Lusby News

From left, Rob Long, Ed Thompson, Chris McCall, James Couch and Larry Messick, all of Lusby, pose around the grave stone of Civil War veteran Somervell Sollers at Middleham Chapel in Lusby.

A man used a gun to rob the Dunkirk 7-Eleven store Sunday around 1:30 a.m., and police are asking the public for assistance in tracking down the armed robber.

New details are emerging about the death of two girls who were killed and put inside a freezer.

A Lusby man has died of injuries suffered in a two-vehicle collision last week in the Lothian area.

One person was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore with life-threatening injuries after a two-car crash Tuesday afternoon in Lothian, Anne Arundel County police said.

The drawn out process involving school board and staff union negotiations for the Calvert County public schools system's 2010 fiscal year budget is at least halfway resolved.

The "mayor" of Patuxent High School has left the building. But if his former teachers have any say in it, he'll be back.

The Calvert County Planning Commission authorized its staff to begin updating the county's transportation plan at its monthly meeting Wednesday.

Calvert Healthcare Solutions, a charity providing subsidized health services to the uninsured, received a $25,000 donation Tuesday, June 2. Dominion Energy, owner of the Dominion Cove Point liquefied natural gas plant in Lusby, announced the contribution at the meeting of the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners.

The Calvert County Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to designate Morgan Hill Farm as a historic district, effectively protecting the 150-acre property from future development.

Construction workers building a proposed third reactor at Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant will be union members, according to an announcement made Monday.

Annmarie Garden held its second annual spring gala Saturday and opened the new Wild Things exhibit.

A vehicle struck a telephone pole and a brick sign then spun out of control and skidded through a parking lot on Sunday night, smashing into a parked vehicle, causing a domino effect of damage to another vehicle and a building.

It's never too late for women to realize their dreams. This was proven on Thursday evening at the American Association of University Women's third annual Dare to Dream Awards at the Solomons Island Yacht Club.

Joe Tippett, who will turn 84 next month, holds a skin-mounted 48-inch trophy rockfish at his Hollywood home he caught in the spring of 2007.

A Lusby man sued the Calvert County Board of County Commissioners last Thursday, challenging the legitimacy of a "special tax district" set up by the county to collect funds to maintain roads in the Chesapeake Ranch Estates, the county's largest private community.

Say you own a small nuclear power plant in southern Maryland. And say you want to utilize all of the land surrounding the highly radioactive materials inside the plant's reactors.

Posted Tuesday at 10:22 a.m. St. Mary's detectives report that an online prostitution investigation has yielded a trio of arrests, including that of a Calvert County man taken into custody Friday on a charge of attempting to commit a second-degree sexual offense.

Book Discussion of ''Queen of the Underworld" by Gail Godwin, 7 p.m. at Leonardtown .

Supporters and opponents of nuclear power faced off Wednesday, May 20, under the auspices of a forum sponsored by the Calvert and St.