Charles County News

Arms held behind her back, a 23-year-old Washington, D.C., woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to five counts of identity theft for helping charge up the stolen credit cards of local office workers.

Almost six months after Maryland banned smoking in bars and restaurants, health officials have granted just three waivers to allow clubs hurt by the law to allow patrons to light up.

Judge Robert C. Nalley sentenced an Indian Head man who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl to 10 years in prison Monday.

It's been nearly a year since Charles County's economic development director shocked county officials with his decision to resign after 22 months on the job, but the county has finally appointed his ...

WALDORF - Almost six months after Maryland banned smoking in bars and restaurants, health officials have granted just three waivers to allow clubs hurt by the law to allow patrons to light up.

Above, Del. Anthony J. O'Donnell addresses a group of Charles County Republicans at a reception held last week at the Southern Maryland Business Center in Waldorf.

It costs Frank Carroll about $75 to fill up the tank of his older model Mercury Grand Marquis.

Two accidents in southern Maryland last night claimed the lives of two motorcyclists.

Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 20, 2008; Page SM01 Stanley J. Langley, 51, left the Marshall Hall boat ramp in northwestern Charles County on Monday to go fishing by himself.

Judge Christopher C. Henderson, a former trial lawyer, is stepping down after 12 years on the bench.

Charles County residents are being sought to fill vacancies on county government boards and commissions including the housing commission, the Commission for Women, the Board of Social Services, the board of ...

The Charles County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to establish a commission for individuals with disabilities to represent the county's nearly 15,000 disabled residents.

Fed up with benefit reductions and low morale, some Charles County employees have begun an effort to unionize their workplace with the help of organizers from the International Brotherhood of Electrical ...

A Waldorf man has been charged in a series of catalytic converter thefts. Orlanda Mohammed Hawkins , 31, was arrested on Monday after a retired Charles County detective observed him allegedly stealing a ...

The body of one of two missing boaters was recovered Monday in the Potomac River , the Charles County Sheriff's Office said.

The U.S. Coast Guard searched the Potomac River for two men who failed to return from a canoe trip on Sunday.

The Coast Guard announced Monday it is searching for two men who didn't return from a trip in the Potomac River.

The alleged ringleader of a brazen act of arson that burned a predominantly black housing development in Charles County was sentenced yesterday to nearly 20 years in federal prison.

Two co-defendants who pleaded guilty received substantially lesser sentences.

Nearly one year to the day after more than two dozen homes were damaged or destroyed in the upscale Hunters Brooke subdivision Dec. 6, 2004, Patrick S. Walsh, 21, of Fort Washington was given the strongest reprimand and the longest sentence - 19 years and seven months - by U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus. Walsh is not eligible for parole, but with good behavior could be free in about 17 years.

The announcement of Charles County community services director Margaret Cheseldine's departure from county government conformed to what is now a familiar pattern for county department heads an e-mail sent out ...

The State Fire Marshal says suspected materials used to make explosive devices were found at a home in Waldorf.