The father of a five-year-old girl tragically killed in a Dorchester County shooting earlier this month has now been charged in connection to an earlier incident in Hurlock that police say was linked, according to court documents acquired by WBOC.

WBOC has obtained charging documents against a murder suspect that also implicate a former employee of the Dorchester County State’s Attorney’s Office in an investigation into the fatal shooting of a five-year-old girl in Linkwood earlier this month.

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Multiple first responders were on the scene in Fruitland on Tuesday after an excavator fell into a retention pond, trapping the operator under water.

The Office of the State’s Attorney for Talbot County has announced the conviction of a man charged with abusing a 1-year-old boy and assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

A Johns Hopkins University scientist who created a website to track COVID-19 cases worldwide is the recipient of this year’s Lasker award for public service.

A woman and a 6-year-old child were taken to Johns Hopkins in Baltimore after being exposed to a toxic gas while swimming in the indoor pool at Francis Scott Key Family Resort in West Ocean City, authorities said.