Charles County News

Authorities discovered a body inside a burning truck in Waldorf last night, but sheriff's officers aren't sure how the person died or how the pickup caught fire, according to police.

Judge Helene Nietsch, left, stands next to Lauren Williams, who won the award for the best junior handler with her English setter, Cole, at the Blue Crab Cluster Dog Show on Saturday.

A smart growth group is questioning the need for a proposed Charles County highway.

Kathy Perriello, vice principal at General Smallwood Middle School, was selected as the 2009 Charles County Public Schools Vice Principal of the Year.

Frank Hollewa, left, current executive director of the Greater Waldorf Jaycees Foundation, and Jaycees members Bud Humbert and Andy Andrews pose with the Harold Marks Award for being the best chapter in the nation in 1980.

County residents are being sought to fill vacancies on such boards as the Housing Commission, Nuisance Abatement Board, Homeowners' Association Dispute Review Board, Charles County Board of Social Services, Grants Advisory Panel, Adult Public Guardianship Review Board, Charles County Property Tax Assessment Appeal Board, Planning and Growth ...

A crabber on Wednesday discovered the body of a 58-year-old man in Neale Sound, according to police.

With the curtain closed on this school year, administrators at the state's largest school systems are still trying to assess the impact of the High School Assessments on their graduation numbers.

Beginning Thursday, five days of American Kennel Club dog shows will be held at the Charles County Fairgrounds on U.S. 301 in Bel Alton.

Sobbing as he spoke Monday at a manslaughter sentencing, Michael Hickman said his younger brother convicted of the homicide charge "mourns every day" since a bar fight last fall that ended the life of a Port Tobacco man.

At Vince Sigismondi's Baltimore County apartment backing up to Interstate 70 near the city line, the early morning hours on weekends frequently brings the sounds of drag racing.

The teen charged with stabbing a fellow student at Maurice J. McDonough High School was in a "pretty psychotic state" driven by untreated depression before the alleged assault, a defense expert testified at a circuit court hearing on Wednesday.

Deep in the heart of Charles County at the head of the Wicomico River, sweet gum, beech and sycamore trees surround 20 miles of seldom-explored swampland where more than 300 years of history lie buried beneath dank, soggy soil.

A movie was slated to premier at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and before the VIPs and caterers began to funnel in on June 10, the building's special police officers met for a briefing and a role-playing exercise.

Discussions on the county's next high school are back on the table. After conducting a value engineering project, the Charles County commissioners recently agreed to fund the county portion of the new high school slated to open 2013 provided the school system can design it with a $78 million price tag.

A group of Charles County residents that hoped to give voters the power to temporarily suspend a property tax increase appears to have hit a major roadblock.

Police on Thursday morning arrested a fugitive and convicted sex offender from Charles County with the help of bystanders who recognized the man and stopped him until authorities arrived, according to a U.S. marshal.

When Dontae Carroll moved here three years ago from the Baltimore area where he grew up, he was struck by the contrast.

Anthony Becker, 10, watches as Noah White, 9, puts his arms and head in a photo stand during Cobb Island Day Saturday.

County residents are being sought to fill vacancies on the Housing Commission, Gaming Permit Review Board, Nuisance Abatement Board, Homeowners' Association Dispute Review Board, Charles County Board of Social Services, Grants Advisory Panel, Adult Public Guardianship Review Board, Charles County Property Tax Assessment Appeal Board, Planning and ...