Somerset County News

Jack Willing Jr., chairman of the Somerset County Board of Education and the county's planning director, was found dead Wednesday night of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Maryland State Police.

Many residents in Somerset County cleaned up Thursday, after a strong storm passed over the Westover area Wednesday night.

PRINCESS ANNE -- A 26-year-old former University of Maryland Eastern Shore basketball player accused of stabbing another student was found not guilty by a Somerset County Circuit Court jury Wednesday.

PRINCESS ANNE - Jack Willing Jr., the chairman of the Somerset County Board of Education and the county's planning director, was found dead Wednesday night of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Maryland State Police.

PRINCESS ANNE - A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 10:30 p.m. for extreme south-central Dorchester and Somerset counties.

PRINCESS ANNE - A former University of Maryland Eastern Shore basketball player charged with attempted murder after another student was stabbed, was found not guilty by a Somerset County Circuit Court jury on Wednesday Warrick, a 26-year Philadelphia resident, was charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment and carrying a ...

SALISBURY -- County taxes for Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset residents won't increase under new budgets that start today, but residents might pay more in fees at the local and state level.

PRINCESS ANNE -- Students returning to Somerset County public schools in the fall are paying more for meals, but at least at one high school they'll have an additional half-hour to eat lunch and, at an elementary school, students get fresh fruit on their trays as part of a state pilot program.

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.

The good roads and level highways of the Eastern Shore sometimes seem to beckon drivers to throw caution to the winds and put the pedal to the metal, but there's a very good reason to restrain this impulse: deer, lots of deer, all over the place.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he hopes to have agreements by Aug. 1 with owners of all properties needed by the federal government to construct a Flight 93 National Memorial.

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.

PRINCESS ANNE , Md.- An Princess Anne man is behind bars in connection with a shooting that put a 17-year-old boy in the hospital.

Emergency crews are en route to a vehicle accident with injuries in southern Somerset County.

Town officials are expected to announce a new director of the municipality's Maryland Main Street program at its work session tonight.

Children laughed and played outside as Lt. Ernest "E.J." Leatherbury Jr. strolled down Richmond Avenue in his uniform on a warm June afternoon.

Next year, high school students in Somerset County will pay $2 for lunch. Elementary school students will pay $1.75. PRINCESS ANNE , Md.- On Tuesday, the Somerset County Board of Education voted to increase the price of school lunches.

" The perpetrator of one of the most heinous crimes in Ocean City history, Jermaine Wright, released a little over a year ago after serving just seven years of an amended 15-year sentence, is going back to jail for a long time after a violation of probation hearing last week resulted in a new 25-year sentence.

ANNAPOLIS - Gov. Martin O'Malley today announced the Board of Public Works approval of the acquisition of 290 acres of forested wetland property located on the mainstream Pocomoke River in Somerset County through funding from Program Open Space and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

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