Published December 11, 2009
OCEAN CITY - A fire at an uptown mobile home park in Ocean City early last Friday morning sent one resident to a burn center in Baltimore, completely destroyed on residence and damaged two others.
Shortly before 3 a.m. last Friday, Ocean City Communications received a call for a reported structure fire in the area of 136th Street and Coastal Highway. Ocean City Fire and Police units arrived on the scene a short time later to find a mobile home on Gorman Ave. completely engulfed in flames with...
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Published December 11, 2009
BERLIN - Local law enforcement agencies this week are still trying to figure out a bizarre incident last weekend that included a vehicle overturned and under water in a roadside ditch without an occupant, a search of the surrounding area including divers and, finally, the discovery of the victim unconscious in his home nearby with serious head and chest injuries.
Around 8:30 a.m. last Saturday, Worcester County Emergency Services received a 911 call from a motorist concerning a vehicle off the...
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Published December 11, 2009
OCEAN CITY •€' As the job to repair Ocean City's damaged dune system is carefully mapped out, the silver lining post the catastrophic 'storm of the decade' seems to be a general concurrence from the Inlet all the way to Annapolis on the merits of the nearly $100 million in tax dollars spent since 1994 on the beach replenishment project.
Ocean City officials gave the Nor-Ida storm damage tour to another politician this week, as United States Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland) perhaps followed...
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Published December 11, 2009
OCEAN CITY •€' Dan Smith noticed something a bit out of place as he adjusted the focus on the lens to a damaged web-cam last Friday, and as he focused the picture even further, he realized that the image that was out of place was in fact a boat in some serious trouble.
Smith, whose company atbeach.com manages the streamlined web-cam fixated atop the Kite Loft on the Boardwalk, said that he had to use the zoom feature to really see what was going on as dusk settled in close to 5 p.m. last...
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