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Person hurt in Highway 707 crash, Horry County Fire Rescue says
HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WBTW) — One person was taken to a hospital on Wednesday after a two-vehicle crash along Highway 707, Horry County Fire Rescue said. It happened near Holmestown Road in the Burgess community, HCFR said. Crews were dispatched at 1:56 p.m. The South Carolina Department of Public Safety is investigating. Horry County police […]
Some high-poverty counties are told they can better pay for their own schools than the richest county in the country
Virginia's school funding formula doesn't take poverty into account, so high-growth but high-poverty rural counties get penalized. The post Some high-poverty counties are told they can better pay for their own schools than the richest county in the country appeared first on Cardinal News.
St. Mary’s Woman Arrested For Drug Possession Following Traffic Stop
CALIFORNIA, Md. – At approximately 12:28 a.m. on Thursday, April 25, 2024, while conducting a proactive traffic stop for failing to make a required stop at a stop sign near the 23000 block of Three Notch Road in California, MD, Deputy First Class Tyler Westphal observed suspected cocaine in plain view inside the 2003 Acura TL driven by Kristina Hope Beggs, 45, of California, MD.
Men charged in assaults at Calvert carwash
Two men who state troopers say started a fight at a Prince Frederick carwash during the midday hours of April 19 are facing assault charges. According to court documents, one of the instigators — identified as Dorian Lavant Dickerson, 21, of Lexington Park — is also charged with making a threat of mass violence for saying he was going to “shoot up” the carwash, which at the time had six employees working along with a dozen customers on the premises. ...
Two Injured Following Serious Rear-End Collision In California
CALIFORNIA, Md. – On April 24, 2024, at approximately 9:08 p.m., emergency personnel responded to a serious motor vehicle accident with one person possibly trapped on southbound Three Notch Road just prior to Chancellors Run Road. Crews arrived to find a rear-end collision with two occupants injured. No entrapment...
Auto parts store burns
The Champion Used Auto Parts building on Usher Lane in Valley Lee burned to the ground Tuesday afternoon.”The cause was determined to be accidental after a fire ignited while an employee was working on a vehicle inside the building,” according to the state fire marshal’s office. “The same employee sustained burns to his upper body and was flown by Maryland State Police Trooper 6 to Washington Hospital Center” for non-life threatening burns. The Second District Volunteer Fire Department and Rescue Squad was the primary responding department to the 2:46 p.m. blaze and it took 95 firefighters from various agencies two hours to bring the fire under control. The estimated loss was $600,000 for the structure and $500,000 for the contents, according to the fire marshal’s office.
Home Destroyed By Two-Alarm Tall Timbers Fire
Firefighters were called to battle a blaze shortly before 4 a.m. on April 24 in the 17500 block of Whitestone Drive in Tall Timbers, when smoke detectors alerted the sleeping residents to a fire that had broken out on the front porch. According to the Maryland Fire Marshal, they were...
Teachers, others come out in droves to St. Mary's budget hearing
Educators and school administrators wanted to make their voices heard during a public hearing about the recommended budget Tuesday night at Great Mills High School. Mission accomplished. An estimated 700 teachers, support staff and administrators attended the meeting with almost all of them wearing red to signify “Red for Ed” in support of education. They...
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