Lexington Park News

An overturned car lies in woods off Poplar Ridge Road near Lexington Park after a Tuesday afternoon crash that injured its two occupants.

St. Mary's County government has been collecting millions of dollars in excess funds over the last few years, and business owner Michael Hewitt wants to know why it hasn't been given back to the taxpayers.

A Great Mills man shot early Monday morning outside a nightclub south of Lexington Park continued his recovery at a hospital the next day as St.

Posted Monday at 11:35 a.m. A wounded man's arrival at a hospital early Monday morning led to a police investigation of gunshots fired outside a bar south of Lexington Park.

For 19 years, Christmas in April-St. Mary's County has organized an army of volunteers to spend the fourth Saturday in April repairing and renovating county homes owned by low income, elderly or disabled residents.

Christina Allen of Lexington Park starts a load of laundry using her homemade laundry detergent.

The St. Mary's County Planning Commission will hold a public hearing Monday, June 22, at 6:30 p.m. at the Bay District Fire Department social hall in Lexington Park to review the comprehensive growth plan.

This year's National Night Out is more than six weeks away, but planning has begun for the 2009 edition of the annual event that will be held Aug.

While visiting Holloman Air Force Base, I began to remember how cool it was to hang out at a military base.

St. Mary's school board plans to put much of its share of federal stimulus dollars toward upgrading about 200 classrooms with new technology.

Digital signs for businesses can already be found along Route 235 and Route 5, but on Tuesday, the St.

Compass Systems COO Frank Deaton, left, and CEO Mark Pinekenstein will be honored at the 2009 Leading Edge Awards as Patuxent Partnership Member Firm of the Year.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -Nicholas J. Baker has been commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force after completing the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program and graduating with a bachelor's degree from Howard University.

A Lexington Park man has been charged with first-degree murder in his wife's death, police report, after they found "inconsistencies" in his claim that the couple was abducted by a carjacker.

A Lexington Park man died, authorities report, after he was thrown from a sport-utility vehicle that went out of control Saturday night on Route 235 and struck two poles along the highway.

Maryland State Police say they have arrested a man for the murder of his wife which was originally reported to be a carjacking and murder in Crumpton, Md.

Police have found the car belonging to a Southern Maryland man accused of killing his wife, then telling police the couple had been carjacked.

A former employee at a Leonardtown bank was charged this week with acting as an accessory before and after a 2004 holdup at the business, but a prosecutor accused her of participating in the $260,000 heist.

A Lexington Park woman was found dead on the side of a rural Eastern Shore road Friday and her injured husband told investigators that they were carjacked by a man after they stopped along the New Jersey Turnpike to get gas, according to Maryland State Police.

Posted Wednesday at 1:45 p.m. A former employee at a Leonardtown bank was jailed Tuesday night on charges of acting as an accessory before and afterward in a 2004 holdup at the business.