Phoenix News

Children's Playhouse of Maryland, in residence at the Community College of Baltimore County, Essex, brings "Grease: School Version" to the stage at 1 p.m. weekends beginning Saturday, May 4 through Sunday, May 19.

Recently, a German friend was trying to come up with an English phrase to describe the delight when something is much better than anticipated-a positive twist on the idea of "bait and switch." I couldn't think of a colloquialism beyond "pleasantly surprised," though that phrase didn't seem sufficiently potent.

Federal agents found 500 pounds of marijuana and more than 10 kilograms of cocaine, along with an AK-47 and body armor, during raids on homes in Baltimore County and northeastern Baltimore as part of a cross-country drug investigation.

A burglar pried a screen and window to get into a home and steal jewelry. Between March 28 and April 2, numerous pieces of jewelry were missing from a jewelry box at a home in the 13800 block of Hess Mill Road in Phoenix, according to a report by Baltimore County police.

Numerous pieces of jewelry were stolen from a Phoenix home recently. Between March 28 and Monday, a burglar broke into a home in the 13800 block of Hess Mill Road, according to a report by the Baltimore County Police Department.