Talbot County News

ST. MICHAELS , Md. - The Talbot County Narcotics Task Force say seven people have been charged with drug offenses after police raided an apartment complex in St.

The first case of swine flu in Talbot County has been confirmed. The Health Department says a three-year-old tested positive after experiencing flu-like symptoms.

A former bookkeeper is being charged with forging hundred of checks to steal nearly $320,000 from the Easton publishing firm where she worked.

Maryland officials will expand a program that grows baby oysters in cages, then plants them on reefs.

Two Talbot County schools are making the grade according to a magazine publication.

The son of James von Brunn said Sunday that his father, who is accused of killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, had long burdened his family with his white supremacist views and that he wishes his father would have died in the shooting instead.Von Brunn, 88, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of ...

An undated photo of James von Brunn provided by the Talbot County, Maryland, Sheriff's Office on June 11, 2009.

James von Brunn carried a lifetime of hatred and an aging rifle to the entrance of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, authorities say, and was met with a simple act of kindness: a security guard opening the door for him.

A pair of Mute Swans build a nest on Weems Creek. Maryland's mute swans were handed a death sentence yesterday.

Maryland must kill the last of its invasive mute swans to protect habitat critical to native birds, such as terns and tundra swans, state officials said.

Wind Turbines could soon be powering homes and farms in Talbot County. The County's planning commission has voted in favor of constructing the wind turbines up to 150 feet tall.

A program to eliminate Maryland's mute swan population, opposed by animal rights groups but hailed by bird watchers and Chesapeake Bay conservationists, will continue unabated, the state announced today.

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Doing time doesn't always mean sitting in a cell. Alex DeMetrick found an island in the Chesapeake with prison inmates using their time to help the bay, and themselves.

One of Maryland's Medevac helicopters could soon be based out of the Easton Airport.

Maryland Natural Resources Police say the body of an Eastern Shore waterman was found after the discovery of his empty boat prompted a daylong search.

The Color Infrared imagery provided by Axis Geospatial LLC is being used to delineate coastline and tidal wetlands in order to remap the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area.

School openings in several counties on Maryland's Eastern Shore were delayed this morning due to fog.

Swans in a Cambridge tributary Cruise Maryland terminal in Baltimore The Maryland Office of Tourism is urging travelers to the eastern shore this summer to "Explore The Shore" on their way to the beach.

PRINCESS ANNE -- An internal investigation into a police department clerk charged three months ago in Talbot County with hit-and-run and failing to reduce speed in dangerous weather has been concluded, according to Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller.