Carroll County

With summer's official end this week and the first day of autumn on Tuesday, Sept. 23, numerous festivals and events are planned throughout the county to take advantage of the season's sunny, cool days and crisp nights. With careful planning, one might even be able to attend all of them!

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Campaign concludes at end of October

The student-run production of "Escape from Dracula's Castle" and "Little Women 2: Wraith of the Undead" at Century High is just one of many events happening on Oct. 31, Halloween, which conveniently falls on a Friday this year.

A Hagerstown man was arrested Wednesday afternoon in connection with a robbery outside the BB&T Bank in Finksburg.

Justin Brietenbach is a soccer player, a football place kicker and a prince, albeit one who missed a royal greeting at halftime of Century High's 13-7 victory over Winters Mill High on Oct. 24.

After seven years as the economic development director and main street manager for the town of Sykesville, Ivy Wells is leaving the position she helped create to become the main street manager for the town of Berlin, Md.

Would Count Dracula's coffin, resting in the depths of a medieval castle's basement, be dusty and covered with cobwebs?

Century High School Principal Troy Barnes concedes that he doesn't see a lot of "Michael Jackson-style crotch grabbing" at student dances anymore. But he does see other suggestive dance moves, including the popular "twerking."

A man from Manchester was killed when the motorcycle he was driving crashed Sunday afternoon in the 4200 block of Grave Run Road, according to a Carroll County Sheriff's Office press release.

Her life became a little bit busier soon after the summer started, and it does not appear that her schedule will get less hectic now that the fall is here.

Performing on NBC's "America's Got Talent" was exciting. Meeting the panel of celebrity judges was cool.

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Maryland State Police say they and federal authorities are investigating a 12-year-old boy who allegedly shined a laser light at a state police helicopter on Sunday night near the Carroll and Howard county line.

A pedestrian was killed attempting to cross Md. 27 when he was struck by a car near Marston Road early Friday morning.

Retail packaging is getting out of hand. I'll bet it's easier to break into Fort Knox — or out of Shawshank — than it is to get into most products these days.

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While Liberia and other West African countries are seven months into the largest and most complex Ebola outbreak in history, several Carroll County-based organizations are on the front lines of the battle to control the outbreak.

Defendant held at detention center on $150k

While drivers continue to ignore the stop arms on school buses at an alarming rate in the state, those in Carroll County are getting slightly better, according to a Maryland State Department of Education-sponsored survey.

When Westminster was first laid out by William Winchester in 1764, it was located on one of the three main routes west in what we now know as Carroll County. Today these routes are known as Route 30, Route 140, and Route 26.