Hagerstown News Archives

HAGERSTOWN, MD Saturday night was not only Halloween, but also the 85th annual Alsatia Mummers Parade.

The Civil War was the subject for filmmakers Sunday in Hagerstown. Over 50 people gathered at the Hagerstown Rod and Gun Club, many dressed as soldiers, who marched and set off canons.

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Officials in Hagerstown have announced a bold incentive package to try and attract businesses the citya s downtown area.

A visit to the pumpkin patch is tradition for many families, but today's pumpkin patches are not the simple rolling acres of orange that they were in Grandpa's day.

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The director of an anti-abortion pregnancy counseling center in Hagerstown says the weak economy is behind a decision to close the office, starting next week.

Plans to build a new museum in Hagerstown got a musical boost Sunday night. The Doleman Black Heritage Museum held a night of jazz.

It was love at first bite for Hagerstown resident John Cangemi. The scene was Italy, where Cangemi and his wife, Joan, were visiting family years ago.

A dog shot Oct. 15 by a Hagerstown Police Department officer was put down Wednesday, the dog owner's family said Thursday morning.

The owners of a dog that was shot by a Hagerstown police officer say they have had the animal put down.

A 16-year-old girl convicted of soliciting her father's murder faces the possibility of life imprisonment at her sentencing in Hagerstown.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Nineteen-year-old Elet Hall isn't a traceur - a practitioner of the alternative urban sport of running, jumping and climbing over manmade structures - because he wants fame or intense action.

M.S. Johnston Co. of Hagerstown will provide kitchen equipment for Eastern Primary School, which is slated to open on the east end of Hagerstown in August 2011.

A Hagerstown Police officer attempting to serve a warrant related to a stabbing shot a dog Thursday morning on North Mulberry Street, Chief Art Smith said Friday.

STAT MedEvac will end its Hagerstown-based operations Monday, affecting the availability of helicopters to transport patients in medical emergencies, a company spokesman said.

Police were using a K-9 dog to search for a suspect in a Saturday afternoon armed robbery at Dick's Market, Hagerstown Police Department Sgt.

Forty-four years of inseams, neckties and dress shirts is winding down for Jim Baker, who's closing Hoffman Clothiers, a downtown Hagerstown anchor.

A private medevac company says it will stop flying its helicopter out of Hagerstown Regional Airport Monday due to declining demand for the service.

ST. JAMES, Md. - The rapid spread of influenza and swine flu is prompting the closure of a private boarding school near Hagerstown.

Hagerstown is making national headlines, but maybe not for the right reason. The website totalbeauty.com ranks the Hub City second in the country for cities with the ugliest men.

The City of Hagerstown has issued an advisory, making residents and visitors aware of a change in parking deck procedures.

A truck driver who died at Washington County Hospital is the first swine flu-related death to be reported in Western Maryland, according to a report by television station NBC25.

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Twenty-five pairs competed in a junior fund game during a meeting of the Hagerstown Bridge Club on Wednesday, Oct.

HAGERSTOWN, MD., Monday, Oct. 12 -- Hagerstown, Md., police are looking for an armed robber that held up an Econo Lodge Sunday night and fled with the money he obtained during the robbery.

One month after announcing a spike in enrollment, Hagerstown Community College said it has also seen an increased enrollment in U.S. veterans.

Local, state, and even federal politicians spent time in the shoes of Hagerstown city firefighters this weekend, literally.

The City of Hagerstown is encouraging residents and visitors to take part in a new program by strolling along one of five walking routes through Hagerstown's neighborhoods.

Three former correctional officers were found not guilty Wednesday of second-degree assault in a March 2008 beating of an inmate at Roxbury Correctional Institution south of Hagerstown.

Police have arrested the man they say robbed a K-Mart in Hagerstown and Martinsburg.

Pumpkins are cropping up on doorsteps all down the street. It's time to think about fall decorating.

The Supreme Court began its new term Monday with Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bench as the court tried to hash out how long a suspect's request for a lawyer should be considered valid by police and the courts.

The Hagerstown Aviation Academy has announced it's closing its doors, but there's still hope for a flying school in the Hub City.

The trial of a man accused of shooting another man in the chest near Smithsburg in January ended in a mistrial Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court after a juror belatedly revealed she was familiar with the defendant's family.

The co-defendant who testified this week against Anthony Caldwell during an attempted first-degree murder trial has been indicted on charges of soliciting first-degree murder and intimidating a witness.

Margaret Kline doesn't think of herself as a pioneer, despite the fact she was the first woman to work uniform patrol with the Hagerstown Police Department 35 years ago.

Hagerstown Community College has seen a triple-digit increase in the number of students enrolled for the fall semester, with a good many of them coming from Franklin County.