Three Boys

Even as funerals continued in a shell-shocked community in Colorado, three Glen Burnie High School freshmen were arrested yesterday after school officials received warnings that the youths were threatening classmates and plotting to bomb the school.Almost immediately, the homes of the three boys were searched.Bombs and bomb-making devices were found, Anne Arundel County police said, and one of the boys acknowledged taunting other students about a hit list.By midafternoon, one was charged with issuing bomb threats, the other two with possessing bomb-making components.

Three boys have been arrested and charged with numerous counts of burglary for allegedly stealing power tools, bicycles, firearms and other items from dozens of residential sheds in the Rosedale area.Police, who did not release the boys' names because they are juveniles, said they were 12, 14 and 15.Police believe the boys broke into 120 sheds in the Rosedale area from July 17 to 30.Nothing was taken from some of the sheds, said county police spokesman Bill Toohey, and some of the stolen property has been recovered.

Police humorMARYLAND STATE Police public information officers flexed their literary muscles and added a little pizazz to a news release about St. Patrick's Day last week.The release, which mentioned that troopers would be patrolling roads in green and black state patrol cars on St. Patrick's Day, added: "A motorist who is stopped for drunk or drugged driving will not see, in their rearview mirror, the brilliant colors of a rainbow leading to a pot of gold, but the red and blue flashing lights of a Maryland State Police patrol car."

More than 400 parents, teachers and students have signed a petition urging Howard County school officials to expel at least three students who are accused of severely beating another student -- shattering his jaw -- at Columbia's Long Reach High School.The Oct. 21 incident that began over a dropped quarter sent senior Kenny Magan, 17, into emergency surgery on his jaw, which was fractured in two places.He returned to school six days later with a permanent steel plate in his face and his mouth wired shut, but is now in good condition, he said yesterday.

More than 400 parents, teachers and students have signed a petition urging Howard County school officials to expel at least three students who are accused of severely beating another student -- shattering his jaw -- at Columbia's Long Reach High School.The Oct. 21 incident that began over a dropped quarter sent senior Kenny Magan, 17, into emergency surgery on his jaw, which was fractured in two places. He returned to school six days later with a permanent steel plate in his face and his mouth wired shut, but is now in good condition, he said yesterday.

Police logHickory Ridge: 6500 block of Freetown Road: Two boys, ages 15 and 16, beat a 17-year-old boy inside a bathroom at Atholton High School and took cash Thursday afternoon. The victim was not seriously injured. The three boys know each other, police said. Police and school officials could not provide further details on the incident Friday.

Stan Dorsey was a successful student and standout athlete at Duke University, but there was a void. He said he longed for a different sort of fulfillment -- plentiful during his high school days when, as a member of the Lancers Boys Club, he raised money for scholarships and tutored needy children.So after he graduated, as classmates headed for brokerage firms and business schools, Dorsey spent a year working with troubled children in Durham, N.C."Something tugged on me to give back to the community," he said.

That it has lasted 50 years, this inkling of an idea that came to three boys as they walked along a northwest Baltimore street, is an ongoing documentary to the character of those involved. The Lancers Boys Club stands for half a century of extraordinary excellence.While doing for others it also has served itself. The boys of yesteryear are the men of today, involved in diverse roles of national and community leadership. It's one of those uplifting stories in an all-for-one caustic world of general selfishness that sounds too good to be real -- based on an awareness that service to those in need is the most commendable of human responses.

Two Glen Burnie boys were beaten and robbed Wednesday $$ as they walked home along the B&A Trail, county police said.The boys, 16- and 17-year-old brothers who live in the 500 block of Morningside Drive, were not hospitalized.The boys told police they were walking along the trail from Glen Burnie High School about 3 p.m. when they saw three boys come out of the 7-Eleven store on Greenway. One boy threw something at them, but the brothers ignored them, police said.The brothers stopped at Harundale Mall to get a T-shirt and continued south on the trail when they saw the trio behind them, police said.

A 16-year-old Odenton youth was arrested and two others were charged in a warrant Monday with kidnapping a 14-year-old Odenton boy from his home, taking him into woods near Arundel Middle School, and beating him over a drug debt, county police said.James Robert Jordan, 16, of the 1000 block of Autumn Gold Road and Dante Livingston, also 16, of the 1300 block of Burlington Drive were charged as adults with kidnapping, kidnapping a child under 16, second-degree assault, and false imprisonment.

Here are two consistent complaints about Baltimore and why it seems to be a city out of control: Punishment rarely fits the crime, and parents don't take responsibility for their children. So what do you do when three boys, ages 7, 8 and 11, steal a scooter, a wagon and bicycle parts from a neighbor's yard in North Baltimore's Medfield community? The angry victim called police, who promptly came, handcuffed the youngest boy, got him to roll on his friends and then handcuffed them as well.

