The Jan. 22-24 blizzard was the fourth most powerful snowstorm to hit the Northeast in at least 66 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced. The agency gave the storm a rating of 7.66 on the Northeast Snowfall Impact …
Last weekend’s brutal snowstorm pummeled Maryland from the Atlantic coast to the West Virginia border, costing government agencies much more than the minimum requirement for a federal disaster declaration, the state’s emergency management chief said. The state aims to submit …
Richard Sung Kang’s American dream came crashing down in a shower of broken glass. His West Baltimore liquor store and bar, the Oxford Tavern, was hit by looters during a riot over the police-involved death of neighborhood resident Freddie Gray. …
The mountain dwellers of far western Maryland know a lot about snow, but a crippling blizzard spawned last year by Superstorm Sandy taught them a painful lesson in emergency preparedness. Scattershot planning and outdated communications gear caused confusion and delays …
They’re among the most effective lifesaving devices a homeowner can have, cutting the risk of death from a fire nearly in half. But rural communities — where people are at greatest danger of dying by fire — usually lack programs …
They’re among the most effective lifesaving devices a homeowner can have, cutting the risk of death from a fire nearly in half. But rural communities — where people are at greatest danger of dying by fire — usually lack programs …
Federal mining regulators cited a western Maryland coal operator Monday for failing to ensure the safety of two workers who died when the side of an open-pit mine collapsed in April, burying the men beneath 93,000 tons of rubble. The …
Workers last Friday found the bodies of two miners trapped when a wall section collapsed in an open-pit coal mine in western Maryland, a federal mine official said. One body was found in a backhoe the man was operating Tuesday …
A Frederick County, Maryland sheriff’s deputy has been indicted on a charge of second-degree arson for allegedly burning his girlfriend’s sport-utility vehicle in what investigators have said was an insurance scam. Sgt. Theodore Randolph “Randy” Dorsey, 37, has an initial …
