Arundel digest: Area news briefs

Navy doctor drowns while wading with wife

A Navy physician drowned Saturday off an Eastport beach after he tried to save his wife, a city fire official said.

Ensign Scott Anthony Miller, 35, and his wife, Sheila, 27, both of Tennessee, slipped off a ledge and into deep water at Horn Point off Chesapeake and First streets at 8:30 p.m. Mrs. Miller went under when they hit the drop-off and Mr. Miller tried to hold her up, fire Capt. Joseph Martin said.

Duncan Pickett, Andrew Longnecker and James Fitzmaurice were in the area and helped to pull the couple out of the water, said Cpl. Ken Turner of Department of Natural...