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O'Malley Says Obstruction & Inaction

Won't Solve Budget Deficit Left by Ehrlich

(ANNAPOLIS, MD) October 3, 2007 – Governor Martin O’Malley today released the following statement on closing the State’s $1.7 billion structural deficit, while at the same time working to make Maryland’s tax structure fairer for working families. “Over the next few weeks some in the General Assembly will stand together in smaller groups to declare what they won't do.  Over the last four years, the people of Maryland saw very clearly how easy it is for their government to bicker and accomplish nothing.  But our challenge now is to find consensus and get things done before the very people we are sworn to serve and protect are harmed by obstruction and inaction in Annapolis.”

Who Killed Raymond Burrell?

The killer of Raymond Burrell still walks the streets of St. Mary's County...he knows who he is, so do his friends...there is no statue of limitations on murder...call the Raymond Burrell tipline at 301 475 2936
Raymond Burrell, a young black male who was 19 years old when he was murdered on a snowy January evening next to Leonardtown Elementary School, in 1980, police say he had been forced to , or voluntarily did commit a sex act on several young men before one of them shot him dead, in the head.   Over the years someone who was there likely talked about this murder and today the Maryland State Police want to know who did kill Burrell. Has one of those present and watched this young man killed in cold blood gotten drunk and told others what he did.  27 years have passed and there is no statute of limitations on murder.  Burrell's mother, a longtime worker at the St. Mary's Nursing home died a couple of years ago. Only justice demands that those who the killer has told of his guilt come forward. Contact the St. Mary's Sheriff's / State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations
TIPLINE at 301 -475-2936 with your tips or send them to staff1@stmarystoday.com


SHA holds first of two meetings to gain citizen comment on bridge

and RT. 4 designs



Solomon's bridge proposals reveal more lanes and even a biker/hiker lane


Legislation proposed to make rivers safer for drunken boaters...only in St. Mary's!


Fish nets lighted to make boozing boating safer?

How to avoid the most common mistakes made when winterizing a boat


Letter to the Editor:

Gov. O
'Taxem will sock it to families with 20% increase in sales tax, even on getting a hair cut

 

 
QUESTION OF THE DAY:   ABC7 News story of DC man robbing migrant workers


Background:  ABC 7 reports on heathens in DC who robs Mexicans working in construction sites in DC, robbing them of their money, credit cards, cell phones and jewelry.  One contractor in DC last week was able to strip the gun from a robber, whip the brains out of the guy who fled leaving a trail of blood which police were able to follow to his nearby house where he was arrested.  ABC 7's Sam Ford reports that the man was arrested but when he was taken out of his house under arrest, ABC7 blocked his face with a blur patch. ABC 7 did not use the same blur to block the faces of the robbery victims, who said they are afraid to continue working in the wonderful city of Washington DC.  While Americans debate the issue of illegal aliens working in the United States, consider the young blacks who commit armed robberies now are robbing the migrant workers while they work at jobs the young blacks refuse to take.
Should guns be issued to construction workers to shoot armed robbers on sight?  Should all migrant workers be sent back to where they came from?  Should all young black males be given $5,000 upon turning 18?  Should construction workers just deposit their money in the bank, pay taxes on their income like everyone else and if they don't like the local crime, quit bellyaching and go work somewhere else? Should ABC 7 have shown the armed robbers face and not protected him?
 Send your views to  staff1@stmarystoday.com

robberies abound in DC over last few days; 10 people were shot in DC over the weekend...travel to this city should be advised to do so at your own risk, just like travel warnings are issued about travel to overseas crime areas.  The bottom line is: The nation's capital is dangerous to Americans as well as migrant workers at local construction jobs.
READER FEEDBACK: 

Call them what they are: They are illegal immigrants depressing wages

From William Sanders
-- How about a less slanted view option? That you call them what they are, which is "illegal immigrants." And, that you quit saying "they're doing the jobs Americans won't do." All they do is depress wages, Cost the taxpayers money, and send their money back across the border. I guess you missed this story: The Illegal's Crackdown

 
 

