I Was Scared

Until he allowed a run last night, former Baltimore Orioles pitcher John Habyan had not allowed one since July 15, a scoreless streak of 20 2/3 innings. The streak has helped him move into the No. 2 slot in the New York Yankees bullpen.The secret to his success?Part of it can be traced to a January day in 1989, when Habyan went sledding in Bel Air.He skidded on an icy patch and went flying 10 feet. He landed on his right shoulder and suffered a third-degree separation."I was scared because no other pitchers ever had this," Habyan, 27, said.

Though deer season is winding down, poachers came too close for comfort yesterday morning when they shot two deer illegally in the woods behind Robert Griffith's house, in Granite."

The student: Toireasa "Tess" O'Brien, 11 School: Ilchester Elementary Special achievement: Chosen to represent her school in the State of Maryland International Reading Association Young Authors' Writing Contest in December of last year. Tess wrote an analogy between the journey of a water droplet and life's journey. An excerpt: "What do you see in that drop of water?" she wrote. "Sadly enough many people see a waste of water. They see the odds are the one drop will land on the ground and just become dry."

An Anne Arundel County police officer who jumped into a burning car early Sunday to rescue a 49-year-old Baltimore man said yesterday that he was just doing his job. "I just knew I had to get the people out before the car blew up," said Officer Lester Brumfield. "I wasn't thinking, just doing what they taught us. I was scared later." The 1988 BMW was headed north on Route 295 about one mile south of Route 100 when it veered off the highway for no apparent reason, said traffic investigators.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Matt Gilman of Davie, Fla., bowled a 300 game this past weekend in a youth bowling league at University Bowl. He is believed to be the youngest bowler ever to roll a perfect game.Gilman is 11 years and 2 months old. He was born May 18, 1982.The Young American Bowling Alliance, based in Greendale, Wis., keeps track of youth bowling records. A YABA spokesman said the youngest bowler on record to have bowled a 300 game was Richard Daff Jr., of Crownsville, Md., in 1991.

The sayings were common on Army training posts across the nation.Promising young soldiers were said to be "locked in tight."And almost every morning during call-and-response drills came the sergeant's cry: "Company, are you in the game?" "Yes, drill sergeant," came the reply.But at Aberdeen Proving Ground those sayings became code for sexual conquest and shared secrets, a perversion of Army terms that symbolizes a corrupted chain of command.Now, as the Army prosecutes Staff Sgt. Delmar G. Simpson on 19 counts of rape, Aberdeen officers have banned the phrases -- illustrating the skittishness on a base that has become ground zero in a military-wide search for illegal sex in the ranks.

Four days before the birth of the Salisbury girl he would be accused of kidnapping from her bedroom and killing, Thomas J. Leggs Jr. pleaded guilty to his first sex offense. Over the next 11 years, as Sarah Haley Foxwell grew into a bright, lively middle school student, Leggs was charged with five other crimes against girls and young women, including raping a teenager on a Delaware boardwalk and grabbing a 13-year-old the same day his newborn child was brought home from the hospital.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- William Kennedy Smith's lawyers spent five hours trying to pick apart the testimony of the woman accusing him of rape, challenging her account of the attack and repeatedly prompting her to break down in tears on the stand.Defense attorneys pressed the woman on her spotty memory of the Easter weekend evening she says she was attacked. How, they wondered, could she recall ordering a Caesar salad and Cliquot champagne but not remember whether she met with N NTC bartender friend or where she took off her shoes and panty hose?

An unexpected guest arrived during visiting hours recently at Patuxent Institution in Jessup. Two correctional officers delivered a baby boy during his mother's visit to the state prison on Father's Day. They wrapped the healthy newborn in a correctional officer's uniform about 1:30 p.m. The two correctional officers, Charlotte Leach and Capt. Keith Butler, received certificates of commendation yesterday from Patuxent Director Randall Nero. Leach said that she was in the restroom in the main gatehouse at Patuxent when a woman came in and told her that she was going into labor.

The Bowie State University student charged with fatally slashing her randomly assigned roommate in their shared suite last year was acquitted Thursday of every charge against her, as jurors apparently believed she was acting to protect herself in a sprawling melee. After about 21/2 hours of deliberation, jurors found Alexis Simpson, 20, not guilty of first-degree murder and a host of lesser charges in the September 2011 slaying of 18-year-old Dominique Frazier. They rejected even the idea that Simpson acted in a grossly negligent way in the death.