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Underpaid and overlooked, migrant labor provides backbone of Maryland Eastern Shore's local economy

Every summer, people flock to Maryland to eat blue crabs. Named for their brilliant sapphire-colored claws, blue crab is one of the most iconic species in the Chesapeake Bay. The scientific name for blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, means “beautiful savory swimmer.”

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The first farmed Chesapeake salmon versus the last of its sturgeon? Proposed Eastern Shore fish farm stirring concern

BALTIMORE — Could the Maryland’s first farmed salmon be a threat to the last of its sturgeon?

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Man's death during police encounter leads to $5M settlement

Relatives of a 19-year-old Black man who died during a struggle with police officers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore have reached a $5 million partial settlement of their wrongful death lawsuit

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Jan. 6 attack echoes on Maryland’s Eastern Shore as Democrat Heather Mizeur seeks inroads in ‘red’ district of Rep. Andy Harris

BALTIMORE — The Democratic congressional challenger walked up to the Republican candidates’ booth at the Cecil County Fair, smiled and introduced herself.

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Dan Rodricks: In one America, a righteous stand against racism. In another, racist violence and death

On Saturday, at the very hour that the people of Chestertown, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, gathered to remember the Black man lynched there by a white mob in 1892, police say a white teenager fueled by racist hatred started shooting people at a supermarket in a Black neighborhood of Buffalo,…

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Divers recover Navy plane that crashed off Virginia coast

Navy divers have recovered an aircraft that crashed last month in the water off the Eastern Shore near the Virginia-Maryland line

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U.S. Navy plane crashes in Eastern Shore; 1 dead, 2 injured

A U.S. Navy aircraft with three people aboard crashed in waters near the Eastern Shore boundary of Virginia and Maryland on Wednesday evening, killing one, authorities said

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Inflation pain means Biden gets no credit for roaring economy

WASHINGTON — Karen Downing, a U.S. Navy retiree living on Virginia’s Eastern Shore, voted for Joe Biden in November 2020 — expecting the new president to end the COVID-19 crisis and then pivot to tackling broader and long-standing social ills, like alleviating student loan debt and increasing access to mental…

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A legacy of hope: Celebrating Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday

Before she became the historic hero known as Harriet Tubman, Araminta Ross was born in early 1822 near Cambridge on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Some 200 years later, she is celebrated as a global icon of freedom.

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Maryland transportation crews using less salt, more brine on icy roads to protect waterways

BALTIMORE — With the approaching snowstorm predicted to dust the Baltimore area and blanket the Eastern Shore while creating dangerous conditions into Saturday morning, state highway crews and local transportation departments spent Friday preparing the roads.

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Judge refuses to toss excessive force claims in man's death

A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit’s claims that police on Maryland’s Eastern Shore used excessive force on a 19-year-old Black man who died in 2018 during a struggle with officers who handcuffed him and shackled his legs

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