Hoyer Not Bush Fan; Says President is Breaking the Bank on Iraq Spending


President Bush is accompanied in the Pledge of Allegiance by U.S. Senator Steny Hoyer, (D-Md.), (left), and the wife and children of firefighter Russell Schwantes of Fayetteville, Ga., during a ceremony at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial service in Emmitsburg, Md., Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007. White House photo by Chris Greenberg
(right, U. S Rep. Steny Hoyer of St. Mary's County with President Bush and families of firefighters being honored at Fallen Firefighter Memorial)
EMMITSBURG, MD. (Oct. 8, 2007) Congressman Steny Hoyer (Md. 5th) reports he often is at ease in being friends with President Bush but what he says is a warm relationship does not deter him from taking sharp exception to his policies.
 In a phone call to ST. MARY'S TODAY on Sunday, the House Majority Leader said that he just finished visiting with the President at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial ceremony at which new names of those who have died in the line of duty were added to the memorial. 
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Britain will support pinpoint bombing of Revolutionary Guard in Iran

as Retaliation for Terror Attacks on US Troops in Iraq



Secret Service says 11 airspace violations took place around

Camp David while President was there for weekend and at firefighters memorial


BONEHEADED MEDIA AWARD OF THE WEEK:

GAITHERSBURG (Oct. 8) A WUSA TV 9 reporter on the scene in Gaithersburg Sunday night after a man was killed when he walked in front of what she said was a southbound freight train loaded with cars, actually said that "we don't know where the train was heading".  Clearly, since the train was not in reverse, it was headed down the tracks, SOUTHBOUND. She also breathlessly reported that another person was killed in the same area two weeks ago, as if this keeps up they will need to rip up the tracks and tell the trains that it is more important for people in Montgomery County to be able to walk where they want to than to have dangerous trains roaring through the county.

Most U.S. Troops Could Leave Iraq by End of Next Year, Says  Iraq Prez



Iraqi leaders far from being reconciled or unified



 


School brawl in PG broken up by cops




Virginia Congresswoman Davis Dies


Saturday Morning Stabbing

ST. JAMES --- Police and rescue responded to a call for a stabbing to the chest, and the original dispatch says that the stabbing was accidental, must have been reaching to butter the toast when the knife missed the butter dish and there you go....Ridge ambulance being assisted by Medic Unit, first report says a former firefighter at the scene says the wound appears to be superficial....when that old butter knife slips...anything can happen in the Land of the Flask, the Fiddle and the Dark Roasted Possum! A family member says that this was simply a case of a kid tossing a knife to a 16-year-old boy and the sheath slipped off, resulting in the catcher catching the knife point first into his chest.  There are definite benefits to scouting in teaching safe handling of axes and knives.  This news article does not mention this family by name or any way identifies them and those who have been using mental telepathy to figure out who it is needs to stop annoying them with your phone calls.


Friday Night at the Fights at Fusion

Woman knocked out with lots of arrests....CALIFORNIA (Oct. 6) Its 2 am and the bars are closing but the fights are just starting....at least with the cops all swarming around the burglars who have been hitting the new shoe store, which has been done four times since they opened, won't be able to break into the store with all the commotion, or will they?  Now the swarms of barflies are buzzing down Rt. 235 to IHOP for more fights...


Pedestrian killed on Rt. 210; Cops Collar Killer

see details on newsstands everywhere this weekend.....

 

 


September 2007 News




More than 500 Rally for Jena Six at Lexington Park




LEXINGTON PARK  (Sept. 20)  More than 500 people rallied for the cause of the Jena 6 in Louisiana at the Freedom Monument in downtown Lexington Park on Thursday evening.  In the largest civil rights rally since the candlelight vigils held for Claudia Pickeral, a Longview Beach girl who was murdered and the investigation allowed to be stagnant by former Sheriff Richard Voorhaar in 1997, the Jena 6 rally was a first for an entire generation of local citizens who had never before participated in a public rally designed to show support for fair and equal application of the law.  Sponsored by the NAACP, the rally was kicked off by St. Peter Claver Rector, Rev. Damian Shadwell who gave a stirring prayer for justice.  St. Mary's Sheriff Tim Cameron, Commissioner Dan Raley (D. Great Mills) and School Board Member Mary Washington were in attendance along with St. Mary's School Superintendent Dr. Mike Martirano. ST. MARY'S TODAY photos.  More in this week's print edition.

 


O'Malley Rolls Out Tax Reform

95% of Marylanders will get income tax cut while 5 % will get it in the shorts...so guess who Maryland House Minority Leader Del. Tony O'Dinner cares about:  the millionaires who will see increases in their income taxes.....but O'Donnell doesn't want taxes to be cut for 95% of the rest of Marylanders...

