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Clayton Cann Carter, a retired Queen Anne's County Circuit Court judge who was a Maryland history buff and a collector of Maryland-related objets d'art, died July 30 of an apparent heart attack at Chesterfield, his Centreville home. He was 92. The son of a miller and a storekeeper, Judge Carter was born and raised in Centreville. He was a 1935 graduate of Centreville High School and earned a bachelor's degree in 1939 from Duke University. "There were only 11 grades in those days at Centreville High School and he was 16 when he entered Duke, where he earned his degree at 20," said a daughter, Rachel MacDonough Carter Gross of Chestertown.

With new food trucks rolling out every couple months, it can be hard to keep track of them all. Here are three of the more notable Baltimore food trucks, from burgers to soups. Chowhound Burger Wagon kooperschowhound.com Generally acknowledged as the pace-setter in Baltimore's food truck fleet, Chowhound started serving burgers on the go back in the fall of 2009. Veggie, beef, bison and turkey burgers are cooked on the spot and served alongside regular or sweet potato fries.

If you are lucky, once in a great while, you talk to someone who very quickly makes you feel like you've known them forever. Life-long area resident Queenie King is one of those people. Queenie retired at the end of the school year after driving a school bus for Prince George's County since 1972. Chances are, if you have availed yourself of the bus service, at some point, you and Queenie crossed paths. If you did, you remember her. After what was seemingly a rather brief phone conversation, I couldn't help but feel like I'd made a new friend.

The Queen Anne's County state's attorney's office has filed criminal charges against the owner of a Centreville horse farm from which 140 animals were seized in April. Marsha H. Parkinson, 66, owner of Canterbury Farms, faces 35 animal cruelty charges of failure to provide adequate care for an animal, after the horses were taken from her Melfield Lane farm, according to electronic court records. Neither Parkinson nor Queen Anne's State's Attorney Lance G. Richardson returned calls seeking comment Tuesday afternoon.

A Reisterstown woman who pleaded guilty to billing the Baltimore school system for more than $150,000 in phantom tutoring services was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison, with all but 18 months suspended. Tracy Denise Queen, 41, will be on probation for 10 years upon release and must pay full restitution to the city school system, which had compensated her for what she claimed were tutoring sessions for 250 students over a three-year period. A statement issued by the office of State Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt said the students had been "cheated out of a total of nearly 4,000 hours of tutoring" by Queen and her company, Queen's Mobile Education, which she operated from her home on Bentley Hill Drive.

The Maryland state school board has chosen an education department official and former local school superintendent as the temporary replacement for Superintendent Nancy S. Grasmick, who will retire this month. Although Bernard J. Sadusky, the former superintendent of Queen Anne's County, could be in the job for only months, he is likely to have significant influence over a series of decisions on sensitive issues, including the new teacher evaluation system that factors in student performance.

State police on Friday charged the driver who investigators said pulled out in front of a tour bus carrying a group of Kent County kindergarten students and parents to the National Zoo in Washington. Carl Trenz Jr., 49, of the 100 block of Big Holly Court in Stevensville faces reckless driving, negligent driving and related charges after the Queen Anne's County crash that sent 17 people to area hospitals on Thursday. Trenz was driving a 2010 Volkswagen Toureg and pulled out from White Marsh Road onto southbound Route 213, directly into the path of the southbound tour bus, state police said.

'Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty' exhibit in New York What: An exhibition celebrating Alexander McQueen's contributions to fashion and culture. The British designer, known for dressing the likes of Lady Gaga and Madonna with an edge, committed suicide last year at the age of 40. The display will feature about 100 examples of the designer's work from his 19-year career. Pieces will include signature designs such as the bumster trouser, the kimono jacket and the origami frock coat.

Canterbury Farms on Maryland's Eastern Shore is the nation's largest breeder of Polish Arabian stallions, a place where horses "feel at home," according to its website, and where a walk among the paddocks "will leave you with the feeling that you are visiting puppies in horse clothing. " But when investigators from Queen Anne's County arrived two weeks ago, they found that many of the farm's 146 horses were emaciated, including more than a dozen that each was 300 pounds underweight, officials said.