Eastern Shore

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.

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.

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.

As she stared at the screen of her camera, then at the sky, she began to cry. She was almost in a dream state.

Five museum exhibitions across the region — from Washington, D.C. to Easton to Baltimore — purposefully blur boundaries between art and craft, BmoreArt writes.

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, 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.

Police said the 2-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, was struck by a tram on the boardwalk Tuesday a little after 8 p.m.

The Perdue Foods recall comes after some customers reported finding metal wire embedded in the products.

Nicholas Bendy was arrested allegedly for driving under the influence after an Ocean City police officer saw him speeding and changing lanes.

This year, researchers have been monitoring more than 600 breeding pairs of osprey in a dozen locations as part of a multipronged effort to assess the birds’ breeding success around the Chesapeake Bay.

Perdue has agreed to pay the Maryland Department of the Environment close to $12 million to settle air pollution violations at the company’s soybean facility on the Eastern Shore.

Kermit Travers was among only a handful that could be counted as a Black skipjack captain, a fading profession with historic roots. Travers died July 22 in hospice care at age 86, almost certainly the last of his peers.

The project that could become Maryland’s first offshore wind farm would have few major environmental impacts, according to a review by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.