Easton News

EASTON - Maybe you were one of the originals, when plaid was standard issue and "Doolittle" was brand new.

WASHINGTON D.C., June 8, 2009 -- Chesapeake Wood Duck Inn has been selected for the 2009 Best of Tilghman Award in the Hotels & Motels Reservations category by the U.S. Commerce Association .

Queen Anne County Sheriffs Office is searching for the suspect who to stole from a jewelry store on Thursday.

The Calvert County Emergency Management Division will conduct a full-cycle test of the alert and notification sirens throughout southern Calvert and St.

CAMBRIDGE -- A Maryland state trooper has been cited in a fatal crash last year in Vienna.

CORDOVA , Md.- The Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office is investigating a late Sunday afternoon fire that broke out at a home in Cordova.

The Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office says an 18-year-old man was shot twice at a party in Grasonville early Saturday morning.

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.

Maryland state fire marshals say an overturned oil lamp started a St. Michaels fire that injured a woman and caused $600,000 in damage to a home.

POCOMOKE CITY -- A new store offering to spruce up Lower Shore backyards has opened in Pocomoke City.

Yankee Fleet owners Jerry and Carol Hill have optioned their extensive acreage on the west bank of the Annisquam River, just north of the Cape Ann Marina, to Maryland developers who plan to build "an upscale" Hampton Inn & Suite on the site.

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A Trumbull decorator has turned a Westport kitchen into a dream. Jane Speroff, a franchisee with Interiors by Decorating Den, won third place in the Easton, Md.-based company's annual international "Dream Room Contest" for her redesign of a 35-year-old space, which had a ceramic-tiled floor, formica countertops, pine cabinets, old appliances and a ...

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

EASTON , Md.- Easton police say a 27-year-old Chestertown man is behind bars for an attempted carjacking that occurred Monday in a store parking lot.

James von Brunn was yesterday charged with shooting dead a security guard at Washington's Holocaust Museum on Wednesday.

A frustrated artist and an angry man, the suspect in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting once tried to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve board, a "caper" thwarted when a guard captured him outside a board meeting carrying a bag stuffed with weapons.

IN THE wake of the shooting at the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, law enforcement authorities are confronting an ugly truth: the US has a home-grown terrorism problem following the election of President Barack Obama.

The Greens at Cross Court in Easton where FBI investigators raided an apartment where von Brunn is reported to have lived.

Washington's Holocaust Museum was closed Thursday after an attack by a gunman. But there was a time when suspect James von Brunn didn't want the public to know how much he hated Jewish people.