Lights, Siren and Chase

= Last Day for Drunken Trooper

State Trooper fired after kidnapping man; leading cops in drunken high speed chase
This episode comes just a week after a trooper assigned to PG county barrack was arrested for allegedly stealing from the State Police

Employee Forced to Say 'Happy Holidays'
Was Fired After Objecting to the Greeting


Christmas Shopping? HAGGLE!

Feds and Baltimore Cops Send Drug Ring Honcho to Pen for 14 Years



LEONARDTOWN --- Should St. Mary's States Attorney Richard Fritz have pursued the prosecution of a 16-year old kid for rape while there wasn't any evidence to support the charge?  Should the local judges who all refused to consider the evidence that cleared the boy of the allegations of rape be reprimanded?  Don't get your hopes up.  Judges live a life of privilege and seldom have to answer for being dumb.  Should a Maryland State Trooper be reprimanded for lying under oath in court?  Should St. Mary's Sheriff's detectives be reprimanded for playing fast and loose with the facts and pursuing a case which was not supported by the facts?    MORE

The real cost of illegal immigration:
Texas hospitals spent $677 million on health care for illegal's last year
Illegal immigrants bring typhoid, malaria and TB to Washington area; inflate health care costs
Who is paying the costs for illegal aliens in Colorado?  Not the fence-jumpers, but the taxpayers of that state pony up the $1.1 billion

One Shot Too Many Lands Driver With Phony Shooting Report in Jail

Woman Died of Injuries from Wreck into Tree


Cops Collar Gang Robbing Packages Left on Porches


Traveler’s Tea Bags Brew Dope; Maryland Man Arrested on NYC Warrant Wanted for DWI

Montgomery fire official slammed into police car, 2 others while returning from Redskins game in fire dept. vehicle

Pardon  Us, Mr. President
Commentary: President Bush should use his power of pardon to give clemency to those given excessive sentences for crack






St. Mary’s Board Votes 4 to 1 to Hike Taxes Again 
to Fund New Spending

Sissy remark sparked riot at bar
Police say King Didn’t Like Being Called “Chrissie”; started riot at bar.

Charles County School Counselor Gets

5 Years in Prison for Kiddie Porn





Machete wielding man nabbed

Iraqi reporter throws shoes at President Bush

Trip was secret; notes success of surge in bringing order to chaos
Bush makes surprise visit to Afghanistan

Alert Trooper Foils Armed Robbery

1-person ambulance crews?
Just in case one might think the dumbest County Commissioners in America are located in Leonardtown....hold onto your seat...check out Dave Statter's story on Statter911 about the seriously stupid
 Frederick County Commissioner  Kai Hagen

Four of St. Mary's Commissioners are quitting and moving to Chicago to work with Gov. Blabbermouth!  
Check out this story now in Cheap Shots on newsstands everywhere!


Stuck in the middle with you!


POOLESVILLE (Dec. 12, 2008) --- Whites Ferry, The Gen. Jubal Early, got stuck on debris floating on the Potomac River today, causing the commuters on board to be late to work.  The people who were in the vehicles were removed and later their vehicles made it to shore.  
Photo courtesy of NBC 4 News





Crash into tree kills passenger


E-Mail Scammers Continue to Send Fake FBI Messages

 
Pray for money:

Catholic schools in Ridge, Indian Head and Avenue are
 running nearly a million dollar deficit with enrollments down
 
Its now the time to buy lobster due to falling demand

Recession?  Depression?

Not for St. Mary’s Board

 Commissioners Agree to Buy 250 Acre Farm in

 Leonardtown

Driver Drunk; Moody and Irritable

Passenger Was Packing Heat


Woman was ticked off that cops were nervy enough to lock up her drunk driver.





Big rig driver takes cops on 2-state adventure



Burglars Flee from Chuck County Cops;

Long Arm of Law Stretches Long Enough
 

St. Mary's Board Hell Bent to Spend Your Tax Money!

They are sending staff to beach resorts and mountain retreats all in the name of seminars....read all about it on newsstands now

Driver failed to yield to pickup; woman flown to shock trauma unit.  



HERMANVILLE (Dec. 8, 2008)  The driver and passenger of this Ford pickup were seriously injured on Friday night when a Ford passenger car turned left in front of them at the traffic light at Rt. 235 and Hermanville Road.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Matthew Ivancie
MORE PHOTOS


Cocaine Calamity!

Cops collar cocaine crowd of low-life drug dealers and send them
to the Hotel St. Mary's just in time for Christmas....where are all the redneck customers of these dealers going to get their white powder cocaine to snort lines during Christmas parties?  How will the party hardy crowd keep their noses fired up? Will the druggies now have more money to spend on buying groceries for their children, or presents to put under the tree?  Don't count on it, most of the druggies typically leave providing for their kids up to their parents or others.

William Tippett is out of action, say cops, leaving his many customers looking for a new supplier...Tippett was one of the lead actors in Operation Last Call...
...see latest news on this action by the St. Mary's Sheriff's / State Police narco cops who are driving up the price of cocaine as the commodity comes into short supply.  Any new drug dealers who wish to go into business in the area can call the cops to get a proper business license first. Call Lt. Dan Alioto at 301-475-4200 x1918.  See details now on newsstands

Cops Nail Lexington Park Hookers

LEXINGTON PARK --- The love lives of area men are coming to a screeching halt, or at
least until four hookers alleged to be hookers get out of jail on bail.   With so many free samples being given away its hard to understand how working girls can make a living.

New Bridges and Trains for Region!

Obama plan to require states to 'use it or lose it' when getting money under his public works project could benefit Sen. Roy Dyson and Congressman Steny Hoyer's bid to put commuter rail on the tracks into Southern Maryland and new bridge spans over both the Patuxent at Solomon's and Potomac at Morgantown

Southern Bay Crossing May Be Built

    

LUSBY (Dec. 7, 2008) ---- Maryland Transportation Secretary John Porcari told ST. MARY'S TODAY that if a new crossing over the Chesapeake Bay is built it won't be built at the site of the existing twin bridges near Annapolis that connects to Kent Island.  Porcari said that the feeder highways to the bridges would only increase in traffic. The only feasible place to build a new bridge would be to connect the Eastern and Western Shores between Calvert and Talbot Counties.  Such a proposal was first made by the late Maryland Comptroller Louis Goldstein in 1994 but the proposed giant public works project set forth by President-Elect Obama in his radio address yesterday could provide the means for Maryland to undertake the new Chesapeake Bay crossing.

Remember Pearl Harbor...2400 Americans were killed in sneak attack by the Japs in an effort to wipe out the American battleship fleet and any challenge to the spread of Japanese militarism in Southeast Asia.   The Japs won a decisive victory on Dec. 7, 1941 but fired up an American spirit which rebounded in an astonishing zeal to turn out the warships and aircraft needed to whip the Japs as well as Nazi Germany. 5 of 8 battleships were destroyed.  The USS Maryland survived.

 
The USS Phoenix steams past the burning wreckage of the USS Arizona and the USS West Virginia as it breaks for open water during the attack on Pearl Harbor.  US. Navy photo


Rt. 235 mayhem is a daily adventure.  This wreck on Friday 3 vehicle affair on the
northbound side across First Colony just south of Rt. 4.  
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Matthew Ivancie.









....just in case you are wondering...they don't shoot Elks at
 the Elks Lodge in Newburg...they shoot each other...
Newburg Murder Suspect Nabbed
by Charles Cops in Baltimore

$11 million in crystal meth was stowed in produce
truck driving up east coast to Jersey  STORY

Title Company Owner Admits $1.3 Million Fraud

Feds bag bagman, Birmingham mayor and banker

Walmart shopper was a line jumping, cop-shoving bozo...
but who's counting...


Digital Signs Proposal Advances in St. Mary's

 
These digital billboards may soon be erected along Rt. 235 and elsewhere in St. Mary's.

