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Editorial Opinion:
Vote for McCain and
Hoyer
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New Orleans, here comes Gustav!
Could heavy
rains from hurricane cause dam to break and flood Great
Mills?
Archbishop of Washington Says
Pelosi Wrong
on Church Doctrine on Life
The full statement by Archbishop
Wuerl
Deaths:
Ladeane Burnette Smallwood, 64, of
Leonardtown
MISSING MONEY ?
On August 21, 2008 Sgt. Steven Hall
of the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office found an
envelope marked “Girl Scout Fundraiser” at the Wildewood
Shopping Center in California, Maryland. On the
outside of the envelope was written the names – “Donna,
Kate, Shelby, Amanda, Colleen and Carla. Sheriff Cameron
is asking the owner of the envelope or anyone with
information as to who the owner of the envelope may be
to please contact Sgt. Steven Hall at the St. Mary’s
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Cops Round Up Dozens of Bad Guys
... and one gal
Joshua King
Ryan Murray
Charles Nelson
Randy Norris
Sara Padadizo
Another small trucker shuts down
as economy squeezes retailers, suppliers and freight
carriers
New York Times drops sharply in
revenue as recession deepens, advertisers cut spending
Sharpest drops ever in home sale
prices
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Attention Drunken Redneck Boaters:
Coast Guard Says Death is Near!
Spanish plane crash kills at least
149
Anne Arundel Police Officer, 2
Others Hurt in Crash Near Annapolis
Obama
says McCain doesn't know what he is up against
When will Obama bring his half-brothers over from Africa
to visit him in DC?
Reader Feedback: While suturing a cut on the
hand of a 75 year old rancher,
who's hand was caught in the gate while working cattle,
the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to Obama and his bid to
be our president.
The old rancher said, 'Well, ya know, Obama is a 'Post
Turtle''.
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him
what a 'post turtle' was. The old rancher said, 'When
your driving down a country road on you come across a
fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a 'post
turtle'.
The old rancher saw the puzzled look on the doctor's
face so he continued to explain. 'You know he didn't get
up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, and he
doesn't know what to do while he's up there, and you
just wonder what kind of dumb ass put him up there to
begin with'.
Obama slams McCain for owning 7
homes; Politico finds that there are really 8 but McCain
doesn't own them, his wife does!
Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs
Jones dead after medical crisis while driving
Russia threatening tough measures
over missile shield in Poland
Virginia Anglican Churches Praise
Fairfax Judge
Ruling on Contracts Clause
Obama's sinking poll numbers show
shifts in electorate
Why can't SMECO set up wind
turbine farms along river shores to generate clean
electricity?
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Deaths:
Howard Lamb Sr.
Hazel Theresa Knott
October 16, 1928 - August 19, 2008
Services
Patricia Rose Shymansky
Jean Perie Adams Doane
George Aloysius Mattingly, Sr.
Valorie Anne Henry
Timothy Brian McGrath
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Trooper on emergency call slams
into car that pulled into his path; elderly couple dead
Done Deal
Passes 3-1 on Bail Out for Developer
When not busy
raising taxes, St. Mary's Commissioners Dement, Raley
and Russell, left to right, are making special deals for
developers. ST. MARY'S TODAY photos
More taxpayers moola in shady deal
with developer
LEONARDTOWN
(Aug. 19, 2008) --- St. Mary's Commissioners
bailed out another developer; they bought a park that is
only 2 miles away from 192 acre Myrtle Point Park which
isn't used.
EXCLUSIVE REPORT---
The St. Mary's County Commissioners bought the property
that they turned down for inclusion in the Lexington
Park Development District. Owned by the same
developer who the board, with commissioners Mattingly
and Jarboe voting no, approved a controversial granting
of five sewage approvals on land which did not qualify
for extension of public sewer, and in effect may open up
huge areas of waterfront for development in the Valley
Lee and Piney Point area.
That developer gave money to the campaign of
Commissioner Kenny Dement and bought the property from
the employer of Commissioner Jackie Russell.
Joining Dement and Russell was Commissioner Dan Raley
who was the third vote in this stinky deal. Now
this developer, who bought the Beaven property in hopes
of getting it added to the development district, sold
the property to the county for a new park. St.
