Carl Hamilton

Approximately 15 motorcyclists rumbled into the Jerry Skrivanek VFW Post 8185 parking lot in Port Deposit late last week, after spending the previous 20 days traveling a northern route across the country from Oregon as part of their annual mission to remember U.S. servicemen and servicewomen who made the supreme sacrifice.Wasting no time, they conducted a heartfelt ceremony to honor U.S. Marine Sgt. Michael Heede Jr.The son of Conowingo resident Gloria Crothers, Heede was killed on July 13, 2009, when a roadside bomb detonated while his unit was on combat patrol in the Helmont Province of Afghanistan.

ELKTON — A woman accused of killing her 5-week-old baby while she was intoxicated inside a Rising Sun residence in December is facing up to life in prison after accepting a plea deal in the murder case, according to Cecil County Circuit Court records.

ELKTON - An investigation is continuing after a motorist ran over a man while he was inexplicably lying on an Elkton highway in the early-morning hours Friday, according to the Elkton Police Department.

CONOWINGO - An investigation is continuing after a blaze damaged an outbuilding in Conowingo over the weekend, according to the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal.

CONOWINGO - An early-morning blaze on Sunday caused an estimated $10,000 in damage to a travel trailer in Conowingo, according to the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal.

This photo shows part of a construction site near Elkton where five workers suffered minor injuries Tuesday morning when a truss they were on fell to the ground.

Colora resident George Kaplan leans against the estimated 300-year-old, 90-foot-high white oak on July 29 – the day a crew cut down the landmark tree on the property where he and his wife, Carol, have lived for 22 years.

Using a ladder truck, firefighters battle a blaze at an Elkton apartment building on Wednesday afternoon.

Former Cecil County Councilwoman Jackie Gregory presents the prestigious Billy Mitchell Milestone Award to Civil Air Patrol 2nd Lt. Trevor Cox, 16, along with a Congressional Certificate, during a ceremony for the North Chesapeake Cadet Squadron. Trevor's father (far right), Michael Cox - squadron commander - watches the presentation.

CHESAPEAKE CITY — Learning about polygons, perpendicular angles, the Pythagorean Theorem and such did not hold David Healey’s interest during his high school days in the mid-1980s.