Dorchester County News

A suspect is under Maryland State Police guard while being treated at Peninsula Regional Medical Center for what is believed to be a non-life threatening injury in the upper torso that he sustained when shot by a police officer Friday, according to police.

HURLOCK , Md.- Maryland State Police say a suspect is being treated for what is believed to be a non-life threatening injury while under police guard at a Salisbury hospital.

BALTIMORE - It's a numbers game that effects livelihoods to dinner tables in Maryland.

HURLOCK , Md.- A Hurlock man is behind bars on child abuse and related charges following accusations that he tried to drown his 12-year-old son in a bathtub while disciplining him.

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For the fourth year in a row, Maryland ranked No. 1 in the nation in the percentage of its graduating seniors who successfully passed the rigorous Advanced Placement exams, leaping further ahead of other top states.

The Maryland Natural Resources Police today charged five watermen with oyster violations in Dorchester County.

February is Black History Month, a time to honor the important contributions made throughout our nation's history by African-Americans. This year, I want to pay special tribute to Harriet Ross Tubman, a Marylander who was a leader of the anti-slavery resistance network known as the Underground Railroad.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - If an Eastern Shore lawmaker has his way, soon the Department of Natural Resources will no longer be allowed to place GPS tracking devices on boats.

FEDERALSBURG , Md.- Authorities say a 94-year-old man burning trash outside his Federalsburg home lost control of the fire and died from extensive burns he sustained after his clothing caught ablaze.

After a failed attempt last year to put a Harriet Tubman statue in Congress' Statuary Hall, the Maryland women's caucus is trying again to get the state native what they feel is her due representation in national history.

Tempers flared this morning over tracking devices that were placed on watermen vessels by the Department of Natural Resources at the Eastern Shore Delegation meeting in Annapolis, Md.

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Concerned about the high numbers of student suspensions, state school board members are proposing an overhaul of discipline codes that would move away from zero-tolerance policies.

Correctional Officer Gregory Collins was on his way home to his family when he was killed by someone who fired into his pickup truck.

We've been slurping Chesapeake oysters, my Chesapeake Bay Foundation buddy Don Baugh and I, for more than a hundred years between us.