Oxon Hill

A Christmas day shooting in Oxon Hill left a 23-year-old man dead, Prince George's County police said. Police said Quintin Tyrone Perry Jr., of the 3600 block of Sixth Street in Northeast Washington was slain at the intersection of Southview Drive and Southview Court, just next to the District line. Perry was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead. Police have not made any arrests and said they are investigating a motive.

A Christmas day shooting in Oxon Hill left a 23-year-old man dead, Prince George's County police said. Police said Quintin Tyrone Perry Jr., of the 3600 block of Sixth Street in Northeast Washington was slain at the intersection of Southview Drive and Southview Court, just next to the District line. Perry was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead. Police have not made any arrests and said they are investigating a motive.

There's something about Oxon Hill and the state semifinals that seems to bring out the worst in Western.For the third consecutive season, the top-ranked Doves and Oxon Hill met in the Class 4A state semifinals.And, as it did the previous two years, Western overcame a sloppy performance to advance to the championship game.All-American senior forward Chanel Wright scored 22 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to lead the defending Class 4A state champion Doves to a 62-49 victory over the fourth-seeded Clippers of Prince George's County yesterday at UMBC.

Local police departments are participating in the National Take Back Initiative this weekend by providing an opportunity for residents to turn in expired or unwanted prescriptive substances and other medications. At the take-back day, controlled, non-controlled and over-the-counter substances will all be collected, and donors will remain anonymous; no requests for identification will be made. Participants should remove any identifying information that might be found on a prescription label on a container.

A 62-year-old Prince George's County woman was killed late Saturday afternoon in a four-car pileup at the intersection of Route 210 and Kerby Hill Road near Oxon Hill, authorities reported.The victim, Constance Westbrook of the 7900 block of Claudia Drive, Oxon Hill, was a passenger in a car driven by her husband, Edwin Westbrook, 70.Prince George's police said the Westbrooks' car was southbound on Route 210 when it struck a car turning left at Kerby Hill Road. The impact spun the car, driven by Ricardo Ray, 22, of Fort Washington, into the intersection and caused it to become wedged between two other cars stopped at the light.

A 17-year-old Oxon Hill youth was shot and killed and an 18-year-old friend was injured during a dispute Friday evening, Prince George's County police reported yesterday.Police received a report of a shooting at Glacier Avenue and Quadrant Street in Capitol Heights about 6 p.m. Friday. When they arrived there, they found Damon Ovonna Williams, 17, sitting in the grass, bleeding from a gunshot wound, police said. He died an hour later at Prince George's Hospital Center, police said.A friend of the victim, an 18-year-old man, was shot in the leg and ran into a nearby liquor store, police said.

A 20-year-old man with Down syndrome who disappeared from a group home in Columbia Thursday morning was found unharmed in Oxon Hill in Prince George's County that night, Howard County police said.Samuel McDaniel was returned to the home in the 6800 block of Happy Heart Lane in Owen Brown village on Thursday night, Sgt. Steven Keller, a police spokesman, said.Keller said Friday that McDaniel, who recently moved to Columbia from Randallstown, was free to come and go from the group home as he pleased.

John Buchheister, the last area coach to win a state football title, will attempt to reach the finals again when his top-ranked Randallstown team (11-0) takes on host Oxon Hill (11-0) in a Class 4A semifinal this afternoon at 1 p.m.No. 3 Wilde Lake (11-0) plays host to Prince George's County's Douglass (10-1) in a Class 3A semifinal today, also at 1 p.m.Buchheister, who won a state title in 1987 at Milford Mill, again will rely on his outstanding running back, Larry Washington, against an Oxon Hill defense that has shut out seven opponents and allowed 29 points all season.

For two weeks, Jim and Judy Davies prayed for their 18-year-old son to return.Late Friday night, their vigil ended when Prince George's County police charged two Oxon Hill teen-agers in the slaying of Jeffrey Davies, who disappeared Feb. 19 after telling his parents he planned to visit some friends in the neighborhood.Luther Smith, 17, and Derek Cornhill Darby, 19, were being held without bond on first-degree murder charges yesterday in the Prince George's County Detention Center in Upper Marlboro.

Depth and balance are important to any good track and field team, something the No. 2 Gilman boys showed at yesterday's Freddie Hendricks Track Festival. The Greyhounds won four events and earned points from a lot of places to hold off Oxon Hill at Mervo. Gilman finished with 94 points, edging Oxon Hill (87.5) and clinching the victory with a fourth-place finish in the day's final event, the 1,600-meter relay. On the girls' side, Elizabeth Seton and Largo tied for first place (72 points)

A lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Baltimore accuses McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurant in Oxon Hill of firing a disabled prep cook in violation of federal law. Vernon Davis, who has been deaf since childhood, was demoted from prep cook, had his hours reduced and was finally fired, though he had performed satisfactorily since he was hired in May 2008, the lawsuit said. The suit said the restaurant demoted and fired Davis in retaliation for his complaints about mistreatment.

