One Year After Sinking, Former Destroyer Hosting Sea Life

OCEAN CITY -- One year after being ceremoniously sunk about 30 miles off the coast of Ocean City, the retired Navy destroyer U.S.S. Arthur W. Radford is already teeming with sea life and is serving it...

Fed Ag Loans Not Seen As Huge Help In Worcester

SNOW HILL -- Severe drought conditions have opened up federal funding for Delaware, in the form of Small Business Association (SBA) economic injury disaster loans, to a number of Maryland counties, in...

New Liquor Licenses Approved In Worcester

SNOW HILL -- Four new alcohol beverage licenses were granted and two existing licenses were expanded at this month’s Board of License Commissioners (BLC) meeting. The first expansion was to the ...

Groups Seek Obama’s Offshore Wind Help

OCEAN CITY -- After several failed attempts at the state level to develop vast offshore wind farms off the mid-Atlantic including a proposed 100-turbine field off the coast of Ocean City, hundreds of ...

BLC Issues Minor Punishments Due To Clean Histories

SNOW HILL -- Clean records helped keep the total fines for alcohol sales to minors from the Board of License Commissioners (BLC) at only $1,000 this month, despite the fact that one location had two v...

New School Year To Bring New Teacher Evaluations

NEWARK -- Coming into the new school year, evaluations for teachers and schools are changing at the state level. However, Worcester County Board of Education officials promised that no matter how they...

Schools Ahead Of Curve On New Sports Safety Rules

BERLIN -- The State Board of Education this week handed down emergency regulations aimed at further protecting high school athletes from head injuries and concussions, but, for the most part, the loca...

Supreme Court Lifts DNA Ban

SALISBURY -- Maryland law enforcement officials and prosecutors can at least temporarily resume collecting DNA samples from those arrested for certain violent crimes after the U.S. Supreme Court chief...

NEW FOR THURSDAY: Quick Response, AED Credited With Saving Local Surfer's Life

OCEAN CITY -- A popular local man is on the mend and headed for surgery after finishing a heat in a surf contest Sunday before going into cardiac arrest and collapsing on the judges’ stand, than...

NEW FOR THURSDAY: OC Fire Department Rescue Swimmers Saved Two Last Night

OCEAN CITY -- Continuing a rash of recent near tragic incidents involving swimmers heading into the ocean after the Ocean City Beach Patrol (OCBP) has signed off for the day, two individuals were resc...