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Eastern Shore

    Why does it seem foggier along the Chesapeake Bay?
    No one I know of studies Chesapeake Bay fog. It’s just the weather. But after spotting an increasing number of fog warnings on the Bay Bridge, maybe someone should.
    Fog makes things vanish, including the Baltimore Harbor as seen from a pier in Canton. There are signs that the Chesapeake Bay in winter is increasingly foggy.
    Morgan State professor fined for presenting himself as licensed architect
    A Morgan State University professor has been misrepresenting himself as a licensed architect for years. The Maryland State Board of Architects fined him $20,000 this month, the largest such fine in more than a decade.
    Professor Dale Glenwood Green gives a virtual presentation about historic preservation for the Maryland State Archives.
    Hate crime charges dropped against most Salisbury students in off-campus attack
    Misdemeanor false imprisonment and second-degree assault charges remain for most of the defendants, and many trials are set for late January.
    Students walk outside the Guerrieri Academic Commons at Salisbury University, where 15 students were charged in an off-campus attack.
    On farewell tour of Maryland, outgoing Sen. Ben Cardin reflects on six decades of public service
    U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin will leave office in January. It’s a moment of significant transition for Maryland, one with far-reaching consequences. You could see that as he traveled the state in the early days of his farewell tour.
    Ben Cardin talks with state Sen. Mike McKay, left, and David Jones, incoming president of Allegany College, during a farewell tour stop on Nov. 26, 2024 in Cumberland. Cardin was visiting supporters and elected officials across Maryland in anticipation of retiring from the Senate in January 2025.
    Ocean City wind farm clears final federal hurdle, but Trump looms
    Industry observers expect that offshore wind development could face serious set-backs under Trump, who could lend his support to lawsuits like the one Ocean City filed earlier this year against the development sited in view of its beaches.
    A wind turbine spins and generates power for the U.S. electric grid at the South Fork Wind farm in the Atlantic Ocean, 35 miles east of Montauk Point, New York, in 2023.
    As case resumes, man charged in hit-and-run of Gavin Knupp appears in court
    Tyler Mailloux, 24, of Berlin, is charged in Worcester County Circuit Court with 17 counts in the deadly 2022 crash.
    Many local businesses, some recognizable by tourists, have put slogans of support for Gavin Knupp.
    Deputy fire chief charged with malicious burning in Cecil County brush fire
    The deputy chief of a volunteer fire company in Cecil County faces multiple charges stemming from a brush fire that authorities say he started.
    A police line do not cross tape blocks a pathway near Penn Station.
    3 more Salisbury students charged in alleged hate crime attack
    Salisbury University condemned any acts of hate and suspended the students and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter.
    Salisbury University earlier this month.
    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.
    Gordie Howe International Bridge progress, December 2023.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    The Chesapeake Bay Bridge is seen as a bulk carrier heads toward the Port of Baltimore.
    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.
    Salisbury University in 2022.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    Salisbury University in 2022.
    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.
    Baltimore Police lights flicker at night.
    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.”
    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.”
    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.
    Albert Nickerson, a county commissioner in Kent County is pictured on his in-law's farm on October 18, 2024.
    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.
    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.
    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.
    Campus photos of Washington College, in Kent County.
    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.
    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.
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