Throat

A 19-year-old woman was in serious condition after she was shot in the throat while walking in a West Baltimore alley Sunday night, according to city police. The woman was four months pregnant, but her baby was not injured, police said. She was walking through the rear of the 1400 block of Mountmor Court, near the basketball court in the Sandtown-Winchester community, when she was shot by an unknown male, police said. The woman was taken to Maryland Shock Trauma Center for treatment, police said.

Michael Douglas told the Guardian newspaper recently that his throat cancer was caused by the HPV virus that he contracted performing oral sex over the years. The actor's admission brings attention to a health problem more doctors are seeing. HPV, which is widely known to cause cervical cancer in women, is also causing cancer in men as well. Dr. Kevin J. Cullen, an oncologist who specializes in treating head and neck cancers, recently spoke to The Sun about the growing number of HPV-related cancers doctors are seeing in men. Cullen, the director of the University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, said there are precautions that can be taken.

A 7-year-old girl was bitten in the throat by two American bulldogs inside a Dundalk home Saturday, Baltimore County police said. Officers were called at about 5:45 p.m. to a home in the 700 block of Villager Circle where the girl was found bleeding. She was taken to a local hospital, where she remains in serious condition, police said. jkanderson@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts An earlier version of this article misidentified the breed of dog in the attack.

It is well known that HPV (human papillomavirus) can lead to deadly cervical cancer in women, but the virus is causing cancer in men as well. Throat cancers caused by HPV are showing up typically in men with little or no history of smoking, said Dr. Kevin J. Cullen, an oncologist who specializes in treating head and neck cancers. Cullen, the director of the University of Maryland's Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center, talks about the growing cases of HPV-related throat cancers.

One man was shot in the throat, another in the leg Thursday night in West Baltimore, police said. Officers were called at about 9 p.m. to the U.S. Fried Chicken restaurant at the corner of Pennsylvania and Fulton avenues, where two men were found injured, police said. It is unclear if the shooting occurred inside the carryout. Both men were taken to a local hospital, but police spokeswoman Detective Nicole Monroe did not know the victim' conditions Thursday night. Homicide detectives were called to investigate the shooting.

An Eldorado, Texas, man was arrested Tuesday night after a Glen Burnie man was threatened with having his throat cut for refusing to turn over money, county police said yesterday.Bernard T. Brown Jr., 33, told police he was in front of the Mars store in the 6700 block of Ritchie Highway shortly after 9 p.m. when a man walked up to him and asked him for money.Mr. Brown refused, police said, and the man threatened to cut his throat and reached into his right pants pocket. Mr. Brown ran into the store and called police.

COLLEGE PARK -- The Jim Sandwisch Watch was uneventful yesterday.Sandwisch, 6 feet 3, 206 pounds, the University of Maryland's starting quarterback who injured his throwing arm Saturday in a 31-17 loss to Syracuse, did not practice yesterday as the Terps (1-1) went through a light workout. Maryland plays West Virginia (2-1) Saturday at Byrd Stadium.Sandwisch, a first-year senior starter, re-injured the elbow and shoulder of his right throwing arm Saturday night and was replaced by junior college All-American John Kaleo to start the second half.

As horrified neighbors watched, a man with a utility knife slit his estranged girlfriend's throat and then his own on a street in Odenton yesterday, Anne Arundel County police said.Carolyn Ann Brown, 47, of the 1200 block of Queen Anne Ave., was in serious condition at Maryland Shock Trauma Center last night, a hospital spokeswoman said.Enoch Allen Brown, 39, of the 3700 block of 7th St. in Baltimore, was in good condition at Prince George's Hospital Center last night, according to a hospital spokeswoman.

EVERY FEB. 3, ROMAN Catholics celebrate the feast of St. Blaise by having their throats blessed. It's never been a big day on the Catholic calendar -- the kind that meant a day off from school -- but it is a ritual that has staying power.The way we honor this ancient bishop of Asia Minor has always impressed me as the most practical of ceremonies. Why not ask for a blessing on your throat during the season of colds and flu?The ritual carries a certain realism. A vested priest holds a pair of pure beeswax candles tied in an X -- often with a scarlet ribbon -- and you place your throat between them as he says the blessing.

Ellicott City Democrat Lynne Bergling continues to campaign and plans to attend a candidates forum in Elkridge this week, but she has been dogged by persistent health problems that are hampering her run for the Howard County Council. Bergling, 42, sent an e-mail message to newspapers over the weekend after she was unable to participate in a candidates forum Saturday morning at First Baptist Church of Guilford because of a reaction to medication. She said she wants to guard against inaccurate reports and rumors.

