Frederick County News Archives

Emergency preparedness partners unite to remind citizens that on Sunday, November 1, when daylight savings time ends, it is time to set their clocks back one hour, change their smoke alarm batteries and check their emergency supply kit.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Idea Village Products Corp., of Wayne, N.J., today announced a voluntary recall of the Handy Switch, Wireless Light Switches.

Technical difficulties caused lines to remain busy. Frederick City Government Offices were currently experiencing some technical difficulties earlier.

Authorities say the victim was not wearing a helmet. A man from Manassas, Virginia was killed in a dirt bike crash in Frederick County on Sunday afternoon.

With a pair of especially scary eyes, Ron Angleberger of Candlelight Ghost Tours of Frederick prepares to start a tour in downtown Frederick.

Sitting in jail could get a lot more expensive if the Frederick County sheriff has his way.

After a high-speed pursuit that began in Frederick County, Maryland State Police arrested two men early today.

A Frederick County grand jury Friday indicted a Frederick man on a charge of first-degree murder in the Sept.

The preliminary investigation points to operator error as the cause of the accident.

The Frederick County Health Department will no longer offer drive-through injections for seasonal flu clinics or in the event of a mass immunization during a pandemic emergency.

City man injured in Frederick County accident FREDERICK - John Sparks, 28, of Cumberland, was flown to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore following a two-vehicle accident Tuesday on state Route 180 at U.S. Route 340, according to Maryland State Police.

Corn grown in Frederick County is helping farmers in Nicaragua become sustainable.

Hundreds of cars lined Md. 80 and Md. 355 into Urbana High School on Friday morning to receive flu shots at a drive-through site provided by the Frederick County Health Department.

Fred Balius of the Frederick County Health Department talks to the crowd of people waiting in line for their seasonal flu shot at Gov.

We wrote several weeks ago about plans by a Korean-American congregation in Silver Spring to build a large new church straddling the Frederick and Montgomery county line, as a way of discussing the opposition that seems always to rise up against such projects.

Officials say Route 75 near Price Road is shut down due to a car crash. Dispatchers say around 7a.m. Thursday,acar drove into a pole and knocked it over causing it to block traffic on Green Valley Road.

A 19 year old Maryland man has been charged with DUI and numerous traffic charges in a fiery crash that sent four other young people to the hospital early Thursday morning.

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MT. AIRY, Md. - A section of eastbound Interstate 70 in Frederick County was closed Tuesday morning due to a multivehicle accident in the area of Bill Moxley Road, Maryland State Police said in a news release.

Members of Hard Swimmina Fish from left, Randy Ball, and Demian Lewis perform at a benefit for Small Angels Rescue on Saturday night in Middletown.

Each robbery involved a white heavy-set woman wearing a hat or scarf on her head and sunglasses, authorities said.

The vaccine will be administered first to elementary school kids. The H1N1 vaccine has arrived in Frederick County.

Watch this special feature for updates on events and activities at the Frederick and Urbana Senior Centers -- programs of the Frederick County Department of Aging .

Rescue workers examine one of two vehicles involved in an accident on Bill Moxley Road that left one person dead and four others injured Monday night.

Frederick County has paid $250,000 to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit with the parents of a motorcyclist killed by a drunken driver fleeing police in November 2005, the county's risk manager said today.

The Frederick County Sheriffs Office isinvestigating a fatal crash from Monday night.

Mount Airy resident John William Thompson faces arson and other charges in connection with a Sept.

The husband of a Frederick County day care owner has plead guilty to third-degree sex offense for inappropriately touching a four-year-old boy.

The park will have the county's second nature center. A new park is being developed for Frederick County.

Four men have been indicted for robbing a Point of Rocks liquor store and leading police on a cross-county chase in August.