SNOW HILL – Ocean City’s tourism industry needs to spend major bucks on advertising, resort business leaders told county elected officials this week, while seeking their support for increases in Ocean City tourism funding.“We don’t have a number we were looking for per se. We just wanted the county to be aware of what’s happening… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The waters off the coast of Ocean City claimed their first victim of the season last weekend when a 19-year-old Lanham, Md. man drowned around 31st Street after getting swept under by a rip current.Around 2:45 p.m. last Sunday, two brothers and a cousin, originally from Jamaica, were swimming in the ocean… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – A 21-year-old Easton man critically injured when struck by a car on Coastal Highway near 33rd Street early Sunday morning died at the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore Tuesday night, becoming the first pedestrian fatality in the resort in 2007.Tyler Adams, 21, of Easton, and a friend, Dale Blankenship,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – A discussion over the purchase of city property on Robin Drive came to the table at this week’s City Council meeting, spurring the need for a work session to delve further into the issues of the land and the bulkhead that borders it. Wayne Hartman came before the council at Monday night’s… Read more »