Community issues

One bird, a colorful parrot, chirped “hello” from the animal services van. Five vans crowded the busy, two-lane road in Halethorpe to load up all the animals.

State health officials say there are now 26 cases of mumps in Maryland, nearly double last week’s figure and more than six times the tally for all of last year.

Montgomery County Police on Friday released video of a suspect in the death of Robert Fuller Jr., 87, an attorney who was found shot in the head on Valentine's Day in his apartment at a Potomoac.

Nelly and Vanilla Ice are set to headline the Birdland Summer Music Series this season at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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.

Grocery store prices and location matter, but so do the vibes of a store.

This month, Baltimore-area chefs are serving up reminders of Black Americans’ contributions to history.

Four years after police fatally shot 18-year-old Donnell Rochester, his mother continues calling on city and state officials to punish the officers involved.

“While I’m encouraged by the progress made to date and grateful for the collaboration across branches [of government], I remain frustrated by the lack of progress or, in some cases, the failure to recognize that progress is still needed,” City Council President Zeke Cohen said Thursday.

The Baltimore City Sheriff’s Office rescued dozens of lizards, turtles, fish and snakes, as well as a dog, from a Baltimore home this week after their owner died unexpectedly.

Officials have yet to decide when the cameras will become active, but a grace period will be offered before tickets are issued, said a city Department of Transportation spokesperson.

Speculation of ramped-up ICE activity in and around Baltimore has abounded for months. In Western Maryland, the Department of Homeland Security bought an 825,000-square-foot warehouse with plans to retrofit it into a detention facility for up to 1,500 immigrants, while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has opened an office in Hunt Valley for its attorneys.

Forget the “Quad God.” Columbia Figure Skating Club cofounder Patricia Muth is 86 and not about to quit. The Banner sat down with her to talk about her decades as an ice skating instructor and the Winter Olympics.

The forecast for this weekend, including the possibility of snow, remains unclear, according to the National Weather Service.

Mayor Muriel Bowser declared an emergency and requested that President Donald Trump provide federal resources to help the city fight a sewage system leak that dumped 250 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River in its early stages.

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.

Here are seven things to do in Howard County from Feb. 19 through Feb. 25.

Shanteari Young, 53, of Owings Mills, used to own Lil Kidz Kastle Daycare Center and finished serving her four-year sentence on Dec. 17 for aggravated assault and carrying a pistol without a license.

With ICE set to move in down the road, residents in mostly — but not entirely — conservative Washington County are grappling with what it means for their community.