Lexington Park News

St. Mary's grand jurors indicted a robbery suspect Wednesday for first-degree murder in the death last month of a 75-year-old man who reported the holdup moments before he collapsed from an apparent heart ...

The American Red Cross is urging donors to give blood to counter a dangerously low blood supply in the Greater Chesapeake & Potomac Blood Services Region, which supplies all of the local hospitals in Southern ...

St. Mary's sheriff's deputies arrested a Lexington Park man Monday night on court papers alleging he tried to pull a woman out of her car outside a California department store.

A Clements man was jailed last week to await sentencing on his guilty plea to the possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, from the recovery by police of a bag holding about three ounces of the ...

A St. Mary's man has been sentenced to serve 12 years in prison from his guilty plea to the possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute the drug in May of last year in Lexington Park.

The disappearance Saturday of two 10-year-old girls from a beach by the Chesapeake Bay in Spring Ridge prompted a two-hour search by police and volunteer firefighters, ending with the children's safe return.

Here's another idiotic aspect of the child support system--demanding that incarcerated obligors continue to make child support payments even though we know they have no income and no ability to pay.

Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 17, 2008; Page SM03 A man accused of raping a Lexington Park woman over the weekend was ordered held without bond Tuesday in the St.

Three years ago the St. Mary's County commissioners said that the owner of a 76-acre site near Indian Bridge Road couldn't connect to public sewer lines.

Mary's County Library Board recognition event at the Leonardtown library 6:30 p.m. Public hearing: Proposal to allow a property tax credit for the installation of certain fire protection residential sprinkler ...

Anna Burke and her 16-month-old son Jack, left, Andrew Cosgrove, 2, center, and Andy Wathen, 3, watch as librarian Paige Boyer releases butterflies at the Lexington Park library last week.

It may have been that something in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay killed a young dog this week.

The transition of a restaurant on Leonardtown's square from Linda's Cafe to one tentatively called Ye Olde Town Cafe began Tuesday, hours after a hearing on civil litigation between the building's owner and a ...

Rear Adm. Steven R. Eastburg, NAWCAD's commander and NAVAIR's assistant commander for research and engineering, praised recently the Greenwell Foundation for its Vacations for Vets program.

During last weekend's 24-hour-long public demonstration at the Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department, Tom Clarke, right, listens as Peter Butt, president of the St.

A Texas man was sentenced this week to serve six years in prison on his guilty pleas to the possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute and the possession of heroin from his arrest last winter at a ...

An early morning fire at a home in Lexington Park has led to the arrests of two people, one of whom was the home's former occupant.

A police raid last weekend in Charlotte Hall joined by entertainment and apparel licensing officials seized more than a dozen suspects on criminal charges and counterfeit merchandise valued at more than ...

To reflect changing times, a church turned to its music director to bring together singers of different races and religions.

A judge ordered Monday that a Lexington Park woman remain jailed in lieu of $5,000 bond on charging papers alleging she revealed her breasts last week to a teenage boy standing in line at frozen dessert shop.