On Sunday, January 1, 2017 Deputy M. Beyer of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the 21000 block of Liberty Street in Lexington Park for a reported disturbance call. The victim alleged the suspect, Queen Ella Champion, 34, of Lexington Park, broke into the victim’s residence by kicking the door causing damage....
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The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office has received a report of an incident involving a minor at the Edward T. Hall Aquatic Center in Prince Frederick. The mother of a juvenile reported to officials that a man took photos of her child while he was changing in a bathroom stall. The Calvert County Sheriff’s Office...
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On Thursday, December 29, 2016, at approximately 8:00am, Deputy W. Durner of the Calvert County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Roy Rogers on HG Trueman Road, in Solomons, for the report of a person sleeping outside of the restaurant. Upon his arrival he observed Austin Leaman, 21, of Lusby, asleep and leaning against the wall...
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Kendall “Ken” Hazard Ward, 75 of La Plata, Maryland died December 31, 2016 at Charles Regional Medical Center in La Plata. Ken was a retired Computer Specialist with NOAA (U.S. Government) and a Veteran of the United States Army, having served during the Vietnam era. He was a member of First Baptist Church of...
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Allan Matthew Hopkins, 52, of Waldorf, MD passed away on January 2, 2017 at University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center, La Plata, MD. Allan was born on January 10, 1964 in Reno, Nevada to Alice Frances and the late Allan Wilfred Hopkins. Allan was an Information Analyst for the Internal Revenue Service. He...
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Nicholas Scott “Nick” Petrillo, age 44 of Waldorf, Maryland died January 2, 2017 suddenly at his residence. Nick was a Senior Solutions Architect with Cyber Data assigned to the Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Maryland. He was a member of New Life Church in La Plata. In his high school years, he was...
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Mark Alan Slattery “Slatts”, 53, of California, MD passed away suddenly on December 27, 2016 in St. Paul, MN. Born on March 19, 1963 in Wilmington, DE, he was the son of Mary Elizabeth Slattery of Rehoboth Beach, DE., and the late Robert E. Slattery. Mark was the husband of Cynthia Carpenter whom he...
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James “Cowboy” William Vendelboe, 78, of Waldorf, MD passed away on January 2, 2017 at Charlotte Hall Veterans Home in Charlotte Hall MD. James was born in St. Joseph, MO on June 4, 1938 to the late William Carl Vendelboe and the late Addie Mae Fisher. James was a member of VFW, American Legion...
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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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