CHINCOTEAGUE The sturdy Chincoteaque ponies of the Eastern Shore weathered last week's tropical storm, but their habitat took a beating. The 150 ponies on Assateague Island sought high ground Thursday and Friday when wind and rain lashed the barrier island, felling trees, moving tons of sands and flooding parking lots. Thousands of tires from an artificial reef were also blown ashore.

ASSATEAGUE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, Md. Thousands of tires from a man-made underwater tire reef have washed up on the shore of Assateague Island as a result of last week's storm.

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A restaurant on Lankford Highway was destroyed this morning by fire, officials said.

The fire at The Captain’s Deck restaurant was reported shortly before 5 a.m., according to Northampton County's Emergency Medical Services department. 

No injuries were reported.

One Eastern Shore school division is opening late today because of dense fog. Northampton County Public Schools will open two hours late, WVEC-TV was reporting. Broadwater Academy, in Exmore, also will open two hours late, the station reported.  

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY One lane of U.S. 13 has reopened several hours after a crash involving a tractor-trailer that lost part of a load of lumber, authorities said today.

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All three of the county’s schools will close early today because of increasing absences and the high number of children reporting to the schools’ nurses, the superintendent says.

By Josh Mrozinski The (Scranton) Times-Tribune HONESDALE, Pa. Prosecutors in Wayne County are seeking the death penalty for Jeffrey Plishka, the Eastern Shore man they say killed Laura Ronning 18 years ago.

WILLIS WHARF Virginia is adopting a new wastewater-disposal regulation to protect clam and oyster production in the waters off the Eastern Shore.

A Virginia State Police trooper is being honored Sunday by Parade Magazine and the International Association of Chiefs of Police for saving a child from a burning car earlier this year.

A dozen high-powered fans, eight industrial drainage pumps the size of washing machines, miles of electric cables and concrete-encased water pipes, and walls of power breakers and transformers. This is the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel drivers never see. The guts sit behind the tunnel's walls, ceilings and floors and in five-story buildings at each tunnel portal.