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Chesapeake visited Meade yesterday afternoon and put in eight goals.Afterward, Mustangs coach Mike Dey said there wasn't much either of his two keepers could do about any of them.Clearly, the No. 7-ranked Cougars, last year's Class 4A state champions, were at their finishing best as they provided an 8-0 lesson to a banged-up and overwhelmed Meade team.A four-goal barrage in the opening minutes of the second half abruptly turned a 2-0 lead into a rout for the Cougars, who got goals from seven players to win for the eighth straight time after a season-opening loss.

Chesapeake's dominance started right from the first whistle and the goals soon followed against North County in last night's Class 4A East region semifinal at Severna Park.Getting possession first, running off the ball full blast and using the entire field - ingredients that led the No. 6-ranked Cougars to the state championship a year ago - were once again on display in a 5-0 win that sends them back to the region final.Chesapeake (15-2) will meet host Severna Park at 7 p.m. Tuesday.Junior striker Adrian Titus, finding more room with the recent strong play of fellow striker Karl Watson, led the way for the Cougars with two goals and an assist.

Player of the YearAdrian Titus, Chesapeake, Jr., F: The Chesapeake Cougars lost their top three scorers from last year's state championship team, leaving coach Earl Eckhardt with the question of who would put the ball in the net. Titus, with a great touch inside the 18-yard line, a quick release and a cannon for a shot, provided an emphatic answer. He finished the season with 17 goals and also had seven assists as the Cougars captured the county championship. After playing a secondary role as an outside midfielder as a sophomore, Titus boldly took on the vital role of primary finisher.

The Pasadena Theatre Company is putting on a scary pre-Halloween production of "Jekyll and Hyde."Last season, PTC marked Halloween with "Dracula," Christmas with "It's a Wonderful Life" and Lent with a deeply moving "Godspell." This season, the company will continue its tradition of observing holidays with repeat performances of the Lenten and Christmas offerings.PTC's "Jekyll and Hyde" follows Leonard Caddy's recent nonmusical version of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous Victorian thriller.

In a doomed effort to barricade their land against steadily rising seas, Marylanders are robbing future generations of life-giving marshes and bay-shore beaches, according to a top Environmental Protection Agency expert on climate change.The Chesapeake Bay shoreline is becoming so coated in concrete that the state is fast losing the marshes it needs to keep bay waters clean and full of fish, wrote James G. Titus, the EPA's project manager for sea level rise. Three hundred miles' worth of Maryland's bay shore have been encased in sea walls in the past 20 years.

John T. Titus, the estranged husband of a Hampstead woman who was found strangled in her bedroom closet Monday, has been charged in a warrant with first-degree murder, authorities said yesterday.Titus, who remains at Carroll County General Hospital, will be served with the warrant for his arrest "at the appropriate time," said Jerry F. Barnes, Carroll County state's attorney.Titus, 33, of the first block of Oakway Road in Timonium remained in stable condition at the Westminster hospital yesterday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

A state medical examiner confirmed yesterday the identity of a woman found strangled in her Hampstead home on Monday -- news that left her brother wondering if the judicial system failed the 40-year-old mother of two.John P. Biglin, the younger brother of the victim, Patricia Ann Titus, said yesterday that for years his sister had sought court and police protection from John T. Titus, her estranged husband.Police found Mrs. Titus' unclothed body under a blanket in a bedroom closet of her home about 12: 30 a.m. Results of an autopsy released to police yesterday showed she had been dead two to seven days.

A Timonium man, who had twice attempted suicide after being charged with killing his estranged wife and hiding her body in a closet at her Hampstead home in May, apparently hanged himself Monday night at the Carroll County Detention Center.John T. Titus, 33, was pronounced dead in his cell shortly before midnight, about 25 minutes after correctional officers found him at 11: 28 p.m., Sheriff John H. Brown said yesterday.In a preliminary autopsy completed yesterday, a state medical examiner concluded that Titus, who had been under a suicide watch, died by hanging, said Tracy A. Gilmore, deputy state's attorney for Carroll County.

With attention focused on the issue of domestic violence since the killing last week of Patricia A. Titus of Hampstead, Carroll County State's Attorney Jerry F. Barnes says he will propose state legislation next year to allow prosecutors to request the death penalty in murder cases that result from the violation of a protective court order.Titus, 40, the mother of two small boys, was found June 2 by police in a bedroom closet of her home. She had been strangled, according to a state medical examiner's report.

Lawyers for John T. Titus, who was charged last week with killing his estranged wife at her Hampstead home, have accused state police of coercing a statement from their client while refusing to allow him to have his prescribed medicine or to call his attorneys.Titus, 33, is being held without bail at the Carroll County Detention Center on a charge of first-degree murder.Gary S. Bernstein and Susan R. Green, who represented Titus at a bail review hearing yesterday, told District Judge JoAnn M. Ellinghaus-Jones that Cpl. Ronald Cullison, a state police detective assigned to the Westminster barracks, violated their client's Miranda right to have them present during questioning.

Ex-Baltimore man guilty in 1997 rape A former Baltimore man entered an Alford plea to first-degree rape, acknowledging Friday that prosecutors had evidence to convict him in the rape of a 66-year-old woman in 1997. Under terms of the plea, Anne Arundel County Circuit Judge Philip T. Caroom can sentence Vander Davis, 41, to up to 30 years in prison when he returns for sentencing in December. The victim had interrupted her gardening outside her Glen Burnie home on April 30, 1997, to quiet her dog. When she went inside her house, she was raped, prosecutors said.

