Do we really want to take another shot at the Olympics for Baltimore-Washington?

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ANNAPOLIS — Tours of the historic Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse in Maryland will be resuming this month. The tours will take place on six Saturdays this summer. The first tour will be on June 30. Over the past five years, ...

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OCEAN CITY — So far this tourist season, Ocean City has hosted a multitude of special events in town that have coincided with mostly sunny and warm weather. The conditions have brought visitors in droves to the resort community, producing ...

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An estimated 400,000 people went “downy ocean” Memorial Day weekend, one of the busiest in Ocean City’s recent history. Employees at several small businesses off Coastal Highway talked about their holiday weekends and the overall business climate this year. (Hint: ...

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OCEAN CITY — The head of a think tank at Salisbury University says the value-conscious mind-set of beachgoers could be changing. Memo Diriker, who heads the BEACON economic think tank, says he is hearing that many believe the upcoming summer ...

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Mild weather and a new casino didn’t provide much help for Atlantic City’s casinos, whose revenue fell 5 percent last month. Statistics released Tuesday by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement show that the 13 casinos ...

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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis won’t ever be mistaken for Miami’s South Beach or New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, but visitors headed to the Circle City for the Super Bowl will find plenty of attractions, great restaurants and interesting taverns — not to ...

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WASHINGTON — The luxury cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian coast has rattled even the most die-hard “cruisers” in an industry where catastrophic accidents are rare, but it’s unlikely to do significant long-term damage. The Costa Concordia hit ...

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PHILADELPHIA— Concerns over vehicle and driver safety led federal regulators to shut down a bus company that took passengers from Baltimore and several other cities to New York City’s Chinatown. U.S. transportation officials have ordered Double Happyness Travel Inc. to ...

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WASHINGTON — Tourists and Washingtonians were about to get their first up-close look Monday at the memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The site was set to open without fanfare around 11 a.m. to kick off a week ...

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