Governor Larry Hogan announced $10 million in grant awards to support expanded broadband access for education. The Governor’s Office of Rural Broadband has awarded nearly $8 million in grant assistance to increase internet access for Maryland public school students. Approximately $2 million will support feasibility and design studies for a new statewide wireless network...
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Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) is set to begin its standard school meals program on Monday, Aug. 31, which is the first day of school for students. CCPS students are starting the school year in an online format, meaning meal service will continue as curbside distribution. The school meals program provides a meal bag...
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Governor Larry Hogan announced the 2020 Maryland Charity Campaign (MCC) vice chairs: Jimmy Rhee, Special Secretary of Small, Minority, & Women Business Affairs, and Mary Beth Tung, Esq., Ph.D., Director of the Maryland Energy Administration. The MCC is the State of Maryland’s workplace giving program, offering state employees and retirees an opportunity to make...
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On Sunday, August 16, 2020, at approximately 5:05 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to Three Notch Road and First Colony Boulevard in California, for the reported motor vehicle collision with injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle in the median. The operator of the vehicle told police he...
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Communities surrounding the naval air station are advised that noise-generating testing events are scheduled to take place through August 24, 2020 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Pilots at NAS PAX will be conducting Field Carrier Landing Practices (FCLPs) events with helicopters. FCLPs are simulated carrier landings conducted to prepare the...
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On Saturday, August 15, 2020, at approximately 4:10 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Town Creek Drive and Ford Drive in California, for the motor vehicle accident reported serious with one trapped. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicles off the roadway involved in a head-on style...
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Residents of communities along the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware coastline are advised that potential sonic boom generating events are scheduled to take place on Monday, August 17, 2020 between the hours of noon and 2 p.m. within the Test Track in the Atlantic Warning Area located east of the Delmarva Peninsula over...
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A federal grand jury in Maryland returned an indictment charging Julian Bernard-Alexander Blair, age 27, of Washington, D.C., with discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and with possession with intent to distribute marijuana. The indictment was returned on August 3, 2020, and unsealed at Blair’s initial appearance in U.S. District...
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Great things happen when a community comes together, especially to help keep students safe. “We try to do everything we can to help our kids” said Dr. J. Scott Smith, Superintendent of the St. Mary’s County Public Schools, as he excitedly accepted the donation of protective equipment from the volunteers at The Patuxent River...
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On Friday, July 31, 2020, at approximately 4:45 p.m., deputies from the St.Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 21600 block of Great Mills Road in Lexington Park, for the reported disturbance. Investigation determined Gerald Issiah Wade, 19 of no fixed address, used a folding knife to stab the victim on the victim’s left...
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UPDATE: Thanks to the assistance from the public, the white truck involved in the hit and run property damage accident last weekend was located and the operator identified. The operator of the Chevrolet S10 has been identified as Jonathan Larry Guy, 38, of Leonardtown, was charged and cited with the following. Negligent driving Reckless...
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On Thursday, August 13, 2020, at 7:25 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Flat Iron Road and Ryan Lane in Great Mills, for the motor vehicle accident reported serious, with one subject trapped and unresponsive. Crews arrived on the scene to find a Toyota Tundra off the roadway and...
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On Friday, August 14, 2020, at approximately 9:00 p.m., police and emergency medical services responded to the 22000 block of Oxford Court in Lexington Park, for the reported gunshot victim. Crews arrived on the scene to find a 21-year-old female with a single gunshot wound to her right shoulder. Medical personnel reported there was...
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Deputy State Fire Marshals from the Southern Region served a criminal summons for an incident involving an explosion and subsequent fire on June 4, 2020 in St. Mary’s County. On June 4, 2020 firefighters from the Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department along with surrounding St. Mary’s County companies responded to 44918 Smith’s Nursery Road in...
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On Saturday, February 22, 2020 at approximately 4:39 p.m., the Anne Arundel County Police and Fire Departments responded to the 200 block of Poplar Avenue, Glen Burnie, Maryland for the report of a shooting. Upon arrival officers located two shooting victims. One victim, identified as Richard Clarence Ramsay III, a twenty-four year old male...
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Maryland State Police are asking for the public’s assistance to identify the victim in a hit-and-run crash that occurred earlier this week in Prince George’s County. The victim, a male, had no identification on him, and investigators from the Maryland State Police Crash Team are hoping someone can come forward to help identify the...
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The following persons are wanted by the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Warrant Unit is responsible for the service of criminal and child support warrants as well as criminal summonses issued by the courts. They are also responsible for coordinating extraditions of suspects out of state. If you have information...
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On Wednesday, August 12, 2020, at approximately 4:00 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Leonardtown Road and Oliver Shop Road in Bryantown, for the motor vehicle collision involving a tractor trailer. A short time later, the motor vehicle assignment was upgraded to a motor vehicle collision with one vehicle...
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Early morning on Wednesday, August 5, 2020, while investigating an electrical problem throughout a building, firefighters and building security noticed a seemingly unwell osprey, sitting on the ground within a fenced-in area, which is not typical behavior for these raptors. Truck 13’s officer notified the dispatch center of the possibly injured wildlife, and Gentle...
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Police in Prince George’s County are actively searching for a robbery suspect who is targeting drugstores in the county. Detectives are working to identify and arrest this pictured suspect now wanted for robbing four drugstores in recent weeks. The robberies took place between Saturday, July 18, 2020, and Sunday, August 9, 2020. 3600 block...
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On Thursday, August 13, 2020, at approximately 10:20 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of the Johnny Boy’s Ribs on 7530 Crain Highway in La Plata, for the reported motor vehicle accident involving a police cruiser with entrapment. Crews arrived on the scene to find a Volvo SUV and a...
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Update: State police are investigating a reported shooting that occurred early this morning in Lexington Park. The injured victim is identified as Tyquan Samuel Wills, 21, of Lexington Park. Wills left the scene of the reported shooting. He later called 9-1-1 from his home from where he was transported by medevac to the R...
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On Tuesday, August 11, 2020, detectives assigned to the Criminal Investigations Division arrested Erion Vann Burton, 19, of Waldorf, in connection with a carjacking that occurred on Monday, May 18, 2020. The victim and the suspect, who the victim knew as “Kris” met through the social media site “Tagged”, with the victim and suspect...
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On Wednesday, August 12, 2020, at approximately 5:04 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of 7655 Bensville Road in Waldorf, for the reported motor vehicle collision with injuries. Police arrived on the scene and reported no entrapment, with two vehicles involved in a head-on collision with both drivers out of...
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The St. Mary’s County Election Office will be relocating to the old Leonardtown Library at 23250 Hollywood Road in Leonardtown between August 17-21. The old Library is located directly next to the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barracks. During the transition, residents with questions should call 301-475-4200, ext. 1625 and leave a voicemail; calls will be...
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