No details are available at this time other than Rt. 50 was closed down. This usually means there was a fatality.
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Dorchester County: US 50 EAST AT MP 92
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Dorchester County [US 50 EAST AT MP 92]
East
2 vehicles involved.
2 of 2 Westbound traffic lanes closed.
1 of 1 Westbound shoulders closed.
2 of 2 Eastbound traffic lanes closed.
1 of 1 Eastbound shoulders closed.
Created: 8/18/2009 8:37:05 PM by SOC.
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Dorchester County: US 50 EAST AT MP 91
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Location
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Dorchester County [US 50 EAST AT MP 91]
East
2 vehicles involved.
2 of 2 Westbound traffic lanes closed.
1 of 1 Westbound shoulders closed.
2 of 2 Eastbound traffic lanes closed.
1 of 1 Eastbound shoulders closed.
Created: 8/18/2009 9:20:37 PM by SOC.
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Westbound
Eastbound
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
‘Survivor’ Richard Hatch Is Back Behind Bars
Mere hours after TODAY interview, reality show star taken into custody
Mere hours after he sat down for an exclusive interview with TODAY’s Matt Lauer, America’s first broadcast-TV reality show star Richard Hatch found himself back behind bars as a federal prisoner.
Hatch was arrested Tuesday afternoon at his sister's home in Newport, R.I., where he has been living under house arrest after spending nearly four years in prison for tax evasion. Late Tuesday, authorities would not disclose the reason for Hatch’s arrest.
The former “Survivor” star was taken to the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office in Bourne, Mass., which has a contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons to hold federal inmates.
GO HERE to read more.
SALISBURY MAYOR TO OPEN PURNELL-THOMAS TENNIS TOURNAMENT
Salisbury Mayor James Ireton, Jr., invites the public to the 2009 Jack Purnell-Chris Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament at Salisbury University. Mayor Ireton will open the Tournament and serve the first ball at about 9:50am on Wednesday, August 19th. Matches are played from 10:00am until 9:00pm each day, Wednesday, August 19th through Saturday, August 22nd. The finals will be on Sunday, August 23rd, beginning at 1:00pm. Attendance is free.
The Chris Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament once was an annual event held each summer at Salisbury University. The tournament was a tribute to Chris Thomas, a graduate of Salisbury University and a member of the college tennis team, who died of cancer in 1982 at the age of 27. Money raised through the tournament originally benefited cancer care at Peninsula General Hospital Medical Center. The first tournament was held in 1982, and it grew each year afterward. After a break from 1995 to 2003, committee members from the Chris Thomas Memorial Tournament joined with the family of Jack Purnell along with local teaching pro Chris Robbins to once again establish professional tennis in Salisbury. The Jack Purnell-Chris Thomas Memorial Tennis Tournament was revived in 2004 at the Salisbury University Tennis Center, with the funds raised benefiting Coastal Hospice. Jack Purnell, who was born in Salisbury, was a lifelong devotee of athletics. He loved tennis, and was still playing tennis two months before his untimely death due to cancer in July 2002.
“Growing up in Salisbury in the 1970’s, everyone played tennis,” said Mayor Ireton. “I played my first tennis tournament on the courts where the Purnell-Thomas Memorial Tournament is played. A big thank-you goes to the organizers, the sponsors of the tournament, and to Salisbury University for continuing to remember the legacies of both Jack Purnell and Chris Thomas. Best of luck to all the players this week.”
HOME CONVERSION GRANT FUNDS STILL AVAILABLE
The Home Conversion grants are still available for homebuyers purchasing a home within the city limits of Salisbury. Applicants interested in the program should contact Salisbury Neighborhood Housing Service (SNHS) at 410-543-4626.
Home Conversion Grant
•The maximum grant award is $3,000. Property must be within the city limits.
•The property being purchased must have been a rental property for at least the previous three years continuously.
•Applications must be submitted to SNHS at least two weeks prior to settlement whether funds are being used for downpayment/closing or rehab.
•Applicants should check with their mortgage lender to see how the grant will be treated in the mortgage qualification process.
•Home Conversion grants may be considered taxable income. It is the applicant’s responsibility to report the income on their taxes.
•All persons listed on the mortgage loan documents must also be listed on the deed and anyone on the deed must also be on the mortgage.
•Home Conversion funds can be used toward downpayment, closing costs or rehabilitation of the property.
1.If funds are being used for downpayment/closing costs, the $3,000 check will be cut directly to the settlement attorney.
2.If funds are being used for rehabilitation, funds will be dispersed upon presentation of invoices or receipts related to the rehab of the property. If a contractor is being used, contractor must hold a MHIC license.
