Rawlings News

Police arrest Rawlings man CUMBERLAND - Jack E. Crouse, 24, Rawlings who allegedly threatened a female with a knife in the 200 block of Virginia Avenue on Friday, was arrested Saturday by Cumberland Police.

Maja Kazazic, the Bosnian girl who received medical treatment in Cumberland in 1993 after losing her leg that was struck with shrapnel during the Bosnian civil war, is the subject of an article in the October issue of "Reader's Digest." Written by Jennifer Rawlings and photographed by Ron Haviv, the article describes the fruition of Kazazic's ...

Harriet Fanto, Rawlings, looks at items available at Bowling Green Volunteer Fire Department's 20th annual A Taste of Fall Fest arts and crafts show Saturday at the Allegany County Fairgrounds.

Harriet Fanto, Rawlings, looks at items available at Bowling Green Volunteer Fire Department's 20th annual A Taste of Fall Fest arts and crafts show Saturday at the Allegany County Fairgrounds.

Allegany County Animal Shelter Reports the Following Animals Were Found: * A female 14-year-old black and gray Schnauzer mix on White Oak Drive, Rawlings.

Walking though a 37-acre cornfield with what looks like a wide "H" hanging from his neck, Timothy Horsley, an archaeological geophysicist from the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology, keeps pace with a steady beep.

The carnival rides hadn't opened and the crowds hadn't arrived when the hog got loose at the Allegany County Fair and Ag Expo.

Testimony will continue Monday in the assault trial of a former state correctional officer, one of several officers charged with assaulting inmates during an incident in March 2008 at the North Branch Correctional Institution.

The Maryland Attorney General's Office, fresh off a courtroom victory, is pushing ahead with another prison brutality trial in Cumberland.

Former corrections officer Tony Nery was found guilty of assaulting four inmates and of conspiracy to commit assault against the inmates at North Branch Correctional Institution after a jury in Allegany County Circuit Court convened for about an hour Tuesday afternoon.

Just before the war began, 3-year-old Bailey Mitchell asked her mom the meaning of the yellow ribbons that had begun to appear around this mountainous region straddling the Maryland-West Virginia border.

Fire of an undetermined origin destroyed a barn at a Bear Hill Road residence late Sunday - the latest in a series of unrelated fires that remain under investigation by the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office.