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Winning $50K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store Winning $50K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store
Winning $50K Powerball Ticket Sold At Maryland Liquor Store Check your tickets!  A lucky Lottery player won a five-figure prize after hitting big on a Powerball ticket that was sold at a popular liquor store in Carroll County. The winning numbers for the drawing on Monday, May 13 were 05-14-29-38-66 with a "Powerball" of 01. It was sold at Piper's Wine and Spirit Barn in the 4100 block of Hanover Pike in Manchester and remains unclaimed a day later, according to Lottery officials. The lucky ticket holder is the only person in Maryland to win a third-tier prize for this drawing and one of 10 $50,000 winners nationwide.  This is…

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by Zak Failla
Business
Red Lobster Restaurant Closings: 4 MD Locations Among Dozens Abruptly Shuttered In U.S. Red Lobster Restaurant Closings: 4 MD Locations Among Dozens Abruptly Shuttered In U.S.
Red Lobster Restaurant Closings: 4 MD Locations Among Dozens Abruptly Shuttered In U.S. Red Lobster has abruptly closed dozens of locations across the United States. According to a Bloomberg, the fast-casual seafood restaurant has considered filing for bankruptcy. The following locations are listed as being temporarily closed on the Red Lobster website, with some set to be auctioned off. MD: Columbia, Laurel, Silver Spring, Gaithersburg NJ: Ledgewood, Lawrenceville, East Brunswick, Bridgewater PA: Erie VA: Newport News, Williamsburg, Colonial Heights TAGeX Brand, which bills itself as the world's largest after-marketplac…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
'You Will All Die': FBI Seizes NJ Man Who Threatened White Massacre 'You Will All Die': FBI Seizes NJ Man Who Threatened White Massacre
'You Will All Die': FBI Seizes NJ Man Who Threatened White Massacre FBI agents in New Jersey seized a discharged U.S. Marine who they said publicly threatened to massacre as many white people as he could. "I want to erase them," Joshua Cobb, 23, posted on social media, according to U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger. "All of them really, but in this case as many as I possibly can." Interviewed by law enforcement, Cobb admitted writing the posts and even identified what he'd considered potential targets, including a Jersey Strong gym and an Aldi grocery store in Robbinsville, the U.S. attorney said on Monday, May 13. He "also discussed hi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Schools
Student Assaults School Admin, Security Officer At Maryland HS, Sheriff Says Student Assaults School Admin, Security Officer At Maryland HS, Sheriff Says
Student Assaults School Admin, Security Officer At Maryland HS, Sheriff Says Dismissal at a Maryland high school turned violent on Monday afternoon when a student went down swinging, assaulting a sheriff's deputy and school administrator attempting to break up a fight, officials say. Deputies from the Wicomico County Sheriff's Office were called on May 13 to Snow Hill High School, where there was an isolated fight between two students that rapidly escalated, prompting an investigation by a school administrator. When the administrator probed the incident, investigators say that one of the students became disorderly, prompting a call to the School Resource Officer ass…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
MD Sex Assault Victim's Mom Leads Cops To Concerning Social Media Post, Officials Say MD Sex Assault Victim's Mom Leads Cops To Concerning Social Media Post, Officials Say
MD Sex Assault Victim's Mom Leads Cops To Concerning Social Media Post, Officials Say A man will have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life following a near two-decade prison term for sexually assaulting a minor, the Frederick County State's Attorney's Office announced on Monday afternoon. Nicholas Wayne Summers has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, with all but 19 suspended, after admitting to two counts of second-degree rape following an investigation that was launched last year, officials say. In May 2023, investigators from the Frederick County Sheriff's Office received a report of a sexual assault of a minor that had previously taken place. Accordi…

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by Zak Failla
News
Former US Capitol Police Officer Convicted In Maryland Child Porn Case: State's Attorney Former US Capitol Police Officer Convicted In Maryland Child Porn Case: State's Attorney
Former US Capitol Police Officer Convicted In Maryland Child Porn Case: State's Attorney A former member of the US Capitol Police Department is facing decades in prison following a conviction for possessing child porn in Calvert County, authorities announced. Jared Michael Lemon, 43, was found guilty following a trial after an acquaintance found disturbing images on his phone that were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. According to the Calvert County State's Attorney's Office, in late 2022, a friend of Lemon's found questionable photos on his phone, prompting an investigation by members of Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force o…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
District Man Found Shot To Death In Maryland Casino Parking Lot Identified By Police (UPDATED) District Man Found Shot To Death In Maryland Casino Parking Lot Identified By Police (UPDATED)
District Man Found Shot To Death In Maryland Casino Parking Lot Identified By Police (Updated) Police in Prince George's County have identified the 37-year-old District man who was found shot and killed early on Saturday morning during a shooting outside a busy Maryland Casino. Officers from the MGM Resort and Casino in Oxon Hill were called shortly before 5 a.m. on May 11 to investigate a reported shooting in the parking lot that left DC resident Daniel Antonio Thomas with fatal injuries.  Detectives responded to the 100 block of MGM National Avenue when security at the casino reported a shooting. Upon arrival, they found Thomas in the parking lot suffering from multiple gunsho…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Maryland Man Was Beaten To Death By Shovel In Northeast DC: Medical Examiner Maryland Man Was Beaten To Death By Shovel In Northeast DC: Medical Examiner
Maryland Man Was Beaten To Death By Shovel In Northeast DC: Medical Examiner An assault in Northeast DC is now being investigated as a homicide following an investigation into an assault last year that left an 81-year-old Maryland man dead. in October 2023, police say that Vincent Hemphill is accused of beating three men with a shovel, one of whom, 81-year-old Clinton resident Charles Short, died from his injuries months later in January. Short's body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy, and on Thursday, the Metropolitan Police Department was notified that the death was determined to be from complications of blunt force …

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by Zak Failla
Lifestyle
$50K Lottery Scratcher Sold At Maryland Sheetz $50K Lottery Scratcher Sold At Maryland Sheetz
$50K Lottery Scratcher Sold At Maryland Sheetz If at first you don't succeed... Just keep scratching. A Maryland man turned a $5 Money Money Money ticket into $50,000, though not before he lost on three previous tickets during a stop at Sheetz in St. Mary's County. The lucky winner said that he purchased four tickets at Sheetz in the 22700 block of Three Notch Road in California, but fate had a little fun with him before his unexpected windfall, which topped his previous top prize of $500. “I scratched one and scanned it, not a winner; two, not a winner; three, not a winner. The fourth one said ‘Go to the Lottery,’” he said, notin…

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by Zak Failla
News
Police ID Woman Killed Following Crash Near MD 200 Ramp In Maryland Police ID Woman Killed Following Crash Near MD 200 Ramp In Maryland
Police ID Woman Killed Following Crash Near MD 200 Ramp In Maryland New details have been released by the Montgomery County Department of Police as they continue to investigate a fatal crash involving a 35-year-old woman last week. Kiara Cheeks has been identified by investigators as the person who died following an early morning crash on Wednesday, May 8 on Briggs Chaney Road in Silver Spring. According to police, shortly before 12:45 a.m. on the morning of the fatal crash, first responders were called to the intersection of the westbound MD 200 ramp and Briggs Chaney Road, where there was a reported two-vehicle crash. The preliminary investigation determ…

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by Zak Failla
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Punxsutawney Phil's Twins Names Revealed On Mother's Day Punxsutawney Phil's Twins Names Revealed On Mother's Day
Punxsutawney Phil's Twins Names Revealed On Mother's Day Punxsutawney Phil and his mate, Phyllis, have been parents since the end of March but on Mother's Day, the twins' names were finally revealed by the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club. "The first family of groundhogs" announced the pups' name via the club vice president reading a scroll: “Here ye, hear ye, hear ye. Now, on this 12th day of May in the town of Punxsy Phil, the news is not about the weather, spring air or winter’s chill. No. Today the first family of groundhogs has grown. Punxsutawney Phil and wife, Phyllis, have two kits of their own. Born to royalty — a boy and a girl. Names have b…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Maryland Man With Penchant For Prepubescent Porn Arrested By FBI In DC: Feds Maryland Man With Penchant For Prepubescent Porn Arrested By FBI In DC: Feds
Maryland Man With Penchant For Prepubescent Porn Arrested By FBI In DC: Feds A 20-year-old Maryland man was arrested by the FBI in DC for allegedly discussing and distributing child porn to an undercover agent, federal authorities say. Silver Spring resident Joseph Ruben Baer was arrested over the weekend following an investigation that determined he allegedly distributed video files depicting the sexual exploitation of underage boys through a social media app. According to prosecutors, early this year, a member of the FBI–Metropolitan Police Department Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force was monitoring an app in an undercover capacity after lea…

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by Zak Failla