Snow Hill News

SNOW HILL , Md.- Authorities are investigating an early Thursday morning fire that destroyed a large garage in Snow Hill.

SNOW HILL -- A Salisbury physician who lost his medical license last year for repeated drug arrests was found guilty of having a crack pipe in a vehicle he wasn't supposed to be driving in the first place.

SNOW HILL - One person was killed and another injured in a serious traffic collision this morning just south of Snow Hill, according to Maryland State Police.

SNOW HILL - The Maryland State Highway Administration, in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources, have began a $279,000 project to restore a 100 acre coastal flood plain forest to its natural condition on Rayfield Ditch, a tributary to the Pocomoke River.

BERLIN -- The Pocomoke City Industrial Park may be getting a new name. 'Use something more 21st century and more flexible,' said U.S. Sen.

SNOW HILL -- High on a Snow Hill island there was a lonely goat. But now, he is lonely no more.

SNOW HILL - The Worcester County Recreation Center will be closed from July 1 to July 5 to allow for the facility to be cleaned.

This weekend, Pocomoke City is celebrating the grand opening of a project that was first conceived more than a decade ago --the Delmarva Discovery Center.

SNOW HILL -- Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon's chief of staff and two other men are suing the owner of an Ocean City Domino's Pizza, claiming they were briefly held in the store against their will after being refused service.

SNOW HILL -- A Berlin woman will forfeit some of her retirement benefits to repay her former employer after stealing more than $28,000 over the course of nine months in a fraudulent return scheme.

The Worcester County Fair will be held Aug. 7, 8 and 9 this year at Byrd Park in Snow Hill.

SNOW HILL -- A New York man has been charged with the rape of a Pocomoke City woman after a DNA sample taken from the crime scene 18 years ago matched his own.

While driving across the Chesapeake Bay-Bridge on Saturday night, an off-duty Natural Resources Police Officer spotted two people in the water about one mile from the Eastern Shore.

BERLIN - Berlin will be celebrating more than one type of spirits this summer, thanks to its newest business.

SNOW HILL -- Almost every time it rains, Charlie Dorman and his crew find themselves knee-deep in water, trying to abate the rising tide in Snow Hill streets.

Construction is set to continue at Pocomoke High School, while plans for a Snow Hill High renovation will be finalized this year, according to the master facilities plan adopted by the Worcester County Board of Education.

SNOW HILL -- Ruby Purnell Waters, 97, of Snow Hill died Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at Pat's Home for the Elderly in Pocomoke City.

SNOW HILL -- Three more Worcester County public schools students and another county resident have tested positive for the H1N1 virus -- otherwise known as swine flu -- bringing the total of confirmed cases up to six.

A 49-year-old security guard was arrested on multiple counts of child sex abuse this week after a teenage girl accused him of molesting her, police said.

SNOW HILL - A Salisbury man was sentenced to 90 days in Worcester County Jail after being found guilty of making threatening phone calls to an Ocean City woman who was investigated, but ultimately not prosecuted, after dead fetuses were found on her property.