Patuxent River

Back home I wangled an appointment to Patuxent River, which is three times as good as they told us.

Space Michener, James 1982

In addition to giving the press a chance to see a version of the Joint Strike Fighter, the trip to Patuxent River was also a chance for reporters to fly aboard the MV-22 Osprey ($66.6 million apiece) a unique aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter, but cruise at the speed of a fixed-wing turboprop (cost per flight hour: $10,600).

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The complex is on the shore of the Patuxent River and is now full of dark, wet timbers from the mystery ship.

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A neoprene-clad diver slipped into the murky water of the Patuxent River near Upper Marlboro Wednesday to examine the wreck of a 19th-century ship that archaeologists and state officials hope to make a star attraction in Maryland's commemoration of the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

Shipwreck could yield the USS Scorpion from the War of 1812 2010

Shortly after noon Monday, two trucks bearing the ship's unearthed skeleton pulled into a Maryland science complex on the shore of the Patuxent River in St. Leonard, where scores of eager archaeologists and curators waited as if for the bones of a dinosaur.

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It isn't directly on the wide mouth of the Patuxent River where it meets the bay, but its residents are within a few miles of the water.

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A decade after 140,000 gallons of oil leaked into a Patuxent River tributary and became Maryland's worst spill, the water doesn't show a hint of the environmental devastation The Baltimore Sun reports.

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A neoprene-clad diver slipped into the murky water of the Patuxent River near Upper Marlboro Wednesday to examine the wreck of a 19th-century ship that archaeologists and state officials hope to make a star attraction in Maryland's commemoration of the bicentennial of the War of 1812.

Shipwreck could yield the USS Scorpion from the War of 1812 2010

A 15-year-old Anne Arundel boy drowned Tuesday after trying to swim across the Patuxent River, the county police department said.

Boy, 15, dies trying to swim across Patuxent River 2010

While zoning now prohibits big-box stores -- there is already a Wal-Mart, a Target, a Best Buy, a BJ's Wholesale Club and a Kmart less than a mile away on Route 235 -- she is worried the new construction will cause more water runoff into the nearby Patuxent River.

Where We Live: Town Creek, in Maryland's St. Mary's County 2010