Oxford (Talbot, Maryland)

Richard F. Ober, a retired lawyer and insurance company executive who enjoyed sailing the Chesapeake Bay, died April 13 from vascular disease at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. He was 98. The son of a lawyer and a homemaker, Richard...

Minutes after being pulled over by a state trooper on the side of Interstate 95 in White Marsh this week, 23-year-old Bel Air resident Scott Kampes was slumped over in the driver's seat of the car he was driving — fatally wounded from a self-...

The Eastern Shore town of Bellevue saw the heaviest rains in the U.S. during Superstorm Sandy, according to an official report on the storm the National Hurricane Center released Tuesday. The town, across the Tred Avon River from Oxford and just south...

Nelda K. Biasi, a retired Baltimore public school physical education teacher and counselor, died Jan. 25 from heart failure at Heartlands Nursing Home in Severna Park. She was 96. The daughter of farmers, the former Nelda Kalar was born in Kerens, W.Va.,...

A 47-year-old Rising Sun man faces arson and other related charges in the burning of his own home in Cecil County on Tuesday evening, according to the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The blaze, which was discovered after deputies responded to the home...

Aberdeen Aberdeen police report: Krystal Napfel, 26, of the first block of Church Green Road, was charged Saturday with marijuana possession. Someone was trying to break into a property in the 200 block of West Bel Air Avenue on Thursday. A possible...

Jan "Scott" Frey, 65, of Hagerstown, Md., passed away Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, at Meritus Medical Center after a short battle with lung cancer. Born Aug. 30, 1947, in Cambridge, Md., he was the son of the late Sewell A. Frey and Nanon LeCompte Frey. He...

Harford County Sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police report: Aberdeen Tinesha S. Williams, 29, of the 700 block of West Bel Air Avenue, was arrested on two bench warrants Thursday in a case in which she was charged with second-degree assault,...

Congratulations to Mystery Loves Company, an independent bookstore that celebrated its 21st birthday this month.  Life is tough for any indy these days, and it's nice to see Kathy Harig's shop doing well in the quaint town of Oxford on Maryland's...

Cancer lends itself to the realms of myth. Siddhartha Mukherjee gave the disease some regal treatment in the title of his prize-winning book "The Emperor of All Maladies," but cancer's no emperor. It's a beast. Where actual mythological monsters are...

Several readers wrote me about last week's column that told the story of federal Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes, a Baltimorean who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson as president aboard Air Force One after the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. They...

100 Years Ago Laurel exchange Miss Maude Brashears of Laurel is visiting her brother, Mr. Joseph Brashears of Washington. Mr. and Mts. J. M. Lowman of Odenton have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence White of Laurel. 75 Years Ago "Alive, alive...