Cumberland News

A police officer was assaulted by a Cumberland man. After the driver identified as Jason Benton was pulled over on McMullen Highway in the Cresaptown area, he was placed under arrest by the Allegany County Sheriff's Office for driving under the influence.

A councilman is introducing a bill Monday that would make English the official language in Anne Arundel County.

Harvard University Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is asking all residents of Allegany County who are of Irish descent to get their DNA tested to help solve a 150-year-old family mystery - who is Gates' great-great grandfather? Through genealogical records, the Gates family history can be traced back to Jane Gates, a slave who lived ... (more)

Prosecutors have dropped assault charges against a Maryland correctional officer for an incident in which an inmate was injured at the North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland.

Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of... CUMBERLAND, Md.

Mr. Unuchek was born September 19, 1927 in Luke, Maryland,a son of the late Nicholas and Blanche Kazmierczyk Unuchek.

The message sounded loud and clear Wednesday at the Cumberland Public Safety Building where Mayor Brian Grim, Fire Chief Donnie Dunn and Maryland Chief Deputy State Fire Marshal Jason Mowbray addressed media representatives in the aftermath of the Jan.

Eighteen small poodles, including puppies, were left at an animal shelter in Cumberland, Md.

A northern Virginia rescue group is housing more than dozen poodles that were left on the doorstep of a small animal shelter in Cumberland, Md.

A northern Virginia rescue group is housing more than dozen poodles that were left on the doorstep of a small animal shelter in Cumberland, Md.

It was 1948 and Jewish businesses in downtown Cumberland lined both sides of Baltimore Street and Centre and Mechanic streets as well.

CUMBERLAND, Md. - Harvard University Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. is asking all residents of Allegany County who are of Irish descent to get their DNA tested to help solve a 150-year-old family mystery - who is Gates' great-great grandfather? Through genealogical records, the Gates family history can be traced back to Jane Gates, a slave ... (more)

Seven fire deaths in three months have prompted donations of scores of smoke alarms in Cumberland and Allegany County.

LLC has acquired a majority interest in Oklahoma-based Adams Hall Asset Management LLC for an undisclosed amount, according to a Tuesday announcement.

City police say a man is dead after being shot in southwest Baltimore Sunday night.

Tina Dow has taken one of her first books - "The Saggy, Baggy Elephant" - to heart.

Corbin Miller, left, and Jackson Taylor, first grade classmates of fire victim Paige Ford, 8, comfort one another Monday during a ceremony held in her memory and that of her little sister Jymera, 4, at West Side Elementary School in Cumberland, Md.

CUMBERLAND, Md. -- Deputy State Fire Marshals continue to investigate the cause of the blaze that took the lives of two children on January 20 at 309 E. Harrison Street in Cumberland.

Officials with the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office say no working smoke detectors have been found as part of the investigation into a deadly fire from Friday in Cumberland, Maryland.

U.S. soldiers suicides have leveled off in past years. That's according to the general in charge of the effort to reduce the amount of army suicides Latest research numbers show active-duty army suicides increased from 2011 from 2010.