Anne Arundel County

COLUMN | Like any tumultuous moment, the political right’s anti-immigrant agenda will show up in the arts. So I’ve been looking for it in local arts, places like the stages of Annapolis and the galleries of Columbia.

A local baseball coach was charged with sexually soliciting a minor and soliciting child sexual abuse material from her.

An Anne Arundel County delegate, inspired by Sheriff Everett Sesker, is trying to get the Maryland legislature to change an eviction law that only judges in Anne Arundel follow.

The U.S. Naval Academy has increased force protection measures following the attack on Iran by Israel and the United States, including closing to general public visitors.

COLUMN | As the U.S. and Israel hurled missiles and bombs at Iran on Saturday — and as the Islamic Republic retaliated — I wondered what the young exchange student I met a lifetime ago would say.

COLUMN | Welcome to the upside-down world of traffic court, where a random license plate scan shifts the burden of proof to the driver.

The Pittsburgh-based chain claimed it would employ 100 people at its Linthicum Heights location when it opened.

In Annapolis events round up this week, the city has “A Tale of Two Cities,” a Branford Marsalis show and Jay Fleming conversation to look forward to.

A certified planner and a volunteer firefighter have entered the race for Anne Arundel County’s top elected office. There are now five candidates, including four Democrats and one Republican.

Renowned chef Peter Chang is opening a new restaurant in Annapolis, and now taking reservations.

An Anne Arundel Community College student has been arrested after police say he installed a camera on a toilet in a women’s bathroom at the Arnold campus and recorded at least eight females.

COLUMN | The teenage driver killed last month in a fiery Howard County crash was at least the 31st person in Maryland to die in a police-related accident in the past five years. Almost all were killed when a driver fled from flashing lights.

Virtual school wasn’t an option then.

A storm forecasters predict will dump 3-6 inches of snow across parts of Maryland is expected to disrupt schools, universities and other essential services.

COLUMN | I’ve always thought Maryland Republicans’ fixation on voter fraud was a fantasy rooted in the frustration of being the state’s perpetual second party. But in Washington, the serial fantasists are in power and their proposals are a threat to open elections.

Four pedestrians were injured Saturday afternoon when a vehicle struck them on a sidewalk along Compromise Street, police said.

In September 1885, Winnie Harris wrote her last will and testament in the pages of a leather-bound, gilded Bible. About 140 years later, that Bible, now an official government record, was rediscovered in a cardboard box in the Maryland State Archives.

COLUMN | Months after a Navy Police officer shot a midshipman in a Naval Academy swatting attack, the Navy has spelled out when the small police force can stop mids, search them, handcuff and fingerprint them — and when they must let them go.

Anne Arundel County Police are rolling out new patches for the backs of officers’ vests to more clearly distinguish them from federal immigration agents.

To dine or not to dine, that’s always the question for late February when Annapolis Restaurant Week rolls around. The promotional event is one of seven great things to do in the coming seven days.