O'Malley proposes increase in sales tax to 6%, lowering property tax by 3 cents
 
 


see special report

Stocks Boom: Dow up 350 points as Fed cuts interest rate by a half percent

Dow up 62 points, another big jump in the stock market after FED cut lending rates....

At least we keep all the bums in Washington where it's easy to keep track of them.

..poll shows all time low for Congress and President Bush, with approval of Congress sinking to just 11%...  
Zogby Poll

  Dan Rather suing CBS for $70 million
 

Attention Congressman Steny Hoyer:


650 American Troops Have Lost Their Lives Since 'The Surge' Began....



What in God's name is wrong with the Generals, why didn't they learn from Viet Nam...what is the mission, why should any American believe anything anyone in Washington tells us? 

What are your views on the War in Iraq tell Congressman Hoyer what you think and we will post it here online and send it along to him as well.  Email your views to staff1@stmarystoday.com

If Mr. Hoyer replies to this question, we shall post it here.  
Readers reply

Anti-war leaders frustrated with Democratic House leadership

 
Should Mental Health Records of Gun Applicants Be Blocked from Police?

ANNAPOLIS - Gun-rights groups and mental health advocates were in the unusual position of being on the same side of an issue this week, after it was reporter that the state has started requiring that people applying for a gun permit agree to release their mental health records to the state. The two groups worry that the requirement, in place since Aug. 1, could invade the privacy of potential gun owners. But a state police spokesman said the new regulations, which were not publicly debated, "simply strengthened" the department's ability to check whether an applicant is eligible to own a gun.

Hillary will put health care responsibility on individuals, proof of insurance when applying for a job could be required


Hot Rod Boat Operator Died Jumping Wake of Cabin Cruiser


Poaching, Shooting from House; Illegal Baiting of State Park Keep Cops Hopping


Boeing engineer says Dreamliner is unsafe due to plastic fuselage
 


 



They just don't float...more from STATter 911



This collection of deer heads, guns and antlers were taken from a gang of St. Mary's County poachers in a sting by DNR cops around 1997. Poachers operate with spotlights, freezing the deer and then shoot them. Poaching season runs year round with the fines and jail sentences replacing hunting licenses. 


Get Bambi before Bambi gets you! 

There is no season on using your vehicle to get a deer...the deer do not have to observe a season on hunting for cars and trucks therefore turnabout is fair play...use caution when driving at night as herds of deer have been seen as large as 3 dozen deer...avoid hitting a deer by driving slow and watching for their eyeballs to reflect your headlights...do not approach a downed deer which could be still alive as the cute little thing could jump up and do severe damage to an unsuspecting motorist who is worried about the bleeding animal...the hoofs and antlers can rip a person apart in a split second...most pickup truck drivers in So. Md. are armed in one way or another and are glad to stop and help put the poor deer out its misery and claim the carcass for the freezer. If you hit a deer and want it, its all yours, get a deer tag from a police officer and load the warm deer into your backseat and drive to the farm area of the north end of St. Mary's County and look for a sign at an Amish or Mennonite farm that advertises 'field dressing' of deer or butchering.  As recent as 1940 there were very few whitetail deer in the area as they had been hunted into near extinction.  A few deer brought to St. Mary's by the late Buck Briscoe to restore the herds has resulted in record numbers of deer throughout Maryland.

Critters: Fall Seasons for Hunting Now Underway

Sports Beat:  DC and Baltimore Football Fans Have Plenty to Cheer About


Liberal Democrats Look to 60-Seat Majority in U.S. Senate

Three Steps to Clean Up Bay

Kid Attacked by Gang for Tee Shirt

Child Injured in Buggy Wreck When Mower Spooked Horses

Women Protest Military Recruiters at Montgomery County High School

Jim Marsh, US Army Korean War Veteran; was facility manager for Mini-tec, area's first non-defense related "clean" industry; served on EDC obituary

Joseph Hiram Hewitt

Blackwater Ban Curtails Travel of Most US Diplomatic Action in Iraq


Maryland High Court Says No Dice to Gay Marriage

ANNAPOLIS - Supporters of same-sex marriage vowed to take their fight to the next legislative session, after the state's highest court Tuesday upheld a state law that only marriage between a man and a woman is legal in Maryland. The ruling, by a divided Court of Appeals, overturns a Baltimore Circuit Court decision that said the law violated the state's constitutional equal-rights protections.   Story

 
 

Cute cookie judges, pig races, sheep shearing, prize steers and more....ST. MARY'S TODAY photos

