Davidsonville News

Nearly 3,000 small, white grave markers cut through the grass at the Annapolis National Cemetery at Westgate Circle on West Street, where military from the Civil War through the present are laid to rest.

Local public safety workers took out a full-page advertisement pushing for a casino at the Arundel Mills mall.

A standoff over pay between the county and correctional officers ended last night when the County Council approved a bill granting the jail workers scaled-back raises.

The first-time homebuyer credit had no direct impact on real estate sales during October in Davidsonville, Maryland,A since prices in this zipcode typically exceed the first-time buyer price range.A Yet activityA did increase last month over October of 2007 and 2008.A Other good news for Davidsonville home owners is that both the average and median ...

When it comes to the H1N1 vaccine, Cynthia Giorgio has decided to wait. Her two children - ages 6 and 8 - fall into the priority groups that health officials have recommended get the vaccine against H1N1, or swine flu.

Maybe the wide-eyed students who visited District Court in Annapolis yesterday have considered driving and texting, or driving while drunk.

The American Legion Post 226 on Mayo Road in Edgewater hosted nearly two dozen veterans on Sunday for a quiet afternoon of football, free barbecue and drinks at the third annual "Football with Friends" Veterans Day event.

Edgewater Elementary School hosted a vocabulary parade at the school on Friday. Each of the 400 students had to independently find an unfamiliar word and then dress in costume to illustrate the meaning.

Tuesday morning, the fog rolled in onto big portions of Davidsonville. This was one view off Rutland Road.

Even with a tepid blessing from the County Council last night, plans for a community center and skate park in Crofton remain surrounded by concerns.

The piece of white paper with a bunch of fingerprints on it got passed around the classroom.

While working at a mega gardening center in Davidsonville, Virginia Lee Christian doctored the books and skimmed $64,400 from the registers over the course of a year.

The most recent addition to Cindy Jenkins' home came last year, when she learned about a cat that had been roaming the streets after its owners lost their home to foreclosure.

Emily Chambers, daughter of Ron and Staci Martin of Davidsonville, has earned the title of 2009 National American Miss Maryland Pre-teen Queen through her successfully scored events.

There was the panicked teenage mother in the 1820s, the one who threw her crying baby into the Patuxent River, then leaped in to drown herself.

Leah McConnell's brown-bag lunches aren't anything special, just a simple sandwich, snack and a drink.

Susan Harris, Takoma Park garden writer and one of the four faces behind the successful Garden Rant blog, has officially begun blogging for Homestead Gardens , the nationally known lawn and garden center in Davidsonville.

A county jury yesterday convicted a former Davidsonville plant nursery employee of stealing more than $64,000 from her old employers over several years in a sophisticated gift-card scheme.

It took an Anne Arundel County jury about an hour Tuesday to convict a former worker at Homestead Gardens, a high-end garden center in Davidsonville, of stealing about $64,400 over 19 months from her former employer in an embezzlement scheme involving gift cards.

Lyndra Pratt Marshall, a local genealogy enthusiast who has a passion for African-American genealogy, is hosting a "Reuniting Family and Friends" gathering Saturday at the Davidsonville Ruritan Center.