Mary's County bought the 192 acre Myrtle Point Park ten
years ago and has yet to develop it as a park.
This large park is but 2 miles away from this proposed
Developer Bailout Memorial Park.
The eastern narrow mouth toad is a resident of this area
and held up the reconstruction of Indian Bridge Road for
several years and could put loads of warts on a park
development too.
MORE
10 French Paratroopers Killed in
Ambush in Afghanistan
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Woman's
Death at St. Mary's Hospital Not a Suicide
LEONARDTOWN
--- UPDATE --- St. Mary's Sheriff Tim Cameron reports
that the Maryland State Medical Examiner has ruled the
death of a woman at St. Mary's hospital on July 29th to
not be suicide but accidental due to her illness.
The grandmother of a woman who was on the phone
chatting with her one morning from her room at St.
Mary's Hospital where she had been taken for psychiatric
evaluation but was found dead two hours later in a
restroom with a bar of soap and a shampoo bottle stuffed
down her throat is questioning how she died. While
police initially believed the death to be a suicide, the
State Medical Examiner's Office still has not yet signed
off on this death pending the outcome of a toxicology
report, St. Mary's Sheriff Tim Cameron told ST. MARY'S
TODAY.
While many deaths are routinely questioned at the
hospital, more for the standard of care, the ability of
a person who is supposed to be in the psycho ward due to
being possibly crazy or imbalanced also makes family
members wonder exactly what does it take to get proper
care for a loved one suffering from depression or other
conditions.
The family of this woman is upset that St. Mary's
Hospital failed to take care of their family member and
then failed to account for what happened to the woman.
More in print
edition this weekend....
Reader Feedback:
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Family to Protest Rape Case
Against 16-Year-Old That
Attorney Says Prosecutor Presses Without Evidence
"It Happens All The Time" --- the famous quote of St.
Mary's States Attorney Richard Fritz to reporter Chris
Wallace when explaining how he and two others plead
guilty to the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl when he
was 18. The victim said she did not consent and was held
down by the three who took turns with her. Now
Fritz is in charge of prosecuting a 16-year-old boy for
the rape of another underage girl. A 15-year-old
is under the age of consent to sex and rape at any age
is still rape.
Wallace, now the host of Fox News Sunday, was at the
time of the
ABC 20/20 interview with Fritz an anchor with
that network news operation. Fritz's remarks infuriated
women who took their ire out on him when he attempted to
unseat St. Mary's Circuit Court Judge Karen Abrams.
Fritz came in third in the primary election. Fritz
is expected to be opposed by Leonardtown attorney John
Mattingly in the next election.
MORE
Mom in hurry with kids in car
fails to yield; causes wreck, tie-up
California Pike Wreck Serious
CALIFORNIA Aug. 13, 2008)
UPDATE --- St.
Mary's Sheriff Tim Cameron reports that a woman who was
critically hurt in this crash is expected to survive.
The circumstances of the wreck are still under
investigation. Police officers measure the
distances involved in this late evening wreck on Rt. 235
at Rt. 4 on Tuesday. The two vehicles at left were
likely totaled with an unknown number of injuries.
Reconstructions are performed when crashes are either
fatal or injuries of those involved are life
threatening.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photos by Matthew Ivancie.
Wanted
for Murder
Charles County detectives are looking
for this man for allegedly shooting and killing another
man in Waldorf on Monday, Aug. 11th. James Cornell
Ford, above, is from Oxon Hill in PG County and
allegedly killed Joseph Ray Burgess, 21.
MORE
1/3 of new homeowners upside down
Baby placed on washing machine fell, hit head and died
LEONARDTOWN --- St. Mary's Sheriff Tim Cameron
reports that a mother put her child down on a washing
machine in her home and the child fell, hit her head and
died.
More
Why would the Apartments at Wildewood send a
young sailor's prize show car off to be crushed?
