Not feeling torn up by injury
GAITHERSBURG - The line between elation and despair is a rust-colored scar, the length and width of a ballpoint pen, that runs from Courtney Kupets' heel to her calf. In...
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Sunday deer-hunt bill in Ehrlich's hands
Maryland hunters would be allowed to pursue deer on Sunday for the first time in 300 years under legislation approved last night by the General Assembly. The measure, which goes...
Groups oppose bear season, Sunday deer hunting
Anti-hunting groups urged a House committee yesterday to continue a 50-year ban on a black bear season and block a request from sportsmen and state wildlife biologists to allow Sunday...
State shares victory over snakehead fish
Just as a federal advisory panel on invasive species made its way through Maryland, a group of state biologists declared victory over the most notorious of all invasive fish -...
Glendening to ban firearms hunting in 4 metro counties
Determined to keep the sound of gunfire to a minimum as police hunt for the serial sniper, Gov. Parris N. Glendening will issue an executive order today banning hunting in...
Hundreds of baby snakeheads hauled away from Crofton ponds
Cleanup crews hauled away yesterday nearly 800 pounds of dead fish -- including hundreds of baby northern snakeheads -- from three Crofton ponds poisoned by the state to get rid...
Fish poison applied to pond
State biologists in yellow protective coveralls and respirators sprayed what they hope will be a lethal dose of poison yesterday on the predatory northern snakeheads infesting a Crofton pond that...
Tougher laws on alien fish urged
As lily pads began to die yesterday on the poisoned, snakehead-infested pond in Crofton, a man on the Eastern Shore was advertising in a local newspaper to sell an "aquarium...
Snakehead eradication begins in Crofton
As T-shirt vendors hawked their wares and the curious made a detour from their Sunday morning coffee run, a small boat bobbed in Maryland's most famous pond, spraying the first...
Sea kicks up, delivers a curve
DOGWOOD HARBOR - For one day, Phil Price's 47-foot fishing boat had a Hallof Fame defense and an All-Star offense. The small, orange-and-black flags flying from the rigging signaled why:...