"Pray to Jehovah." Those may have been the last words Neil "Pills" Rather heard as he lay dying on a Walbrook Junction parking lot. They came from the mouth of a 10-year-old boy. Pills had been shot three times. The boy was walking with two schoolmates in late May of 2007 when they heard the gunfire. They turned and saw one man running. Pills ran after him and tried to return fire with his own gun. He tripped over a tire and then just lay on the parking lot. The boys and some other bystanders ran up to him. The boys asked Pills if he could hear them.

2 Years since the Annapolis softball team won a game before the Panthers edged St. Mary's, 2-1, last week behind sophomore Andrea Adams, who pitched a three-hitter and struck out nine. 3 Hits given up by Chesapeake freshman Laura Gibson in her first varsity softball start, a 10-0 rout of Urbana. 7 Players who scored for the No. 10 Severn boys lacrosse team in its 8-7 upset of No. 4 McDonogh on March 28. Nick Elsmo led the Admirals with two goals. $6,000 Amount in college scholarships donated by the Dick Hart Foundation to three boys and girls basketball players this year.

Anne Arundel County police have charged one man and two boys in connection with an armed robbery that occurred Tuesday night at Glen Burnie High School. Damian A. Johnson, 18, of Glen Burnie has been charged with armed robbery, second-degree assault and related crimes, according to police. Authorities said Johnson and the two juveniles stole a skateboard and tried to take other items from three boys who were playing at the school, police said. One of the suspects wielded what the boys thought was a handgun during the incident, though police later identified it as a pellet gun. The design of the pellet gun gives it "the appearance of a real weapon," police said in a news release.

Three boys from Arnold were blown across the mouth of the Magothy River to Gibson Island in a small dinghy and capsized yesterday afternoon as a sudden storm whipped across the county. The boys - two of them 16 years old and one, 12 - capsized just off Gibson Island about 4 p.m., said Division Chief John M. Scholz, a county Fire Department spokesman. An island resident dried their clothes while paramedics checked the boys for hyperthermia. But all appeared fine after the close call in their 8-foot boat, and their parents declined to have them transported to a hospital for checkups.

Three boys from Arnold were blown across the mouth of the Magothy River to Gibson Island in a small dinghy and capsized yesterday afternoon as a sudden storm whipped across the county. The boys - two of them 16 years old and one, 12 - capsized just off Gibson Island about 4 p.m., said Division Chief John M. Scholz, a county Fire Department spokesman. An island resident dried their clothes while paramedics checked the boys for hypothermia. But all appeared fine after the close call in their 8-foot boat, and their parents declined to have them transported to a hospital for checkups.

The mother of the 17-year-old boy who police say was involved in the high-speed crash of a stolen car with a Carney tavern Monday night said yesterday she believes the three boys were fleeing gunshots heard moments before at a Towson skating rink - and police who were chasing them. "He was very lucky. I am hoping that through the grace of God that they learned from it," said the 31-year-old, who lives in the 600 block of Melville Ave. in Baltimore's Pen Lucy neighborhood. The two boys charged with stealing the vehicle, which hit the Firehouse Tavern at 100 mph, have been telling neighbors that they are too shaken by the incident to talk about it. One of the boys - a 15-year-old who was in the back seat - said yesterday that he did not remember how he and his longtime friends drove the stolen Subaru Outback through the bar, injuring themselves and 16 others.

Even as funerals continued in a shell-shocked community in Colorado, three Glen Burnie High School freshmen were arrested yesterday after school officials received warnings that the youths were threatening classmates and plotting to bomb the school.Almost immediately, the homes of the three boys were searched.Bombs and bomb-making devices were found, Anne Arundel County police said, and one of the boys acknowledged taunting other students about a hit list.By midafternoon, one was charged with issuing bomb threats, the other two with possessing bomb-making components.

Three boys have been arrested and charged with numerous counts of burglary for allegedly stealing power tools, bicycles, firearms and other items from dozens of residential sheds in the Rosedale area.Police, who did not release the boys' names because they are juveniles, said they were 12, 14 and 15.Police believe the boys broke into 120 sheds in the Rosedale area from July 17 to 30.Nothing was taken from some of the sheds, said county police spokesman Bill Toohey, and some of the stolen property has been recovered.

Police humorMARYLAND STATE Police public information officers flexed their literary muscles and added a little pizazz to a news release about St. Patrick's Day last week.The release, which mentioned that troopers would be patrolling roads in green and black state patrol cars on St. Patrick's Day, added: "A motorist who is stopped for drunk or drugged driving will not see, in their rearview mirror, the brilliant colors of a rainbow leading to a pot of gold, but the red and blue flashing lights of a Maryland State Police patrol car."