3.If funds are being used for rehab, applicant will be required to execute a rehab grant agreement.
•Upon receipt of grant funds, a lien will be placed on the property for a period of 5 years. The balance of the lien will be reduced 20% each year until the end of the 5th year when the lien will be completely forgiven. If the property is sold or title transferred or refinanced during the first five years, or if the property ceases to be owner occupied, the pro-rated portion of the lien balance shall be immediately due and payable.
If you have any additional questions or need clarification on any of the program requirements, please call Cheryl Meadows at Salisbury Neighborhood Housing Service, 410-543-4626.
Publics’ Help Sought In Identifying Theft Suspect
Location: Target, 1050 Brandywine Parkway, Wilmington, Delaware, New Castle County
Date and Time: Saturday, August 15th, at 1:00 p.m.
Suspect(s): Black female, 30 – 60 years old, 130 – 160, medium brown complexion with short hair
Resume: Troopers from Troop 1, Penny Hill, are investigating a theft from the Target Store located in the Brandywine Towne Center which occurred on August 15th at about 1:00 p.m.
Target loss prevention officials told Troopers that the below depicted suspect entered the store and took a Bose Companion 3 speaker system from display. The suspect removed the security tag and fled the store without paying for the merchandise- which was valued at $250.00.
Anyone who may recognize this suspect is asked to call 302-761-6677 ext. 308.
Woman Charged With Bullying On Craigslist
40-year-old accused of posting sex ad using teen's info
ST. LOUIS - A Missouri woman has been charged with cyberbullying for allegedly posting photos and personal information of a teenage girl on the "Casual Encounters" section of Craigslist after an Internet argument.
Prosecutors said 40-year-old Elizabeth A. Thrasher posted the 17-year-old's picture, e-mail address and cell phone number on the Web site in a posting that suggested the girl was seeking a sexual encounter.
St. Charles County Lt. Craig McGuire said Tuesday that the victim is the daughter of Thrasher's ex-husband's girlfriend. The girl, who has not been named, received lewd messages and photographs from men she didn't know and contacted police.
GO HERE to read more.
Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling
Too bad it's not in U.S. waters
You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas.
But look on the bright side. If President Obama has embraced offshore drilling in Brazil, why not in the old U.S.A.? The land of the sorta free and the home of the heavily indebted has enormous offshore oil deposits, and last year ahead of the November elections, with gasoline at $4 a gallon, Congress let a ban on offshore drilling expire.
GO HERE to read more.
Obama Facing Public, Political Criticism Of Plan
In a new NBC poll, a plurality of Americans oppose a government-run plan
While President Barack Obama's concession on a health care "government option" continues to draw complaints from liberals, it is failing to gain interest from his conservative critics — another sign of the daunting challenge to find middle ground in an increasingly partisan struggle.
Officially, the White House continues to maintain that there’s been no shift in position. On Tuesday, presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs said the Obama administration has not altered its goals on health care reform or distanced itself from a government-run public insurance option.
GO HERE to read more.
Obamacare Already Passed In The Stimulus Bill!
Once again, Devvy Kidd exposes the truth about Obamacare. Part one of the Obama Care package has already passed! Yes, it was part of the stimulus package. It established the Federal Council. The Council is the apparatus for "rationing and denying" health care in America. One of its members, Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel is active in the early stages of rationing and denying health care to Americans. What is being debated now is Part two of the plan.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd462.htm
The Congress will pass Health Care Reform regardless of the people's protests.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd462.htm
The Congress will pass Health Care Reform regardless of the people's protests.
MoveOn.org Rallying Behind Ben Cardin
The George Soros financed MoveOn.org is organizing a rally tomorrow at Sen. Ben Cardin’s office in Baltimore. Reported by Chester Peake on Red Maryland, the details are:
100 South Charles Street (Map)
Baltimore, MD 21201
Wednesday, August 19th, 12:30 PM
Show up tomorrow and let Cardin know that astroturf doesn’t grow in the Free State.
cross posted at Delmarva Dealings
" In God We Trust "
What happens if voters cared more about who lives in a pineapple under the sea than who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.? What happens if politicians made more decisions based on political correctness, greed and self preservation than on National interests? What happens if politicians ruled over the people instead of governed for the people? What happens if we publicly abandoned the Judeo-Christian foundation that built our Country?
The answer is: The United States of America 2009.
Current Federal debt is now estimated to be $546,668.00 per U.S. household.1 Our Country is now over its credit limit and we aren't even making a minimum payment on this debt. We have reached the point where it is mathematically impossible to pay off our debt over the next 100 years, even if our economy were to double in size and every person were to pay twice the taxes of today. Yet they are trying to pass an unfunded estimated one trillion dollar (CBO Analysis) health care plan that would take control over most of the health care systems that we have today.
