Crime has been steadily decreasing in Crisfield for many years, so why is the police department requesting $40,000 in additional funding? Crisfield has been named the safest city in Maryland, but that peace of mind has come at a cost. The police officers who patrol Crisfield’s streets are often overworked and fatigued due to what […]
A Baltimore Jury recently hit a debt collector from Las Vegas with a $38 million penalty — the largest in Maryland history. LVNV Funding LLC has been unjustly garnishing Maryland residents for years, and the money from the $38 million lawsuit will be split up and distributed to 1,589 Maryland citizens. “What we asked the […]
Ocean City, MD, officials found out about an apparent error in federal flood zone mapping that is causing some serious issues with insurance. The error has caused many oceanfront property owners to have hundreds of thousands of dollars in flood insurance premiums. According to Ocean City Today, between 93rd and 123rd Streets, many condominiums are […]
Last week, Maryland’s governor enacted the Orange Ribbon Bill for Healthy School Hours, the country’s first legislation that will help schools implement better, safer and healthier class starting times. The bipartisan legislation, which was sponsored by Delegate Aruna Miller, was filed with a companion bill and becomes effective on July 1 of this year. It […]
After two deaths came at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in 2013, the hospital is taking precautions to ensure it doesn’t happen again. In August 2013, an administrative assistant was fatally shot by her estranged husband while she was taking care of her three-year-old son. Only five months after that, an oncology […]
Since 2012, Somerset County Board of Education policies call for security cameras to be placed on school buses and grounds. Usually these security cameras are used to detect wrongdoing, but during a January bus accident, the cameras aboard Somerset bus 19 captured a bus driver doing everything right. Now bus driver Troy Brittingham is being […]
Damaged pipes and rising sewer treatment costs are hurting Maryland residents. The ensuing sewage backups are a result of aging pipes, and they’re becoming a real issue throughout Maryland. Due to these problems, the state’s residents have been experiencing basement flooding and raw sewage overflows from their drains, sinks, showers, and toilets for years. Some […]
Chief Justice John Roberts, of the Supreme Court of the United States, announced last week that SCOTUS will not block a regulation that would limit mercury and other pollutants from power plants. The Court also denied a “pollution diet” proposal for the Chesapeake Bay. The Environmental Protection Agency led the charge on these two decisions. […]
Botany experts are saying that a rare flower in Maryland has been “rediscovered” after disappearing for 112 years. According to the Washington Post, a botanist discovered the flower — the riverbank goldenrod — in Montgomery County, 112 years after it was last seen in Maryland. Although the riverbank goldenrod is fairly old, it’s far from […]
With more than 4.49 billion web pages online today, the Internet is a pretty huge place. You can seemingly find anything, even the burglars who recently broke into a home. Howard County police have charged 46-year-old Scott Matthew Onofrio and 22-year-old Kelly Ann Wallace with burglary and theft in connection with a break-in that occurred […]
