Calvert County News

A 51-year-old Huntingtown man died after being flown by helicopter from the scene of a crash at the intersection of Route 4 and Sheckells Road in Huntingtown on Wednesday.

Police were called out on two reports of gunshots fired early Sunday morning, with one shot entering a house, but no one was reported injured.

With their homes perched on the edge of destruction, residents of the Neeld Estate community in Calvert County met with state and federal officials monday to plead for help.

On Tuesday, Patuxent High School students had a history lesson. Instead, however, of coming from a text book or the mouth of a teacher it came from people who experienced one of the most tumultuous times in history - World War II - and lived to tell their story.

Some Calvert County homes appear to be threatened by flooding from nor'easter formed from the remnants of Hurricane Ida.

NORTH BEACH, Md. - North Beach, Md., is no stranger to flooding. The Calvert County community was hit hard by Hurricane Isabel in 2003, and now residents there are waiting to see what the winds and rains of this nor'easter will bring.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for Calvert County in southern Maryland until 10:30pm Thursday night.

Calvert Hospice has been providing services to the terminally ill and bereaved in Calvert County for 25 years, but Saturday will mark a dramatic expansion of its ability to provide palliative care.

PRINCESS ANNE -- Kaye Camille Byrd joined a group of about 20 people Friday to learn more about raising sheep and goats -- something that's missing from the 25 acres outside Berlin where she and her husband practice organic gardening and have a flock of 30 chickens.

Another rash of vehicle burglaries was reported in a Huntingtown neighborhood right before dawn last Tuesday, Oct.

The Calvert County D.A.R.E. Program is taking advantage of a fundraising opportunity involving clothing recyclers.

A Lusby man who reportedly owed money to another man pulled a semi-automatic handgun and threatened the collector when he came to the borrower's home.

Longtime Calvert County educator and historian Russell Costley spoke about his time in the public school system when Calvert County schools were integrated in 1966.

Calvert Country School assistant Tracy Nicholson and student Taylor Wilson of Lusby make like a leopard Friday at the school's Halloween celebration.

The restored Old Wallville School as pictured on a handout available for visitors.

Maryland has banned video bingo machines, but their use was allowed to continue in parts of the state until 2012.

The Calvert County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will celebrate 75 years of service to Calvert County with a fall luncheon at noon Nov.

The legend of St. Mary's County's witch, Moll Dyer, says she was forced out of her home south of Leonardtown on the coldest night of the winter in February 1697.

Due to a nationwide shortage of the H1N1 vaccine, Calvert County public schools Supervisor of School Health Donna Nichols said it will not be administered on a school-by-school basis.

To many adults, the life of a school-aged child or teenager is a carefree one. Not so much, as was indicated at the Calvert Crusade for Children's Citizen Summit II, held at the Elks Lodge in Prince Frederick on Tuesday evening.