Riviera Beach News

The annual Earleigh Heights Volunteer Fire Company carnival will open tomorrow on the grounds of the firehouse at 161 Ritchie Highway.

The Coast Guard rescued five people who were stranded on a disabled boat in the Chesapeake Bay yesterday afternoon, officials said.

The Coast Guard rescued one adult and four children that were stranded on a disabled vessel due to an engine fire in the Chesapeake Bay near Gibson Island, Md., Thursday afternoon.

The train fire in the Howard Street Tunnel was terrible for Baltimore, the CSX railroad and the Orioles.

Efforts to help parents pay the tuition at St. Jane Frances School in Riviera Beach has left the private Catholic school - and its parent church - more than half a million dollars in debt, officials with the Archdiocese of Baltimore said yesterday.

An 85-year-old Pasadena woman died yesterday in a four-vehicle crash in Riviera Beach after her son fell asleep at the wheel and ran into oncoming traffic, county police said.

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All through the years of playing competitive golf - and winning her share of tournaments - Stephanie Connelly has always been her own biggest critic.

A fire displaced four residents and three staff members of a Greenhaven assisted living home yesterday, county fire officials said.

Five county firefighters were injured Tuesday night when the driver lost control of a fire engine and crashed into a utility pole at Fort Smallwood and Somerset roads in Riviera Beach.

Once a month, Donna McCallister, a language-arts teacher at George Fox Middle School in Pasadena, throws an event after school for her students and their parents.

The Pasadena Theatre Company continues its production of "A Man for All Seasons" tonight at 8 p.m. and tomorrow at 3 p.m. in the Studio 194 Theatre at the Chesapeake Arts Center, 194 Hammonds Lane, Brooklyn Park.

The engine out of the Rivera Beach station was headed to a medical emergency call as a first responder unit when the driver lost control following a left turn and struck a utility pole.

A former county police officer admitted yesterday he was drunk last year when he fatally rear ended an SUV in Harford county and then left the scene of the wreck.

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More than 150 crabbers filed into a Severna Park fire hall yesterday to weigh in on the state's plans to reduce the number of inactive watermen.

A judiciary oversight commission has issued a private reprimand for a judge convicted of illegally dumping landfill rubble along the shoreline of his Riviera Beach home.

The Anne Arundel County school board unanimously approved a redistricting plan for South County, but delayed voting on a redistricting plan for the Mountain Road corridor in order to explore options for allowing some Pasadena middle school students to stay at the school they now attend.

The artists and friends of Gibson Island Country School will host "Heaven and Earth," an art show for adults only from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the school at 5191 Mountain Road.

The Sons of the Severn Barbershop Chorus will host its spring show, "The Bailout Blues," at 7 p.m. April 18 at Chesapeake High School, 4798 Mountain Road.