Fair Brings Families Back to Farms 
story
 
 


TERROR DRILL
 

BALTIMORE (Sept. 15, 2007) A body is hauled out of the water in this U. S. Coast Guard drill conducted in Baltimore last week.  A simulated attack on a cruise ship provided valuable training for Coast Guard personnel on how to deal with a possible terrorist takeover of a ship full of passengers.   See more photos and story in this week's edition of ST. MARY'S TODAY now on newsstands. 
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos by Tom Stachowitz
 

2 Charged with Dog Fighting in Anne Arundel


Democrats angle to fix budget mess left behind by GOP


Maryland Set To Hike Taxes


Del. John Bohanan (D. Lexington Park), left, with St. Mary's Commissioner Dan Raley (D. Great Mills), discuss local and state funding sources.  Raley told ST. MARY'S TODAY that the Board of Commissioners sent a letter to the College of Southern Maryland, the Walden Center, the Three Oaks Homeless Center and other groups all coming in to the Board with their hands out asking for supplemental appropriations just two months after the current fiscal year budget was finalized. "We can't fund anything extra until we find out how the State is going to cut our funds," said Raley. Right, the smiles of Gov. Martin O'Malley and Sen. Roy Dyson (D. Charles, Calvert, St. Mary's) will likely disappear as the Democratic controlled General Assembly faces raising the sales tax, income tax and approving slot machines at the race tracks in order to generate revenue.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo
Bohanan says Governor needs to get tax proposal on the table soon to make a special session of General Assembly able to examine and pass it to remedy $1.5 billion deficit left by Ehrlich Administration


 



 

LEXINGTON PARK (Sept. 13) -- A rear end collision took place in front of the Lexington Park Baptist Church on Shangri-la Drive on Wednesday and just steps away from the Bay District firehouse.  A large driver required extra care to remove that person from one of the vehicles. ST. MARY'S TODAY photos


Two Killed in Booze Cruise  


story


Families of Indian Head Braves Acted Like Wild Indians

 
 



 

Feds Round Up 18 Members

of D. C. Crystal Meth Gang

Story


Bush Orders Gradual Troop Cuts in Iraq




what does a classic liner look like?


Norwegian Cruise Lines has bought the classic liner United States, which has sat as a gutted relic in Philadelphia and will rebuild the old liner to modern standards.  More


Cunard Cruise Line
The Most Famous Ocean Liners In The World!


Where old liners go to die
 
 
Hurricane Isabel hit Maryland 4 Years Ago

Do you fondly recall the wonderful storm, Hurricane Isabel, which hit Maryland on Sept. 18, 2003?  If so, get your head examined....


Cape St. Mary's Marina at Sandgates, on the Patuxent River, under water the morning after Isabel came to town.  Right, Drift Inn, the granddaddy of all crab houses in Southern Maryland, is under water after the Patuxent River brought the water level inside up to about 5'.  Leonard Copsey had the place refurbished and ready to open the following spring. 

More Isabel Photos
 
 


 




Hate Crime


Perpetrated


by Salt &


 Pepper


 Punks



3 Black Youths,

1 White Charged

with Painting Klan Symbol on

Black Family's Vehicles

 Story

 

ST. MARY'S TODAY photo

St. Mary's County Fair opens on Sept. 20, 21, 22, 23


Bank branch robbed has been hit before

Hobos and bums terrorize bank customers and employees of Lexington Park downtown




Police surround the main office of Maryland Bank and Trust located on Shangri-la Drive in Lexington Park after a gunman robbed the bank just about 2 pm.  A resident of the Hobo Village in the woods next to the Lexington Park Library was sought but this group of heavily armed police officers after he made a threat about using a gun at the library two years ago.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos

LEXINGTON PARK (Sept. 25) UPDATE---  A black man wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and gun glasses robbed the main branch of Maryland Bank and Trust on Shangri-la Drive in Lexington Park just about 2 pm Monday.   MORE


Leonardtown Volunteers rushed to the scene of this townhouse fire on Sunday for a reported fire in a kitchen, which was quickly put out without any major damage.  Hollywood volunteers responded to assist as did a Hollywood rescue squad.
S
T. MARY'S TODAY photo
 

Tough Guy Drug Suspect Just a Big Sissy



this is a great story he can tell the boys in the Big House

Man who tried to run down Baltimore cops, hit police car, eluded police manhunt

after three-county chase, found hiding in Grandma's cellar
 

 
 
