Worcester County

Read Maryland's lips: No new taxes

2012-05-15 09:45:00

America was built on the ideas that one could work hard, sacrifice and save, to have a better life. I worked hard for years and years in school, I sacrificed and saved, and now I wake up early every weekday and many weekends to go to work, where I provide...

Emails show O'Malley's close ties to Perdue lawyer

2012-05-08 07:20:00

A series of emails between Gov. Martin O'Malley and Perdue's corporate lawyer shows what an environmental group calls a "cozy relationship" between the two law school classmates as Maryland's chief executive weighs farm pollution regulations of concern to...

Emails show close ties between O'Malley, Perdue lawyer

2012-05-09 09:48:00

Dry Eastern Shore saw most rainfall Wednesday

2012-05-10 08:08:00

The lower Eastern Shore, the driest part of Maryland this year, saw the most significant rainfall from the system that moved through Wednesday. Amateur weather watchers reported rainfall levels up to 1.23 inches in Wicomico County and 1.03 inches in...

Warming: Storm damage ahead

2012-03-14 11:56:00

Hurricane season may still be months away, but the threat of flooding is already on the rise in Maryland, as documented by the latest reports on climate change released this week. Rising sea levels have raised the risk of coastal flooding, particularly...

Another fatal shooting in Baltimore; drug, gun suspects sentenced to prison

2012-03-08 04:56:00

A man was fatally shot Wednesday night in West Baltimore's Walbrook neighborhood, a day after a second victim in a double shooting, also in West Baltimore, died from his wounds. The shootings bring to three the number of people killed in the city since...

No deal in UM's suit over poultry pollution

2012-03-29 16:56:00

Lawyers have not reached a settlement in a poultry pollution case filed by a University of Maryland environmental law clinic. U.S. District Judge William Nickerson said in a filing Thursday that while a settlement had not been reached, some progress...

Edward O. Thomas, judge

2012-04-02 14:34:18

Edward O. "Ned" Thomas, a retired District Court and Circuit Court judge for Worcester County who was a Baltimore native, died of congestive heart failure March 20 at his home at Buckingham's Choice in Adamstown. He was 94. Raised on Englewood Road in...

Perryville casino generates another $12 million in revenue during March

2012-04-05 08:36:00

Another $12 million in gross gaming revenue was generated by the Hollywood Casino Perryville's video gaming devices during March, the Maryland Lottery said Thursday. In its monthly report on casino gaming activity, the Lottery said the state's two...

County Exec. Baker begins push for National Harbor casino in Prince George's

2012-02-23 09:49:00

ANNAPOLIS - Prince George's CountyExecutive Rushern Baker III told the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee Wednesday that a full-fledged casino at National Harbor is in the best interest of the county's economic development and would bring in tens of...

Chicken farmers' side needs to be heard

2011-11-29 11:03:22

It is true that there are at least two sides to every story, including the situation of Gov. Martin O'Malley entering into the ongoing case between the University of Maryland Environmental Law Clinic and the Hudson family of Worcester County and Perdue...

Dr. Edwin H. T. Besson

2011-12-09 13:10:00

Dr. Edwin H. T. Besson, a retired pediatrician who was the former chairman of the St. Agnes Hospital pediatric department, died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, Dec. 4 at his Ellicott City home. He was 85. In a memoir, he...

worked to protect the Assateague Island National Seashore from development, as well as helped in the designation of the Pocomoke River as a 'wild and scenic river.

2010-03-08 11:24:35

"The Runaway Bride" was filmed in Maryland towns such as Berlin and Snow Hill in Worcester County, New Windsor in Carroll County and the city of Baltimore.

2005-06-13 09:06:02