Unnatural

A Belcamp man was rearrested yesterday and accused of violating his pretrial release on charges of using the Internet to lure a 15-year-old boy to his home for sex.Joseph Donald McMonagle, 40, of the 1400 block of Tarragon Court was arrested Aug. 14 and charged with a third-degree sex offense, unnatural and perverted sex practices and sodomy. Residents told officials they saw McMonagle in his home with a boy after his release. Authorities also say he is accused of violating terms of his release by declining to notify the court of his whereabouts.

A former Glenwood Middle School teacher pleaded guilty yesterday in Howard County Circuit Court to charges of driving while under the influence of alcohol and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, his lawyer said.Klaude Krannebitter, 36, taught health in Howard County schools for 12 years before resigning last spring after county police accused him of paying a 15-year-old Baltimore boy to perform sex acts.In a plea agreement, Howard County dropped several charges against Krannebitter, including engaging in an unnatural and perverted sex act, said Krannebitter's lawyer, Walt Balint.

Marlo Morgan's "Mutant Message Down Under." It's wonderful because it allows a glimpse into the Australian aboriginal world uncorrupted by the unnatural trappings we humans have invented. ... A great book along the same lines is Arthur Versluis' "Sacred Earth: The Spiritual Landscape of North America."I'm also reading Robin Murphy's "Lotus Materia Medica." It's one of the new generation of Materia Medicas (Books of homeopathic remedies). It's comprehensive, extensive - indispensible for anyone interested in homeopathy.

A 62-year-old Manchester man was being held in the Carroll County Detention Center yesterday on charges that he raped and molested his daughter, now 8, for almost three years, according to Carroll County Circuit Court records.The man, whose name is being withheld to protect his daughter's identity, was being held on $25,000 bail, court records showed.He is accused of engaging in sexual intercourse and other sexual acts with the girl from December 1990 to Oct. 7 of this year at their home, according to court documents.

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be acquainted, another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: ELDRITCH Eldritch (pronounced EL-drich) means weird, eerie, sinister, ghostly, unnatural, or frightful.  Often the word of the week here is a Latin or Greek derivative, but this week's word appears to be of Scottish origin. The earliest citation in the OED is from William Dunbar in 1508: "There was Pluto, the elrich incubus.

When you know the answers to these questions, go to http://www.4Kids.org/detectives/1. What is the mission of the skeletal system?(Go to Http://nsbri.tamu.edu/ HumanPhysSpace/ to find out.)2. What did navigational beacons tell sailors?3. Where were the first dinosaur bones found?THE ART OF NAVIGATIONAye, mate! Your goal is to reach the Americas by sea. But navigating these waters is no easy task, and naval captains have to be smart with maps, weather, ocean currents and the Earth's magnetism.

There's hardly a square inch of the 1,900-acre Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area that Johnny Johnsson hasn't walked, mapped or studied. That includes the scant remnants of several 19th-century chromium mines at Soldiers Delight in Owings Mills. Some of these mines once reached as deep as 200 feet beneath this chromium-bearing geological anomaly, known as a "serpentine barren. " Johnsson, a Finksburg resident who is an environmental engineer by profession - and a mining historian by avocation - has been a volunteer ranger and tour guide at Soldiers Delight, which is part of the Patapsco Valley State Park system, since 1990.

Baltimore helped the avant-garde painter Max Weber forge a national reputation in 1915. Now, nearly 100 years later, this could be the city where the late artist begins his long-overdue comeback. It's not that critics and curators are unfamiliar with the Russian-born, Brooklyn-raised painter's work. As a new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art makes clear, Weber has long been considered one of the most significant American artists of the 20th century. But, at the peak of his career, Weber was a bona fide celebrity, with spreads in "Time," "Life," "Look" and 'The Saturday Evening Post.

BOSTON -- Kevin Cunningham, 17, was buried last month, four days after he hanged himself from the porch of his family's house, leaving no note.He was the sixth young man from fiercely proud, mostly white, mostly Irish South Boston to commit suicide since the end of December.His name was added to the roll call that echoes from the rows of tidy three-decker houses to the low-rise brick housing projects, from the saloons to the street corners, where groups of sad teen-agers remember their lost friends: Duane Liotti, 21; Kevin Geary, 17; Jonathan Curtis, 16; Tommy Mullen, 15; Tommy Deckert, 15. They all died the same way, by hanging.

Fresh from an acquittal Wednesday on three sexual abuse charges, a Carroll truck driver faces another jury July 26 and yet another in September in separate trials involving separate incidents.A jury found the man innocent of second- and third-degree sexual offenses and unnatural and perverted sexual practice Wednesday after two days of testimony and an hour of deliberation."There were contradictions throughout in terms of the statements made by the victim," said Patrick Maher of Towson, the defendant's lawyer.