Nathaniel Warren Shaklee, 19, of Hollywood, has been charged with 13 counts connected to an alleged burglary at Brudergarten in Leonardtown and a series of reported vehicle break-ins in the Leonardtown area, according to District Court documents filed in St. Mary’s County. Shaklee is charged with second-degree burglary, fourth-degree burglary of a store, eight...
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UPDATE 5/22/2026: A GoFundMe has been started to support the family of a 1-year-old girl who died after suffering a medical emergency in Mechanicsville. According to the fundraiser, Savi was born with congenital diaphragmatic hernia, also known as CDH, and spent her entire first year in the NICU at Children’s Hospital. During that time,...
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UPDATE 5/22/2026: Legend McKinley Carter, 30, of Lexington Park, pleaded guilty in St. Mary’s County District Court to failing to obey a reasonable and lawful order by law enforcement after an April 19, 2026, incident near Old Hewitt Road in Lexington Park, according to court documents. The case was filed on April 20, 2026,...
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On Thursday, May 21, 2026, the school resource officer assigned to Great Mills High School was notified by school administrators that a student had threatened to stab a teacher. Following the verbal threat, school administrators searched the student and located a pocketknife in the student’s pants pocket. The knife was immediately confiscated. The 15-year-old...
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Maryland State Police arrested an Annapolis man with sexual abuse of a minor in Queen Anne’s County. The accused is identified as Dustin Moss Burket, 52, of Annapolis. Burket is criminally charged with second-degree rape, abuse of a minor, fourth degree sexual offense, and second-degree assault. He was taken into custody yesterday without incident...
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John “Johnny” Oscar Gatton Sr., 83, of Hollywood, Maryland, passed away peacefully on May 19, 2026, surrounded by his family in the comfort of his home. Johnny was born on February 10, 1943, at his family home in Hollywood, Maryland, to William Raymond and Ruth Evelyn Gatton. He was one of six children and...
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On Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at approximately 6:33 p.m., firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the 13000 block of Sankston Place in Newburg, for the reported hazardous materials investigation with injuries. 911 callers reported a 12-year-old male was conscious alert and breathing after spilling acid on his face. Firefighters arrived on the scene...
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On Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at approximately 8:15 p.m., police, firefighters, emergency medical services and dive teams responded to the Port Tobacco River in Welcome, for the reported missing person in the water. 911 callers reported a 40-year-old female was last seen in the water with her location currently unknown. Crews arrived on the...
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On May 15, 2026, Timothy Lee Townsend, 61, of North Beach, was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with 20 years of active time, for sex abuse of a minor (continuing course of conduct). Upon release, Townsend will be on 5 years of supervised probation and required to register as a sex offender. In...
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The investigation began on May 20, 2025 after the Maryland State Police received a CyberTip. On August 19, 2025, members of the Maryland State Police Child Exploitation Unit, Homeland Security Investigations, the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and the United States Secret Service executed a signed residential search and seizure warrant at a...
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Shayonna Renee Miles, 24, of Lexington Park, has been charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment after St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office deputies say she used a vehicle to strike people during a May 16, 2026, disturbance in Lexington Park. According to charging documents, deputies from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office...
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The number of wildfires in Maryland in 2025 remained steady but total acres burned nearly doubled, largely due to arson, according to the Maryland Forest Service’s Annual Wildland Fire Report. The report covers wildfires across 3.2 million acres of land overseen by the Maryland Forest Service. In Maryland, 172 wildland fires burned 8,167 acres during...
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On Monday, May 18, 2026, at approximately 1:30 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the area of Point Lookout Road and Potato Hill Farm Lane in Leonardtown, for the serious motor vehicle collision with one unconscious. Crews arrived on the scene to find a two vehicle T-bone style collision and confirmed...
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David Allen Roberts, 34, of Prince Frederick, is facing separate criminal cases in Frederick and Calvert counties, including felony charges tied to a Frederick County commercial burglary and suspected arson, as well as 14 misdemeanor animal cruelty-related charges filed in Calvert County. In Frederick County, Roberts is charged with second-degree burglary, second-degree arson, first-degree...
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Michelle Rene Kelley, 63, of Hollywood, is charged in St. Mary’s County District Court with 147 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty for allegedly failing to provide proper care for animals at a Brown Road property in Hollywood, according to court documents. The case, filed on May 14, 2026, lists the charge description for each...
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Charles Franklin Harding Jr., 62, of Welcome, is facing felony drug distribution and multiple misdemeanor charges after a May 13, 2026 traffic stop near Hawthorne Road and Lower Wharf Road in Charles County, according to District Court records. Harding is charged with possession with intent to distribute narcotics, possession of a controlled dangerous substance...
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By: Christine Condon, May 4, 2026 – Maryland Matters. MM is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization. In dark corners and supply closets in firehouses across Maryland sit gallons upon gallons of a toxic firefighting foam that firefighters can no longer use. In 2022, the state legislature passed a...
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Sheriff Ricky Cox and the men and women of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office are proud to announce that DFC Hendrickson and his K9 partner, Atlas, earned 1st place out of 20 K9 teams at the 2026 Capital K9 Trials. The competition, hosted at Joint Base Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George’s County,...
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Laroi James Burch, 35, of Lexington Park, is facing nine drug and firearm-related charges after authorities said a search of his Radford Lane home led to the discovery of crack cocaine, packaging materials, a digital scale, cash, ammunition and a Polymer80 handgun without a serial number, according to District Court documents filed in St....
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On Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at approximately 4:25 p.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services responded to the intersection of Chancellors Run Road and Military Lane in Great Mills, for the serious motor vehicle collision with one overturned. Crews arrived on the scene within minutes of dispatch to find a three vehicle collision with...
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On Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at approximately 5:55 a.m., police, firefighters and emergency medical services from Calvert and Charles County responded to the Benedict Bridge, for a motor vehicle collision with injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find a two vehicle head-on style collision with one patient reporting chest pains. Upon evaluating the...
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A St. Mary’s County woman used numbers from an old car to win $50,000 on Pick 5. According to the grandmother, her husband has an old car in the driveway that she wants him to remove. While she was looking at the eyesore one day, she decided to use the situation to win some...
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5/13/2026: Maryland Delegate Todd B. Morgan announced that “MDOT/SHA listened to concerns raised by local officials and residents regarding the proposed Route 235 roadway project. Morgan said. “Thanks to everyone who showed up to speak up.” In a May 7, 2026, letter to Delegate Morgan, Maryland Department of Transportation Secretary Kathryn Thomson said the Maryland...
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UPDATE 5/12/2026: Attorney General Anthony G. Brown today announced that the State of Maryland has reached a final settlement of $2.25 billion with Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., the owner and operator of the M/V Dali, resolving the State’s claims against those parties arising from the cargo ship’s March 26,...
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UPDATE 5/12/2026: State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced today that Leroy Christopher Neal, 50, of Mechanicsville, Maryland, has been sentenced to LIFE plus 20 years in prison, with LIFE plus 5 years of active incarceration for first-degree murder and related firearm charges. On December 5, 2025, after a 5-day jury trial, a St. Mary’s County...
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