At the July 22, 2008 meeting of the Caroline County Board of Supervisors, there was a public hearing about a proposed special exemption permit (SPEX-01-2007) for a communications tower in the Reedy Church District.
The proposed location is approximately 1.7 miles away from the soon-to-be new home of the State Fair of […]

Sounds reasonable, right?:
An Anne Arundel County judge has released a 19-year-old woman who served eight months in a juvenile detention facility for the death of her newborn baby.
The judge ruled the woman had been rehabilitated and the woman was released to her father’s custody. The woman had been sentenced last December to stay at a […]

The Washington Post:
A man suspected of raping at least nine women in Prince George’s County, many of whom he met through the popular Web site Craigslist, died after shooting himself in the head yesterday while barricaded inside a Hyattsville apartment building, Prince George’s police said.

WTOP:
Prince George’s County police say a Suitland man suspected of raping at least nine women shot himself in the head yesterday while barricaded inside a Hyattsville apartment building.
Police say 33-year-old Mark Antonio Humphries shot himself Wednesday and was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
They say Humphries visited Craigslist and chat […]

NBC4:
CAROLINE COUNTY, Va. – Maryland State Police are investigating the death of a man who died while police were preparing to take him for an emergency evaluation.
The man is identified as Raymond H. Bartles, Jr., 43, whose last known address was in Woodbridge, Va. Bartles was pronounced dead Wednesday afternoon at the Easton Memorial Hospital.

NBC4:
Three Frederick County judges have doubled a man’s sentence for sexually abusing two young girls after he asked the judges to reduce his sentence.
Donald Fox, 62, asked Judges Edward Dwyer, Julie Solt and Theresa Adams to reduce his 40-year sentence Tuesday.
But within 20 minutes, the three judges came back and decided to double his sentence […]

Then have been cracks made about the media’s relationship with Barack Obama and the fact that they portray Obama as a messiah.
Well, apparently Rob Wittman gets the same treatment from certain people (The Free Lance–Star):
A silver lining? Yes, with Rob Wittman
America is in a time of foreboding, we are told. Global warming is […]

A “yuppie”, by my definition, is anyone stupid enough to pay $3 for a cup of coffee. RT-D:
Five Starbucks outlets in Virginia are among the 600 company-owned stores that the coffee retailing giant plans to close.
No Richmond-area stores are on the closure list released yesterday by the Seattle-based company.
The underperforming Virginia stores that Starbucks said […]

I posted previously about the POS, Vincent Puglisi, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of the coauthor of “Curious George”, Alan Shalleck.
Shalleck suffered “83 blunt force injuries and more than three dozen stab wounds” in the attack that killed him.
Well, according to the trial court, Puglisi wasn’t eligible for the death […]

The Free Lance–Star:
When 1st District congressional candidate Keith Hummel said three weeks ago he was suspending his campaign, local Democrats hoped he could exit the race quietly and they could find a new candidate.
But since then, Hummel has not taken steps to withdraw formally from the race.
Frustrated, Fredericksburg Democrats have passed a resolution demanding that […]