UPDATE 3/30/2022: Anne Arundel County State’s Attorney Anne Colt Leitess announced on March 29, 2022, Mark Thoms, 41, pled guilty and was sentenced to 45 years of active incarceration for one count of sex abuse of a minor and one count of sex abuse of a minor, a continuing course of conduct. This sentence...
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On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, a 14-year-old male student at Piccowaxen Middle School was charged in connection with allegations he inappropriately touched a female student. The school resource officer was made aware of the assault and initiated an investigation. The case was reviewed by the Charles County State’s Attorney’s Office, and the student was...
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The Commissioners of St. Mary’s County held their regular business meeting in the Chesapeake Building Tuesday, March 29, 2022, with the invocation and pledge followed by approval of the consent agenda. The Commissioners recognized five retirements, including Major Michael Merican, Captain Richard Gray, Sergeant Mark Porter, Corporal Earl Young, and Corporal Ralph Butler. The...
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Congressman Steny H. Hoyer (MD-05) and Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) announced $1,277,001 in federal funding for the St. Mary’s County Board of Education’s Head Start programs to expand early learning, development, health services, and family well-being. “After a pandemic that has set our school systems and our students back,...
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The IRS-Criminal Investigation Washington, D.C. Field Office investigated 84 of the agency’s more than 660 tax and money laundering cases related to alleged COVID fraud, totaling $1.8 billion since the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was signed into law nearly two years ago. These cases involved a broad range of criminal...
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Governor Larry Hogan today joined federal, state, and local elected officials for the Maryland Day Weekend celebration in Historic St. Mary’s City, which was the site of Maryland’s first capital. During the event, the governor was presented with the Cross Bottony award—the museum’s highest honor—for his many years of support for Historic St. Mary’s...
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Communities surrounding the NAS Patuxent River and Webster Field airfields are advised that helicopter nighttime testing events are scheduled to take place March 28 and March 30, 2022 from 6:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. As with all operations, NAS Patuxent River takes precautions to lessen the impact of testing activities on the community. For...
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The Department of the Navy (Navy) has completed the final version of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for Testing and Training Activities in the Patuxent River Complex. It has been filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality,...
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At the Thursday, March 24, 2022, Calvert County Board of Education Meeting, members voted and approved Townsel with a 4-0 vote to become the Superintendent and will be effective started July 1, 2022, Townsel will serve a four year term, dependent on the approval of the Maryland State Superintendent of Schools. The Board is...
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On March 23, 2022, at 3:03 p.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the area of Continental Drive and Sandestin Place in White Plains, for the report of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found a 17-year-old male with a gunshot wound to his arm. An officer rendered first aid to...
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Detectives assigned to the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division have charged Daylin Roy Davis, 27, of Waldorf, with sexual solicitation of a minor, sex offenses, and assault. In early March 2022, a school administrator at Westlake High School observed what appeared to be an inappropriate relationship between Davis and a student. At...
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The Department of Recreation & Parks presents the 40th production of Summerstock, July 22-24 and 29-31, at Great Mills High School. The 2022 production will be Stephen Schwartz and John Caird’s Children of Eden. Full details of the show are available here: www.stmarysmd.com/recreate/summerstock. Auditions for the show will be held at Great Mills High...
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On Thursday, March 24, 2022, at approximately 7:50 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Point Lookout Road and Fairground’s Road in Leonardtown, for the motor vehicle collision involving a school bus with injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find one vehicle and bus #541 involved. Firefighters from Leonardtown...
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On March 23, a school resource officer from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office at Milton Somers Middle School was made aware that a student told another student not to come to school because he was going to “shoot it up.” Officers identified the student who made the threat and contacted the student’s parent. The...
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The Commissioners of St. Mary’s County held their regular business meeting in the Chesapeake Building Tuesday, March 22, 2022, with the invocation and pledge followed by approval of the consent agenda. The Commissioners recognized National Agricultural Day with a Proclamation. The County Attorney’s request for a resolution establishing the St. Mary’s County Police Accountability...
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Communities surrounding the naval air station are advised that NAS PAX River plans to make a single low level pass of Solomon’s Island, Maryland with 10 jets flying in formation. The event is scheduled to take place Friday, March 25, 2022. The event is scheduled to occur between noon – 1 p.m. As with...
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Charles County Public Schools (CCPS) held its seventh annual History, Industry, Technology and Science (HITS) Expo on Saturday, March 12, at St. Charles High School. The Expo included an array of student science and history fair projects on display for judging. The science fair projects were categorized by Behavioral/Medicine and Health Science, Chemistry, Engineering,...
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Sheriff Tim Cameron, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office and the Sheriff’s Office Chaplain Corps invite the public to a memorial and remembrance ceremony on Sunday, March 20, 2022, at 2 pm to mark the four-year anniversary of the shooting at Great Mills High School and to remember other local victims of violent crime....
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On March 17, 2022, at 9:10 a.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to Berry Road near Bunker Hill Road in Waldorf for the report of a crash involving a passenger car and a school bus. A preliminary investigation revealed the driver of the bus was attempting to make a U-turn from...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Homicide Cold Case Unit charged a suspect in connection with an unsolved 1989 murder in Forestville. He is 64-year-old James Clinton Cole. He’s charged with the murder and sexual assault of 27-year-old Cynthia Rodgers of Forestville. Cole is currently in custody in Cumberland, MD. He is serving a life sentence from an unrelated first degree...
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The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the identity of the person pictured in a theft investigation. On Thursday, March 3, 2022 at 3:25 pm, the suspect walked out of the California Walmart store with a 75-inch Samsung television without paying for it, placed it in the back of a white SUV and...
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The Commissioners of St. Mary’s County held their regular business meeting in the Chesapeake Building Tuesday, March 15, 2022, with the invocation and pledge followed by approval of the consent agenda. The Commissioners recognized National Social Work Month and Equal Pay Day by presenting Proclamations. The Department of Finance received approval for a request...
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The Court of Appeals of Maryland issued an Order, In the Matter of 2022 Legislative Districting of the State, moving the 2022 Primary Election from June 28 to July 19. The Order also amends certain deadlines for the Primary Election Calendar. The following deadlines have been amended: The deadline for filing certificates of candidacy,...
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With St. Patrick’s Day coming up on Thursday, Maryland State Police are urging those who plan to celebrate with alcohol to be safe and smart and avoid impaired, distracted and aggressive driving. With an increase in impaired drivers expected throughout the state this week, state police will be conducting saturation patrols at each of...
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Jaymi Sterling (Republican), a 14-year veteran prosecutor, officially filed for State’s Attorney for St. Mary’s County. Sterling, a life-long Republican, will be running in the Republican primary election for St. Mary’s County State’s Attorney. “As we see big-city crime creep into our county, we need new leadership to stand up and protect our community,”...
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