We cannot grow or tax our way out of this crisis. The Chinese Government, our largest debt holder, has publicly started to question our lack of fiscal discipline and even our financial solvency. Jefferson County (Birmingham) Alabama and the State of California are in bankruptcy proceedings. How many more warning signs do we need to see before we wake up and accept the fact that The United States of America is bankrupt on our balance sheet. The debt clocks we have ignored or laughed for all these years at aren't looking very funny for the next 5-6 generations of Americans.
It's time "We the People" save America ourselves. If we come together as one Nation, not one political party, we can avoid the unimaginable. 80% of us earn less than $75K a year. Whose standard of living will be wiped out and whose will remain the same when the unthinkable happens? Capitalism is not broken, it is being destroyed by Federal debt, high taxes and overreaching government controls. Employment and revenue is being lost because our free market economy is being overly controlled by the Federal government.
GO HERE to read more.
My Friend Tom Miller is running for President of the United States in 2012.
Nationwide Revolt Against Mass Swine Flu Vaccination Accelerates
The nationwide revolt against government plans to implement a mass swine flu vaccination program in the United Kingdom has picked up steam, with a poll revealing that a third of NHS nurses will refuse to take the shot.
Despite nurses and frontline health workers being the primary target group to take the vaccine, just 37 per cent of them said they would take the swine flu vaccine in a survey conducted by Nursing Times magazine. 30 per cent said they would not be immunized and 33 per cent said they were unsure.
Of the 30 per cent who said they would refuse to be vaccinated, 60 per cent said the reason was due to fears about the safety of the vaccine, following revelations that the shots will contain mercury and squalene and have also been linked with the killer nerve disease Guillain-Barre Syndrome. Another 31 per cent said they would refuse the vaccine because they did not consider the risk from swine flu to be great enough.
GO HERE to read more.
Robert Novak Dies At 78
CNN and the Chicago Sun-Times are reporting that conservative columnist Robert Novak has died.
Novak was a longtime columnist with the Sun-Times and was also famous for hosting CNN's "Crossfire" for many years. He was also known for first leaking CIA agent Valerie Plame's name in a 2003 column.
Novak was diagnosed with brain cancer last year. He was 78.
Source
Southwest Airlines Rolls Out Fare Sale
Some seats to go for as little as $59, but dates around holidays blacked out
DALLAS - Southwest Airlines Co. announced a fare sale to fill seats during the slow fall and winter seasons, but it blacked out many days around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.
Southwest said some seats on a few routes would sell for as little as $59 each way.
The fares apply to fights from Sept. 9 through Jan 7 but aren't available on Fridays and Sundays. Blacked-out dates include Nov. 24 through Dec. 1 and Dec. 18 through Jan. 4.
GO HERE for more details.
Celine Dion Pregnant With Second Child
41-year-old singer sought help from fertility experts in order to conceive
Making good on her expressed desire to have more children, Céline Dion is pregnant.
A family member tells PEOPLE, "We learned this morning." While a rep for the 41-year-old singer confirmed the news to various outlets saying, "Celine and René are very happy," and "They are crazy in love over the news ... they are overjoyed."
GO HERE to read more.
GM To Sell Saab To Tiny Swedish Carmaker
Questions remain about financing of deal with Koenigsegg
STOCKHOLM - General Motors signed a deal on Tuesday to sell its Saab car business to a tiny Swedish luxury carmaker, the first in a series of big sales the U.S. group is planning as it slims down.
The agreement comes after weeks of uncertainty about the degree of support for the bid from Koenigsegg's backers, after a preliminary deal for the sale was struck in June.
Previously little known outside of luxury car circles, Koenigsegg is a tiny Swedish outfit with some 45 staff. It makes high-performance sports cars that can sell for $1 million.
GO HERE to read more.
Route 90 - Bumper to Bumper Traffic Warning?
We've had a report from a trusted source that traffic on Route 90 is backed up for miles because of construction. Maryland State Police Berlin Barrack cannot confirm, but motorists are warned that this backup may delay traffic for an unspecified time. Consider an alternate route until confirmation can be made.
11:21 UPDATE: Ocean City Police Department confirms that traffic is stopped on incoming and outgoing Route 90 lanes while the bridge is being inspected by the Maryland Highway people. It's unknow how long this will take, or whether this is a routine inspection or one that's driven by a complaint or problem. It might turn out to be a while, folks, so consider that alternate route.
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