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It was so quiet at BWI Marshall Airport Saturday morning, you could hear a little girl in pink singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" as she and her family awaited their luggage at Carousel 3. Unlike the two days leading up to Thanksgiving, when the way out of town was clogged and people were so uptight you could have driven nails with their bodies, Saturday was as relaxed as a pair of jammies with feet. Returning passengers congratulated themselves on their scheduling choice.

The city of Baltimore agreed Wednesday to pay $100,000 to a West Baltimore family whose special-needs student died after falling from a moving school bus in 2010. City Solicitor George Nilson said school officials knew that Jeremy C. Jennings Jr., the emotionally disturbed 6-year-old, needed to be restrained on the bus but failed to do so. "A young, vulnerable child was sent off to school and didn't return home through no fault of his own," said Nilson, a member of the city Board of Estimates.

The 200-year-old mummified remains of a small child are making their way back to the University of Maryland School of Medicine after an absence in which they were posted for sale on eBay and languished for almost five years in a Michigan police evidence room. The effort to identify the mummy's home and return it was aided by a Port Huron, Mich., police lieutenant, a couple of astute Michigan anthropologists and the curator of a mummy collection originally assembled by a convicted 19th-century Scottish grave robber.

One of two 13-year-old girls reported missing in Baltimore on Saturday night has returned home, city police said Sunday evening, but the other girl still has not been found. Kymira Martin made contact with her mother Sunday and returned home later that day, according to police. She was reported missing from her home in Waverly after leaving Friday evening. Still missing is Kaitlyn Benny. Described as white, 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 130 pounds, she was last seen about 5:30 p.m. Friday in the 5900 block of Benton Heights Ave. in the Glenham-Belford area off Belair Road.

A Baltimore County man who surprised two burglars at his home yesterday was shot in the abdomen, county police said.Police said the robbers entered a house in the first block of Benoni Circle in the Tidewater Village community by pointing a gun at two men who lived there after one of them answered the door.The robbers ransacked the house. When the third resident came home at 3:45 p.m., one of the robbers shot him in the abdomen as he came in, police said.Henry Curtis Simmons, 49, was in serious condition last night at Franklin Square Hospital.

SARAJEVO, Bosnia -- The most critical -- and probably least feasible -- part of the new Bosnian peace agreement is the right it gives refugees to return home.Few diplomats, human rights experts or refugee officials believe that the provision will work. Its failure would leave a festering sore that many predict will erupt into war again in a matter of months or years.A handful of "confidence-building" refugee-return projects have failed miserably in the past several weeks, with dozens of families blocked from going home.

Graduating from college marks a significant step into adulthood. So it may seem paradoxical that for many grads, moving back home immediately follows. About half of college graduates plan to return home at the end of school this year, according to a 2007 survey from MonsterTrak, a job search engine for students. The stampede home is not a new trend; an equal proportion of students said they planned to move home last year. And plenty of studies show that grads face steep hurdles to becoming financially independent, from student loan balances that average about $20,000 to rising rents for apartments.

Parbadee Ann Bisnath is finally going home. For 24 days - since a judge ruled that her ex-husband had threatened to kill her with a knife in front of their children but declined to order the man to leave the house they share - the Owings Mills woman, her son, two daughters and their Jack Russell terrier have been living with her attorney. They left their own home in late September after Baltimore County District Judge Bruce S. Lamdin refused to order Gordan Bisnath to stay away from his ex-wife and their house, even though the judge found that the man had previously abused Ann Bisnath and vowed on Sept.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- To the cheers of supporters who set off celebratory firecrackers and flung pink flower petals, the party of exiled former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto announced yesterday that she would return to her homeland Oct. 18. It is not known whether Bhutto, who has been in exile in London and Dubai for nearly nine years, would return as nominal ally or nettlesome rival of President Pervez Musharraf. Also not known is whether she might be imprisoned on active charges of corruption.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- The Ethiopian Consulate was filled this week with young women, almost all of them maids and nannies trying to get back home. And at the Iraqi Embassy, yet another bus pulled up with poor laborers seeking passage back to Baghdad, hoping to return home even though it means returning to another war zone. Throughout the Lebanese capital, embassies and consulates are attempting to extricate fellow citizens from the fighting that began July 12. For Western nations such as the United States, the effort has involved the costly use of ships or helicopters.

