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Buy a Mother's Day meal or gift and support a favorite cause

2012-05-08 04:00:00

Here’s a twist on buying Mother’s Day gifts, whether a meal out or a box of chocolates. Pick from more than 2,600 online retailers and dozens of Baltimore area restaurants that make a donation to a favorite nonprofit charity for every...

Baltimore Highlands: Shrimp the big attraction for English Consul volunteers' feast

2012-05-09 10:56:00

The English Consul Volunteer Fire Department, 2827 Michigan Ave., hosts the annual shrimp feast from 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday, May 12, costing $35 per person. A DJ will provide music. In addition to steamed shrimp, shrimp soup and shrimp creole,...

Columnist: Why is Baltimore always portrayed as a hellhole?

2012-05-10 06:15:00

Joe Queenan is nobody's Mr. Nice Guy. But the deliciously cutting columnist has a soft side for, of all things, Baltimore. In fact in the Wall Street Journal, Queenan rides like a white knight to the city's defense after what he sees as slight after...

Camels return to the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore

2012-05-01 13:40:00

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore now welcomes Oscar, Niles and Sandy from their winter home in North Carolina. Visitors to the zoo can take an exhilarating ride on one of Maryland's summer resident camels. Until July 31 and throughout the month of...

Pictures: Bunny Bonanzoo at Maryland Zoo

2012-04-07 00:00:00

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Ready, set, go — Easter egg hunt draws thousands to zoo

2012-04-07 15:38:00

Montrease Lamback of Gwynn Oak stood on the sidelines and snapped photos as her 2-year-old son, Tyler, slipped plastic Easter eggs into his green felt basket. The eggs secured, Tyler pulled them back out, tossed some on the ground, handed a few to...

Venue info.: Maryland Zoo in Baltimore

2012-04-20 10:09:00

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The Maryland Zoo announces stillborn chimpanzee birth

2012-04-20 10:41:00

Bunny, a 22-year-old chimpanzee at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, gave birth to a stillborn baby Thursday, the Zoo announced today. The Zoo's chimpanzees were given "mourning time" with the stillborn baby, according to Zoo officials. "This was Bunny's...

Monkey born in Md. Zoo exhibit Saturday

2012-04-21 15:38:00

A colobus monkey was born in an exhibit Saturday at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. Zoo officials did not know for certain that one of their female colobus monkeys, 14-year-old Keri, was pregnant, the zoo's general curator, Mike McClure, said in a...

'WaterBillWoman' pestered city for years over faulty bills

2012-03-06 13:08:00

For years, Linda Stewart has spotted erroneous city water bills and posted them online, where she is known as WaterBillWoman. She has lodged complaints with City Hall about the widespread problems. She has attended hearings. She has demanded...

Zoo celebrates Samson's 4th birthday

2012-03-17 15:18:00

Samson, the Maryland Zoo's young elephant, made quick work of his vegetarian cake while a hillside of children and parents serenaded the birthday boy who is turning 4. His arching and nimble trunk first went for the prize, one of four big carrot...

How many more weeks of winter?

2012-02-27 11:30:00

Much like I spent the months up to Christmas counting down the days, I am now wishing away each 30-degree day and clinging to our sporadic 50-degree ones. Don't get me wrong, winter is typically my favorite season, but a winter without snow is kind of...

Jeffrey F. Bill photographed Magnet, the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore 's male polar bear, taking a dive in the crisp cool water on a mild winter day in January, 2006.

2012-05-03 15:19:22

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore is pleased to announce the birth of four common warthog piglets, born on Wednesday, April 4 to Kumari and Kijani, the Zoo's warthog pair. This is the second litter for Kumari, the 7-year-old female warthog.

2012-05-03 00:00:00

Camel rides at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore

2012-05-01 00:00:00