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One Flown to Area Trauma Center After Vehicle Strikes Utility Pole in Mechanicsville

One Flown to Area Trauma Center After Vehicle Strikes Utility Pole in Mechanicsville

On Thursday, February 10, 2022, at approximately 8:47 p.m., police, fire and rescue personnel responded to the area of Three Notch Road and Golden Beach Road in Charlotte Hall, for the reported motor vehicle collision with injuries. Crews arrived on the scene to find a single vehicle off the roadway into a utility pole....
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Police Investigating Multiple Residences/Vehicles Struck by Gunfire in Lexington Park, No Known Injuries Reported

Police Investigating Multiple Residences/Vehicles Struck by Gunfire in Lexington Park, No Known Injuries Reported

On Thursday, February 10, 2022, at approximately 8:45 p.m., police responded to the area of Spring Valley Drive in Lexington Park, for multiple 911 callers reporting shots fired. Police arrived on the scene to find multiple shell casings in the roadway of Spring Valley Drive between Pegg Road and Rosewood Drive. Witnesses reported hearing...
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Message from NAS Patuxent River Commanding Officer Regarding Traffic Delays Associated with CS-SC 22 Exercise

Message from NAS Patuxent River Commanding Officer Regarding Traffic Delays Associated with CS-SC 22 Exercise

NAS Patuxent River and Mission Partner Personnel, During yesterday afternoon’s Solid Curtain 2022 antiterrorism exercise we saw a dramatic traffic backup. The delays were excessive and I own that. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you or your families. In addition, we are reviewing our response plans to prevent such events with...
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Department of Justice Sentence Fourteen Former NFL Players for Nationwide Health Care Fraud Scheme

Department of Justice Sentence Fourteen Former NFL Players for Nationwide Health Care Fraud Scheme

Player history is included at the bottom of the article. Wednesday, February 9, 2022 – A former National Football League (NFL) player was sentenced today to five years in prison for orchestrating a nationwide scheme to defraud a health care benefit program for retired NFL players. According to court documents, Robert McCune, 42, of...
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Maryland Department of Natural Resources Wildlife and Heritage Welcome Public Comments for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 Hunting Seasons

Maryland Department of Natural Resources Wildlife and Heritage Welcome Public Comments for the 2022-23 and 2023-24 Hunting Seasons

Maryland Department of Natural Resources Wildlife and Heritage Service Public Comment Forum Welcome to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife and Heritage Services Proposed Hunting Seasons and Bag Limits online forum. We are accepting comments on both the Proposed Migratory Game Bird Seasons and Bag limits for the 2022-23 hunting season as well...
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Governor Hogan Announces He Will Not Run For U.S. Senate In 2022

Governor Hogan Announces He Will Not Run For U.S. Senate In 2022

At a State House press conference this week, Governor Larry Hogan announced that he will not be a candidate for the United States Senate in 2022: “Lastly today, I want to put to rest a question that some of you have been asking me. I want to let you know that I will not...
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Maryland DNR Wildlife and Heritage Crew Rescue Injured Bald Eagle Found on Charles County Property

Maryland DNR Wildlife and Heritage Crew Rescue Injured Bald Eagle Found on Charles County Property

On Wednesday, February 2, 2022, a Charles County resident reached out to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources when he received a package he didn’t order. An injured bald eagle had perched on the rocking chair on his front porch and activated his doorbell camera. When he arrived home later the eagle was still...
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Calvert County Public Schools Career and Technical Education Awarded $118,053 Innovation Grant for Fire and Rescue Program

Calvert County Public Schools Career and Technical Education Awarded $118,053 Innovation Grant for Fire and Rescue Program

Calvert County Public Schools (CCPS) Career and Technical Education has been awarded a Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) Career and Technical Education (CTE) Innovation Grant in the amount of $118,053 to support providing a Virtual Fire Training Program that will enhance the Fire and Rescue Cadet program located at the Career and Technology...
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Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary’s County Students Compete in SkillsUSA Regional Competition

Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary’s County Students Compete in SkillsUSA Regional Competition

Calvert County Public Schools (CCPS) students competed at the recent Southern Maryland SkillsUSA Regional competition winning 9 gold, 7 silver, and 7 bronze medals. The event was hosted by Career and Technology Academy on February 5, 2022, where Career and Technical Education (CTE) students from the Calvert Career and Technology Academy in Calvert County,...
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Police Recover Over 250 Pills Suspected to be CDS from Three St. Charles High School Students

Police Recover Over 250 Pills Suspected to be CDS from Three St. Charles High School Students

On Monday, February 7, 2022, administrators at St. Charles High School received an anonymous tip that a student, or students were possibly in possession of a controlled dangerous substance (CDS). The administrators, in conjunction with the School Resource Officer, initiated an investigation subsequently revealing three students in possession of over 250 pills believed to...
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VIDEO: Hogan Awards Governors Citation to Crossing Guard Who Saved Cecil County Student from Being Struck by Vehicle

VIDEO: Hogan Awards Governors Citation to Crossing Guard Who Saved Cecil County Student from Being Struck by Vehicle

Governor Larry Hogan awarded a governor’s citation to Cpl. Annette Goodyear of Cecil County’s North East Police Department who saved a student from being hit by a car late last week. Cpl. Goodyear, who has served as a crossing guard for 14 years, was assisting students across the street outside of North East Middle...
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Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Violent Threats to Maryland Doctor Who Had Been a Vocal Advocate of the COVID-19 Vaccine

Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Sending Violent Threats to Maryland Doctor Who Had Been a Vocal Advocate of the COVID-19 Vaccine

