Fire Kills Elderly Woman In Owings Mills
Firefighters found the body of 77-year-old Marlene Miller inside her apartment. Investigators say it appears that discarded smoking material sparked the blaze.
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Firefighters found the body of 77-year-old Marlene Miller inside her apartment. Investigators say it appears that discarded smoking material sparked the blaze.
A new poll from WJZ's media partner, The Baltimore Sun, finds half of likely voters plan to cast their ballot for Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in the Democratic primary.
Irene has come and gone. Now residents are making their way back to Ocean City and business owners are surveying the damage.
Hurricane Irene left nearly a million people without power in the Mid-Atlantic region Sunday, filling low-lying roads with water and bringing trees down on power lines, streets and rail tracks.
Maryland is assessing the damage as Hurricane Irene leaves the state. A woman was killed when a tree fell on a house and caused the chimney to collapse in Queen Anne's County.
Constellation Energy Nuclear Group says crews are working to get Unit 1 of its Calvert Cliffs facility back up after it automatically went off-line during Hurricane Irene.
The National Park Service says the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial took on a small amount of water as Hurricane Irene made its way through the nation's capital overnight.
Emergency workers and disaster assessment teams are gauging the extent of hurricane damage in Calvert County.
Officials in Cecil County and Queen Anne's counties are using water rescue crews to reach motorists and residents stranded by high water.
The head of the nation's emergency response agency says people shouldn't underestimate the danger once Hurricane Irene passes.
Pepco says southeastern Prince George's County was the hardest-hit portion of its service area as Hurricane Irene blew through the mid-Atlantic.
The Maryland Transportation Authority has reopened the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, linking the eastern and western shores.
Maryland highway officials say there are more than 120 closures of state-maintained roads as a result of Hurricane Irene.
Hurricane Irene fell short of the doomsday predictions of record-breaking storm surges in North Carolina and Virginia. But a slow-crawling storm that spread out hundreds of miles was still hurling heavy rain and high winds at a wide swath of the East Coast a day after its first U.S. landfall, vexing official attempts to gauge the full damage toll on the region.
The District of Columbia's emergency management director says Washington appears to have weathered Hurricane Irene with fewer problems than other parts of the mid-Atlantic region.