Read
this story
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Editorial:
Drill
the Democrats Who Oppose Drilling for Oil
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Police
Screw-ups Can Be Deadly but Always Dead Serious
PG cops shot
and killed two black labs inside their own homes; a
Charles County Deputy fired seven times and killed this
mans dog in Charles County. His dog was tied up in his
own yard. The cop was not fired for blasting the dog to
smithereens. This Barney Fife is still a Charles
County Sheriff's Deputy. What kind of sissies are
the police departments hiring that have to go around and
shoot dogs who are secured in their own homes? Its
a fair question, unless of course the dogs were armed
and shooting at the cops.
The
Maryland State Police
were spying on legitimate and constitutional actives of
citizens instead of detecting crime; the PG cops shot
and killed two dogs in their own home when they
illegally raided a home on a drug
search warrant, people who were themselves
the victims of drug dealers dropping off packages that
they would retrieve later; a St. Mary's deputy who was
drunk beat a man before other deputies forcibly
restrained the drunk deputy and a Charles County officer
shot and killed a dog who was tied up on a chain at his
own home. Last year another PG cop gave chase to a
motorcycle during rush hour on the beltway, causing the
death of two people. State troopers have in the
past kissed those pulled over for a ticket and even
raped a motorist. But these are the few incidents of
crime and incompetence and yet the public has a right to
ask how stupid can the police leadership be, how callous
and ill trained are the cops. They are good
questions and those who are entrusted to enforce the law
should be held accountable for these transgressions.
But the fact remains that 99 percent of law officers
deplore the incidents as much as you and they treasure
their ability to serve and protect, they live in our
communities too and raise their families here.
FBI to review PG cops drug raid
which killed family's two dogs
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Here Comes the Judge!
Gov. Martin
O'Malley Appoints First Black as Judge In Southern
Maryland!
In Calvert County, Governor O’Malley has
appointed Edward Gregory Wells to serve on the District
Court. Mr. Wells is currently an Assistant Attorney
General in the Criminal Appeals Division of the Maryland
Attorney General’s Office. He has had a long career of
public service in
Calvert
County. Mr. Wells spent
ten years as a prosecutor in the Calvert County State’s Attorney’s Office, serving for three years as
the Deputy
State’s Attorney. He was
the first African-American to serve as the Calvert County State’s Attorney, from 2005-2006. He
also served for seven years as a Master for Domestic
Relations and Juvenile Causes in
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Hundreds Expected to Line Route of
Funeral Procession
As Sgt. Ryan Baumann's Coffin is Taken
thru Leonardtown to Arlington National Cemetery on
Monday Aug. 11th for Burial Mourners Prepare to Fly the
Flag to Salute Fallen Solder.
Day of Honor
Notes: St. Mary's Sheriff Tim
Cameron told ST. MARY'S TODAY that his agency, the
Maryland State Police and Charles County officers will
be escorting the funeral procession of Sgt. Ryan Baumann
all the way to Arlington Cemetery. Sheriff Cameron
says that intersections along the route will be
maintained to allow the procession to proceed unimpeded.
A request by St. Mary's County employees to be able to
use flex time to attend has not yet been granted by the
Grand Poobahs of county government.
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Cocaine
King Sent to Prison Charm School
for More Than 10 Years by Feds
story
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More than 10,000 tons of explosive
rock from an excavation site has been dumped at seawall
construction at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station,
according to sources. This rock is from the same
site where explosive rock was installed at a site near
Annapolis. Rock for seawalls which comes form
quarries is safe due to the quarry operator not wishing
to blow up their own equipment when running the rock
through large crushers whereas rock from excavation
sites does not get the same care of keeping track of the
explosives thus leaving some surprises in the rock for
contractors, or even the public. Quarry operators
keep track of their explosives and the Navy does
everything on low bid, thus contractors find the
cheapest rock they can get and so on. In the
above photo, President Bill Clinton is leaving his limo
parked at the water's edge at Pax River in 1996, just
100 feet from the shoreline. The Navy not only puts
officials at risk with their devil may care treatment of
this rock but allows fishing from the seawall.
Fishermen may find some unexpected help in blowing the
hooks of the mouths of skates when they set their
lanterns down on the rocks or just use their cell
phones.
