Washington County News Archives

Jeff Czerbinski is in that most happy of places: His personal life blurs pleasingly into his professional life.

Washington County Public Schools Superintendent Elizabeth Morgan has been named the best superintendent in the state by her peers.

A Hagerstown man is charged with arson threat and reckless endangerment after he was seen detonating chemical reaction devices in a local mobile home park and looking at a Web site about building bombs, according to court records.

They train with the best to prepare for the worst. Washington County's Special Response Team is always on call to handle the most intense situations.

Meets second and fourth Tuesday of each month at noon. Call Zella Hargett at 301-432-8534. Cavetown - Christ Reformed United Church of Christ, 22514 Cavetown Church Road Meets first Tuesday of each month at 11:30 a.m. Call Ruth Rubeck at 301-739-5746. Downsville - Williamsport Red Men Lodge 84, 16129 Lappans Road, Williamsport Meets first Tuesday ...

The Washington County Commission on Aging offers noon lunches to anyone age 60 or older at seven locations.

The daughter of 1 of the victims in a double homicide is asking the district attorney's office to release the man accused of the crime.

Clarence Franklin Meyers was sentenced Tuesday to two consecutive life sentences - one for each girl who died in a Hancock fire he set in February.

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.

Two youths who reportedly escaped late Monday morning from Meadow Mountain Youth Center at Grantsville were taken into custody about an hour later in Washington County following a high-speed chase, Maryland State Police said.

Washington County Public Schools officials will send a survey asking residents for advice on ways to reduce the system's spending.

These are the following listings for Washington County trick-or-treating: Thursday, Oct.

An attempted first-degree murder charge and an attempted second-degree murder charge were dropped Thursday against Jason Scott Marquart, 34, of Hagerstown, in connection with a Sept.

A man who was charged with four counts of attempted murder in a September 2007 fire at 39 S. Martin St.

A Washington County man has admitted to starting a fire at a Clear Spring home in 2007 as four people lay asleep inside, including two children.

Displays of old badges, faded newspapers and a slideshow of old photographs set the memories flowing as a group of about 70 old-timers from the Washington County Sheriff's Department and Detention Center gathered for a reunion Saturday night at the Elks Lodge on Robinwood Drive.

Hancock town officials, who are uspet with how Washington County government officials conduct inspections on building projects in town, decided Wednesday night to pursue setting up another inspection program for the town.

Do you favor the agreeably sharp taste of a Macintosh, a Stayman Winesap, a Granny Smith? Or are you the kind of eater that goes for sweetness, one who is drawn to Gala, Red Delicious, or the honeyed juice of the hot shot Honeycrisp? Eaters in either camp, as well as those "fence hoppers" who snack on both sides of the spectrum, have plenty to pick ...

Washington County health officials have confirmed a patient at Washington County Hospital has died from the swine flu.

The Volunteer Fire Co. of Halfway indefinitely suspended bingo operations Monday.

The Washington County Health Department is determining the best way to distribute 400 doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine that the state government delivered Tuesday, Rod MacRae, health department spokesman, said Friday.

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.

Firefighters, emergency medical personnel and police were on the scene of a reported stabbing in the 100 block of East Fifth Street in Frederick about 12:40 a.m. Friday.

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.

A new law in Maryland is aimed at keeping domestic violence victims safe by keeping guns out of the hands of offenders.