Wicomico County

Maryland will spend nearly $2 million to preserve 615 acres of environmentally sensitive land on the Eastern Shore. The Board of Public Works agreed yesterday to pay private landowners for easements to protect tracts in Wicomico, Dorchester and Cecil...

A Salisbury man died Thursday night after he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle, according to Maryland State Police. Arthur Ray Cephas, 57, was riding a bike south on Sixty Foot Road just north of U.S. 50 in Pittsville in Wicomico County about 6:55...

A Wicomico County prosecutor says a dispute about money between two Delaware roommates led the men to plot against each other, until one ended up dead in Maryland. The state alleges 25-year-old Jermaine Harris of Dagsboro, Del., shot and killed 20-year-...

Maryland's state school board made a final decision yesterday to hold firm and require this year's high school seniors to pass four subject tests to graduate in June, although it left open the possibility of exemptions for special education students and...

Over the years, Buddy helped quell rowdy Ocean City club crowds, patrol sandy beaches, keep order on the famous boardwalk and assist in arrests. The veteran patrol horse could also be found at major events, such as President Bill Clinton's second...

The eagerness echoed with each door knock. At the first stop on Church Street, no one answered the door, and the man in the backyard said he didn't speak English. So Chuck Cook, hungry for a score, gave brief chase after a car stopped at a traffic light....

Salisbury Agents with the Maryland comptroller's office confiscated about 4,500 packs of contraband cigarettes worth more than $22,000 Tuesday after Wicomico County sheriff's deputies stopped a van during a routine traffic stop. They arrested the driver...

Maryland Transportation Authority officials plan a briefing today on their inspections of the Bay Bridge, which have restricted traffic on the eastbound span since last week. The department is inspecting the guard rails and barriers on the bridge after an...

Drew Koslow steers his skiff under the Route 2 bridge near Annapolis and heads up the choppy South River, past the Spanish villas and faux-Victorian mansions that have replaced the cottages that once sat along its banks. Fifteen minutes into the trip,...

The way Newell Quinton sees it, the old elementary school isn't a symbol of segregation. It's a reminder of the freedom that has endured since the first free black men settled here long before the Civil War. Quinton, 63, grew up in this rural village...

Baltimore City Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS), 301 Stockholm St., Baltimore. - Open 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday and until 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays. - The adoption fee for dogs and cats is $65; includes spaying or neutering, initial...

When she heard the news about the Maryland state police ballistics expert who killed himself after being confronted with evidence that he'd lied about his credentials, Denise Barrett went to her office and flipped through piles of court transcripts....