Eastern Shore

The flaunting of Confederate flags in a small Cecil County town’s holiday parade over the weekend has riled up community members and left some wondering how they were permitted to participate.

An exhibit at UMBC, “Picturing Mobility,” runs through Dec. 19 and features two inventions that made leisure travel possible during segregation — the automobile and the camera.

A judge ordered an Eastern Shore landlord to pay more than $2.49 million after he failed to defend against a lawsuit alleging he preyed on vulnerable women and engaged in gender discrimination.

A stringy piece of Baltimore history is headed to America’s hall of fame for bizarre items.

Sian Radaskiewicz-King pleaded guilty to two property-related misdemeanors and was released after spending more than two months in jail.

When an order came into Tilghman Island Seafood for almost $100,000 of Chesapeake catfish, everything seemed legit — at least at first. Then the fish disappeared in the Bronx.

A state inspector general report finds Marc and Gordana Schifanelli were hired without competitive bids.

In Maryland's largest counties, 128,000 people take advantage of the tax credits for insurance through the Affordable Care Act. But it's Maryland's smallest, poorest counties where the impact will be the deepest.

Jack Torney is 22 and an unlikely heir to the old life on the bay. He grew up in Annapolis, where the waterfront gleams with sailboats and weekend cruisers, far removed from the fishing trade of its past. Yet he’s making his living like it’s a century ago.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore announced Friday that it received a historic donation of $38 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.

Ocean City announced it will no longer operate its boardwalk tram more than a year after a young child was struck and killed.

While there was some moderate flooding in Ocean City, the impact of the storm along the Maryland coast was not as strong as initially forecast.

Ocean City and other coastal areas of Maryland’s Eastern Shore faced strong winds and angry seas on Sunday, as a nor’easter sweeps up the coast.

As state leaders debate whether to redraw the electoral map, Jake Day waits.

Jen Kaye and her family have sold Schooner Woodwind to 59º North Sailing, a rare change in the rarefied field of commercial sailing.

Read the state board of education's opinion in the appeal filed by Ava Tasker-Mitchell, the fired Somerset schools superintendent.

Somerset County’s school board accused its superintendent of insubordination. She said the board chair threatened her before she left town.

Read the state board of education's opinion in the appeal filed by Ava Tasker-Mitchell, the fired Somerset schools superintendent.

Heidi Anderson is accused of lifting several paragraphs from a 1981 paper by Robert M. Caldwell without citations.

Two music festivals, Oceans Calling and Country Calling, generated $376.3 million for the Ocean City economy last year. Businesses have a mixed experience with the throngs of festival-goers.