On March 27, 2025, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Alcohol Enforcement Unit conducted a series of tobacco compliance checks across the county. The covert operation utilized a 19-year-old confidential informant (CI) from the Sheriff’s Office to assess businesses’ adherence to tobacco sales laws. The CI, dressed in athletic attire, attempted to purchase tobacco...
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UPDATE 4/02/2025: State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, March 27, 2025, Charles County Circuit Court Judge West sentenced Renee Daytona Roberts, age 45, to 15 years in prison for First-Degree Child Abuse: Severe Injury. Roberts will be on supervised probation for five years upon release. On March 13, 2025, Roberts pled...
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The Calvert County Department of Community Resources, Office on Aging Division, will host the 32nd Annual Southern Maryland Caregivers Conference on Friday, April 11, 2025, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Southern Pines Senior Center, located at 20 Appeal Lane in Lusby. The conference will offer 15 sessions designed to support and...
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On Saturday, April 12, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., St. Clement’s Island Museum will host St. Mary’s County wineries and craft beverage makers, as well as local crafters and artisans for the annual First Landing Wine & Arts Festival. For the fifth year, community members and visitors are invited to enjoy this...
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20-year Army veteran, having already seen the world, has no aspiration to travel A Maryland Lottery player from Prince George’s County enjoys the anticipation involved with the games, but got a bigger thrill than usual when his Pick 5 numbers hit for a $50,000 prize. “It’s just the thrill,” he said of playing in...
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Leadership Southern Maryland (LSM) is pleased to announce a new partnership with CTG, a Division of Blue Raven Solutions, in support of the region’s community leadership development efforts. CTG’s sponsorship greatly benefits both the LSM Executive Program and the LSM Emerging Leaders Program (LEAP). “CTG, a Division of Blue Raven Solutions, and LSM have...
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Calvert County Parks & Recreation invites residents to participate in the annual Therapeutic Recreational (TR) Duck Race on Saturday, April 12, from 3:30 to 4 p.m. at the Edward T. Hall Aquatic Center, located at 130 Auto Drive in Prince Frederick. Participants can sponsor a rubber duck to compete in a race down the...
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A Charles County woman, who recently switched to Racetrax after regularly playing Keno, trotted her way into the winner’s circle. On March 20th, 2025, she won $73,767 playing the popular computer-animated horse racing game. The happy winner was on her way home after work when she stopped at Sunnybrook Tavern in Fort Washington. While...
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Students from Calvert County Public Schools (CCPS) Career & Technology Academy (CTA) achieved outstanding success at the 52nd Annual SkillsUSA Maryland State Championship, held March 28–29, 2025 in Carroll County, MD. A total of 37 students earned medals across 17 different contests, bringing home 23 medals for CTA. The nine students who earned gold medals will...
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Amber Michelle Hardesty, 41, of Mechanicsville, has been sentenced following her conviction for embezzlement and financial misconduct involving a vulnerable adult, according to court documents filed in the St. Mary’s County Circuit Court. Hardesty, was convicted on two misdemeanor counts of embezzlement. The offenses occurred in January 2023 and involved her misuse of funds...
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Detectives from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division (CID) arrested John Alan Lynch, 28, of Indian Head, after a Charles County Grand Jury indicted him in connection with charges of sexual abuse of a minor, sexual solicitation of a minor, and solicitation for prostitution. An arrest warrant was issued and Lynch was...
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Wendell Giovanni Estes, 49, of Waldorf, is facing a wide array of criminal and traffic charges following an early morning incident on March 28, 2025, that began at a hotel in La Plata and ended in a high-speed pursuit spanning multiple jurisdictions. According to court documents, officers with the La Plata Police Department were...
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On Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 2:55 a.m., police responded to the Cyreene Pharmacy located at 25805 Point Lookout Road in Leonardtown, for the reported burglary in progress. Deputies arrived at the business at approximately 3 a.m. and discovered that the power to the building had been switched off at a breaker box. Upon...
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Hospice of the Chesapeake is pleased to announce that Christine Wilson, current Director of Advancement, will step into the new role of Executive Director of the Hospice of the Chesapeake Foundation. This position was created following the announcement of Shauna Chabot’s retirement as Chief Advancement Officer. Chabot will retire on April 15 after 14...
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State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced that Marvin Orlando Johnson, 39, of Mechanicville, was sentenced to Life, plus an additional 20 years in prison, for the premeditated murder of his stepfather on May 24, 2023 Following a four-day jury trial in July 2024, a St. Mary’s County jury found Johnson guilty of first-degree murder and...
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On Monday, March 31, 2025, at approximately 2:57 p.m., Second District Ambulance 68 advised they were involved in a motor vehicle collision at Point Lookout Road and Hollywood Road in Leonardtown. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicle collision involving the ambulance and a passenger vehicle. Two occupants in the passenger vehicle...
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On Monday, March 31, 2025, at approximately 1:25 p.m., firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the 7200 block of Hawthorne Road in La Plata, for the reported structure fire. Multiple 911 callers, involving one member of the Bryans Road Volunteer Fire Department reported a large woods fire involving a shed and multiple vehicles. Crews...
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Governor Wes Moore released the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive order ending federal workers’ collective bargaining rights. “Maryland will always have the backs of working people and organized labor. And amid the draconian federal cuts impacting public servants across our state, our partnership with organized labor has become more important than ever. In...
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On Saturday, March 29, 2025, at approximately 9:30 p.m., firefighters from Charles and Prince George’s County responded to the 2200 block of Bridle Path Drive in Waldorf, for the reported house on fire with animals possibly trapped. Crews arrived on the scene to find fire showing from the first and second floor of a...
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On Saturday, March 29, 2025, at approximately 6:03 a.m., firefighters from Charles County responded to 3755 Opals Place in White Plains, for the reported house on fire. Crews arrived on the scene to find fire showing from the first floor of the two-story residence, with an elderly male suffering from smoke inhalation. Shortly after...
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A routine traffic stop in Chesapeake Beach led to the arrest of a Virginia man on multiple charges after authorities allegedly discovered a loaded firearm and suspected drugs inside his vehicle. On the evening of March 19, 2025, a deputy from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop in the parking lot...
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On Sunday, March 30, 2025, at approximately 11:03 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of All Faith Church Road and New Market Turner Road in Mechanicsville, for the motor vehicle collision involving a motorcycle. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single motorcyclist off the roadway, with the operator...
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On Sunday, March 30, 2025, at approximately 8:32 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Traveled Lane in Charlotte Hall, for the serious motor vehicle collision with rollover. Crews arrived on the scene to find two-vehicles involved in a rear-end style collision with no entrapment...
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On Friday, March 21, 2025, at 1:34 p.m., patrol officers initiated a traffic stop in the area of Western Parkway near Acton Lane in Waldorf on a vehicle that had been reported stolen. The driver refused to pull over and fled from officers where they later struck a curb in the area of Crain...
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On Sunday, March 30, 2025, at approximately 3:57 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the 2300 block of Dunkirk Drive in Owings, for the reported ATV accident. 911 callers reported a pediatric operator on an ATV was ejected after striking a tree. A helicopter was placed on standby. Crews arrived on...
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