The Obama administration unveiled today a new strategy for restoring the Chesapeake Bay calling for expanded regulation and enforcement to curb polluted runoff from farms and developed lands, but backing away from a complete federal takeover of the cleanup effort.
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Maryland politicians and others gathered on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis Monday to announce a new push in Congress to restore the troubled estuary by giving state and federal governments more power and funding to clean up pollution from farms, cities and suburbs. But in a bid to...
Bishop W. Francis Malooly arrives for a news conference where he explains that in bankruptcy the Diocese of Wilmington can assure fair treatment of all victims of its priests' alleged sexual abuse. More than two dozen parishes have been named as co-defendants.
New federal regulations have effectively shut down construction of new chicken houses on the Eastern Shore. The Environmental Protection Agency began regulating Maryland chicken farms in February. Since then, construction of new chicken houses has stalled. Bill Satterfield, executive director of...
Twenty-six years ago, Maryland farmer Robert Bealle finished second in the Federal Duck Stamp art contest, when his painting of redheads lost to a pair of American wigeons. This year, he won by painting a wigeon himself.
The casket of Bishop Michael Saltarelli is carried to its final resting place Wednesday at All Saints Cemetery in Milltown, Del. Hundreds gathered to pay their final respects to Saltarelli, remembering him as a down-to-earth leader who steered the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington through...
A former Baltimore company controller has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for stealing nearly $1.2 million from his employer, the Maryland U.S.Attorney's Office announced.
A proposal by Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration to shutter a state-run psychiatric hospital as a cost-saving measure has come under increased scrutiny, and a top fiscal officer questioned whether the closure should move forward.
The State Highway Administration will close one of the two bridges leading into Ocean City for two months so work crews can replace a damaged girder that has already prompted the agency to prohibit truck traffic on the span.
Holly and Eric Foster, owners of Chapel's Country Creamery, place curd in containers for aging into raw milk cheese. The Fosters produced Maryland's first legal batch of raw milk cheese in years on their Easton dairy farm. The state's ban applied to products made with raw milk, even though such...
The Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland was listed Wednesday by a pair of environmental groups as one of the 25 U.S. National Park Service properties most threatened by the effects of climate change driven by human activity.
James McBride had no idea Maryland's Eastern Shore would be the setting for his next novel when he first headed there about seven years ago. In fact, he says, he was on his way to Washington to research a book on the death of Abraham Lincoln when he impulsively...
Maryland's first gambling parlor could open by Memorial Day, a state commission said Wednesday as it granted permission for 800 slot machines at an Eastern Shore harness racing track.
Volunteer lawyers and land experts will hold two workshops this week on the Eastern Shore on how to deal with issues of what is known as "heirs' property," or property that has been passed down through so many generations that it is owned by dozens of family members.
The Eastern Shore's second annual Chesapeake Film Festival kicks off at 8 tonight with Scott Teems' award-winning "That Evening Sun" (Teems, producer Laura Smith and cinematographer Rodney Taylor will all be in attendance) and ends with a 7 p.m. Sunday screening of the 1936 comedy "After the Thin...
A nearly $1.2 million National Park Service grant will help develop outdoor recreation facilities in Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park on the Eastern Shore. Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin and Barbara A. Mikulski and Rep. Frank Kratovil announced the grant from the park service's Land and...
