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    Gordie Howe International Bridge progress, December 2023.
    Can Gordie Howe save Maryland from its Chesapeake Bay Bridge blues?
    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.
    Supporters participate in a march organized by Salisbury University LGBTQ groups, almost a month after an alleged hate crime took place on campus, at Salisbury University on Monday, Nov. 11, 2024 in Salisbury, MD.
    At Salisbury University, an alleged hate crime shakes LGBTQ+ students’ sense of safety
    The news shook an already-tenuous sense of safety on the Eastern Shore campus.
    The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is seen as a bulk carrier heads toward the Port of Baltimore.
    State now plans to replace the Chesapeake Bay Bridge with two new spans
    Each of the six alternatives include widening the total capacity to at least eight lanes and include new ideas for public transit and tolls.
    Salisbury University in 2022.
    Fraternity expels Salisbury University students charged in attack
    Sigma Alpha Epsilon expelled the Salisbury University students who are accused of being involved in an alleged hate crime, the organization said.
    The WaWa on 12th Street in Ocean City was not a great place to hang out in the hours before dawn on June 14. Four boys from Annapolis attacked one from Baltimore County, and they spent months in jail without bail awaiting trial.
    Denied bail for months, Annapolis High graduates finally home after Senior Week assault
    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.
    Salisbury University in 2022.
    5 more Salisbury students charged after man said he was lured to apartment attack
    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.
    Baltimore Police lights flicker at night.
    7 Salisbury University students arrested, charged in hate crime investigation
    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.”
    Easton cop sentenced for committing sex acts with teens in patrol car
    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.”
    Albert Nickerson, a county commissioner in Kent County is pictured on his in-law's farm on October 18, 2024.
    In Maryland’s smallest county, the politics of change take center stage
    High property values and relative population density have given the town an outsized importance in the county’s economic picture.
    Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland, talks about climate change at City Dock in Annapolis on Oct. 16, 2024, surrounded by people working on the issue for years.
    Alsobrooks and Hogan rarely mention climate change or the Chesapeake. They don’t have to.
    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.
    Campus photos of Washington College, in Kent County.
    Maryland college changes logo, citing ‘difficult to read’ cursive
    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.
    Farm animals graze on the Hearn family property in Salisbury, MD, on Oct. 24, 2024. The property neighbors the Perdue Agribusiness plant which has been found to be contaminating local groundwater with PFAS. Surrounded by farmland, many residents are concerned over their private drinking water wells for both themselves and their livestock.
    Perdue’s contamination sparks fear in town where company once felt like ‘home’
    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.
    An aerial shot of Ocean City, Md. near the inlet, showing the Atlantic Ocean at right, the beach center and the city at left.
    Ocean City, others sue federal government over offshore wind project
    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.
    Mason Hallock, a commercial fisherman from Edgewater, wears his passion for rockfish on his arm. He came to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission meeting on Oct. 23, 2024 in Annapolis hoping to get a feel for what's ahead.
    We all like a taste of rockfish. Regulators are taking steps to make sure everyone gets a bite.
    The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission will hold a special meeting in December to change the season for catching rockfish, catch limits and size restrictions, or some combination of all three.
    Victoria Richardson plays with her daughter Khalani, 1, and  son Zakari, 3, who both live with her.
    These kids have never done drugs. They’re still being treated for addiction.
    Opioids have devastated not just individuals in the rural Cecil County, but impacted children so heavily that officials are now treating addiction as a family affair.
    Amornrat Hedden and her son, Ayden, saw the northern lights from a Cessna 172.
    A $100 Groupon got this mom and son a bird’s-eye view of the northern lights
    As she stared at the screen of her camera, then at the sky, she began to cry. She was almost in a dream state.
    An installation view of Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens' "Fragile Beauty: Art of the Ocean" show in Washington, D.C.
    5 must-see museum shows this month
    Five museum exhibitions across the region — from Washington, D.C. to Easton to Baltimore — purposefully blur boundaries between art and craft, BmoreArt writes.
    Artist Katherine Fahey became obsessed with a long-ago colony of black cats on Poplar Island, located on the Chesapeake Bay.
    100s of black cats roamed a Chesapeake Bay island. Then they disappeared.
    Charles Carroll III gathered hundreds of black cats on a Chesapeake Bay island to create a fur farm in the 1840s. Where did they all go?
    Brown Boobies sit on a port hand navigation buoy in the Chesapeake Bay near Rock Hall. A colony of more than a dozen boobies, which are normally found in the tropics, has been drawing birders onto the bay for much of the summer.
    Rare brown boobies bewitch Baltimore birders
    Brown boobies, rare birds native to the tropics, are getting comfortable on buoys in the Chesapeake.
    Gavin Knupp's mother, Tiffany Knupp, fixes and adds things to his memorial on the side of the service road where the hit-and-run took place last summer.
    Gavin Knupp’s mother reaches agreement with prosecutors on foundation embezzlement charges
    Tiffany Knupp will serve a year of unsupervised probation, pay $6,500 restitution and resign from the foundation.
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