St. Mary's deputies will run seat belt and distracted-driving checks at every public high school Oct. 19-23 for National Teen Driver Safety Week.

Musician Wes Ryce is in a wild card round of a national Super Dad contest. Free votes are allowed daily; paid votes benefit Children's Miracle Network.

Maryland's Blueprint oversight board wants to pause expert review team school visits through fiscal 2029 and put the money toward teacher coaching.

Charles County elementary playgrounds are getting core word boards that let students who don't speak, or speak little, point to words to communicate.

Calvert County Lusby Man Killed When Car Hits Tree on Rousby Hall Road: John Lawrence Connor, 33, of Lusby died late Tuesday after his car left Rousby Hall Road and struck a tree near Maryland Avenue, ...

Maryland returned $103 million in unclaimed property in the first year of a new system, including 32,000 automatic checks. Here's how to search for yours.

Charles County's fire board moved this year's $1.15 million volunteer retirement payment up a month so benefits won't be paid ...

Calvert County Parks & Recreation met 154 national standards to keep its CAPRA accreditation, a status held by about 220 park agencies nationwide.

A man suffered critical injuries in a La Plata shooting early Saturday, according to a police statement supplied to The Southern Maryland Chronicle. Officers responding to the 600 block of Pomonkey ...

Fire marshal teams and local firefighters will check and install free smoke alarms across Maryland Oct. 17-18. Here's how to request one if they miss you.

St. Mary's wants a 10-gigabit line at its backup emergency center so one fiber cut can't knock out both connections, the county's new CIO said.

Ice Ice Baby, a 2-month-old brown-and-white puppy with blue eyes, is up for adoption at the Charles County Animal Care Center.