George Leroy DeMarr, Sr., a well-known farmer and a wounded combat veteran of the World War II Normandy invasion, died on January 1, 2017, at University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center in La Plata. He was 94. He was born April 16, 1922 in Brandywine, Maryland as the second of six children of...
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Robert Gordon fisher, Sr., 75 of Mechanicsville, MD passed away on January 1, 2017 at his residence in Mechanicsville, MD. Robert was born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland on September 2, 1941. Robert was the son of the late Harold Sylvester Fisher and the late Florence Hood Fisher. Robert enjoyed spending time at the...
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John “Weasel” Wayne Kolbe, 66 of Mechanicsville, MD passed away on December 31, 2016 at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD. John was born in Chevy Chase, MD on September 17, 1950 to the late John Weller Kolbe, Jr. and the late Mary Opal Windsor Kolbe. He enjoyed fishing, golfing, watching NASCAR, The...
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Charles Edward “Charlie” Doering, 80, of Leonardtown, MD passed away December 31, 2016 at Hospice House of St. Mary’s in Callaway, MD, surrounded by his loving family. He was born on November 29, 1936 in Detroit, MI to the late Harold and Margaret Smith Doering. Charlie married Catherine Anne “Kitty” Wilkinson on October 11,...
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Florence Marie Collier, 102, of Leonardtown, MD died December 30, 2016 at her home. Born August 9, 1914 in Weehawken, NJ, she was the daughter of the late Richard Francis and Florence E. Mooney Collier. Miss Collier attended normal school in Jersey City, NJ and in 1938 she was appointed to teach as an...
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Carroll Cecil Woods, 77, of Avenue, Maryland passed away December 30, 2016 at home surrounded by her loving family. Born January 4, 1939 in Washington, DC, she was the daughter of the late Arthur Beall Cecil, Sr and Mary Carroll Cecil. In addition to her parents, her beloved brother Arthur Beall Cecil, Jr. predeceased...
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Helga Christel Ursula Wiepke (nee Wurch), 78, Mechanicsville, Maryland, USA, passed away January 1, 2017, at the Hospice House of St. Mary’s, Callaway, Maryland, after a long battle with multiple Myeloma and complications thereof. She was born to Friedrich and Frieda Wurch on January 10, 1938 near Holkewiese, Pomerania (Prussia, Germany). As a child...
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Josephine Eva Rhode, age 96 of Lusby, MD, adventured peacefully on her final journey on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2016, at Calvert Memorial Hospital in Prince Frederick, MD. Born March 10, 1920, in Highland Park, MI, the daughter of the late Mary & George Rahall. Jo is survived by her son Ronald Rhode...
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Retired Air Force Lt. Colonel George C. Turpyn, 93, died in his sleep at Asbury Retirement Community on January 3, 2017. Col Turpyn was born in Rochester, New York, February 22, 1923. He graduated from John Marshall High School in 1939, worked for a land surveyor, IBM and Eastman Kodak Company until entering the...
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The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) has conferred accreditation on the St. Charles Children’s Learning Center at the College of Southern Maryland, located at the La Plata Campus. Accreditation indicates that the center meets MSDE standards of excellence. “Being an accredited center is public recognition that we have voluntarily achieved standards above and...
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The J.M. Smucker Company today announced a limited voluntary recall on certain lots of 9LivesTM, EverPetTM, and Special KittyTM canned cat food due to possible low levels of thiamine (Vitamin B1). The issue was discovered by the Quality Assurance team during review of production records at the manufacturing facility. No illnesses related to this...
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On Wednesday, December 28, 2016, at approximately 7:00 a.m., officers from the Charles County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 8200 block of Wooddy Road in La Plata for the report of a robbery. An unknown suspect entered the victim’s unlocked house and struck him in the head with a revolver. The suspect then stole cash...
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On Sunday, January 1, 2017, at approximately 3:00 p.m., Ryan Christopher Graham, 32, of Mechanicsville entered a business in the 11700 block of Central Avenue in Waldorf. Graham approached a woman he knew, pulled out a gun, pointed it at her and pulled the trigger twice. The weapon did not fire and Graham left. A...
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On Tuesday, January 3, 2017, at approximately 3:50 p.m., the driver of a Toyota FJ Cruiser was traveling south on Copley Avenue north of Acadia Road in Waldorf. For unknown reasons, the driver lost control of his vehicle, crossed the double yellow lines, struck a mailbox, crossed back over the roadway and struck an...
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As a border slave state that remained loyal to the Union, the State of Maryland played a key role in the American Civil War, one of our nation’s most important and bloody conflicts. The Old Line State saw many of the same political and social conflicts over slavery, secession and states’ rights that played...
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UPDATE 1/4/2017: Klock was located yesterday. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division thanks the public for their assistance. 1/3/2017: The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Andrew Allen Klock, 30, of Lexington Park, who has an active arrest warrant for violating the terms of pre-trial release....
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Detectives are investigating a homicide in Capitol Heights Thursday night. The victim is 44-year-old Khalil Wiggins of Byers Street in Capitol Heights. A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest and indictment in this case. Preliminarily, detectives do not believe this was a random crime. On December...
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Detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Sexual Assault Unit announced an arrest has been made in a First Degree Sexual Abuse of a Patient offense which occurred in the 1300 block of Southern Avenue, Southeast on Sunday, December 4, 2016, at approximately 11:00 a.m. An adult female victim was sexually assaulted by an employee...
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On Monday, January 2, 2017 at approximately 3:30 p.m. Deputies from the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a residence on Ponds Wood Road in Huntingtown for a report of a man causing a disturbance while in possession of a firearm. While units were responding, the suspect began to make threats to “shoot...
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Traffic enforcement efforts by Maryland state troopers during the six-week holiday period resulted in more than 47,000 traffic stops that led to more than 1,300 criminal arrests and almost 700 arrests of impaired drivers. Maryland State Police patrol troopers began increased holiday traffic enforcement efforts on November 23, 2016 that continued through January 2,...
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Lusby Woman Caught Shooting up Heroin in Starbucks Bathroom On Friday, December 30, 2016, Deputy A. Locke of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the Prince Frederick Starbucks for a check welfare call. When Deputy Locke arrived an employee of Starbucks stated that a female had been in the bathroom for approximately...
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The following persons are wanted by the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office Warrant Unit is responsible for the service of criminal and child support warrants as well as criminal summonses issued by the courts. They are also responsible for coordinating extraditions of suspects out of state. If you have information...
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John Thomas Kennedy III, 86, of Tall Timbers, MD, passed away December 30, 2016 at his daughter’s home in Burke, VA, surrounded by his loving family. He was born in Washington, D.C. on December 22, 1930 to the late John Thomas Kennedy Jr. and Rachel Elizabeth Fry Kennedy. John proudly served 4 years in...
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On December 28, 2016, at Georgetown University Hospital, in the early hours of the morning, God knelt beside Eldridge at an altar in prayer, wiped his tears and took away his despair. God gently whispered, “Come follow me, my child, high places we will go.” Eldridge Eugene Shade, affectionately known as AL, was born...
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Monica Lynnet Smith, 33, of Great Mills, MD passed away on December 28, 2016 at MedStar St. Mary’s Hospital in Leonardtown, MD, surrounded by her loving family. Born October 1, 1983 in Baltimore, MD, she is the daughter of Evelyn Rassa Summerlin of Great Mills, MD and the late Matthew Smith. Monica earned her...
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