Kent County News

Growing up in Kent County , she became fond of oyster stew, steamed oysters and fried oysters.

Politics, mental illness, drugs and Maryland's budget woes are colliding just across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

Maryland's Eastern Shore is located in the heart of the Atlantic Flyway and is known among hunters as one of the best places in the world to hunt Canadian Geese.

The state's budget troubles just continue to get worse. Gov. Martin O'Malley said Wednesday that he may need to order as much as $300 million worth of additional budget cuts in the current fiscal year - on top of $735 million in reductions that were approved in recent weeks.

LibraryThing for Libraries now available for the open source Evergreen ILS. The Kent County Public Library in Maryland has implemented LTFL into its Evergreen-based online catalog.

A year after the state announced a legal settlement requiring cleanup of long-standing pollution problems at a chemical plant near Chestertown on the Eastern Shore, the work remains stalled by disputes with the plant's owner.

From what we've seen on Delmarva this year, the short-hop vacay is all in vogue as people try to use up their vacation days without using up all their savings.

Maryland will get more than $44 million in federal funds to spur development of affordable housing projects throughout the state that have been stalled because of the economic downturn, the U.S. Treasury Department announced today.

The family of the truck driver who died after his rig plunged into the Chesapeake Bay following a crash on the Bay Bridge last year has filed a $7 million lawsuit against the teenager responsible.

Maryland State Police are searching for a suspect in a carjacking murder. Officials say the suspect carjacked a Maryland couple in New Jersey early Friday morning and forced them to drive to Kent County, Maryland.

A 27-year-old Clayton, Del., man was killed Friday at 9:50 p.m. when his car ran off Route 330 near Blackbottom Road in Massey, Kent County , according to Maryland State Police.

Ryan D. Holness, 28, of the 4800 block of Spinnaker Court in Lexington Park, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder in the death of his wife, Serika Dunkley Holness, 26, of the same address, said state police spokesman Greg Shipley.

But he's bringing what he has to this weekend's 11th annual festival anyway, unwilling to pass up any invitation to show his work - ny work - to a receptive audience.

The Maryland Department of Transportation's State Highway Administration say they will conduct single lane closure operations starting next week to patch and resurface three miles along Route 20.