Princess Anne News

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

PRINCESS ANNE -- Town residents hoping to force a referendum on Princess Anne's fiscal 2010 budget were able to get the necessary number of signatures on a petition over the weekend.

Two local men are arrested in connection with a burglary in Salisbury. Deputies from the Wicomico County Sheriffs Office responded to a residential burglary on June 29, 2009 in the 26000 block of Nanticoke Road.

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.

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 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 ...

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.

PRINCESS ANNE -- 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.

A pregnant woman was hospitalized as a precaution after her vehicle flipped in one of several accidents on rain-slick roadways earlier this week across the Lower Shore.

PRINCESS ANNE - An ECI inmate serving 12 years in prison for weapons and other charges fell victim over the weekend to stab wounds to his face and head.

PRINCESS ANNE -- You'd think Jacqui Rachor-Hornsby of Twice Is Nice, the consignment shop on Somerset Avenue, would have enough to do without adding the demanding hours of running a store to her busy schedule.

A 20-year-old Princess Anne woman convicted of vandalizing a firefighter's home and setting fire to his car has been sentenced to five years in prison.

An Eastern Shore woman has been sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted on arson and vandalism charges.

PRINCESS ANNE -- UMES could become the site of the area's first solar energy farm if school President Thelma Thompson can get state officials to give their approval.

Police say they have arrested a 35-year-old man for assaulting several people in Princess Anne.

SALISBURY -- Maurice 'Mick' Antonio Wigfall, 30, of Salisbury quietly slipped away to answer the call of the Lord after a longtime battle with illness on Thursday, June 4, 2009.

DUBLIN - Firefighters were at the scene of a structure fire on Mitchell Road in southeastern Somerset County shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Princess Anne Town Commissioners have selected an interim Town Manager. Brenda Benton will serve in the position for six months.