Crisfield News

FRUITLAND - Police have apprehended the final of three suspects linked to the alleged abduction and sexual assault of an underage Crisfield girl reported missing on Monday.

CRISFIELD -- Andrew L. 'Shad' Crockett of Crisfield died Wednesday, July 1, 2009, at age 85, after a brief illness.

SALISBURY - Sperry Van Ness - Miller Commercial Real Estate in Salisbury has announced that Syratech Corp.

CRISFIELD -- Rita Evans Crockett, 93, of Crisfield died Thursday, July 2, 2009, at McCready Memorial Hospital in Crisfield.

Several events are planned this Saturday, July 4, to celebrate Independence Day in Somerset County.

With state and local governments pinching pennies and imposing travel restrictions in a tight budget year, attendance likely will be lighter than usual at summertime political gatherings in Maryland and beyond.

" Every writer hopes to someday complete "the Great American novel", and although no one is comparing former Ocean City Councilman Vince Gisriel, Jr.'s first book to the work of Jack Kerouac or Kurt Vonnegut just yet, he has truly succeeded in telling the timeless love story of an American hero and his bride, who waited patiently in the wings from ...

PRINCESS ANNE -- Parents challenging a proposed school uniform policy at Washington High School call the measure an underhanded push by the school administration and a few parents and students who favor a change in the dress code.

PRINCESS ANNE -- Somerset County's three liquor dispensaries showed improved sales during 2009, but profits were more than $50,000 less than the year before because of added expenses.

CRISFIELD -- Freedom Fest in Crisfield, at the Somers Cove Marina is sure to be a 4th of July event that is as American as apple pie.

The Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office says a bolt of lightning struck the attic of a two-story home in Crisfield on Saturday.

Veterans will be honored in Crisfield this Fourth of July at the "Freedom Fest". It's all taking place at the Somers Cove Marina.

Solutions to what civil rights leaders call racial disparities in hiring practices by Somerset County, Md.

The world's biggest crab cake didn't look like much by the time a crowd of thousands at HonFest '09 got through with it June 13.

The following communities and areas will receive aerial spraying services beginning this evening, weather permitting: Champ, Chance, Dames Quarter, Deal Island, Oriole, St.

Anyone who believes the Baltimore "hon" is merely a throwback to an era of beehive hairdos, cat glasses and leopard print spandex hasn't met Noelle Mack and Jennifer Blom.

PRINCESS ANNE - The National Weather Service indicates a strong thunderstorm 20 miles west of Princess Anne, 18 miles northwest of Crisfield, is moving east at 20 mph.

PRINCESS ANNE -- Despite grumbles from constituents, Town Commissioners moved forward with the passage of an operating budget of $2.2 million -- a 2010 fiscal-year spending package that includes a controversial 10-cent property tax rate hike.

British paratroopers from the 3rd Parachute Battalion, England, land Friday in a field outside the village of Ranville, near Caen, Western France as troops re-enact part of the bloody allied landings of D-Day, the Allied armada that fought its way inland in the unfolding World War II Battle of Normandy, France.

SALISBURY - After working in area schools for more than 35 years, Patsy Somers, Susan Bounds and Shirley Moran have chosen to retire from their instructional posts this summer.