With Hurricane Earl roaring toward the East Coast, officials evacuated the campground at the Assateague Island National Seashore on Thursday and ordered people off the beach beginning at 6 p.m. and continuing through Friday. The island's famed wild horses, meanwhile, have left the beach of their own volition, in what onlookers described as an unusual migration apparently prompted by the weather. Above, campers Elijah Marrero, right, and his Pine Brook, N.J., family pack up.
As the three hostages at Discovery Channel's headquarters appeared ready to make a run for it, police said that a SWAT officer quickly shot and killed the agitated gunman — identified as James J. Lee — who had explosives strapped to himself, ending the four-hour standoff.
» Heat tops 90 again, tying 1988 record Maryland Weather: Today's high makes it 54 days this year that temperatures have reached 90 degrees or more, tying the historical mark for Baltimore.
Murder charges filed against a Prince George's County man were dropped last month by Baltimore prosecutors after he was able to produce an alibi, officials said.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers could take a week to pick a jury in the trial of three men accused of killing former Baltimore City Councilman Kenneth N. Harris.
» What they're saying about the Ravens With the Ravens in St. Louis to play the Rams for the final preseason game, and the start of their season just 11 days away, here's a look at how other media are predicting the Ravens will fare.
» General Dynamics could lay off 132 in Westminster in late October Defense contractor General Dynamics said Thursday that it will lay off 132 employees in Westminster this fall if funding for an Army robotics program is not renewed. It would be the third mass layoff at the Carroll County site this year.
A 61-year-old man is being charged with assault and reckless endangerment of two Maryland State Police troopers who say he discharged a gun when they went to his house in Sykesville.
