OCEAN CITY – The City Council unanimously approved the purchase of new safety equipment for the fire department water rescue team, stemming from the heroic late September rescue of three intoxicated swimmers in dreadful conditions.OC Fire Department Chief Chris Larmore came before the Mayor and City Council on Tuesday asking for a number of improvements… Read more »

SNOW HILL – A Berlin man, one of 10 people arrested during a major brawl at the parking lot of a mid-town nightclub involving hundreds of people, pleaded guilty this week to possession with intent to distribute cocaine and was sentenced to seven years in jail.All in all, 10 people were arrested, four Ocean City… Read more »

SNOW HILL – The family of a Pennsylvania man struck and killed while crossing Coastal Highway in June 2007 have renewed efforts to seek $1 million in punitive damages against the driver of the vehicle, raising an interesting debate about the existence or absence of malice in the case.Attorneys for the family of Tyler Adams,… Read more »

BERLIN – An Ocean City man is behind bars facing rape and assault charges this week after admitting to police late last month he had sexual relations with a 13-year-old girl on multiple occasions last year.On Nov. 30, 2007, Ocean City Police arrested Christopher Michael Shockley, 19, for outstanding warrants related to a malicious destruction… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Though the City Council was apprehensive to jump back into bed with new ownership of a golf package company that famously had owed the city quite a bit of money, they gave the green light to at least giving them a call.Based on slumping golf package deals at the town-owned Eagle’s Landing… Read more »

BERLIN – Worcester County public schools officials last week were successful, albeit briefly, in avoiding paying a $1.1 million award lost to a private contractor in a civil suit over a dispute about work done at the new Ocean City Elementary School after convincing the state’s Court of Special Appeals making the payments while the… Read more »

BERLIN – Budget cuts are coming to the town of Berlin, but the Mayor is reluctant to impose a uniform, across-the-board reduction, as the town is not in budget trouble.“The interesting thing is we don’t have a budget crisis of any sort,” said Berlin Mayor Gee Williams in a phone interview this week. “We’re basically… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – MGH Advertising got the gig to design the town’s website, but now it may have to fight to keep their job as the town’s advertising agency.No sooner had the dust settled from the controversial 4-3 decision granting MGH the $178,000 job to redesign the www.ococean.com site was it proposed by Councilman Joe… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – Some seniors have been vocal about the town extending their Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) bus service “off the island,” but now, they might be vocal about a new proposal raising the costs to use those buses “on the island.”The “low hanging fruit” may have been trimmed from the Ocean City budget,… Read more »

OCEAN CITY – The U.S. District Court judge presiding over the $30 million wrongful death lawsuit filed earlier this year by the family of two Pennsylvania tourists who perished from carbon monoxide poisoning in a Boardwalk motel room in June 2006 admonished attorneys on both sides yesterday in letter expressing her disappointment in the slow… Read more »