On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at approximately 5:05 p.m., firefighters from Hollywood, Bay District, Leonardtown, Mechanicsville, and Seventh District responded to the 25000 block of Vista Road in Hollywood, for the reported structure fire. Dispatchers advised the 911 caller had disconnected twice, once after advising there was a chimney fire, then again after reporting...
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On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at approximately 2:22 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of Wildewood Parkway and Green Acre Lane in California, for a serious motor vehicle collision with entrapment. Fire and rescue personnel arrived on the scene in under 4 minutes to find a two vehicle head-on...
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UPDATE 2/12/2025: The CCSO’s Warrant/Fugitive Unit is seeking the location of Daniel “Danny” Ball, 55, whose last known address was in Waldorf. Ball has several active warrants for failure to appear in court for felony theft, as well as new charges related to several shoplifting incidents. Ball has used force to avoid apprehension in...
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On Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at approximately 4:41 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of Colton Point Road and River Springs School Road in Avenue, for the reported single vehicle collision with injuries. While crews responded, additional callers reported two people were trapped. The incident was upgraded to a...
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Miquel Beasley, 22, of Bryans Road, MD, was charged on February 5, 2025, and ordered detained on February 7, 2025, for an armed carjacking stemming from an offense in Southeast D.C., announced U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. and Chief Pamela Smith of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). According to court records, at approximately...
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 2:51 p.m., First Responders were dispatched to the area of Piney Point Road and Glebe Road in Valley Lee, for a motor vehicle collision with one overturned. Shortly after this crash was dispatched, a second separate collision involving an overturned vehicle was dispatched at Point Lookout Road and Park...
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The Maryland State Police has activated the Snow Emergency Plan for Calvert County effective at 2:30 p.m. on February 11, 2025. Current weather conditions and/or forecasts indicate that normal vehicular travel is or will become extremely dangerous. Motorists are encouraged to stay off of the roadways. This will allow emergency services and State Highway...
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Corey A. McDowney, 46, of Lexington Park, was arrested on Sunday, February 9, 2025, following a series of disruptive actions at the site of a fatal motor vehicle accident. McDowney faces charges of disorderly conduct, failure to obey a reasonable and lawful order, and obstructing and hindering law enforcement after allegedly interfering with officers...
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The Chesapeake Life Center will offer “Healing Our Community: Navigating Grief in the Aftermath of the DCA Tragedy” to support those affected by the Jan. 29 tragedy at Reagan National Airport. Chesapeake Life Center’s trauma-informed grief counselors will lead this healing workshop from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22, at Hospice of the...
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UPDATE 2/10/2025: Ernest Drew Phillips, of St. Leonard, was sentenced in Calvert County Circuit Court on Friday, February 7, 2025, for 2 counts of second degree rape and sex abuse of a minor. Judge Mark S. Chandlee imposed an active sentence of 33 years in prison, concurrent to a 25-year sentence imposed by a...
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UPDATE 2/10/2025: Police are investigating a fatal motor vehicle collision that occurred on Sunday, February 9, 2025. At approximately 2:29 p.m., police responded to the area of the Crossroads Apartments in the 21000 block of Great Mills Road in Lexington Park for a reported crash. Upon arrival, deputies discovered a two-vehicle collision involving a...
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UPDATE 2/8/2025: The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal motor vehicle collision that occurred on Saturday, February 8, 2025. At approximately 10:58 a.m., patrol deputies responded to 28085 Point Lookout Road in Leonardtown for a reported crash. Upon arrival, they found a two-vehicle collision involving a motor scooter and a Nissan sedan....
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On Friday, February 7, 2025, at approximately 6:46 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to Wildewood Boulevard and White Oak Parkway in California, for the reported motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian. Crews arrived on the scene to find an older adult male patient laying in the roadway. Emergency medical services requested...
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On Saturday, February 8, 2025, at approximately 11:10 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to Great Mills Road and Midway Drive in Lexington Park, for the reported Departmental Motor vehicle collision involving MDO18. Crews arrived on the scene to find two vehicles involved with two patients for evaluation. All occupants of both...
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UPDATE 2/7/2025: Tony Covington, State’s Attorney for Charles County, announced that on Thursday, February 6, 2025, Charles County Circuit Court Judge Donine Carrington Martin sentenced Jahad Karim Frierson, 27, of Waldorf, to 35 years in prison for the Second-Degree Murder of Leon Nathaniel Inabinett, Jr. Frierson was also sentenced to a consecutive 1,067 days...
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UPDATE 2/6/2025: In October 2024, three bystanders encountered an individual who had collapsed on FDR Boulevard in Lexington Park, Maryland. Demonstrating a remarkable presence of mind and courage, the bystanders promptly initiated CPR and contacted Emergency Services by dialing 9-1-1. Upon the arrival of Fire and Emergency Medical Services, CPR was continued and additional life-saving...
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UPDATE 2/7/2025: On February 6, 2025, deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office arrested James Allen Chase, 65, of Lexington Park, following an ongoing investigation into suspected drug-related activities. The operation, led by the Vice Narcotics Unit with support from the Patrol Division and Criminal Intelligence Unit, culminated in a traffic stop and...
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Personnel at Naval Air Station Patuxent River are advised that increased traffic volume is expected at NAS Patuxent River and Webster Outlying Field beginning Friday, Feb. 7, 2025 with the implementation of return to office orders across the base. In anticipation of this increased traffic volume, the following changes to gate operations will begin...
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On Monday, February 3, 2025, at 10:20 a.m., a juvenile was observed walking outside of Mattawoman Middle School at a time when students should have been in class. The juvenile was escorted to the administrator’s office where they provided a false name. As administrators and a school resource officer attempted to identify the juvenile,...
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Calvert County Government is pleased to announce the results of the latest community survey, reflecting the opinions and insights of 727 residents. The survey is done by a third-party and uses a representative sample by matching respondent data to the U.S. Census Bureau’s race, ethnicity, age and gender distributions in Calvert County. Rake-weighting was...
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On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, a student at Robert D. Stethem Educational Center was involved in an argument with another student inside a classroom. During the argument, one of the involved students grabbed a teacher by the arm and pushed her against a wall. The student with whom he was arguing left the classroom....
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Millersville, MD (February 4, 2025) – Anne Arundel County Executive Steuart Pittman and the Anne Arundel County Police Department today announced the opening of the state-of-the-art Real-Time Information Center (RTIC), a groundbreaking initiative that will enhance public safety and revolutionize crime prevention. The RTIC will serve as a central hub, analyzing and sharing real-time information to...
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By Joe Zimmermann, science writer with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources: In recent summers on Maryland’s “tern raft,” a man-made conservation platform that serves as habitat for state-endangered colonial nesting waterbirds, scientists found a common tern with a distinctive orange tag on its leg. The tag indicated that Argentinian researchers had banded the tern...
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As 21st-century policing continues to evolve, the need for accurate data and accessible technology has become a priority for law enforcement agencies nationwide. Recognizing this need, the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office (SMCSO) and St. Mary’s County Government (SMCG) took a significant step forward by transitioning to a new records management and computer-aided dispatch...
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Governor Wes Moore announced that the number of fatal overdoses in Maryland decreased dramatically in 2024. According to preliminary data from Maryland’s Overdose Data Dashboard, there were 1,553 fatal overdoses reported in Maryland last year—a 38% decrease than the 2,511 fatal overdoses reported in 2023. “The decrease in fatal overdoses that we’re seeing in...
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