Scott Eli Harris, 51, of Aubrey, Texas, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of willfully transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure a Maryland doctor who had been a vocal proponent of the COVID-19 vaccine. According to documents and statements made in connection with the plea hearing, Harris sent a...
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Washington D.C. Teen Arrested for Murder of 20-Year-Old Accokeek Man That Occurred in 2021

Washington D.C. Teen Arrested for Murder of 20-Year-Old Accokeek Man That Occurred in 2021

The Homicide Unit identified and charged the suspect wanted in connection with a fatal shooting that took place in Brandywine in December 2021. The suspect is 19-year-old Kevin Curtis Coleman of Washington, DC. He’s charged in connection with the murder of 20-year-old Blake White of Accokeek. On December 16, 2021, at approximately 6:25 p.m.,...
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State Fire Marshal Investigating Possible Attempted Suicide / Arson at Take It Easy Campground in Callaway

State Fire Marshal Investigating Possible Attempted Suicide / Arson at Take It Easy Campground in Callaway

On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, at approximately 8:55 a.m., police, firefighters and rescue personnel responded to the 45000 block of Take It Easy Ranch Road in Callaway, for the reported camper fire with subjects trapped. Multiple 911 callers reported a camper was on fire, with one 911 caller reporting a female occupant was inside...
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UPDATE: Waldorf Man Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison for Vehicular Homicide While Intoxicated by Alcohol

UPDATE: Waldorf Man Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison for Vehicular Homicide While Intoxicated by Alcohol

UPDATE 2/8/2022: State’s Attorney Richard Fritz announces that Joseph Marvin Swann was sentenced to 19 years by the Circuit Court of St. Mary’s County, for manslaughter by motor vehicle. The State asked the court to sentence Swann to 55 years, the maximum sentence allowed by law. Judicial guidelines suggested a sentence of 22 years....
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Police Arrest 27-Year-Old Waldorf Man for First Degree Assault, False Imprisonment

Police Arrest 27-Year-Old Waldorf Man for First Degree Assault, False Imprisonment

On Friday February 4, 2022, at 11:50 p.m., officers responded to the 4100 block of Falcon Place in Waldorf for the report of an assault with a weapon. Upon arrival officers located the suspect, Kijuan Aaron Dorsey, 27 of Waldorf, standing outside of the apartment with a butcher knife in his hand. Officers ordered...
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Police Arrest Bryans Road Man who Pointed Gun at Gas Station Employees

Police Arrest Bryans Road Man who Pointed Gun at Gas Station Employees

On January 28, 2022, officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to a gas station located in the 6900 block of Indian Head Highway in Bryans Road for the report of a subject who pointed a gun at two employees before fleeing the store. Detectives from the Criminal Investigations Division investigated and on...
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Waldof Man Arrested for Weapons Violation, Resisting Arrest and Assaulting a Police Officer

Waldof Man Arrested for Weapons Violation, Resisting Arrest and Assaulting a Police Officer

On February 6, 2022,  at approximately 7:40 a.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 3100 block of Esser Place in Waldorf for the report of an occupied suspicious vehicle. Upon making contact with the sole occupant of the vehicle, officers detected a strong odor of marijuana and subsequently recovered suspected...
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Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office Continues to Fight Fraud Related to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office Continues to Fight Fraud Related to the Covid-19 Pandemic

On Monday, February 7, 2022, Maryland United States Attorney Erek L. Barron announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has entered into a memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Special Inspector General Brian D. Miller of the Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR) and Deputy Inspector General James D. Powell...
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Prince George’s County Police Department Investigating Fatal Pedestrian Collision in Oxon Hill

Prince George’s County Police Department Investigating Fatal Pedestrian Collision in Oxon Hill

The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating a fatal pedestrian collision in a shopping center parking lot in Oxon Hill. The victim is 52-year-old Kimberly Maria Tucker of no fixed address. On February 6, 2022, at approximately 6:10 pm, patrol officers were called to the parking lot in...
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Hugh “Hughie” Howard Heiss, Jr., 61

Hugh “Hughie” Howard Heiss, Jr., 61

Hugh “Hughie” Howard Heiss, Jr., 61, of Mechanicsville, MD, passed away on January 26, 2022 at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital. Hughie was born on December 31, 1960 to Hugh Howard Heiss, Sr. and Louise V. Heiss “Stephens” in Washington DC. After he received his diploma, he went on to study Computer Electronics at TESST...
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Shannon Christine Thomas

Shannon Christine Thomas

Shannon Christine Thomas was a loving daughter, mother, sister, and friend. She passed pain free and in peace on January 26, 2022 at the age of 52 with her family by her side. Shannon was born on May 14, 1969 in San Diego, California, to parents Alfred and Claudia. She grew up on St....
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Richard Wayne “Rick” Jackson, 64

Richard Wayne “Rick” Jackson, 64

Richard Wayne “Rick” Jackson, 64, of Mechanicsville, MD passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital, Leonardtown, MD with this loving wife by his side. He was born on August 21, 1957in Takoma Park, MD to the Harold Jackson and the late, Sandra (DeShazo) Jackson. He spent many years...
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Suzanne Mary “Sue” Cole, 72

Suzanne Mary “Sue” Cole, 72

Suzanne Mary “Sue” Cole, 72, of Mechanicsville, MD, who loved to be called Mom by her children and Grammy by her grandchildren, departed her loving family peacefully on Wednesday, February 2, 2022, at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD. She was born on June 13, 1949, in Boston, MA to the late Merlin...
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