Owings News

I come from a father who knew sandwiches. Drop him in any spot within a 150-mile radius of my hometown of Owings, MD, and he could tell you, "They've got good sandwiches over there." He was a real estate appraiser.

Staff photo by DARWIN WEIGEL Mill Creek Middle School sixth-grader Colin Taeschner, 11, looks at a project on Martin Luther King Jr.

Submitted photo These triplets were born last week at Mellomar Golf Park in Owings, where their mothers have grazed to help get rid of unwanted vegetation since last summer.

"The last hurricane, Irene, was pretty good. There was no shelter from her, here, like we enjoyed when we were moored at Shipwright Harbor in Deale," said Arthur "Butch" Miller as he looked over Podickory Point, situated between the mouth of the Magothy River and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.

A federal judge sentenced father and son William and Donald Turley on Friday to 18 months in prison for using the family business to cheat the National Security Agency out of nearly $1.5 million, the Maryland U.S. Attorney's Office announced.