Coast Guard makes two trips to same cruise ship off Carolina coast

Fire sends Giant customers packing to Safeway

PRINCE FREDERICK: An electrical malfunction jolted down through the Fox Run Shopping Center in Prince Frederick early on Sunday evening, causing the Giant Food store to close and sending huge numbers of customers off to the Safeway store at Calvert Village.  While one Safeway deli clerk took the opportunity to meet and greet new customers with information on ordering party platters and hustling special orders of meat loaf and fried chicken, one red-headed bagger loudly griped about have too many customers in the store, making his life "miserable".   Firefighters were able to determine that the Giant was safe and it was reopened. The fire was contained to a trailer at the rear of the store and was extinguished. Photo courtesy of the Prince Frederick Vol. Fire Dept.
 

Tragedy Strikes  Near La Plata Vehicle Slides Off Road; Kills Child on Sled Being Towed by ATV Near Highway Snow measures up for  sledding day instead of school for kids ST. MARY'S TODAY photo Winter on the Potomac River This scene with the early morning sun lighting the St. Mary's County shoreline at Newtown Neck shows the solid coating of snow that fell overnight.   ST. MARY'S TODAY photo This Maryland SHA plow took a coffee break at Sheetz during the storm on Monday.  Plow crews worked through the night to have roads clear of as much as 6 inches of snow for morning commuters.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photo 6 inches of snow closes St. Mary's County schools St. Mary's County snow emergency plan is lifted as of 6:30 am today some St. Mary's school employees have to work Calvert Schools open two hours late Charles Schools open two hours late This SHA plow operator on Rt. 5 at Redgate was being tailgated by an idiot during the height of the storm.  ST. MARY'S TODAY photo Plow operators in St. Mary's County faced hard work in blustery conditions as well as danger posed by idiots who passed the plows even though the trucks were traveling at approximately 30 mph.  Police don't recommend dangerous stunts like this and request drivers to back off from plows which may have to stop suddenly.  Police in Southern Maryland responded to vehicles off of the road and into ditches and utility poles from Chingville Road to Rt. 4 to Rt. 235 and as of 7:40 am on Tuesday, icy conditions on major roads are being reported by police. Attention PG County and Balt City Killers Vicious killer who murdered woman at shopping center while her two grandchildren watched put to death by lethal injection in Baltimore This was the scene on Dec. 5, 2004 when a gang of rednecks set fire to an entire neighborhood of homes at Hunter's Brooke subdivision near Indian Head.  Exclusive ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Terrance Greenhow Hunters Brooke Arson Gang Sentenced Motorist killed when teen driver crosses center line and starts chain reaction of horror Bank Robbers Hit County First WALDORF --- Two black males with guns held up the new County First Bank branch on Rt. 925 in Waldorf just before the bank closed on Friday evening.  The masked men didn't injure any one and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash.  But you can win the lottery by turning in these bandits and you don't even have to give your name.   While crime solvers is offering a cheap reward, the bank will likely offer a reward in addition to that of crime solvers, so do yourself a favor and rat on the bank robbers if you know who they are. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Det. C. Shankster at 301-609-6513. Those with information can provide a tip anonymously through Charles County Crime Solvers by calling 1-866-411-TIPS. Crime Solvers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to an arrest or indictment in this investigation. Waldorf bank robber takes a stroll through the lobby of County First Bank on Friday.   photo courtesy of Charles Sheriff's Dept. Forrest Farms residents say developer has failed to deliver on promises

NEW LIFE IN A  FEMA TRAILER Read what is reported in Mississippi about St. Mary's effort to assist survivors of Katrina: Maryland Community Brings Hope To D'Iberville Children There is still time to make a donation to this great effort organized by St. Mary's County residents to assist Americans in need in the Gulf region... Airlift of Christmas presents, school supplies, relief boxes will take place on Friday, Dec. 9th from Pax River NAS to Mississippi Virginia firefighter can't get enough of helping with hurricane recovery More bus drivers sound off about hell-raising kids and officials who do nothing about them... Read these remarks and send your own comments: Bus Drivers Sound Off About Wild Students Bus drivers are encouraged to email their experiences with students to staff@stmarystoday.com     St. Mary's Senior Activities Winter Wonderland ST. MARY'S TODAY photo First snow of the season comes before the official start of winter on Dec. 21st, another snowstorm may hit region later this week.  See Bell Motors or Guy Motors for a new 4-wheel drive vehicle to get you through the bad weather. Effort to combat diabetes undertaken by St. Mary's Health Dept. Crystal meth cooking made 20-year-old $3,000 a week The damn dams are unsafe but Maryland won't say where they are... Bus Drivers Attacked by Student Heathens and Punks School bus contractors share woes while officials say they have unruly students under control.... Hoyer Rips GOP for Spend-Thrift Ways It's Not Easy Being Red in a Blue State: life of a Republican college student at St. Mary's College Crashing home for the holidays... CALLAWAY --- Just like any other day on St. Mary's County highways, this past Friday saw this car with it's front end smashed in after a collision on Rt. 5 at Rt. 249.  There were no injuries. ST. MARY'S TODAY photo St. Mary's Hospital Joins Liquor Store in Promoting Boozing for the Holidays! LEONARDTOWN --- Apparently the St. Mary's Hospital ER is not busy enough with drunk driving crashes and the hospital wants to crank it up a notch.  Therefore the bozos running the hospital have joined in with a California liquor store in promoting holiday drinking with a wine testing party.  While local officials and counseling centers such as Walden have in the past promoted campaigns against drugged and drunk driving in December, the idiots who run St. Mary's Hospital have put out a full color brochure which they have mailed to every postal patron in the county promoting the drinking of wine with some of the winos being portrayed as showing what 'social drinking' is all about.  One of those depicted in the series of photos has been arrested twice in recent years for DWI.  Hats off to St. Mary's Hospital for this moronic effort! Charlotte Hall has new Master Plan Victim Stabbed in Back SIN CITY (LEXINGTON PARK) Dec. 4, 2005---  Police and rescue were called to assist a 17-year-old male who was stabbed in the lower back.  The police were called to a residence on Shangri-la Drive near the Lexington Park library near the Lexington Park Elementary School at the Colony Square townhouses, the town's most intensive drug market. The stabbing victim was being prepared to be flown out via state police helicopter after being stabbed in the lower middle back, thereby avoiding being taken to the St. Mary's Hospital ER.  Woman Pilot One of 12 Who Flew Planes to Combat Pilots During WWII