Ocean City News

BETHANY BEACH -- When it comes to beach fashion, it's not the latest styles and accessories that have people talking.

" Three months after the family of two Pennsylvania tourists who died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a Boardwalk hotel room in June 2006 successfully settled a $30 million lawsuit against the facility's owner and other defendants, the same plaintiffs last week filed a second suit, targeting the Ocean City paramedics who allegedly failed to respond ...

In staging their Fourth of July fireworks show, authorities in Ocean City, Maryland, have faced challenges in recent years from Mother Nature.

Families looking for an enjoyable morning activity in Ocean City can head to the Ocean City Life-Saving Station Museum.

To promote summertime deals on $3 hoagies, employees at the Wawa store in West Ocean City are spending the morning building a quarter-mile-long hoagie.

A Maryland man is accused of trying to pass fake $100 bills in Ocean City. Police arrested Michael Williams Junior this week after employees at Seacrets Bar and Grill said he tried to use the money.

A Lebanon County woman whose husband and daughter died of carbon-monoxide poisoning at an Ocean City, Md., hotel is suing the resort's Fire/EMS Division for $20 million.

Governor Martin O'Malley held a public meeting Tuesday to discuss the State's plans to restore the Chesapeake Bay.

OCEAN CITY, Md. - A woman whose husband and daughter died of monoxide poisoning at an Ocean City hotel is suing the city's Fire/EMS Division for $20 million.

A woman who lost her husband and daughter to carbon monoxide poisoning at an Ocean City hotel has filed a $20 million lawsuit against the towna s Fire/EMS Division for failing to come to their aid for more than four hours.

The White Marlin Open, which will be held Aug. 3-7, is now allowing boats to depart from Wachapreague, Va.

" Ocean City police this week arrested a local man who was allegedly posing as a doctor and calling in fake prescriptions for painkillers to local pharmacies.

Maryland State Police responded two domestic assaults overnight Worcester County residences, one of which led to the injury of an infant.

" Tragedy struck yesterday afternoon when an unidentified teenage female crossing Coastal Highway at 33rd Street on a bicycle was struck and killed by a soft drink delivery truck in the southbound lanes.

Police say they have arrested a 17-year-old male for stabbing a man in Ocean City.

" Legal posturing continued last week in the $500,000 civil suit filed in May against the town of Ocean City, its Convention and Visitors Bureau and a private company by a former Vermont high school student injured when an escalator in the Roland E. Powell Convention Center suddenly stopped and started heading in the opposite direction in May 2006 ...

During a recent visit to Ocean City, MD, I had the pleasure of previewing the Delmarva Discovery Center, prior to the Grand Opening Gala.

WEST OCEAN CITY -- A hit-and-run by a drunken driver killed one person and left another hospitalized after both were riding their bicycles late Thursday on the Route 50 bridge.

Ocean City Police say a 22-year-old man was run over early this morning in the parking lot at Seacrets early this morning.

" Ocean City police this week reported the ongoing undercover drug reverse "buy/bust" operations are achieving the desired results with roughly six incidents resulting in eight arrests over the last two weekends including one that might have prevented a serious robbery and assault.