Patuxent River News

A St. Louis-based unit of Boeing Co. was awarded a nearly $10.8 million option to provide service support for F/A-18 aircraft for the governments of Switzerland, Australia, Finland, Canada, Kuwait, Malaysia and Spain, the Pentagon announced recently.

Calvert County waterman Simon Dean of Lusby patent tongs for oysters on his boat Rough Water in early November just north of the Gov.

Commissioned and warrant officer pilots who want to fly on the edge have until Jan.

The first F-35B Joint Strike Fighter landed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., on Sunday afternoon.

The leftovers of Tropical Storm Ida turned into a nor'easter and targeted St. Mary's in particular on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing heavy rain, high winds and high tides.

St. Mary's County government bought Tuesday the former Rose's Place II building in Lexington Park to connect South Shangri-La Drive to Great Mills Road via a new section of FDR Boulevard.

After years of waiting, new Navy data was presented to the St. Mary's County commissioners on Tuesday on the airspace needs of Patuxent River Naval Air Station.

Titan Industrial Services, Inc. of Baltimore, MD, was awarded a contract of $2,446,000 by the Maryland State Highway Administration to recoat existing structural steel surfaces on the Benedict Bridge, a 3,343-foot-long by 24-foot-wide bridge over the Patuxent River that features a swing span.

In the wake of contracting scandals at firms such as Halliburton and Blackwater, Congress last year passed 10 new measures aimed to tighten defense contracting rules and gave old rules new teeth.

Moving Image Archive > NASA Images > New NASA Satellite Zooms in on Tornado Swath , NASA GSFC New NASA Satellite Zooms in on Tornado Swath A number of severe thunder storms swept through the mid-Atlantic states on April 28, bringing high winds, hailstones, and heavy rains to many areas.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced the 2009 Young-of-the-Year Striped Bass Survey wasn't as good as in years past, but it was still within the expected range.

Catherine Johnstone Hopkins celebrated her 103rd birthday on Oct. 10. She was the pianist and organist at St.

A bank is now looking for builders to finish construction on The Woods at Myrtle Point neighborhood off Patuxent Boulevard in California.

Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has been awarded a $90 million MissionCare contract by the U.S. Department of Defense at NATC Patuxent River to provide support for the F405-RR-401 engines that power the U.S. Navy's T-45 training aircraft.

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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.

Calspan Corporation's Flight Research Group is flying high after landing a $5.6 million contract with the U.S. Navy.

In preparation for its Initial Operational Test and Evaluation , Northrop Grumman's first E-2D Advanced Hawkeye test aircraft, known as Delta One, has successfully completed its first land-based catapult launch tests.

Delta One undergoing ground-based catapult launch trials at NAS Patuxent River in Maryland as part of the type's system development and demonstration shore-based test phase.

Elizabeth Moorman, 4, of Alexandria, Va., gets a pony ride from Cocoa's Corral Sunday at the annual Patuxent River Appreciation Days at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons.