Eastern Shore

The deputy chief of a volunteer fire company in Cecil County faces multiple charges stemming from a brush fire that authorities say he started.

Salisbury University condemned any acts of hate and suspended the students and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter.

The Gordie Howe International Bridges isn’t an exact fit for easy comparison for proposed new Chesapeake Bay bridges. But in terms of scale, it’s the largest bridge project in North America right now, and when finished will be the longest cable-stated bridge on the continent. So are there some lessons there? Maybe.

The news shook an already-tenuous sense of safety on the Eastern Shore campus.

Each of the six alternatives include widening the total capacity to at least eight lanes and include new ideas for public transit and tolls.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon expelled the Salisbury University students who are accused of being involved in an alleged hate crime, the organization said.

There have been lawsuits about police conduct. What isn’t widely known is this message from the court system in Worcester County — screw up here, and you won’t be going home anytime soon.

Twelve total Salisbury University students have been charged in an attack, which police said was captured on video, that is being investigated as a hate crime.

Seven Salisbury University students were arrested and charged with first-degree assault and other offenses in an attack on a gay man in mid-October. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

A former Easton Police officer was sentenced Friday for making sexual contact with two teenage girls while on duty, conduct that the judge called “well beyond an embarrassment.”

High property values and relative population density have given the town an outsized importance in the county’s economic picture.

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan are locked in a closely watched race for the U.S. Senate, but neither is talking a lot about climate change or the Chesapeake Bay in their campaigns, despite the significance of those issues to Maryland.

A “highly stylized” version of George Washington’s signature has been replaced — at least in part because it was difficult to read for prospective students.

Salisbury, a Maryland town that’s grown alongside Perdue’s chicken plant, fears what’s to come after forever chemicals were found in the groundwater.

The tourist town’s lawsuit, filed Friday, comes after months of threats and as seaside communities in other parts of the East Coast have waged an offensive against a nascent U.S. offshore wind industry.

Brown boobies, rare birds native to the tropics, are getting comfortable on buoys in the Chesapeake.

Tiffany Knupp will serve a year of unsupervised probation, pay $6,500 restitution and resign from the foundation.

Ocean City Emergency Services Director Joe Theobald said in a statement Friday evening that the water is safe for swimming and surfing.

Medical waste and debris continued to wash up on beaches in Maryland, and officials say they will prohibit swimming as they investigate.

Food insecurity in rural Maryland has been especially pronounced this summer, local advocates say. Low-income families are grappling with soaring grocery prices and unusually high temperatures that hit at the same time as federal reductions in food assistance programs.