Maryland officials closed Assateague State Park to swimming or any other activities in the ocean. The Assateague Island ...

Maryland officials closed the island’s beaches last Sunday when about 50 used needles, feminine hygiene products and other ...

Beachgoers were urged to stay out of the water after dozens of hypodermic needles, as well as tampon applicators and other ...

State and federal officials hope to be able to reopen beaches up and down the Delmarva peninsula to swimming by this weekend, ...

Sixty state and federal agencies were working Monday to try to contain an onshore wash of medical waste, including hundreds ...

Officials are warning people to stay out of the ocean at several beaches in Maryland, Delaware and Virginia after they say ...

Why does this plastic waste combination washing up along our Atlantic beaches sound familiar? Because this is exactly the ...

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (CBS) — Swimming has been banned at several Delaware beaches after officials say medical waste, ...

Officials have issued swimming bans at several beaches in Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia after medical waste, including ...

Beaches in a number of East Coast states were closed off to the public after medical waste including needles washed ashore.

The New York Times reported that a similar spread of garbage washed ashore in Ocean City, Maryland and Dewey Beach, Delaware, ...

Swimming is still off limits in Ocean City as medical waste, including hypodermic needles, continue to wash ashore.