SATURDAY  BASEBALL  STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (at Ripken Stadium) CLASS 3A J.M. Bennett 5, LaPlata 2, 8 inn. CLASS 2A N.Caroline 17, No. 10 Lansdowne 6  CLASS 1A St. Michael's 4, No. 7 Patterson Mill 0 SOFTBALL  STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (at College Park) CLASS 4A Urbana 5, No. 1 Chesapeake-AA 3 CLASS 3A Northern-Calvert 3, No. 3 Howard 0 CLASS 2A Easton 8, No. 6 Lansdowne 5 CLASS 1A Catoctin 10, No. 15 Loch Raven 0 TRACK AND FIELD  STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS (at Morgan State)

Prince George's County Police have arrested a 29-year-old woman charged with throwing acid on a mother and child outside an Oxon Hill parking lot last year. Tikia Shauntice Anderson of Greenbelt is charged with the March 29 attack. The victim told police she was walking through the parking lot that evening and holding her 3-year-old child when she was splashed in the face with a chemical, police said. The victim flagged down an officer on patrol in the area of the 1100 block of Kennebec St., and she and the child were taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Corralled by a ring of inflatable cushions near the back of Cadillac Ranch in the National Harbor sits Diablo, one of the state's few regularly operating mechanical bulls. On a typical Friday or Saturday night, hundreds of would-be cowboys sign a waiver and fork over $3 for a chance to test their bull-riding ability. Though a few experienced riders can stay on for as long as a minute, most last only 10 or 20 seconds, said Dathon Compton, the restaurant's general manager. But that doesn't stop them from trying.

On Monday, January 4, 2010, VIRGINIA H. CANTERBURY, age 86, of Crofton, MD, formerly of Oxon Hill, MD, and Sarasota, FL; wife of the late Forrest J. Canterbury; mother of Janet G. Elm (Barry) and Michael J. Canterbury (Ellen). Also survived by five grandsons and three great-grandchildren. Family will receive friends at the Robert E. Evans Funeral Home, 16000 Annapolis Road, Bowie, MD, on Thursday, January 7, 2010 from 2:30 to 4 P.M. and 6 to 8 P.M. A funeral service will be held 11 A.M Friday, January 8, 2010 at the Community United Methodist Church, Crofton, MD. Interment Fort Lincoln Cemetery.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - -Maryland coach Gary Williams didn't call Tuesday night's game here at Assembly Hall a must-win for the Terrapins, but he certainly didn't want to look back on the Big Ten/ACC Challenge meeting with the Hoosiers the same way he did on last week's trip to the Maui Invitational. With a strong finish that quieted a raucous and sometimes expletive-chanting crowd, Williams and the Terps won't have to do that. Desperate for a confidence-builder after falling out of the Top 25 with back-to-back losses in Hawaii, Maryland turned its first true road game of the 2009-10 season into an 80-68 victory.

Point guard Alis Freeman scored a game-high 25 points on 11-for-16 shooting to lead Churchill of Montgomery County to a 68-49 victory over Oxon Hill of Prince George's County in yesterday's Class 4A title game at UMBC. Catherine Adams added 14 points for Churchill (24-3), which won its first state title and 18th straight game. Oxon Hill (19-7) fell to 0-4 in state championship games. Churchill took control from the start, racing to a 23-3 lead 9:28 into the game. Oxon Hill cut the lead to 32-20 early in the third quarter, but the Bulldogs shot 13-for-17 in the third quarter and led by as many as 29 in the fourth quarter.

OXON HILL - Nearly everyone In the overflow crowd at Oxon Hill High knew what the Randallstown Rams would do on offense yesterday.Oxon Hill coach Cliff Haskins even devised a special defense to counteract it. No matter. In this Class 4A state semifinal game, Larry Washington was unstoppable.The senior tailback ran 26 times for 202 yards and two touchdowns, leading No.1 Randallstown to a 21-7 win over formerly unbeaten Oxon Hill of Prince George's County.The Rams (12-0) advance to the Class 4A final against Wootton at Westminster on Saturday at 2 p.m. The Patriots (12-0)

OXON HILL -- The Republican National Committee approved a watered-down resolution Wednesday evening that called on President Barack Obama and the Democrats to stop "pushing our country towards socialism and government control." The action, at a brief and rare special session of the RNC in Republican National Chairman Michael S. Steele's home county, spared the party the potential embarrassment of the more strident language of the original resolution. An earlier version of the measure would have called for the opposition to "rename themselves the Democrat Socialist Party."

Three workers at a Kent County nursery were injured yesterday after lightning struck near them as they sought shelter from a storm, a farm supervisor said. The day before, an Oxon Hill teenager was struck and killed by lightning while waiting at a bus stop. The 2,000-acre Angelica Nurseries Inc., in rural Kennedyville, employs about 200 Hispanic migrant workers, said supervisor Chris Atkinson. He was called to the scene because he is trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Atkinson said the employees were following procedures by trying to get to a Ford Econoline van because of reports of violent storms in the area.