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A severe thunderstorm hit the Compton area hardest Wednesday evening, bringing down trees across roadways and on top of a house.

GAITHERSBURG WHAT: Big Bang Weekend; Movie: Madagascar WHERE: Robertson Park 801 Rabbitt Rd.

David Guyther, parks facilities manager for the St. Mary's County Department of Recreation and Parks, visits the pier replacement project last week at the end of Paul Ellis Road in Avenue.

It was interesting that the Legionnaires in Olney today were ALL Army. I guess the other branches were letting the Army have their day in the sun.

Fire officials say carbon monoxide has sickened a family and forced the evacuation of a condominium in Ocean City.

Golden Eye Seafood LLC and owner, Robert Lumpkins of St. Mary's County, Md., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to and violating the Lacey Act, by falsely recording the amount and weight of striped bass, also known as rockfish, that were harvested by local fisherman and checked-in through Golden Eye from 2003 to 2007.

Members of the Willing Helpers Society outside their building on Washington Avenue in La Plata are, in the front row, Barbara Green, left, Laura Pirre, Doreen Dent and Gloria Jefferson.

It's a shame that Webster doesn't define Quakers as a bunch of hypocrites. I learned this week that whenever the Legionnaires put flags on the graves of soldiers in the local Quaker cemetery, that the flags are promptly removed.

Besides the warm weather, the 10 fair-weather moonbats were in force in Olney this Saturday, energized after attending the 24th Annual Peace, Justice & Environmental Conference.

A lot is happening in the world of fishing even though the week featured much rain, little sun and cooler than usual temperatures.

It's fine to introduce yourself and strike up a conversation with champion oyster shucker George Hastings while he's shucking oysters on First Fridays at Hon Bar in Hampden.

Moombats dream that the "V" sign is for peace, but it stands for VICTORY. Moonbats dream that the peace circle is an original symbol, but it is a anti-Christian up-side-down cross.

PRINCESS ANNE , Md.- The State Highway Administration last week began a resurfacing project along southbound U.S. Route 13 between the Wicomico County line and north of Md.

A man who pleaded guilty 10 years ago to a robbery in St. Mary's County faces trial this month on murder charges from a road-rage shooting in Baltimore.

Citizens are invited to visit the Vivian Ripple Senior Adult Day Center in Hollywood on Saturday, April 18, from 1-5 p.m. Located at 24400 Mervell Dean Road in Hollywood, the center will host an open house to include tours, information, available services, resources, a photo display, door prizes and a spaghetti luncheon.

The Maryland Department of the Environment has delayed until next week its decisions about which water and sewer projects throughout the state will receive portions of the $121 million available from the ...

County Sports II on Great Mills Road is closing its doors, but the proprietors of the shop that featured custom screenprinting and embroidery on clothing is going full time onto the Internet, at ...

As Tom the Redhunter reported in his Walter Reed AAR , it was pretty windy out, but warm.

Criticism is growing over the Prince George's County school board's decision to spend $36 million for new headquarters.

Anne Arundel County Police say they've charged a Brooklyn Park man with attacking another man with a machete.