Middletown News

A dairy farm family accused of violating federal banking statutes will get back a little more than half of $62,936 seized by the government earlier this year, according to court documents filed late Tuesday.

Just how many kinds of germs lurk in your office? Researchers at the University of California say there are more than 500 forms of bacteria in offices.

Construction timetables for two Frederick schools would accelerate under a draft plan for county projects, and recently approved state funding might speed up additional building.

From left, Christian and Justin Finamore recently attended the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar at Mount St.

I'm in the paper with an opinion piece on federal prosecutors' assault on small business for bank deposit "structuring." My posts on the South Mountain Creamery case, in which federal authorities seized the bank account of a Middletown, Maryland dairy which had allegedly been depositing farmers' market proceeds in installments of less than $10,000, ... (more)

A police officer pulled over a Middletown man and a Massachusetts woman on West Patrick Street for expired registration tags then smelled marijuana coming from the car.

Two people face drug charges after police pulled their vehicle over at about 9:45 p.m. Monday due to expired registration tags, according to a news release from the Frederick Police Department.

The Maryland State Police Frederick Barrack conducted a DUI saturation patrol from between 11 p.m. Sunday through 3 a.m. today in the area of the U.S. 15 and Interstate 270 corridor in Frederick County.

The Frederick County Commissioners will likely give local schools a healthy portion of the roughly $2.8 million in budgetary leftovers created by this month's special session of the Maryland General Assembly.

Main Street Middletown recently received the honors for meeting the commercial district revitalization performance standards set by the National Trust Main Street Center.

Mounted officers and police in uniform were around downtown for the first day of the G-8 Summit.

Middletown resident Joanna McVicker, who suffered a brain injury as a child, works part time at the Tourism Council of Frederick County.

The Middletown High School student was recognized at Monday's town meeting for designing the winning banner that will fly along Main Street in the summer.

Baltimore County Police are developing a task force solely focused on catching metal thieves.

Over the next few months MdHigh will take a look at some of the up-and-coming prospects at high schools around Maryland.

It took nearly a month, but the Frederick County Sheriff's Office finally released the incident report late last week of a Frederick Police Department officer charged with driving under the influence and failing to stop after an accident.

While we appreciate the teachers' right to protest by working to their contracts and nothing more, enough is enough.

Steve Bruns, center with flag, leads the crowd in a chant Wednesday afternoon at a rally for opponents of the Board of County Commissioners' proposed budget cuts.