March 2

Milburn Henson, 42 and wheelchair-bound, was fatally shot in the head. Donte Bellamy, 22, and Duraye Cole, 36, were identified as the two men fatally shot on E. 25th street.

Jayne: Comparing the first two months of this year to last using the Mayor's own numbers, violent crime is up in almost every category: shootings are up 55 percent; robberies 20 percent; burglaries 27 percent; aggravated assault, 6 percent. The only reduction was in homicide: there were four fewer this year.

In Essex, Thomas Rawls, a burglary suspect, died during a struggle with police.

What kind of group home would let a mentally impaired man go to the North Avenue McDonald's? Now Nicholas Dollar, 23, of Randallstown, is missing.

Blotter: Derrick Brown, 29, was arrested with intent to distribute marijuana. A man robbed the M&T Bank on South Broadway, plenty of muggings, and ... why do the car thieves seem to favor the late-model American cars? And what's a 'black powder' handgun, like a mini-musket or something?

Michael Branch, 23, got 25 federal years for selling crack. And Grayson Ramsburg Jr., 45, got five years' probabtion for child porn.

Baltimore City School Police recovered the fourth gun of the year on school property, this one a loaded 9 mm semi-automatic at William H. Lemmel Middle School in the Northwest.

Two Catholic-school teachers have been accused of sexually abusing a male student at Our Lady of Pompei High School in the '90s.

A clean-shaven black man with crooked teeth allegedly sexually assaulted two teenage girls in two different incidents last Monday and Tuesday in the Northern.

Police caught an Annapolis 17-year-old, Matthew J. Haarhoff, on the Eastern Shore, and arrested him for first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing and burning of Anthony Fertitta.

The Towson student who was feloniously touched in her sleep talked to the Towerlight about the extremely creepy incident.

In AA County, Linda Lee Nichols got a five-year sentence for the drunk-driving crash that killed two 16-year-old boys, Kevin Durm and David Snyder, of Arnold. After the fatal crash, instead of trying to help the victims, she walked to a convenience store and bought a pack of gum.

In Frederick, an officer shot and killed a suspect. Also, a sex offender Richard Sherry got 18 months' probation for failing to register his address.

In PG County, a second suspect, Sean Wallace, 19, was arrested for kidnapping youngsters and forcing them to rob banks.