Vehicle Overturns, Erupts in Fire


A Newburg volunteer firefighter puts a hose line on a flaming wreck which overturned in Newburg on Saturday as firefighters were clearing a wreck on the Rt. 301 Bridge. Photo courtesy of Newburg VFD   More


Drunken race fan finds fast lane to jail




BUDDS CREEK --- Troopers Nims and Quade lock up thick-tongued liquor lubricated lecturer. Despite multiple warnings to not interfere with an investigation, this chap left the races in a police car for a night at the Hotel St. Mary's. 
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos by Matthew Ivancie




State Police Helicopter Joins Search for Burglary Suspect


This door to the McKay's Foodland on Rt. 245 was broken and a man was seen fleeing out of the store by a newspaper delivery driver.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Matthew Ivancie

LEONARDTOWN (Sept. 23) ---  Maryland State Police launched Trooper Seven to aid in a search for a wanted man early on Sunday morning.  A man suspected of burglarizing the McKays Foods store on Hollywood-Leonardtown Road was believed to be in a field near the store.

Budds Creek Motocross Race Draws Thousands

3,000 crowd grandstands for Saturday Night Horse Pull at the Fair



LEONARDTOWN (Sept. 23) --- A crowd of over 3,000 overfilled the grandstands and circled the entire arena on Saturday night to watch 12 2-horse teams, some from as far away as Somerset, Pa., participate in pulls of weights.  To the delight of the crowd the massive draft horses tugged, pulled and grunted as their handlers encouraged them, starting with a weight of 3,000 pounds and ending up with a final challenge of 7,500 to determine a winner.  The fair continues today with special events, rides, displays and entertainment all day. ST. MARY'S TODAY Photos

Junior tractor pull contest drew tough competition from determined participants.

 

O'Malley proposes closing corporate tax loopholes, Republicans cry foul

 
 





Parolee nabbed with gun and drugs in search warrant raid of trailer

GREAT MILLS --- They didn't keep him in prison for a previous shooting, now Thomas Darnell Evans is caught again with a stolen gun and drugs.

Motorcyclist Crashed on Fairgrounds Road....being flown from a nearby field after crash close to Cartwright Road....

Delaware students shot in dorm

Same university that 3 victims of killer in Newark, New Jersey attended, latest reports are that two students were shot,
 

 

 

 

The Hopelessly Insane of America

don't believe that the hijackers drove planes into the World Trade Center or the Pentagon...they think George Bush did it, or the CIA, or the Jews or maybe even your Aunt Alice's dog did it....

Rolling Stone writer who wrote that 9/11 conspiracy crowd was "clinically insane" had
deluge of hate mail from these nuts...



'To qualify as a true opponent of the Bush regime, you must also now believe that it [the Bush regime] is capable of magic. It could blast the Pentagon with a cruise missile while persuading hundreds of onlookers that they saw a plane. It could wire every floor of the twin towers with explosives without attracting attention and prime the charges (though planes had ploughed through the middle of the sequence) to drop each tower in a perfectly timed collapse. MORE


9/11 Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories Still Abound

Conclusion to article dealing with conspiracy theories on Pentagon attack:
Government isn't competent enough to bring off conspiracies

NEWShounds say that they watch Fox so you don't have to; wonders why Fox News goes after conspiracy advocates...

Bin Laden lets loose with a new tape on Sept. 11th, blames all Americans for his murders

PBS viewers: What they remember about Sept. 11th, 2001, how the attack affected them


Constitution Party says both parties guilty of sacrificing Bill of Rights in
 response to 9/11 attack


9/11 Charity Promoted by Dole and Bill Clinton Stiff's Families of Victims

CNN Report: 9/11 victims remembered 6 years later

Letter to the Editor:
Terrorist Screening Center Director Says Post Article Didn't Tell Whole Story


FBI Director tells Congress:  THE TERRORIST THREAT  And Our Concerted Response

Mexican terrorists blow up multiple pipelines; truck blast kills 37

9/11 Memorial photos from FOXNews

Bin Laden Wants 'Caravan' of Martyrs

State Dept. Fact Sheet on Sept 11th Attack includes time/line of events that day

art.anniv.flag.ap.jpg
New York Daily News front page photo of attack on WTCfirefighters unfurl U S flag from roof of Pentagon next to section hit by hijacked plane
Animated gif of memorial monument to victims of Sept. 11, 2001 attack on Pentagon, showing sequentially all five sides of monument

 


Another drug store robbery....

Calvert cops report that a man held up the drug store in Owings; with similar holdups of drug stores in Waldorf and Hollywood, police report that each one has been done by a white male and each time the gunman demanded Oxycotin.  He also demanded cash...perhaps in case they required him to purchase the drugs....MORE


St. Mary's Sheriff's deputies and Maryland State Police Narcotics Detectives served Grand Jury indictments on Elizabeth Garnet Somerville, 23, of Hollywood, for Possession of Cocaine with the intent to Distribute. Lt. Dan Alioto reports that Somerville is currently incarcerated in the St. Mary’s County Detention on a “No Bond” status. She is awaiting an “Arraignment Hearing “in the Circuit Court.

Housing slump forced couple to turn home into brothel


Boozing More Important than Driving


Man charged with DWI was already ordered by Judge to have a interlocking devise on his car in order to drive because of a prior drunk driving charge...but he didn't....Story


STATter911: The Best Little Hosehouse in DC Fire Department

Craig lawyer to file to rescind guilty plea

Thompson climbs in GOP poll  story

Governor O'Malley picks state's best wine
 
 

Bottles fly, people bleed at bar fight at Clifton's in Clements


CLEMENTS (Sept. 10) Tfc. K. D. Lashley deals with a crowd of battling barflies at Clifton's night club on Saturday night in Clements.  Troopers and deputies from around the county responded to the call for a large fight.  Two years ago, another large fight spilled over into Rt. 234 and a truck came over the hill and slammed into the brawling hooligans, killing two people.   While the combatants fled as police arrived, some left their blood behind.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Matthew Ivancie



Coast Guard Airlifts Couple from Sailboat Off Calvert Cliffs 

 
story
 
 

DWI Hit Parade

 

State Troopers lock up drunk drivers over weekend

 
 


State's Vineyards Can't Grow Fast Enough for Demand

Story


This vineyard at Point Lookout is the hard work of Joe and Nancy Dick who have been at this endeavor on the fields surrounding their St. Michael's Manor Bed and Breakfast for 20 years.   ST. MARY'S TODAY photo

Hillary bagman arrested in Colorado

The Hunt for Red November: ABC takes a long view on Fred Thompson

FBI adds child molester to Ten Most Wanted List


Maverick Senator Chuck Hagel calls it quits


'Green' Gore Goes Gulfstream
...Al Gore caught on tape boarding private jet after warning about dangers of global warming...couldn't he ride on a commercial aircraft instead of causing all those emissions just to haul around Little Lord Fauntleroy? 
Story on Fox News

Hoyer lauds landmark college aid bill passage

Liberian ex-president's son charged as big time hoodlum


Letter to the Editor:

O'Malley Budget Deficit Claim a False Excuse to Raise Taxes
 

 
  
Read more about this story on newsstands now....
 
 
Letter to the Editor:

Kudos on Coverage of Maggie's $2 Million Footbridge at College

College Officials Bleed Foundation for Salaries,


Foreign Travel     
Letter


Airline sacrifices goat to appease Sky Gods after mechanical problems with Boeing 757

 
 

Man Assaulted by Two Gangs of Robbing Hoods 
Story


Do you have to give your social security number to State of Maryland officials?


 Check with your attorney first, as the Maryland Department of the Environment is the latest agency to add to the ever-growing list of government agencies which have had a lap top with personal information about those they regulate stolen along with the computer.  The MDE reports in a letter addressed to "John Q. Public" that an employee's laptop was stolen from a vehicle.  Since laptops are supposed to be portable, the operative way for the state employee to have handled the laptop, when not in his or her lap, would be to carry it with them to keep the devise and the information secure. State officials claim that they are conducting an investigation to determine if state policies were complied with.  Secretary Shari Wilson says that the MDE apologizes for the incident, presumably in a letter to the many people and firms across the state which deal with the Water Management Administration.   MDE says that it has notified the three major credit bureaus and that the information in the computer was password protected and it is unlikely that anyone would have figured out how to break the password, like perhaps the name of the state employee's dog. Fido.  Brownie.  Spot.  Think twice before you fill out forms for the State of Maryland.

 
 




Realtors Urge Board to Dump


Protection Zone for Pax River Base 
story
 
 
"Muslim Opinion" Be Damned:

 
Hatred of America is Irrational and Undeserved

Guest Commentary

Labor Day is the official kickoff for 2008 Presidential Campaign.
..what are the candidates doing?

First, this screwy guy, former
Senator John Edwards, would require mandatory visits to doctors by Americans

Romney says Iraq is a mess

Clinton says change comes from compromise and working within the system

Obama: "I believe I have the experience America needs"


Thompson up at 6 am for workout every day in preparation for race

 
 


LEXINGTON PARK (Sept. 4) Mark Jerome Mason used a baseball bat to break out the side window of a police vehicle during a drug reversal operation in Lexington Park on Friday night.  He and the bat went to jail but got separate rooms.   At left, at scene of his capture after a struggle and right being loaded into paddy wagon.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos by Tom Stachowitz




State Police and St. Mary's Sheriff Nabbed 9 DWI Drivers, 5 Men Soliciting Prostitutes (2 were illegal aliens); Cops Ran 3 Drug Raids; Conducted Warrant Sweep Over Holiday Weekend  Story

Giant Dies After Being Sprayed by State Cops During Arrest Story


First rescue for Coast Guardsman

Pentagon Plans 3-Day Blitz of Iran to Knock Out Entire Military During Air Strike

Guest Commentary: The Ticking Clock on Pay Discrimination

Prince William County Officials Stand Firm on Denial of Services to Illegal Aliens

Witch Wins Big in Lottery; Did he stir up a secret brew for the right numbers?

Sun: State Police Superintendent favors saturation patrols over sobriety checkpoints

Plane Crash Kills 5: Kingdom Hall board goes to Kingdom Come


The Best Little Hosehouse in DC

Chinese Army Hacked Pentagon Computers

Floating Hospital Ship USNS Comfort Helps Hundreds in Haiti

This day in history: Latent fingerprints used for first time by FBI to solve kidnapping of beer baron



President George W. Bush speaks to U.S. servicemembers after meeting with top Iraqi government officials and sheiks from various regions in Al Anbar Province at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Sept. 3, 2007.  At right, President Bush poses with soldiers.   Defense Dept. photos by Cherie A. Thurlby    

 

 
Bush Makes High Profile Trip to Iraq with Top Cabinet Secretaries story


 

 





Turban Trouble at Airport as Religious Sect Claims Pat Downs of Head Covering Violates Their Rights....
another good reason not to fly as arrogance takes precedence over protection from those who would hide weapons to use in a hijacking of an airliner




Governor O'Malley Names All New Judicial Commission Selections


FBI advises how to protect your business against bomb threats

Flight Restrictions Eased for Area Airports; Still Tight in Maryland

 
 
Tractor Trailer Crash Kills Woman in Calvert


Firefighters hose down wreckage of burnt truck overtop of burned car in which woman died.  Photo courtesy of Benedict VFD More photos

SMECO Holds Annual Meeting, Elects Directors   Chairman Danny Dyer Says Thanks

Man Dead, Wife Critical in Holiday Weekend Wreck on Key Route on Eastern Shore

Owings Man Died Week After Wreck
PRINCE FREDERICK (Sept. 1) --- On Friday, August 24 at 10:55 p.m. members of the Calvert County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene of a motorcycle crash on Md. Rt. 4 at Calverton School Road in Huntingtown.  A 2004 Yamaha motorcycle, traveling northbound being driven by Daniel P. Anderson, 21 of Owings struck a 2002 Toyota Highlander SUV being driven by Tina L. Dorsey, 47 of Huntingtown.  The motorcycle struck the SUV in the rear, causing Anderson to lose control and be ejected.  He was flown to the R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore with life-threatening injuries. Mr. Anderson succumbed to his injuries on August 30 at 7:40 p.m.  Cpl. Richard Wilson is continuing the investigation.

 


Xavierian Brother Charged with Child Molesting


Another red letter day for Congress....


Former NJ Governor's Wife Recalls Ordeal


 
 
 
Apple's Jobs Sorry for iPhone Price Cut
 
 

Meet the Officer:  St. Mary's Sheriff's Sgt. Andrew Cusick.  Sgt. Cusick is a veteran of more than 20 years on the Sheriff's Department
and was perhaps best known to many citizens due to his being a K-9 handler with his dog Rambo putting on many demonstrations at schools and
the county fair.   Shown above, Sgt. Cusick, while off-duty, was part of a dragnet looking for a fugitive in a wooded area of Charlotte Hall. Right, Sgt. Cusick points to another deputy during a standoff with an armed man who threatened his wife and later took his own life.
 ST. MARY'S TODAY photos
 
BWI sees airport traffic back to pre-9/11 levels

The  Looming Battle Over How to Solve Budget Deficit:
State's social services and health lobbyists gear up whining and complaining prior to budget cutting

Fire Comes Blazing Out of the Closet
 
 

The latest candidate to enter the GOP presidential race, former Senator Fred Thompson, of Tennessee.
GOP candidates conducted lively debate in New Hampshire....Fred Thompson announces on Leno he is in the race


When you know you are a boob, get a good lawyer...latest on Craig's reconsideration of decision to leave Senate
 

This school bus hit the ditch and sent numerous kids to hospitals.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Tim Twigg   Story


Elderly Woman Demolishes Barber Shop with Slip of the Foot


DNR police worked hard over Labor Day weekend

 
 

Colonel Kiddie Porn Sentenced to 5 Years

 in Prison



Traffic stop by Maryland State Trooper of terrorist would be different today than

 in 2001 when a trooper stopped a would-be hijacker two days before 9/11  story


Craig Reconsiders Decision to Resign

Eurostar sets Paris-London record while Southern Maryland still has no commuter rail

Bill Clinton says no dice to being second fiddle to Hillary

Anti-Missile Laser for Airliners Could be Delayed by Budget Cuts

New Hurricane Possibly Forming in Atlantic; Could Hit Here by Weekend
 
 
All occupants of sinking boat in Potomac River safe and sound


The boat at left is being secured for towing to shore by Tow Boat US after the Seventh District VFD fireboat crew pumped the water out of the vessel. More info and photos  Photo courtesy of Seventh District VFD

ST. CLEMENTS ISLAND (Sept. 4) --- A 31' boat with several persons on board on Monday reported to 911 that they were taking on water near the underwater shoal known as Heron Island in the Potomac near St. Clements Island.  Fireboats from the Seventh District arrived first on the scene and began to pump out the distressed vessel as it began to sink in about 4 ' of water.  A large island which had years ago disappeared below the surface is sometimes visible at extreme low tide but the water above it is shallow enough to catch boaters who don't bother to use charts.  The Valley Lee fireboat arrived on the scene of the water rescue and assisted with all rescuers leaving the scene about 3:45 pm with Tow Boat US taking the stricken boat under tow to bring it in to shore.  

 
 

VALLEY LEE  (Sept. 4) ---  A St. Mary's Deputy questions a motorist about his truck after several 911 calls alerted police to his erratic driving.  The man wasn't drunk but had just changed a tire on his pickup and was having trouble with sway in the front tire.    He was almost home from his job as a dishwasher and was allowed to continue home to work on his truck.  St. Mary's Sheriff Tim Cameron is at left.  At right, Mark Jerome Mason was put into a paddy wagon for trip to jail.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Tom Stachowitz


The greatly expanded commuter bus lot at Charlotte Hall is busier than ever having been tripled in size.  Still, no plans have been announced by Maryland to put commuter trains into the Southern Maryland region despite a Transportation Commission being established by the General Assembly and support for commuter rail by Gov. Martin O'Malley.
 
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Three term Senator resigns seat after pleading guilty to restroom cruising

West Nile Virus Case Reported on Eastern Shore; State Steps Up Spraying

Drinking and Driving Crash Kicks

Off Holiday Weekend




See details about this driver's arrest

 
 
Man Bashes Window of Police Vehicle During Drug Arrest


LEXINGTON PARK (Sept. 1) --- Downtown Sin City was the scene of a special drug interdiction action on the part of the St. Mary's Sheriff's Department and Maryland State Police on Friday night when a squad of detectives set up drug stings and when they attempted to arrest Wayne Darnell Winters, he used a baseball bat to bash in the window of a police vehicle.  Winters blew a .12 alcohol preliminary test.
 

Missing College Student Found Injured After

Week in Ravine


Georgia family died in Piper crash in Va.

Man sold pot on Craigslist to cops...how smart was he?


Skins beat Dolphins 16- 13 in overtime


Sports Illustrated: All NLF scores from Sept. 9, week one of the season

When Fluffy Becomes Foamy: Cats Top Dogs as Rabies Danger in Maryland 

Forbes predicts Clinton will win Democratic nomination

Fred Thompson: Al Qaeda smoking ban pushed Iraqis to U.S.
 
 


 

 






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