On Monday, January 8, 2024, at approximately 4:20 a.m., firefighters from Huntingtown and surrounding departments in Calvert and Anne Arundel County responded to the 8050 Mt. Harmony Lane in Owings, for the reported structure fire. First arriving units found a one-story home with fire showing and began making an interior attack. Evacuation tones were...
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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and partners have been awarded a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Chesapeake Watershed Investment for Landscape Defense (Chesapeake WILD) program to restore freshwater mussels in the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. The grant funds will support a comprehensive conservation strategy that includes restoration of mussel communities, scientific...
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UPDATE 1/9/2024: Charles County Crime Solvers is offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the identity of the suspects involved in a shooting that occurred on January 8 at 2:13 p.m. in the area of Jameson Court in Indian Head. When officers arrived, they located a 19-year-old male inside...
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On January 5, 2024, at approximately 12:30 pm, officers responded to a collision involving a minivan and a pickup truck in the area of Piscataway Road and King Gallahan Court. The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal two-vehicle collision in Clinton. The deceased driver is identified...
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On Sunday, January 7, 2024, at approximately 1:26 p.m., 49 volunteer firefighters from Leonardtown, Hollywood, Seventh District, Second District, Mechanicsville and Bay District responded to the 21000 block of Lake Circle in Leonardtown, for the reported structure fire. The homeowner called 911 reporting the bedroom was filled with smoke. Crews arrived on the scene...
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On Sunday, December 31, 2023, Deputy State Fire Marshal Valles responded to assist firefighters and the St. Mary’s Sheriff’s Deputies at a structure fire located in the 40000 block of Duke Road in Mechanicsville, St. Mary’s County. DFM Valles spoke with the incident commander from the Mechanicsville Volunteer Fire Department who advised that a...
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On Sunday, January 7, 2024, at approximately 10:00 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of 26725 North Sandgates Road in Mechanicsville, for the motor vehicle collision reported serious with one overturned with the occupant possibly deceased. 911 callers reported a single vehicle off the roadway, overturned into woods. Crews arrived...
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Raymond William Jackson, Sr., age 91, of Shady Side, MD, a loving husband, father and grandfather, passed away December 31, 2023 at his residence surrounded by family. Raymond was born January 2, 1932 in Washington, D.C., the youngest of eighteen children born to Ada Cecilia (Dean) and Richard Edward Jackson, Sr. He was raised...
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Wilson “Bill” Joseph Kline, age 94, of Lothian died December 30, 2023 in Manassas, VA. He was born on October 8, 1929 in Palmerton, PA to Malcolm A. Kline and Jennie M. Hoffman. Bill was a 1947 graduate of Slatington High School and enlisted into the United States Air Force in July 1947 in...
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Herbert Carroll Dowell, Jr., 88, of Conway, SC and formerly of Owings, MD passed away December 30, 2023. He was born November 14, 1935, in Paris, MD, now a part Owings, to Herbert Carroll Sr. and Charlotte (Manifold) Dowell. Herbert grew up in Calvert County and graduated from Calvert High School in 1953. He...
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Joseph Wayne “Jody” Carter, 80, of Huntingtown passed away December 29, 2023. He was born March 18, 1943, in Upper Marlboro to Ernest William and Sarah Rebecca (Sears) Carter. Jody owned and operated Carter Brothers Electrical in Upper Marlboro. He also worked on the family farm cutting hay and tobacco and raising crops and...
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Janet Lee Bowen, age 59 of King George VA suddenly passed away on December 28th, 2023 in her home on Berthaville road in King George VA. Janet was born August 15, 1964 to Everett F. Windsor and Muriel C. Windsor (Redmond). Janet graduated from Chopticon high school in Mechanicsville Maryland. Janet Bowen had worked...
