Charles County

Parents in Charles County are saying their students and some teachers have not been able to log on to their classrooms for days.

Charles County crews rescued a number of people after multiple vehicles were swept off the roadway and into a wooded area Tuesday.

A Southern Maryland bridge is shut down after floodwaters ebbed away large chunks of it Tuesday morning as Isaias barreled along the East Coast.

FOX 5 is tracking Isaias as it makes its way up the east coast - and creates mayhem for people on Maryland's eastern shore.

A 12-year-old is dead after a gun he and a young relative were playing with discharged in an Indian Head home, police say.

Prince William County police are looking for an Uber driver accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old in Manassas.

Charles County is getting ready to join the rest of Maryland in entering phase one of the reopening process.

Charles County officials have announced the county will enter phase one of its reopening plan on May 29. 

Charles County law enforcement is involved after people made social media posts that county commissioners found threatening, including the posting of their home addresses.

Thirteen days after a Charles County Sheriff’s Deputy shot and killed a man firing a rifle in a La Plata neighborhood, FOX 5 has confirmed the gunman was shot first by a homeowner who was defending himself and his family.

Sunday is Mother’s Day: the first holiday Patrick Chesley says his mother won’t be around to celebrate.

A senior living facility that accounted for the vast majority of cases among residents in care centers in Charles County has been ordered to pay $10,000 per day for “widespread deficiencies” in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Charles County doctor wearing a helmet and armed with a long gun opened fire on several of his neighbors on Sunday morning before being shot by a deputy with the sheriff's office.

A spokesperson for Maryland Governor Larry Hogan wrote on social media Tuesday that a state “Strike Team” has responded to the Sagepoint Living Services Facility in Charles County.

Only on FOX 5 Monday, Maryland Deputy Health Secretary Fran Phillips was asked about Charles County’s nursing facilities hiding behind ‘patient privacy’ as the reason for not publically reporting COVID-19 outbreaks. This is been an issue across the region—and in Charles County, MD, where one senior living facility refuses to report their potential outbreak publically even though other counties, including Montgomery and Carroll, have done so following the same patient privacy guidelines.

A government official tells FOX 5 that of the 101 COVID-19 cases Charles County’s Health Department is reporting across its nursing and assisted living facilities, 96 of them are connected to the same company: Sagepoint Senior Living Services.

Maryland health leaders say that even though aggressive measures are in place to mitigate the impact of corornavirus outbreaks in skilled nursing facilities it is unavoidable that some residents will contract COVID-19.

A staff member at a senior living facility in Charles County told FOX 5 about a possible coronavirus outbreak of COVID-19.