Eastern Shore Archive

Photos: Part of U.S. 13 reopens after crash on Eastern Shore

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.

Absences, illness prompt early closure of Northampton schools

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY

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.

Prosecutor wants death penalty for Eastern Shore man charged in 1991 Pa. killing

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.

Va. adopts water regulation to protect aquaculture

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

State trooper honored for saving child on 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.

Beneath your tunnel drive is a vast safety system

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.

Accessibilty for all: Eastern Shore's Freedom Apartments

By Nora Firestone Correspondent EXMORE Terry Kroll began serving people in need as a nursing home assistant at age 15. At 22, she earned a nursing degree and continued to care for the ill, elderly and disabled, loving all her patients -"even the grumpy ones," she half joked.

NASA rocket launch sparks calls of strange lights

WALLOPS ISLAND NASA says it successfully launched a rocket in Virginia as part of an experiment, and the blast may have caused dozens of people to report seeing strange lights in the sky.

E. Shore men get probation for cigarette trafficking

NORFOLK Two Eastern Shore men were sentenced to probation Monday after pleading guilty in federal court to trafficking thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes. Senel Cuce, 29, co-owner of the Sunrise Family Market and Pizzeria in Exmore, and his manager, Ali Riza Zulam, were placed on five months of home detention with electronic monitoring.

Eastern Shore man ordered to stand trial in Pa. killing

By Josh Mrozinski

The (Scranton) Times-Tribune HONESDALE, Pa. A man charged with the 1991 killing of a Wayne County camp counselor has been ordered to stand trial in her death.