Smithsburg News

The community of Smithsburg might seem to have a proverbial spring in its step at the 15th annual Smithsburg Pride Days event.

Kevin Martin, of Smithsburg, acknowledges a bid while serving as a ringman Thursday for the Washington County Ag Expo and Fair's annual 4-H and FFA Market Animal Sale.

The community of Smithsburg might seem to have a proverbial spring in its step at the 15th annual Smithsburg Pride Days event.

Lily Mackley, 11, of Smithsburg, was able to donate her birthday money to offset Veronica Par's school costs through Mayan Families, a nonprofit organzation dedicated to helping low-income Guatemalans.

Police from Howard County found materials used for making explosives near Smithsburg.

Part of a tax on hotel and motel revenues in Washington County will be distributed to Hagerstown and the county's eight towns based on the population of those municipalities.

More Washington County Public Schools students are participating in summer school this year than last.

People walk down Paradise Church Road in Hagerstown during the annual Mile-Long Yard Sale on Friday.

Slain Smithsburg Police Officer Christopher Shane Nicholson, shot while assisting the Washington County Sheriff's Department in December 2007, will be featured Saturday on a national television program.

Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment right for citizens to keep and bear arms has gotten a mixed reception nationwide, but most local government officials and residents asked Friday ...

From now until about the first week of August, berry farms all over Maryland will have ripe blueberries for you to pick.

Hail and wind were the hallmarks of a line of storms that swept through the area on Monday.

More than 30 years after fighting his last fire, one of the founding members of the Leitersburg Volunteer Fire Co.

County is speaking out about eating disorders, specifically anorexia. He's not just battling weight, but also the stigma that it's only a female problem.

The fields and trails of Hagerstown's City Park were permeated Sunday afternoon with the smell of hot funnel cakes, the blue glitter of Mardi Gras beads and, of course, the soulful music of Western Maryland ...

A two-story house in Whispering Hills was severely damaged in a Monday afternoon fire, Smithsburg Fire Department officials said.

Katy Powell will return to the basketball floor she is so familiar with at Smithsburg High School.

The owner of the pickup truck left at the scene of a fatal hit-and-run accident Sunday was charged Thursday with negligent manslaughter by automobile, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department.

Tech. Sgt. William Stuller, of Williamsport, with the 167th Air National Guard Base Honor Guard takes part in a performance of "Echo Taps," at Rest Haven Cemetery's Memorial Day celebration in Hagerstown ...

A 21-year old Pennsylvania man was charged Sunday morning with malicious burning in connection with a fire Saturday night east of Hagerstown that exposed three firefighters and four others to toxic smoke.