UPDATE May 10, 2023: Hospice of the Chesapeake announced the planned Culinary Event will be held at a new location, The Hall at Huntingtown, 4030 Old Town Road in Huntingtown, Maryland. The event will be held on the same date and time originally planned: 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 12. Registration is now closed for...
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On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at approximately 4:33 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and St. Andrew’s Church Road in California, for the motor vehicle collision with unknown injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find three vehicles involved. Firefighters made contact with the operator of...
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UPDATE 5/8/2023: On May 7, 2023. at 4:10 p.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to numerous calls for the sound of gunshots inside the St. Charles Town Center located at 11130 Mall Circle in Waldorf. When officers arrived, they established a perimeter and entered the mall to try to locate potential...
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The Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC) Department of Research and Collections has uncovered the human remains of a young European man, believed to have been buried in the late 1630s. The remains were found approximately 30 feet outside of what once was St. Mary’s Fort. This discovery may be one of the oldest colonial...
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UPDATE 12:40 P.M.: Incident Command reporting all HAZMAT testing resulted in negative results. All units in service. Medical personnel obtained a care refusal form on scene from the employee. No injuries, no threat. 12:00 P.M.: On Sunday, May 7, 2023, at approximately 11:48 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the Fairgrounds located...
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State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling announced that Jamar Daron Moss, 42, of Calvert County, was sentenced to life in prison for the first-degree rape of a victim in St. Mary’s County, that occurred on November 8, 2021. During the sentencing hearing held on May 5, 2023, the victim addressed the Court and expressed that while...
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On Tuesday, May 2, 2023, detectives with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office executed a search and seizure warrant on a Lexington Park man resulting in cocaine distribution charges. Criminal Investigations Division detectives located Deyonta Terrell Gross, age 29 of Lexington Park, driving a 2021 Hyundai Palisade at a restaurant in California. Gross was...
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On April 17, 2023, at 3:40 a.m., deputies with the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Bureau responded to a commercial burglary at the King Smoke Tobacco Shop located at 4955 St. Leonard Road in St. Leonard. Deputies arrived on scene and discovered the front window shattered and various items stolen from the business. During...
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5/1/2023: On Monday, May 1, 2023, at approximately 9:20 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the Weis located at 20995 Point Lookout Road in Callaway, for the motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian. 911 callers advised the striking vehicle fled the scene with one 911 caller following the vehicle Southbound on Point...
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Driving, putting, fun, and networking are back again this year as Leadership Southern Maryland (LSM) celebrates its 10th Annual Golf Tournament. This prestigious event will take place on Friday, June 9, 2023, at Breton Bay Golf and Country Club in Leonardtown, Maryland. All golfers are welcomed and encouraged to join regional leaders from throughout...
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The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Carjacking Interdiction Unit charged five suspects in connection with a recent armed carjacking in Suitland. The two adult suspects are 18-year-old Qamar Comfort and 18-year-old Iriae Williams. Both are from Washington, DC. A third suspect, a 16-year-old male from Temple Hills, is also charged as an adult. The...
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On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at approximately 1:35 p.m., firefighters from Seventh District, Leonardtown, Hollywood, Mechanicsville, and Valley Lee responded to 47357 River Springs Road in Avenue, for the reported house on fire. The residence owner/occupant is identified as Anthony Viera with the estimated loss of structure and contents valued at $250,000.00 The American...
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On Sunday, April 30, 2023, at approximately 1:00 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Route 4 and Calvert Beach Road in St. Leonard, for the motor vehicle collision reported serious with one ejected. Crews arrived on the scene to find a vehicle off the roadway into a tree with...
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On April 28, 2023, at 12:19 a.m., patrol officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 800 block of Stone Avenue in Waldorf for the report of an intrusion alarm at a school. When officers arrived, they observed a vehicle in the parking lot. Upon making contact with the driver, the odor...
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A Leonardtown man and woman have been arrested and charged by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office on several charges of Sex Abuse of a Minor, Neglect of a Minor and Second-Degree Rape. Following an investigation by the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office’s Criminal Investigations Division, Brian Joseph Wiegman, age 45 of Leonardtown, has...
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On Thursday, April 27, 2023, at approximately 2:25 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to Three Notch Road and MacArthur Boulevard in California, for the motor vehicle collision reported serious with one trapped and possibly unconscious. Crews arrived on the scene to find a Infinity SUV and a Toyota pickup truck in the...
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4/27/2023: Comcast today announced it is expanding its Xfinity 10G Network to more than 17,500 additional homes and businesses across 450 miles in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, delivering its full suite of Xfinity and Comcast Business services. Construction has begun and the project – which includes communities in Broad Creek, California, Callaway, Great Mills,...
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UPDATE 4/27/2023: On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, at 10:08 pm, two masked men entered the Birdies convenience store at the 24600 block of Three Notch Road in Hollywood. The two suspects pointed a handgun at store employees, demanding money from the registers. The suspects removed currency from the registers and fled on foot. St....
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On Monday, Governor Wes Moore signed State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling’s legislative initiative, “The St. Mary’s County – Transfer of Child Support Unit and Personnel to the Child Support Administration Bill (HB 526)” into law. At the request of State’s Attorney Jaymi Sterling, the St. Mary’s County Delegation submitted HB 526 during the 2023 legislative...
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On Sunday, April 23, 2023, at 11:45 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to Bayside Road in the area between Beach Drive and Locust Grove Road in Chesapeake Beach, for the motor vehicle collision reported serious with entrapment. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle off the roadway with the...
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On Saturday, April 22, 2023, at approximately 11:53 p.m., firefighters from Waldorf Volunteer Fire Department were dispatched to the apartments located at 2225 Stream Vista Place in Waldorf, for a water flow alarm. The first 911 call came from an alarm company reporting water flow alarms were sounding at the address given and shortly...
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UPDATE 4/21/2023: On April 20, 2023, a 3-judge panel sitting in Upper Marlboro affirmed the 10-year sentence imposed on Joseph Martin Blankenship for the crime of second degree assault. Blankenship was convicted in 2021 by a Calvert County jury and sentenced to the maximum possible sentence by Judge Andrew S. Rappaport. A Maryland appellate...
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On Thursday, April 20, 2023, at approximately 11:35 a.m., police and emergency medical personnel responded to the 24000 block of Hunt Court in Hollywood, for the reported near drowning. The 911 caller reported a 14-month old female fell into a pond and was found not conscious and not breathing. A family member preformed CPR...
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The Calvert County Department of Economic Development is pleased to announce it has awarded nearly $1.2 million in grant funding to 39 local small businesses through the Calvert County Small Business Assistance Grant Fund. The grant fund was established to provide financial assistance that will help local small business owners grow and strengthen their...
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Event alert! The Southern Maryland Volunteer Firemen’s Association Convention is coming up fast this April 30th! Please come out and watch the parade of tri county fire and EMS apparatus on Main Street in Prince Frederick. Once the parade is completed, head on over to the Calvert County Fair Grounds to watch the fire...
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