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Never mind the chicken, why did the deer cross the road?
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Officials searched Friday for a gunman who opened fire in a downtown office building. At least eight people were hurt.
GALENA -- An Elkton man, who told police he was addicted to methadone, was arrested Monday morning after he allegedly tried to rob a pharmacist at knifepoint.
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The Catholic Diocese of Wilmington has reached a settlement in its bankruptcy case in a dispute over whether alleged victims of priest sex abuse could proceed with trials against its parish co-defendants.
U.S. Congressman Frank Kratovil announced Friday that he intends to vote against a Democrat-backed health care reform bill scheduled for a vote on the floor of the House on Saturday.
The 50-year-old man who was shot by a state trooper on Route 40 on Tuesday has been charged with 12 counts of assault, according to police.
The 40-year-old woman gunned down inside a Chesapeake City-area home this week appears to have been the victim of home invasion robbery, police announced Thursday.
A 25-year-old Bear man received a two-year prison term Thursday for his role in shootings near North East and Elkton.
Although more than half of Maryland residents filed their income tax returns electronically this year, the Internal Revenue Service says the state is still behind the national average.
Photos by Cecil Whig Photographer
Members of the Cecil College Family Education Center staff pose in costumes they wore Thursday in anticipation of "Beatlemania Again," a play coming to Milburn Stone Theatre on the college’s North East campus at 8 p.m. Saturday.
County residents can now receive private, one-on-one counseling from a psychiatrist more than 50 miles away, thanks to a secure Web-based video conferencing service provided by the county health department.
A special meeting will be held later this month in which Port Deposit officials will explain plans to sell the town’s water and sewer infrastructure.
Nighttime drivers on U.S. Route 1 between Rising Sun and the Conowingo Dam will probably experience some delays over the next several weeks.
Customers of Martin’s Food Market in Rising Sun are advised to check their freezers after a recall of ground been products was expanded Thursday.
Westbound traffic over the Hatem Bridge will be diverted onto Interstate 95 four nights next week, according to Maryland Transportation Authority officials.
The Elkton Chamber and Alliance will hold a special reception dinner at Bentley’s Restaurant on Nov. 12 honoring Rob Massimiano, the owner of Tidewater Tattoo Studio on West Main Street. A social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a choice of chicken marsala or prime rib to be served at 6:30 p.m.
The Perryville Chamber of Commerce will hold a luncheon at the Minker Banquet Hall, 920 Principio Furnace Road in Perryville, at 11:30 a.m. Nov. 17.
North East’s town board meetings have been rescheduled this month to accommodate the Veterans Day and Thanksgiving holidays.
The opening reception for the Cecil County Arts Council’s tenth-annual judged photography exhibition will be held at 135 E. Main St. in Elkton from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov. 13. The exhibition will run through Dec. 11. Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesday, Thursdays and Fridays, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the last Saturday of the month. For more information, please call 410-392-5740.
The Rotary Club of Elkton recently inducted Tom Furlong as its newest member. Furlong, an avid golfer and the owner of AAMCO Transmissions in Elkton, is a resident of Havre de Grace, where he lives with his wife of 39 years, Alise. They are the parents of three grown children and have five grandchildren.
Car sideswipes elephant in Enid
EASTON -- He didn't announce his own candidacy, but former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. did pan the Democratic Maryland legislature Tuesday and encouraged voters to support pro-business candidates in state elections during an Eastern Shore Building Industry Association meeting at the Tidewater Inn in Easton.
The 50-year-old man shot by a state trooper on Route 40 on Tuesday has been charged with 12 counts of assault, according to police.
An intruder gunned down a 40-year-old woman inside her home near Chesapeake City early Wednesday, according to the Cecil County Sheriff’s Office.
Investigators continued their search Wednesday for the handgun 50-year-old Clyde S. Patterson claimed to have minutes before a state trooper shot him on Route 40 near North East on Tuesday.
The man shot by a state trooper near North East on Wednesday is one of the more than 200 veterans receiving residential care at the Perry Point Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System.
A few hundred years ago, a row of war weapons lined up just outside of Elkton High School might have been staring down an opposing army. |
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