A few months after Maria Andrea Espejo Quezada arrived in Baltimore from Mexico nine years ago, her son and two of his young relatives were beaten, strangled and almost decapitated. She was the first witness to take the stand as the state tries for a third time to convict Policarpio Espinoza Perez, accused of carrying out the killings with his nephew Adan Canela. Quezada provided insight into the life of her immigrant family, answering questions about romantic advances from extended members and alleged threats from a former husband in Mexico.

Policarpio Espinoza Perez and Adan Canela have been mentioned in the same breath since they were charged nine years ago in Baltimore with slashing the throats of three young relatives, ages 8, 9 and 10. They have sat side-by-side at two trials, but as prosecutors this week make a third try at convicting them, each man will get a chance to tell his own story. The change could allow the defendants to challenge the prosecution's theory that they were both involved in the Northwest Baltimore murders - another hurdle for a prosecution already without key pieces of evidence from the last trial seven years ago. E. Wesley Adams III, a former Baltimore homicide prosecutor who was not involved in the case, said it is generally more difficult to convict defendants separately.

Most weekends, the woman would walk alongside her 2-year-old son as he rode his big wheel up and down the sidewalk along Broening Highway, on a block where many brick rowhouses are decorated for the holidays and neighborhood kids regularly gather to play, neighbors said. But on Sunday, police launched an investigation at the family's home after finding the boy dead from a "severe laceration," and his 32-year-old mother with her throat cut, according to police. The mother has been named a "person of interest" in the boy's death and police believe the incident was an isolated, domestic tragedy, said Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman.

A cheerful reflection to brighten your day, from one of Philip Larkin's letters: “One wakes up wanting to cut one's throat; one goes to work, & in 15 minutes one wants to cut someone else's - complete cure!”

Marshall E. Price, a Caroline County blacksmith, met his fate at the end of a rope wielded by a lynch mob on July 2, 1895, for the murder of a 13-year-old girl, Sallie E. Dean, whom he accosted as she made her way to school. Earlier this month, with a friend, Joe Coale, I went to the Eastern Shore to spend a perfectly wonderful sun-splashed autumn day with former Gov. Harry R. Hughes, who lives in Denton. After talking for a while in the den of his home, Hughes suggested a tour of some of the county's historic sites.

Dr. Lewis B. Newberg, a retired ear, nose and throat specialist who turned his personal battle with sleep apnea and snoring into a book in which he combined humor and practical medical advice for those similarly afflicted, died Oct. 22 of heart failure at his Edgewater home. He was 72. The son of a businessman and a homemaker, Dr. Newberg was born in the Bronx, N.Y., and raised in Jamaica, N.Y., where he was a graduate of public schools. After earning a bachelor's degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, he earned his medical degree in 1964 from the Chicago Medical School.

A man who threatened to slit a clerk's throat robbed a 7-Eleven store in Odenton yesterday morning, county police said.The man walked into the store in the 1500 block of Annapolis Road around 12:30 a.m., went behind the counter and put a box cutter to the clerk's throat. He told the clerk to give him money or he would cut his throat, police said.The robber then took an undisclosed amount of cash and ran to a waiting car, police said. The clerk received small cuts on his neck and hand but did not go to the hospital, police said.

Marshall E. Price, a Caroline County blacksmith, met his fate at the end of a rope wielded by a lynch mob on July 2, 1895, for the murder of a 13-year-old girl, Sallie E. Dean, whom he accosted as she made her way to school. Earlier this month, with a friend, Joe Coale, I went to the Eastern Shore to spend a perfectly wonderful sun-splashed autumn day with former Gov. Harry R. Hughes, who lives in Denton. After talking for a while in the den of his home, Hughes suggested a tour of some of the county's historic sites.

Dr. Lewis B. Newberg, a retired ear, nose and throat specialist who turned his personal battle with sleep apnea and snoring into a book in which he combined humor and practical medical advice for those similarly afflicted, died Oct. 22 of heart failure at his Edgewater home. He was 72. The son of a businessman and a homemaker, Dr. Newberg was born in the Bronx, N.Y., and raised in Jamaica, N.Y., where he was a graduate of public schools. After earning a bachelor's degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, he earned his medical degree in 1964 from the old Chicago Medical School.

A father accused of slitting the throats of his wife and daughters in the family's Crofton home was ordered held without bail Monday, and no motive was offered for why he may have harmed his family and himself. Julio Cesar Esquetini, 49, of the 1600 block of Forest Hill Court in the Crofton Meadows Four townhouse community, appeared on a monitor in District Court in Annapolis from the Anne Arundel County Detention Center. He was arrested Friday and faces more than a dozen charges.