Exactly how stupid are U of Md students? It depends on how much they have had to drink…

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COLLEGE PARK, MD. — As the upcoming school year approaches, changes are being made to the median located at the 7300 block of Baltimore Avenue in College Park. Students will be moving back to campus on August 22, 2014.

A median fence is being built in order to encourage pedestrians to utilize the designated crosswalks.

Perhaps a pedestrian bridge should be built, but then, perhaps a fence would have to be built along the edge of the bridge to keep drunken students from tossing beer bottled down onto traffic.

Mutiny on the Genco Challenger? Two stabbed, one missing in high seas drama

REHOBOTH, DEL. (Special from the Beach News) — Was it a case of mutiny, a deranged crew member having a psychotic episode or something entirely different that took the lives of two of the ship’s crew and injured a third? We may never know because what happened aboard the Genco Challenger took place in international waters about 27 miles south/southeast of Rehoboth Beach.

Scott Lloyd-Owen flown to trauma unit after booze cruise on his bike; was ticketed for speeding twice last year

Maryland State Police report that on August 16, 2014 at approximately 9:21 pm, Troopers from the Maryland State Police Leonardtown Barrack responded to the area of Rue Purchase Road, north of Dunleigh Drive for a reported motor vehicle collision involving a motorcycle.

Preliminary investigation revealed a yellow and black 2003 Suzuki GSX-R 750 motorcycle, operated by Scott Lloyd-Owen, 25, of California, was traveling north on Rue Purchase Road. Lloyd-Owen failed to properly negotiate a turn in the roadway, and the motorcycle traveled off the roadway and struck a guardrail.

Southern Maryland Police Beat: burglar tried to get religion at Holy Face Church

GREAT MILLS, MD. St. Mary’s Sheriff Tim Cameron is short on providing details on this burglary attempt of Holy Face Church located in Rt. 5 in Great Mills, as much as other incidents in his daily crime report. All the Sheriff released was that an attempted burglary of the church was made on Aug. 15, 2014. There were no photos or video released along with the report, nor was the time of day or night indicated.

Eastern Shore Police Beat: ‘Don’t come home from drinkin’ with shootin’ on your mind!’

Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis reports that on 08/14/14 at approximately 0109 hours, Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office responded to 7000 block of Parsonsburg Road, Parsonsburg, MD for reports that Jason Michael Layfield was discharging a shotgun outside as well as inside the home and threatening the occupants.

Heroin: From Shore to Shore, Maryland’s Black Plague of Death

DENTON, MD. — Heroin, the home wrecker, the heart-stopper, the black ice. For some, the final door to hell.

Maryland officials are scrambling statewide to find a way to reduce heroin use and the crescendo of overdose deaths linked to heroin and to that of a new/old synthetic drug called Molly, which killed two young people at a traveling dope show held last weekend at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Md.

One particularly dangerous version of the toxic drug is a fentanyl-laced heroin.

Heroin was once the province of junkies in the inner city — desperate and degraded, shooting up in alleys and tenements of major cities.

Prince William Police Beat: Employee of Merchants Tire Robbed; Man with Machete Disarmed

On August 14th, members of the U.S. Marshals’ Fugitive Task Force conducted a warrant service at a residence located in the 3613 Felmore Ct in Woodbridge (22193). Once inside the home, narcotics were discovered by members of the task force. Detectives from the Street Crimes Unit obtained and subsequently executed a search warrant at the residence. During the search, suspected control substances including heroin, cocaine, synthetic marijuana, marijuana, liquid codeine, prescription medications, evidence of distribution and an undisclosed amount of U.S. Currency were recovered. Following the investigation, the accused was arrested without further incident.

Arrested on August 14th:

Israel ANDINO II, 25, of 3613 Felmore Ct in Woodbridge