Rt. 50 melts down with tour bus crash and burning mulch truck on Chesapeake Bay Bridge

Rt. 50 melts down with tour bus crash and burning mulch truck on Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Maryland State Police report that State Troopers on the scene say there were no serious injuries in the crash involving a tour bus on the ramp from Rt. 50 to I-97 and that the roadway should be completely open by about 6:00 p.m. today.
At about 4:30 p.m. today, Maryland State Police from the Glen Burnie Barrack responded to a traffic crash on the ramp from westbound Rt. 50 to northbound I-97. When troopers arrived they found two passenger vehicles and a tour bus involved in the crash

Cat owners urged to keep cultured kittys at home; feral cat trapping ramps up

But more importantly, the stray cats are wiping out native Keys species like the Key Largo woodrat, Dixon said, a species found only in the Crocodile Lake refuge.
Responding to complaints from outdoor cat owners upset about a cat trapping program implanted last year, Dixon said the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has reached out to them and offered to help build outdoor enclosures, known as “catios.” He also said that remote cameras the FWS set up within the refuge show cats roaming the area at night and hunting.
“We didn’t know how much of an issue this was until we started using the remote cameras,” he said.
Cat owner and dive-shop owner Spencer Slate, who lives across State Road 905 from the refuge, said his cats have been trapped in a wooded lot adjacent to his house, which is not in the refuge.

Fiscal Year 2011 overtime pay for St. Mary’s County Md. employees

St. Mary’s County Government Overtime Payments for Fiscal Year 2011

Employee Name Department Description FY11 paid overtime (Those employees being paid $20,000 and up in overtime are highlighted)

ABELL, DIANA M Economic & Community Development $622

ABELL, JOSEPH B Public Works and Transportation/County Highways $15,569

ABELL, MICHAEL WPublic Works and Transportation/County Highways $2,160