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by Michael Carrico
The presidential motorcade zooms along
the Chesapeake Bay coastline of the Patuxent River Naval
Air Station within 50 feet of seawall on July 4, 1996.
In addition to the occasional President, thousands of
ordinary Americans use this road and others along the
seawalls where 10,000 tons of dynamite laden rock is
sitting. ST. MARY'S TODAY photo by
Michael Carrico
Charles Wayne Turner U.
S. Army WWII POW Army Air Corps dead at 87
Jerome Kenneth Curtis
Joseph Albert Green U.S. Army
Veteran
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Army Goes Navy
Photo by
Cpl. Shejal
Pulivarti, 1st BCT, 1st Cav. Div. Public
Affairs
Photo courtesy of U.S. Army August 04,
2008
Monroe
Township, N.J. native, Capt. Will
Costello (left), recon platoon leader
and Chutnshoot, Texas native, Spc.
Jessica Kellogg (right), nuclear,
biological and chemical specialist, both
in Headquarters and Headquarters
Company, 1st Brigade Special Troops
Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st
Cavalry Division, maneuver their M93 Fox
vehicle across Blora Lake, Texas during
a training exercise July 31. The
amphibious "Fox" is designed to survive
and scout a chemical, biological,
radiological and/or nuclear contaminated
battlefield.
Tyson Foods plant eliminates Labor
Day for Muslim holiday due to 700 Muslim workers at the
plant...but do they cut up pork or just chicken?
Boscov's files for bankruptcy;
several stores closing immediately including
3 stores in Balt. area malls
Homebuilder bankruptcies: who
might be the next big builder to belly up?
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Is the entire MSNBC network on crack cocaine or just one
writer?
Lexington Park picked as #3 Dreamtown in national survey
Are you
dreaming of this hot babe? This hooker was working
the mean streets of Lexington Park in broad daylight.
ST.
MARY'S TODAY Photo
If your dreams include being a hooker who is shot by an
arrow at 5 am while streetwalking on one of the town's
two main drags, then this could be your dreamtown.
If your dream of a good place to live includes Patuxent
Park, which is filled with illegal aliens, gang members
and daily doses of crackheads breaking into homes, this
could be your dreamtown.
If your dreams are of rude beanhead drivers cutting
others off, failing to stop when turning on red and
forming hot rod street racing gangs such as the Masked
Bandits, who drag race each other on the main highway at
speeds of up to 100 mph, then this could be your
dreamtown.
If you like a place where drug dealers run rampant and
it took the feds to come in an lock up a local drug
dealer who thumbed his nose at the State Police and the
Sheriff's Department for 20 years, then you are in a
dreamy place. For comments of those who
posted remarks about SMIBS and other fun things on the
MSMBC website about this remarkable selection of what we
call SIN CITY,
read THESE or post your
own remarks at READER FEEDBACK
Staff1@stmarystoday.com
Letter to the Editor:
Taxpayers Fund Fiscal Insanity at
St. Mary’s College
Why is O'Malley
Administration promoting 'buy local' of farms but trying
to shut down the Amish and Mennonite home made goods?
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letters to the
Editor:
Grass is Greener Growing Homes
Instead of Grazing Golfers
St. Mary’s Nursing Center is a
County Government Facility Which Has Serious Problems
When Democrats Took Over Congress,
Gas Was Under $3 a Gallon
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On The Water
Casting a Bay net
Around
the Chesapeake
Boats Galore!
Southern Maryland enjoys the most
beautiful waterways of the world,
with
the Potomac, St. Mary's, Wicomico
and Patuxent Rivers and the best
fishing
and sailing of the Chesapeake Bay.
The vessels that have
plied these
waters over the years
will be featured here:
ST. MARY'S TODAY photo
The Tall Ship
Kalmar Nyckel
This ship visited in
Washington two
years ago and is
shown heading
south
on the
Potomac River
near Coles Point.
The ship is
an
educational vessel
based in Delaware.
Lighthouses of
Maryland
A glimpse at some old lighthouses,
some of which no longer stand, one of
which, at St. Clements Island,
will soon
be rebuilt, will be shown here.
Maryland
Government
How to apply
to be appointed a
Notary Public in the State of Maryland
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