Ocean City

The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived next door to each other in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and...

Fifteen men of Palestinian origin have been arrested on charges of running a multimillion-dollar cigarette smuggling ring, and New York authorities who announced the arrests on Thursday said several of the suspects have ties to Hamas and other Islamist...

Wispy, icy clouds caused what is known as a solar halo to appear over Maryland and other parts of the Northeast on Tuesday afternoon. The phenomenon appears as a sort of rainbow forming a ring around the sun. They occur in the lowest layer of the...

Years ago it was unthinkable that smart, ambitious and college-educated young people would have trouble finding entry level work ("Slow start," May 12). Today, this youthful demographic has been simultaneously dumped on a shrinking employment market and...

Donald A. Krach, former general counsel for the Maryland Port Administration who was an advocate and goodwill ambassador for the port of Baltimore, died May 4 of complications from pancreatic cancer at his Timonium home. He was 80. "Don was a real...

Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that are part of 149 "low activity" towers nationwide will remain open through the end of the September, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday. The towers, including those at Martin State...

Wedding date: March 23, 2013 Her story: Nessa Klein, 33, grew up in Arbutus. She is a human resources consultant for St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. Her mother, Linda, works for Baltimore County public schools and her father, Charles, is retired. His...

Superstorm Sandy barely laid a glove on Smith Island last fall, to hear residents tell it. Though storm-driven flooding damaged hundreds of homes in Crisfield and the rest of Somerset County, only a couple islanders got any water in their homes from the...

It used to be that the Maryland Film Festival was just a cool neighborhood event for Courtney Knipp — a bunch of obscure movies being shown just up the street from her home in Mount Vernon. Not anymore, not with thousands of film fans massing in...

Donald Edwin “Donnie” Nutter, 52, of Sharpsburg, Md., passed away Friday, May 10, 2013, at his home. He was born Oct. 7, 1960, in Hagerstown, Md., to Donald Lee and Constance Mae Moats Nutter of Boonsboro, Md. He was a 1978 graduate of...

Ocean City Police say a man who was struck by a vehicle and then ran off was charged Sunday as a "pedestrian unsafely crossing roadway." Police said that at about 2 a.m., they responded to 49th Street and Coastal Highway for a vehicle crash involving...

DAY TRIPPIN' •Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Fulton Theater, lunch at the Pressroom, June 19. $97. Spirit of Philadelphia, luncheon cruise, July 10. $91. Operation Sunshine, 610-434-9155. •Glencairn Museum, lunch at La...