Shotgun robber hits once more

A woodstove started a fire in this home near Christmas Tree Trailer Park off of Fairgrounds Road near Leonardtown. 
The fire destroyed this home. ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Matthew Ivancie

Blaze that ripped through 3 trailers laid to woodstove

Fire destroys home of man found not guilty of murder of Sara Sapp

Smeco applies for permit approval for new service line
from Calvert to St. Mary's


Woman Pleads Guilty in

Bank Robbery,

 Kidnapping of Bank Manager, Kids

Feds say motivation to rob the bank came from local cops
 cracking down on drug dealers


Stolen Car Spree by Great Mills Teen

Auto Theft Gang ended by Cops




Poachers Caught on Charterboat Owned

by Premier Seafood Operation

Owner of Stoney's says charges are outrageous, that she buys 250 lbs of rockfish a week and that a delivery had just been made when DNR police appeared, that police were given receipts for the fish from the seafood supplier and that the Rockfish fillets are purchased with the skin on.  Owner says that the miraculous legal record racked up by her charter boat captain has nothing to do with her firm's handing out free charter trips in return for lenient treatment for Capt. David Scott.  
More in print edition now on newsstands in an updated story

Tax bills higher, coming in mail this week!

St. Mary's property owners are going to get whacked by real estate taxes hikes thanks
 to the St. Mary's Board of Commissioners (Dement, Russell, Raley and Mattingly) with Jarboe opposed but taxpayers all over the state will be hammered as well even as their property falls in value, like a rock...see Sun report
Even if you failed to appeal your reassessment last year, you can do so this year....call the assessment office for an appointment.


Photo courtesy of ABC 7 News
ABC 7 Report: Man's quick thinking to alert trooper
ended kidnap/robbery plot

Retailers may not be helped by post-Christmas sales

Sun report: Court ruling on internet posting case could open up all the posters leaving nasty comments at online forums to
lawsuits for libel

The Vanishing Waterman:  Once more the Post does the story of how fish, crabs
and oysters are disappearing along with watermen but dances around the truth that
sewage from metro DC and Baltimore areas is killing the Bay...
...liberals don't want to acknowledge that the enemy is them....

Bohanan says committee is working hard to cut

spending; state will not raise taxes

Drunk Driver Firefighter

 Let Off Easy
 

Deaths:
Anna Gertrude Haden
William Scott Jenkins
Herbert Lee Mattingly
Thomas Pern Briscoe, Jr
George Duke
U.S. Air Force Korean War Veteran
Wanda Cheryl Cooke
Michael Stuart Daugherty
Rev. Mr. Charles “Deacon Robert” Fortney, Sr., US Army Vietnam and Korean War Veteran

Illegal's Drop
Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff on changes made to bolster US security since 9/11 include big strides on cracking down on illegal immigration ---"...historic reversal in illegal immigration, with no net increase in the illegal immigrant population in our country for the first time in decades." MORE

Think George Bush has it bad, Herbert Hoover's home caught on fire on Christmas Eve in 1929
From American Heritage:
Read about the chore of this Washington, DC Fire Marshal:

"On Christmas morning of 1929 Fire Marshal C. G. Achstetter of Washington, D.C., commenced the tedious paperwork that follows a $135,000 fire. Reaching for his office form, “Fire Marshal’s Record of Fire,” he noted that it had been a hard month: 779 fires to date in 1929,
and this most recent one was number
162 in December alone.
Address—“1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,” he recorded. Structure—“detached brick, covered with stucco.” Occupant—“Herbert C. Hoover.” Then, “First alarm Box 157, 8:09 P.M., 24 December; outstroke, 7:27 A.M., 25 December.”
MORE ON WHITE HOUSE FIRE


Obama's vacation digs
see more at SNOOZEpaper


Who is the girl with the pony?
See SNOOZEpaper




New York court case details mob control over
unions at ports

Winegardner Chevrolet
to take over Bell Motors
(Dec. 21, 2008) ---
Just hours after the Bush Administration announced a
 bailout loan for GM, one of the
 Bell boys was introducing a representative of the
 Winegardner Chevrolet firm around Leonardtown.
GM gave the okay to the
closing Bell to be acquired by
 the Fort Washington dealer.
 Bell and a Chrysler Dodge Jeep dealer in Upper Marlboro have closed and other local dealers
are hanging on by their
fingernails as the economy slips towards a depression.

