Petro-Chemical ‘deficient’ in accident rating
The company that owns the tanker that exploded on Interstate 95 this week received a "deficient" accident rating from a federal safety agency because its trucks have been involved in...
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Hooked on Frankenfish
This is the fish that launched a thousand headlines? The northern snakehead doesn't look so scary from its perch above the news clippings and late-night TV top-10 lists at a...
Racing gets back on track
For the past week, the only action at Laurel Park was happening on the business end of a snowblower. There were no spectators - just an overworked crew of maintenance...
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 -...
Snakehead extermination approved
State officials set an execution date last night for the snakehead fish that have taken up residence in a Crofton pond: Sunday at dawn. The announcement came after a week...
Snakehead poisoning mired in details
One biologist will ask the landfill to dig a trench for truckloads of dead fish. A team will work on saving the turtles. And someone better bring the doughnuts. Since...
Area merchants are unfazed by plan to kill snakeheads
As state environment officials move to eliminate the notorious northern snakehead from a Crofton pond, merchants close to the infested site have expressed indifference, skepticism and humor about the plan...
Fish get reprieve amid legal wrangling
A snag in negotiations with the owner of the snakehead-infested Crofton pond has given the voracious fish from China a temporary reprieve from their pending execution. Neither the MacQuilliam Organization,...
DNR chief OKs snakehead poisoning
State Natural Resources Secretary J. Charles Fox sealed the fate yesterday of the reportedly hundreds of snakeheads lurking in Crofton, agreeing to poison their pond with a plant-based fish-killer. Fox's...
Tests using poison on fish seen as success
Sure, the sharp-toothed northern snakeheads that are threatening native species in a Crofton pond can slither on their fins, breathe air and survive on land for three days. But plunk...