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On June 10, 2007, ROY WALDORF, dear husband of Charlotte Waldorf. He will missed by nieces and nephew, and grand nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will follow at a later time.

A convenience-store supplier warned Maryland regulators that it will lay off 112 employees in Baltimore, the state said Friday. Eby-Brown's reduction plan was one of two recent layoff warnings the state received. MV Transportation, which provides paratransit and other transportation services to governments, groups and companies, told the state that it would close its Waldorf division beginning late October and lay off the 68 people working at the Southern Maryland location. Eby-Brown's layoffs will start Nov. 2, the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation said.

On May 24, 2003, CONSTANCE L. WALDORF (nee Porter); beloved mother Jasmine Waldorf, Ross Waldorf, Jennifer Waldorf and the late Ryan Waldorf; devoted sister of Robert Porter and Lesley Torello. Services at SOL LEVINSON & BROS., INC., 8900 Reisterstown Road, at Mt. Wilson Lane, on Monday, May 26 at 12 noon. Interment Baltimore Hebrew Cemetery, Berrymans Lane. Please omit flowers. Family at home at 58 Burkshire Road, Towson, MD (21286).

The Charles County Sheriff's Office says a three-year-old boy was killed after he climbed out of his mother's car and walked into the path of another vehicle. Authorities say the incident occurred in the 10500 block of Sugarberry Street in Waldorf about 2 p.m. Tuesday. Police say the boy had been in a car seat in the back seat of the vehicle when his mother pulled over to give some mail to a postal worker. Police say the boy unbuckled himself, left the car and walked into the roadway where he was struck by an oncoming SUV. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Charles County Sheriff's Office says a three-year-old boy was killed after he climbed out of his mother's car and walked into the path of another vehicle. Authorities say the incident occurred in the 10500 block of Sugarberry Street in Waldorf about 2 p.m. Tuesday. Police say the boy had been in a car seat in the back seat of the vehicle when his mother pulled over to give some mail to a postal worker. Police say the boy unbuckled himself, left the car and walked into the roadway where he was struck by an oncoming SUV. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene.

WALDORF -- A warehouse membership store and a discount department store will be the newest additions to a rapidly growing commercial district in this area of Charles County, about 20 miles south of Washington.The 108,000-square-foot Pace Membership Warehouse store on Route 301 is to open Nov. 22 and a 114,000-square-foot Wal-Mart discount department store will open on another Route 301 site in January. Both are part of a relatively brisk retail development market.Rapid growth in the still predominantly rural Charles County -- the population went from 47,000 in 1970 to 101,0000 in 1990 -- and the success of recently opened major retail developments appear to be keeping commercial developers interested in Waldorf.

So now that we've made it through one major holiday, with all of its attendant traffic woes, we've got another two staring us in the face. My first advice about holiday travel is: Don't. My backup advice is: Don't try to drive south on Interstate 95. With the traffic on I-95 in Northern Virginia, you'll be lucky to reach Richmond in less time than it took General Grant's army. Last week, this column explored the only even theoretically viable route: U.S. 301 through Southern Maryland.

A 48-year-old Waldorf woman died of injuries sustaine yesterday in a two-car accident near Berlin in Worcester County.Joane Marcia Phillips died of massive head injuries, said Sue Danaher, nursing supervisor at Peninsula General Hospital Center in Salisbury. Ms. Phillips died at 4:33 p.m., about four hours after she was thrown from a car in an accident on U.S. 50 at Route 818.She was a passenger in a 1991 Plymouth that was eastbound on U.S. 50 when it collided with a 1979 Oldsmobile going north on Route 818, state police said.

WALDORF - If automobile traffic were water, Waldorf would be the kink in a garden hose. In this Southern Maryland town, commutes south from Washington become steering-wheel-punching nightmares. Motorists returning from work encounter a four-mile stretch of lights on roads clogged with traffic from countless strip malls and restaurants. Weekend traffic in Waldorf - which is basically one big suburban shopping center more than it is a town - has gotten so bad that some residents simply avoid the roads.

POTOMAC - It's a safe bet that golf-addicted members of the television-viewing public don't know the time or channel of America's Most Wanted, but they still know what to do when they have information on illegal activity. Duffy Waldorf became the latest victim of a zealous TV-watching golf aficionado when a call from a viewer turned into a two-shot penalty for the 17-year PGA Tour veteran during yesterday's final round at the Capital Open. Waldorf was assessed the penalty for repairing a ball mark near his line of play in the 12th fairway, costing him a solo second-place finish and $150,000 in earnings.

