News in Greater Baltimore Area


  • Hurricane batters Ocean City — briefly - Swimming prohibited as winds, waves strengthen

    Winds picked up sharply early Friday afternoon as Hurricane Earl spun closer to the Ocean City coastline. Waves as high as 14 feet plummeted onto the sand, crashing along the edge of dunes and the sea wall. Rains flew sideways, prompting visitors along the boardwalk to duck into shops and restaurants for cover. Despite the heavy winds, there were no reports of damage or flooding, said Ocean City spokeswoman Donna Abbott.


  • Friends remember McDonogh graduate, Mount St. Mary's student as 'amazing' - Freshman was playing volleyball, collapsed

    Little more than a week after beginning her freshman year at Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, 18-year-old Catherine "Catie" Carnes was playing a friendly game of volleyball when she collapsed, relatives said. She was taken to Gettysburg Hospital in Pennsylvania, where she died of a pulmonary embolism — a blood clot in the lung.


  • Early voting starts smoothly - Voters say they appreciate convenience and speed

    Voters like convenience and speed


  • State: Doctor performed abortions in Maryland without license - Three weeks ago, physician Steven Brigham led a car caravan of patients from his Voorhees, N.J., abortion clinic to his facility in Elkton. After one of the patients was critically injured during her surgery there, Brigham put the semiconscious, bleeding woman into the back of a rented Chevrolet Malibu and drove her to a nearby hospital emergency room rather than call an ambulance.


  • ACLU lawyers seek to quash wiretapping charges - Motorcyclist arrested for taping his own traffic stop

    Citing a 2,000-year-old Roman quote, "Who will watch the watchers?" a Harford County judge skeptically questioned prosecutors Friday pressing criminal charges against a motorcyclist for recording his traffic stop and posting the video on the Internet.