Above, Staff Sgt. Michael Edwards plays taps at a ceremony Saturday for John Thomas Abell, who went missing in action in 1945.

Residents of the Myrtle Point area of California asked the St. Mary's County commissioners Thursday to be removed from the Lexington Park Development District.

U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein, right, addresses reporters at a press conference at the St.

Announcement : Bluegrass For Hospice BMNN wrote: on Sep. 09, 2009: On Saturday October 24, 2009, there will be a Bluegrass music show to raise funds for the first ever Hospice House in St.

Developer John Parlett gives an iron A to Pam Arnold in front of the Abell house at the corner of Shady Mile Drive and Route 235 in California.

Ginny Hall and her 81/2-month-old daughter, Jordan, wait for runners Saturday morning in Chaptico at the intersection of Zach Fowler Road and Route 234 during the annual Chaptico Classic 5K and 10K road race and fun walk.

The death of a Leonardtown man who waded into Breton Bay on Sunday afternoon and disappeared under its surface has been ruled an accidental drowning, one that occurred despite efforts to revive him.

A Leonardtown area man apparently drowned Sunday afternoon, authorities report, after he waded into Breton Bay from Abell's Wharf and disappeared.

Our view: Maryland has spent years establishing math standards for high school graduates, but what if those standards don't actually prepare students for college? July 15, 2009 A generation ago, educators were pointing with alarm to the fact that Johnny couldn't read.

SALISBURY , Md.- One-third of Maryland students who attend Maryland colleges are forced to take remedial math courses before they can take a credited class, according to a study conducted by the Baltimore-based Abell Foundation.

In today's paper, I write about the debate over how to teach math. College professors are arguing that high schools aren't teaching what students need to know for college.

Christina Barbour, far right, site supervisor of the St. Clement's Island Museum in Colton's Point, guides children from the Achieving Career Excellence Summer Enrichment Program from Prince George's County, directing them to the Blackistone Lighthouse replica on the island last week.

Such programs treat addiction as a health problem by providing drugs to addicts, and then moving the users into treatment.

From left, Patsy Ervin listens to a speaker as she sits next to Jeanette Thompson, who attended with her husband, Rodney Thompson, at right.

Douglas Abell shields himself from the sun with a hat and umbrella while planting soybeans in his field at his home in Leonardtown earlier this month, the first time temperatures soared into the 90s this year in St.