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Cambridge Police Ask for Public’s Help in Solving 2020 Homicide
CAMBRIDGE, MD - The Cambridge Police Department is turning to the public in hopes of solving the 2020 homicide of a 54-year-old man. On August 30, 2020, just before 5 p.m., police found Ernest Jones Jr., of Cambridge, suffering from an apparent stab wound at a home on Pine Street. Despite life-saving efforts from first responders, Jones succumbed to his injuries at the scene. The ensuing investigation concluded with Jones’ death ruled as a homicide.
Second man arrested for March incident in Trappe
TRAPPE — Two men have been arrested for an incident that took place on Howell Point Road on March 23 in Trappe. Flamond D. Woolford, 18, of Cambridge, was arrested Monday by the Talbot County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and charged with home invasion, kidnapping, first-degree assault, armed robbery, reckless endangerment, use of a firearm in a violent crime, conspiracy to commit the crimes and other related charges. On...
Lierman calls for better support of day care in Maryland
EASTON — On April 26, Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman made a stop to visit the Talbot County Council on her tour of the Eastern Shore. She has been traveling around the state to let different county councils know what the comptroller is up to. Her stops emphasized getting women back into the workplace in Maryland by supporting them with better day care. The council members asked questions after Lierman’s 15-minute...
The Door Finally Opens for Future Use for Easton’s Abandoned Safeway Site
While there is no truth in the rumor there is a support group for downtown residents still traumatized by the closing of the Safeway on Washington Street, there are many who are still adjusting to the loss of the last walkable grocery store in town. Easton’s Safeway was not the...
Maryland approves more than $3M for a man wrongly imprisoned for murder for three decades
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland officials on Wednesday approved more than $3 million in compensation for a Baltimore man who spent 31 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction. Gov. Wes Moore apologized to Gary Washington during a Board of Public Works meeting where the compensation was approved. “On the behalf of the entire state, I’m sorry for the failure of the justice system,” Moore said, adding that while no amount can make up for the injustice, he prayed the state could provide compensation “in a way that your family deserves.” Washington was a 25-year-old new father when he was convicted in 1987 of first-degree murder and a gun crime in the fatal shooting of Faheem Ali the year before.
Maryland Has Renamed an Invasive Fish. Will It Matter?
Of the DC region’s many fish, the one of poorest repute is the snakehead. An invasive species that arrived in 2002, the snakehead has been branded a scourge of the rivers, an existential threat to the ecosystem. It’s said to be crowding out other fish, like bass and perch, while spreading unchecked due to a creepy quirk of its biology: Snakeheads can breathe air and walk on land.
State Officials Seek to Resolve CWDI and City of Cambridge Conflicts
As tensions over control of the Cambridge Harbor development have intensified in these last two weeks, state officials are pressing Cambridge city leaders and members of Cambridge Waterfront Development Incorporated to resolve their conflicts. State Representative Tom Hutchinson said he was on a cruise in the Caribbean when his phone...
Federalsburg family looks for answers
FEDERALSBURG — Twenty-five years ago, LaTonya Murray made the trek back and forth from Easton to Baltimore for three months just to see her baby girl. Onyae Murray was born at the Easton hospital in 1998, 23 weeks into LaTonya’s pregnancy. She weighed less than a pound. “She was the smallest baby that had been born in Talbot County that survived,” LaTonya said. ...
Oxford Day celebrates community with parade, events
Oxford Day serves a lot of purposes — it is a homecoming, a tourism draw, a marker of the start of the town’s busy summer season. But above all else, event organizers said, Oxford Day is a celebration of community. “The primary thing is community and giving people a reason to come out of their houses and connect,” said Kathleen Case, the event chair of this year’s Oxford Day, which took place on April 27. ...
Friday apartment fire caused by discarded smoking material
CAMBRIDGE — Discarded smoking material caused an accidental apartment fire at The Meadows of Cambridge Apartments on Friday. According to a news release from the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the fire, which started on the second floor of a wood-framed balcony at 5238 Primrose Court, was discovered by a neighboring tenant. The discarded smoking material was from a third-floor balcony, the release stated. It took 20 firefighters 35...
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