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Annie McCann's parents desperately want information about the death of their 16-year-old daughter, whose body was found behind a Baltimore trash bin last year after she ran away from her Alexandria, Va., home. But the father of a teenage boy recently charged with stealing the McCanns' car on the day the girl died says his son can't provide it. "This is a dead end for what they want," Bryant Woodley Sr. said in an interview. "The boys don't know nothing." He asked that his son, 16, not be named.

Here's an idea for the 2009 Orioles and beyond. It's one you heard back in 2005 - in both July and November. It's time to float it again A.J. Burnett coming home as a member of the Orioles' rotation. Could it happen? Sure. Will it happen? Most likely not. Should it happen? The jury is definitely out on that one. It depends whether you like to roll the dice, whether you'd rather gamble on stunning talent than boring mediocrity. It matters whether you could stomach another, slightly shorter, version of Daniel Cabrera, dominating one start, imploding the next.

Baltimore is the cradle of lacrosse, and the cradle was rocking yesterday at Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville, where teams of 6- to 8-year-old boys raced up and down, checking, scrambling, passing and shooting, just like the big guys.Passes didn't always connect, sticks flailed and shots flew way wide of the goal, but with their coaches running up and down the field with them, correcting mistakes as they happened, the boys learned as they played and nobody kept track of who won and who lost.

In Baltimore City Officers posing as drug dealers arrest 55 people Drug enforcement officers from each of the city's nine police districts arrested 55 people and raided three dwellings Tuesday during "Operation Buy Bust" - an initiative in which officers posed as drug dealers and locked up their customers. Reporting the arrests yesterday, Lt. Michael Tabor, commander of district drug units, said police seized about $3,000 worth of cocaine, heroin and marijuana; more than $15,000 in cash; three vehicles; and three firearms.

CAMBRIDGE -- They came from Virginia, New Jersey and as far away as Hawaii yesterday to prepare to bury two young boys - 8-year-old Jarris Robinson, who fell through the ice on a neighborhood pond Sunday afternoon, and his brother Aaron, 12, who died trying to save him. Relatives and friends gathered inside the red-brick house with Jenise Robinson, who had warned her sons not to climb the fence around the pond. Neighbors and schoolmates, struggling with disbelief, spoke of two vibrant, energetic kids.

I've been watching this Spur Posse story with more than a little interest. You've probably heard about it. High school boys in suburban, middle-class L.A. kept score of their sexual conquests -- one point for each girl, whether or not the issue was bTC forced.The reaction is the scary part. The boys, belonging to a popular crowd who call themselves the Spur Posse, are basically heroes back at old Lakewood High and, as if local fame were insufficient, get interviewed on national TV. Many of the parents defend their sons as red-blooded American boys (as in boys who will be boys)

Four young boys - two 13- year-olds and two 14- year-olds - have been charged with gang raping a 13- year-old girl who lived with them at a children's group home in Catonsville. The girl told Baltimore County police that she was attacked Sept. 8 in the woods bordering the sprawling, manicured campus of The Children's Home, a state-licensed, nonprofit facility that provides residential and custodial care to abused and neglected children. The two 14-year-olds, Erik R. Stewart and Shawn E. Johnson, have been charged as adults, a requirement for teen-agers 14 and older who face a charge - in this case, first-degree rape - that carries a possible life sentence.

Everyone who's ever attended Notre Dame Preparatory School -- or is close to anyone who did -- will nod knowingly at the words "gym meet." Years later, participants remember who won the competition, their songs, where they stood in the march line. But will they be able to explain a tradition that provokes gales of laughter and rivers of tears and even decades afterward evokes poignant memories? Not as easily. A fierce competition among the four high school classes at the Catholic girls' school in Towson, the gym meet is a rite of passage wrapped in a bit of magic.

Bob Benson's secret is finally revealed. And, no, it's not teaming with the NSA to spy on SC&P's phone conversations. But before we get into that, let's talk about Don helping someone else run from the military for a change. This season has been somewhat slow and slightly spotty, especially when delving into current affairs (see: the MLK assassination , which featured next-to-no perspective from the black characters). At times, this season has briefly alluded to the Vietnam War, whether it's Kevin's Greg's self-imposed stay in the Army or Ginsberg lamenting the war's 200 body bags a week.

Three men wearing latex gloves, two in hooded sweat shirts, fired at least 16 shots as Rashaw Scott sat in the driver's seat of a parked red Chevrolet — his 16-month-old son, Carter, was in the back passenger seat — in what police say was a targeted shooting that left the child dead. Scott, 22, of Harlem Park, described the scene inside the Cherrydale Apartments complex in South Baltimore to police before he was admitted to surgery, according to an arrest warrant obtained Sunday.