A Howard County jury took an hour Tuesday to find a 38-year-old Carroll County man guilty of using a high school friend's identity to obtain a Florida driver's license so he could avoid prosecution for driving after his own Maryland license had been revoked. Gerald Titus Jr. of the 2200 block of Gillis Road in Woodbine will be sentenced by Judge Louis A. Becker III in October. Titus, who seemed on the verge of accepting a plea that would have carried an 18-month sentence in county jail, faces up to 3 1/2 years in a state facility.

Glassman becomes senator Barry Glassman, the former leader of Harford County's complement in Maryland's House of Delegates, was sworn in as a state senator yesterday to replace the ailing Sen. J. Robert Hooper, who resigned Dec. 31. Glassman, 45, a claims investigator for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. who served for nine years in the House and eight on the Harford County Council, thanked supporters and said he had a "bittersweet" feeling replacing Hooper,...

Forty-two years after Rembrandt's Portrait of a Boy in Fancy Dress, or Titus, made an appearance in Washington, D.C., the painting will return to the National Gallery of Art to launch a series of loan exchanges with the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, Calif. The portrait -- which appeared on the cover of Time magazine and in the gallery in 1965, after Simon purchased it -- will be on view in the nation's capital from May 11 to Sept. 4. It can be seen at the Simon museum through May 6. Future loans are under discussion; the Simon is expected to send a major work to Washington every other year and bring a National Gallery piece of equal quality to Pasadena on alternate years.

From Russia, with grace The music and motion of Eastern Europe come to the Lyric Opera House tomorrow when the Russian National Ballet Theatre and Orchestra take the stage for one night only. General Director Vladimir Moiseev, grandson of Russian ballet master Igor Moiseev and soloist with the Bolshoi Theater, heads the company of 55 dancers. Soloists, ages 17 to 25, have won numerous international accolades. The Russian National Ballet Theatre has performed worldwide and is currently touring the U.S. In the Baltimore leg of its tour, the company will perform to Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet.

On April 19, 2006, DOUGLAS "Bill" ARTHUR WALK, SR.; beloved husband of Karen A. Walk (nee Titus); loving father of Douglas Arthur Walk, Jr., and Victoria Lynn Mc Courry (nee Walk); father-in-law of Loretta L. Walk; cherished "Pop Pop" of Nathan, Destiny and Dakota Walk and Maude and Marlaina Mc Courry. Devoted son of Yolanda Anders and the late John V. Anders. Dear brother of Ronald Walk, John Anders, Jean Geraci and Lucille Anders and friend of Gerry and Gail Titus. Relatives and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1328 Sulphur Spring Road, Arbutus, on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral services will be held Saturday 10 A.M. at the Holy Nativity Lutheran Church, 1200 Linden Avenue, Arbutus.

On April 19, 2006, DOUGLAS "Bill" ARTHUR WALK, SR.; beloved husband of Karen A. Walk (nee Titus); loving father of Douglas Arthur Walk, Jr., and Victoria Lynn Mc Courry (nee Walk); father-in-law of Loretta L. Walk; cherished "Pop Pop" of Nathan, Destiny and Dakota Walk and Maude and Marlaina Mc Courry. Devoted son of Yolanda Anders and the late John V. Anders. Dear brother of Ronald Walk, John Anders, Jean Geraci and Lucille Anders and friend of Gerry and Gail Titus. Relatives and friends may call at the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1328 Sulphur Spring Road, Arbutus, on Friday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Funeral services will be held Saturday 10 A.M. at the Holy Nativity Lutheran Church, 1200 Linden Avenue, Arbutus.

On February 6, 2006, ROBERT AUGUST HEFFLER JR.; loving father of Robert K. and his wife Karen Heffler, Yvonne and her husband Jesus Martinez, Sandra J. and her husband John Titus Sr, Michelle and her husband Mario Galvan; devoted son of Gladis V. Heffler; grandfather of Christa, Lisa, Johnny Jr, Nicole, Kristina, Darleta, and Madi; great-grandfather of Austin; dear brother of Elfie, Jean and Sandra. Services will be private inquires may be directed to the the family owned AMBROSE FUNERAL HOME OF LANSDOWNE, 410-242-2211 www.ambrosefuneralhomes.

LAS VEGAS -- As a middling player in the world of professional bodybuilding, Craig Titus stood out more for his snarling bad-boy image than for the few awards for his chiseled physique. "I'm like a Rottweiler in a land of golden retrievers," he told a Florida newspaper five years ago. But whatever act Titus might have cultivated in his competitions, he now stands accused, along with his bodybuilder wife, of a real-life gruesome killing. In a lurid murder case here, both are charged with stun-gunning, drugging and suffocating their live-in personal assistant, then stuffing the body in their Jaguar and setting the car aflame with charcoal lighter on a desert highway outside the city, apparently an effort to make the crime look like an accident.

GREENBELT -- The alleged ringleader of a brazen act of arson that burned a predominantly black housing development in Charles County was sentenced yesterday to nearly 20 years in federal prison. Two co-defendants who pleaded guilty received substantially lesser sentences. Nearly one year to the day after more than two dozen homes were damaged or destroyed in the upscale Hunters Brooke subdivision Dec. 6, 2994, Patrick S. Walsh, 21, of Fort Washington was given the strongest reprimand and the longest sentence - 19 years and seven months - by U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus.