News stories from Sept. 1 thru Sept. 8, 2004

Columbian Terrorist Indicted for Plot to Kill Americans
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Two Men Make Guilty Pleas in Cross Burning Case
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Ranch Club Barricade Standoff Ended Peacefully
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Armed Robbery
LEXINGTON PARK --- A resident of the Flat Tops reported to police late Tuesday night that there had been a stickup in the old housing project, committed by two black males and one white male.
SIN CITY SINSATIONAL:
Cops Bust Johns in Prostitution Sting
Cops Nabbed the Streetwalkers; Now They Nabbed Their Customers
Those arrested for offering to pay for sex on Great Mills Road...
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Calvert Burglar Rips off Computers from Home Town Team
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Judge Reinstates Election Chief Bounced by GOP Board
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Gov. Bob Ehrlich Worked Party Circuit in New York While Steele Beat the Drums
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This small business is just one of many in Florida to be seriously damaged. 
Reports from St. Mary's County transplants to Florida Carlleen Cairns and Greg Laxton to their friends and family here in the area are that both lost power but they and their families came through fine, but are keeping an eye on Ivan. 
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by Greg Laxton
Storm Cut Wide Swath
Thru Florida
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144,000 jobs added to economy in August
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Charles Patrol Officers Equipped with Defibrillators Thanks to Donations
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Propose a new law!  As if we don't have enough already the St. Mary's Commissioners are requesting any new legislation to be reviewed by them, which is not required, should be submitted soon
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Townhouse fire in Greenbelt. Photo courtesy of PG County Fire Dept.
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Wanted in St. Mary's
This monthly posting includes those wanted for child support and failing to return from work release.  Do not trust the St. Mary's Sheriff's Dept. or crimesolvers with your name.
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Weekend Beach Update
by Alan Henney
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Kerry's lag is time to find new way to present himself to voters
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Al Qaeda among the Chechens
As Russians bury their dead, officials look at terrorist links to
Chechen rebels.
RUINS: Victims' friends and relatives toured the partially destroyed School No. 1 in Beslan, Russia, following the battle there between Chechen hostage-takers and Russian forces.
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Florida's Year of the Hurricanes
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Hospital Where Clinton's Bypass Installed Has Highest Death Rate in New York
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Labor Day Weekend at the Fights on Louse Alley
LEONARDTOWN --- Police were called early Monday morning to the parking lot in front of Mattingley-Gardiner Funeral Home for a large crowd fighting that came from Sis's Hideaway, a black bar on the next street. Any successful stabbings or shootings in this fight will leave a short distance for the undertakers to travel....
Natural Resources Police Tag Boaters on Potomac for Drugs Along with Broken Navigational Light
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Election Board Chief Sacked; Sen. Mike Miller Says Board Used Storm Trooper Tactics
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Governor Ehrlich Names Rohrbaugh State Prosecutor
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PG Police Identify
Murder Victim
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St. Mary's Deputies
Round Up Drunk Drivers
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Coast Guard Rescues Heart Attack Victim from Cruise Ship Off Coast of Virginia
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Vacant Office Building
Fire Ruled Arson
LaPlata firefighters brave heavy smoke to put out this fire. 
Photo courtesy of La Plata Volunteer Fire Dept.
LA PLATA --- The Maryland State Fire Marshal has determined that the fire on Thursday at a vacant office building on Charles Street in La Plata, was a case of arson.   Four State Fire Marshals using a K-9 dog searched the gutted interior of the two story office building and found that the fire had been set by an incendiary device.   The fire was extinquished by La Plata Fire Dept., assisted by Waldorf, Marbury, Bryans Road, Bel Alton, Newburg, and Potomac Heights.  Anyone who may have seen anyone in the area at the time is asked to call the Fire Marshal at 410-535-8845 or the Arson Hotline at 1-800-492-7529.