Nanjemoy News

Sedrick Cobey, left, and Mary L. Keys, right, stand nearby as Terawana Keys-Bowman looks at the constitution of Gethsemane Lodge 1, as they stand where the building once stood in Nanjemoy.

A project Charles County has been working on for 15 years is finally getting off the ground at Mallows Bay Park in Nanjemoy.

Cassie Hensley, 12, of La Plata and her dog, Daisy, who was adopted through the Charles County Humane Society.

The Charles County Planning Commission is leaving the record open until Oct. 14 on a proposed zoning text amendment by the Charles County commissioners to reduce the minimum square footage requirements for single-family homes and townhouses from 1,650 square feet to 1,250 square feet.

The Charles County Planning Commission is leaving the record open until Oct. 1 on the proposed comprehensive zoning, subdivision text and map amendments that are necessary to implement the Waldorf Urban Design Study by changing the development pattern in Waldorf from strip commercial to a mixed-use, pedestrian-friendly community that supports ...

Prompted by an encounter with representatives from Jefferson County, Colo., at the National Association of Counties conference in July, Charles County commissioners' President F. Wayne Cooper urged his fellow board members and county staffers last week to consider making county business more open and transparent.

Tuesday at noon students across the country listened to the President Barack Obama deliver a national address on education.

A car plowed into a guardrail and tree Tuesday morning in a La Plata wreck that killed a 25-year-old man and seriously injured two other people.

A Charles County grand jury issued the following indictments: Lavonta Antonie Price, 19, of Nanjemoy was charged with third-degree burglary, malicious destruction of property valued at more than $500, conspiracy to commit third-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit malicious destruction of property valued at more than $500 for events that ...

A Charles County grand jury has issued the following indictments: Joseph Travis Sloan, 39, of Mechanicsville was charged with second-degree escape for events that occurred May 2. David Lee Spence, 62, of Waldorf was charged with sexually abusing a minor in a continuing course of conduct, sexual abuse of a minor, two counts of third-degree sex ...

A Charles County grand jury has issued the following indictments: Jo Vaughn Marcel Brown, 23, of Waldorf was charged with two counts of drug possession with intent to distribute, drug possession, marijuana possession and possession of narcotics production equipment for events that occurred May 26.

Charles County is poised to receive $300,000 in federal funding to provide indoor plumbing to a few more than 200 residents who live in the Nanjemoy and Cobb Neck areas who do not have facilities inside their homes.

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District 2 commissioner candidate Johnnie DeGiorgi speaks to a crowd gathered at the Charles County Board of Elections on Wednesday.

It doesn't matter whether your shade of party loyalty is red, blue or green. For many Charles County residents, frustration with the current board of commissioners is a black and white fact, and Wednesday night kicks off a large-scale effort to make a change.

National Night Out against Crime celebrations Neighborhood Time of event Location Washington Square Shop 6:30-9 p.m. Washington Avenue, near SHA Arundel Hills 7-9 p.m. Across from Civista La Plata Manor Apartments 5-7 p.m. at the complex Charles County Nursing and Rehab 6-8 p.m. off Route 488 Kings Grant 6-9 p.m. off Route 488 Hickory Ridge ...

Summer is in full swing in Charles County. The birds are chirping, the temperatures are rising - and many local waterways are polluted with fecal bacteria.

Police in search of a severed hand tracked down a Port Tobacco man who allegedly crashed his car and then left his seriously injured passenger at the accident site, according to court papers in a case that recently drew an indictment.

A group of Nanjemoy citizens and two nonprofit organizations are calling county zoning officials to task about a decision they recently made to approve a special exception that will allow a defense contractor to build a research facility on Liverpool Point Road.

A Washington, D.C., man was arrested in Nanjemoy on Thursday and charged with the first-degree murder of a Suitland infant last fall; Prince George's County police said they are continuing to look for anyone else who might have been involved in the shooting.