As a patriotic American, I have tremendous admiration and respect for our citizens in military service, and I support our troops wholeheartedly. For this reason I am dismayed by the actions we have allowed our government to take while these brave men and women put their lives on the line in foreign lands. Each day, our troops fight to secure freedom and liberty for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Sadly, when they return home, they will find through many seemingly acceptable compromises in the name of national security and public safety, they have been stripped of the rights they fought to defend in the desserts of the Middle East.

WWE posted an article last Tuesday night announcing that Alberto Del Rio had won the World Heavyweight Championship from the Big Show at that week's Smackdown tapings. Revealing a title change isn't uncommon as of late. With so many fans reading spoilers anyway, why wouldn't WWE bring that traffic to their own platforms? That's not the most interesting part of the scenario. What's interesting to me is the timing. With Friday being the first Smackdown after the holiday season, and The Rock in the building, this was already projected to be a highly watched episode.

It was so quiet at BWI Marshall Airport Saturday morning, you could hear a little girl in pink singing "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" as she and her family awaited their luggage at Carousel 3. Unlike the two days leading up to Thanksgiving, when the way out of town was clogged and people were so uptight you could have driven nails with their bodies, Saturday was as relaxed as a pair of jammies with feet. Returning passengers congratulated themselves on their scheduling choice.

The following is compiled from police reports. It is the Baltimore Messenger's policy to include descriptions only when there is enough information to make identification possible. If you have any information about these crimes, call the Baltimore City Police Department's Northern District at 410-396-2455. Ash Street 3600 block, between 12:30 and 1:30 a.m. Oct. 3. Generator stolen from shed. Entry gained by damaging lock on door. Beech Avenue 3700 block, between 1:50 and 3:50 p.m. Oct. 1. Door damaged in attempted larceny from auto.

The four lifelong friends of Animal Collective had spent years living apart. Scattered across the globe, from Los Angeles to Portugal, they'd collaborate through emails and phone calls, coming together only for tours. So when it came time to write "Centipede Hz," the highly anticipated follow-up to 2009's " Merriweather Post Pavilion " that was released on Sept. 4, the members returned to their childhood home of Baltimore for three months, ready to work on the next batch of off-kilter psychedelic rock songs.

Orioles left hander Wei-Yin Chen's one critical mistake on Tuesday night came against the most unlikeliest of hitters. Chen held most of the Tampa Bay Rays lineup in check. The Rays didn't get their first hit off the Orioles starter until two outs in the fourth inning, and they had just two baserunners through the first four frames. But the Rays had their answer in light-hitting No. 9 hitter Brooks Conrad, a waiver claim a month ago, who had just two hits in his last 27 at-bats and was making his first start in 10 games.

Baltimore County police are asking for the public's help in finding a 14-year-old girl who did not return home from school on Tuesday. Solothia Andrea Thomas, a student at Overlea High School, may be in the Baltimore area, according police. They said they were "concerned for her safety and well-being. " She was described as black, 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighing 110 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown hair and was last seen wearing a brown coat, blue jeans and gray boots.

Jose Camacho's goal seemed simple enough: Leave Guanajuato, Mexico, for Baltimore, work hard enough to earn $10,000 and return home after a few months. But once he reached $10,000, he yearned to make $15,000 or more. Before long, a few months became five years. Today, Camacho, 50, lives here with his wife and three children, and he earns more money laying cable than he could back home. The most important attraction for people such as Camacho, who enter the United States illegally, remains economic opportunity.

Army Sgt. Justin Haggerty was 7,000 miles away from his wife and daughter last Fourth of July — with his canine partner, HHelotes, in Afghanistan, searching for explosives and helping to protect a U.S. Special Forces group from the enemy. This year, Haggerty has a new mission: patrolling Fort Meade's Independence Day celebration. He will report to duty at 5 a.m. on Wednesday, dressed in his combat uniform and boots laced up his ankles, to inspect vehicles that enter the base and scout the grounds with his new dog, Rodi.

"Pops, when I come home, Natty Bohs and crabs?" Lance Cpl. Eugene C. "Gene" Mills III asked his father, Gene Mills II, during an impromptu phone call early last week, about a month before the younger man was due to return home to Laurel from Afghanistan. "One more mission, Pops, and I'll be home," the son told his father. "Love you, Pops. " Those were the last words his father - a retired Prince George's County police officer known as "Big Gene" - would ever hear from "Little Gene," 21, a High Road Academy graduate and Marine stationed in Helmand province, on his second deployment to the country.