Maryland energy regulators Thursday ordered the construction of the state's first new natural gas power plant since the state's electric power market was deregulated more than a decade ago. In a decision questioned by other power producers, the Maryland Public Service Commission said it awarded a contract to CPV Maryland LLC to build the new $500 million facility in the Charles County town of Waldorf. The order calls for three of the state's largest publicly regulated power companies, including Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., to buy electricity from the plant.

A Waldorf man almost waited too long but has finally claimed his $200,000 Powerball winnings more than five months after buying the lucky ticket, the Maryland lottery reported Monday. Michael Halmon, a 49-year-old father of six who drives a United Parcel Service truck, had been alerted months ago by a store clerk that he'd bought a winning ticket, but didn't take the time until recently to actually check what he'd won, according to the lottery. Under lottery rules, winning tickets must be claimed within 182 days of the drawing date.

Mike Ricksecker, paranormal investigator and “ghostorian,” has had a lifelong passion for writing and mystery, which has led him to explore the realm of the paranormal. Ricksecker, 37, lives in Oklahoma but lived in Maryland while serving in the Air Force and, in 2010, published Ghosts of Maryland. He has published other ghost books and has appeared on Animal Planet's TV show “The Haunted.” Now, he shares one of his favorite paranormal experiences in Maryland, at the Dr. Samuel A. Mudd House in Waldorf.  If you're not familiar with Civil War history, Mudd gave haven to John Wilkes Booth after Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln; Mudd was convicted of conspiracy to murder Lincoln.

When Good Charlotte released its first album more than a decade ago, few critics saw much of a future for the band. Upbeat, impetuous, sure; but it was mostly seen as a slightly more punk alternative to the boy bands of the moment. And yet the band is now touring to promote its fifth album, "Cardiology," which came out last year. Guitarist Benji Madden, who started the band in Waldorf in Southern Maryland with his brother, Joel, isn't surprised. "We never planned on breaking up. I can't see us doing much else," said Madden.

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A Waldorf man was ordered imprisoned for life Tuesday for trying to kill his pregnant girlfriend — a hairdresser who prosecutors said refused his demand to have an abortion — at her home in Crofton. "I got my early Christmas present," Jodi Torok said after seeing her former boyfriend, Charles Brandon Martin, sentenced to life in prison by an Anne Arundel County judge. "I believe you were willing to snuff both of them out because they were an inconvenience to you," Judge Pamela L. North told Martin, in a reference to Torok and her unborn child, before sentencing him. Prosecutors depicted Martin, 33, as a ruthless would-be killer and alleged two murder plots centered on him. They said another man, Jerold Raymond Burks, shot Torok in October 2008 to work off a $400 drug debt to Martin.

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- David Duval and Duffy Waldorf led the way jTC in the third round of the Masters with 69s, and they're bound to have their best finishes here.Duval, the leading money-winner among rookies on the PGA Tour last year, is making his first Masters appearance. Waldorf, who climbed into a fourth-place tie with Scott McCarron and David Frost, tied for 39th two years ago and 24th last year.Waldorf, 33, will complete only his third tournament of the year.He had surgery Feb. 14 to repair torn cartilage in his left knee and missed his last three cuts.

When Good Charlotte released its first album more than a decade ago, few critics saw much of a future for the band. Upbeat, impetuous, sure; but it was mostly seen as a slightly more punk alternative to the boy bands of the moment. And yet the band is now touring to promote its fifth album, "Cardiology," which came out last year. Guitarist Benji Madden, who started the band in Waldorf in Southern Maryland with his brother, Joel, isn't surprised. "We never planned on breaking up. I can't see us doing much else," said Madden.

Clarence R. "Blacky" Blackwell Jr., a retired city police officer and state motor vehicles investigator, died Tuesday of heart failure at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. The Sparrows Point resident was 78. Mr. Blackwell, the son of a bus driver and a homemaker, was born and raised in White Plains, N.Y., where he also graduated from high school. In the late 1940s, he served with the merchant marine on the Great Lakes, and after finishing a tour of duty with the Army, moved to Baltimore in the 1950s.