Provident Bank in Baltimore sells out to M&T; officials bloviate with spin that somehow its good that local banks are disappearing....showing that these twits who run the City of Baltimore are mental midgets

NBC 4 reports: Mother and son found dead in home

38 hurt as passengers
escape
from burning plane on
Denver runway

Parents ticked off over
cancelled flight to see Santa;
pilot says weather was
dangerous
 

This crack up of 3 vehicles at the intersection of Mervel Dean Road and Clarkes Landing Road highlights talents of local drivers.  A flashing light controls the intersection, which is likely a little confusing to some of those who pass under the light.  More photos on this Dec. 17th wreck from Hollywood Vol. Fire Dept.


Two who ran their own
illegal gambling ring out of
 NJ Casino
face prison

NBC 4 News reports: Homeowners rushing to
lower mortgage payments
by refinancing at
record low rates

New Jersey gets started with offshore wind farms


Obama speechwriter, left, has
 fun feeling up Hillary dummy

Princess of Camelot fails to wow upstate New York

Cops chase on Beltway
ends in Wilson Bridge crash

While news organizations shed 100's of jobs in drastic cuts, these idiots at AP pose work action

So how do the rich and famous travel?  They aren't squeezed into small seats.

High school senior loses virginity on class trip, accidentally sends text message on the event
 to her Dad

Missing plane with 11 aboard sought in Atlantic

Contractor gets year in prison for tax evasion after paying
Uncle Sam a million in cash he had stashed

Dumb Crooks Pull Bank Job While Town is Crawling with Cops

Big bribes equal big fines
Siemens AG and Three Subsidiaries Plead Guilty to Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations and Agree to Pay $450 Million in Combined Criminal Fines
Manhunt for Virginia killers ends when they were caught napping in Texas by Marshals

Thieves find Solomon's Mecca of electronic gadgets

 

State Highway hosts information session on
 possible plans for rebuilding and modifying Rt. 5 in Leonardtown from
Rt. 245 to Rt. 243 with the complete scope of the study area from Cedar Lane on the south side of Leonardtown
to Rt. 234 (Budds Creek
Road) on the north
More

Mary Ruth Somerville
October 29, 1933
 - December 8, 2008

Margaret Mary "Mert"
 Abell Mulvey

Flying high with the Emirates Air Line good deal for Americans

Report of Uno Chicago Grill closed in Waldorf, employees showing up to find sign announcing shutdown as recession claims more ground as less people eat out; Ruby Tuesday may close more than 50 losing operations to cut costs

Credit ratings lowered for Sbarros, La Pollo

Sun may set for good in Baltimore as media giant Tribune files bankruptcy

Mayor hopes Sun shines

Feds Approve
LNG Plant at
Sparrows Point


Phillips Seafood ready to
leave Annapolis to make
room for
Hell's Point Seafood

Bailout for GM will
leave it looking
very different

Deal set for $15 billion in short term cash to keep automakers afloat


First Vietnamese American elected to Congress as voters
reject 'Cold Cash' Jefferson, the Congressman who feds found $90,000 in bribe money in his freezer.



St. Mary's Land Use and Growth Management Director Denis Canavan was hired in 2003 to replace Jon Grimm.  Canavan brought fairness and understanding to zoning and land use.
 ST. MARY'S TODAY photo
Land Use Director
 Denis Canavan
Dies of Cancer

Recycling centers and
 scrap metal yards are buying
the stolen copper from
rural power substations




Did they get their sailboat license at Sears?
Coast Guard rescues pair
stuck on sandbar

Shoplifting geeks
 didn't get too far
with stolen computer

Inaugural

 Addresses

George Washington's 1st