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Corey Lynn Buggiani, 40, of Chesapeake Beach passed away December 27, 2023. She was born February 5, 1983, in Takoma Park to Roy Anthony and Deborah Lee (Steiner) Davis. Corey was raised in Abington, Massachusetts and moved with her family to Chesapeake, Virginia when she was 12. She graduated from Hickory High School and...
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Mary Agnes Graves, 83, of Clements, Maryland, passed away on January 1, 2024, at the residence of her daughter in Grampton. She was born on December 9, 1940, in Leonardtown, Maryland to the late Harry Victory Pilkerton Sr. and Mary Marguerite Quade. She was the loving wife of the late John Edwin “Eddie” Graves,...
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Lifelong resident, Joseph Duane (Bubby) Knott, 77 passed away at Medstar SMH in Leonardtown, Maryland with his beloved family by his side. Bubby was born on September 1, 1946 in Leonardtown, Maryland to Joseph Irving Knott and Hazel Theresa Knott (Dyson). He was one of nine children. His parents owned and ran Take It...
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Patricia Ann “Darlene” Russell, 73, of Hollywood, MD passed away January 1, 2024 at her home with her loving family at her side. She was born on February 19, 1950 in Leonardtown, MD to the late John Walter “Flug” Norris and Violet Elizabeth (nee: Greenwell) Norris. On May 16, 1970 Darlene married her beloved...
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John (Jack) Weir, 81, of Lexington Park, Maryland passed away on January 1, 2024. John was born September 6, 1942 to John Henry Weir and Claire Cecile Lessard of the Fairview section of Chicopee, Massachusetts. After graduating from Chicopee High School in 1961, John enlisted in the United States Navy, where he served as...
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Marcus Tyrone Harris, Sr. was born to Joseph Emerick Barnes and Bernezia Elizabeth Harris Green on July 13, 1954, at Leonardtown Hospital in St. Mary’s County. He was raised in St. Mary’s City, MD. He departed this life all too soon, at the age of 69 on December 27, 2023. Preceding him in death...
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Mary Ann Turner, 83, of Mechanicsville, MD, passed away at her “home on the hill” on December 30, 2023, surrounded by her family. On May 8, 1940, Mary Ann was born to Paul Benjamin and Mabel Virginia (Holt) Wise in Washington, DC. She immediately brought joy and laughter into the world. In 1958, Mary...
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Harry (Buster) Greathouse, 80, passed away at his home January 2nd, 2024, in Leonardtown, Maryland. He was born in Durbin, WV on November 9th, 1943, to Harper and Hazel Greathouse. He grew up surrounded by love, family, and country roads. He married the love of his life, Gloria Monk Greathouse, on August 2nd, 1964....
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UPDATE 1/6/2024: Lifelong resident, Joseph Duane (Bubby) Knott, 77 passed away at Medstar SMH in Leonardtown, Maryland with his beloved family by his side. Bubby was born on September 1, 1946 in Leonardtown, Maryland to Joseph Irving Knott and Hazel Theresa Knott (Dyson). He was one of nine children. His parents owned and ran...
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The La Plata Police Department (LPPD) has teamed up with LifeStyles of Maryland, Inc. (LoM) and a generous donor to create Project Hope. Project Hope is designed to assist La Plata residents who may need assistance in making ends meet. The idea of Project Hope was brought forward by Mr. Kevin King. Mr. King...
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The Maryland Department of State Police is accepting applications for qualified individuals to serve as the new State Fire Marshal. The State Fire Marshal, a management level position, is the agency head of the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The selected candidate will be charged with the overall responsibility for leading all operations...
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In December of 2023, U.S. Department of Commerce notified Maryland Gov. Wes Moore that it has declined Maryland’s request for a federal commercial fisheries disaster declaration that was sought to help address the economic and ecological damage caused by the spread of invasive catfish and snakeheads in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Maryland made the...
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On Friday, January 5, 2024, at approximately 10:20 a.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Dixon Way in Mechanicsville, for the serious motor vehicle collision with one unconscious. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle off the roadway and into a tree with...
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