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  1. Keana Marie Biscoe, 16, will receive a sentence of no more than 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to a... fb.me/1Ui6xRXpz
  2. John Savich, administrator of St. Mary’s County government, will be taking medical leave starting Monday, June 4. fb.me/1MmPOwmqr
  3. Three Southern Maryland pre-teens were among the competitors in the 85th Annual Scripps National Spelling Bee this... fb.me/QxhSmZZ9
  4. The $183.5 million budget that St. Mary’s school board approved is an increase of almost $6 million from last year. fb.me/15Sl9qYYY
  5. No one was injured when a car drove through a plate glass window at the Dash-In in White Plains. fb.me/1WkCtObwz
  6. Saving money on prescription drugs is now just a text away. A program by United Way of Charles County lets folks... fb.me/1mqEiRfCr
  7. Concerns for local children dominated a recent forum in which more than a dozen speakers from the community... fb.me/1VCS5a8fW
  8. Two of Ronnie Joyner’s passions are baseball and art. His new book, “Hardball Legends and Journeymen and... fb.me/1jrBStQFF
  9. A once-beloved tradition returned to the annual Memorial Day ceremony at the Ridge American Legion Post 255 as a... fb.me/1WPORcfBJ
  10. Letters from a St. Mary’s detention center inmate’s girlfriend arrived this week at the jail with strips of... fb.me/17nclzN8O
  11. When U.S. Army Capt. Aaron Palmer was injured in Afghanistan, students at Archbishop Neale School sent him... fb.me/24vvi7tVU
  12. The swamps in Southern Maryland have a lot to offer to the region, despite popular culture’s fearful portrait. fb.me/28feGAKhO
  13. One or more culprits put a Molotov cocktail explosive device under a car in Callaway early Friday morning and... fb.me/1Hk6uiUth
  14. It got its start when DeSotos ruled the road in July 1947, but the Village Service Station in Hughesville is set... fb.me/Xt6P0Nmt
  15. Police officers are searching for a man in Newburg who fired a shotgun toward a house then fled into the woods... fb.me/GGVY9tl6
  16. Warren Evans, a male student at Calvert HS, was suspended from school for wearing a skirt deemed to be too short. fb.me/1AAR3pxNQ
  17. A man was taken to the hospital from the Master Suites Hotel in Waldorf with serious gunshot wounds early this... fb.me/1zk5J8rZ8
  18. Cristina Bryan of Scientists Cliffs has researched 19th-century American history for more than 20 years and she... fb.me/1DYLt5Jgy
  19. With a 7-2 win over Reservoir last night, Northern's softball team punched a ticket to its fifth-straight state... fb.me/1yLB8hUdi
  20. Brian and Jessica Hart, a Navy couple whose infant girl died 2 years ago, face court-martial proceedings on... fb.me/1gKVRbZ50