper to the fence off reliever Bryan Edwards. Orioles vs. Marlins Jupiter, Fla., today, 1:05 p.m.

On January 4, 2006, JERRY TEMPLETON SNEAD, SR., died at his son's home. He is survived by his son Jerry T. Snead, Jr., and his wife Sherly and daughter Belinda Kracke and her husband Carl; sister, Marie Robinson; brother, Jim Snead. He is also survived by four grandchildren and a host of other relatives. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, January 7 at 2 P.M. at Westminster United Methodist Church. Donations may be made to Carroll Hospice, 95 Carroll St., Westminster, MD. #21157