Williamsport News

Williamsport Town Council members on Monday night passed a plan designed to prevent snow from being pushed up against cars.

Rod Newlin said he wasn't intentionally trying to look like Elvis Presley. But his look, including his hairstyle, was close enough that when he walked around in Valley Mall, people would shout out Elvis references.

A local fire official is asking residents to help clear snow away from fire hydrants.

The record-setting snowstorm over the weekend might have sent people scurrying inside, but Angela Jackson had other things in mind.

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has reversed the conviction in one of two cases against a Williamsport man who was found guilty in 2008 of shooting, in separate incidents, two dogs he said chased wild game onto his property.

A state appeals court has reversed a Western Maryland man's convictions for killing a neighbor's dog.

The worst of the flooding in the Tri-State area was starting to wane Tuesday, according to weather forecasters.

There could be a gap of a month or more between when the Washington County Free Library's downtown Hagerstown location closes for renovation and when a temporary downtown branch opens, Art Callaham, president of the library system's board of trustees, said Tuesday.

Washington County Sheriff Douglas W. Mullendore will seek re-election this year.

No one was injured Friday morning when a fire broke out in the home economics classroom at Williamsport High School, according to a press release from Williamsport Volunteer Fire and EMS.

About $14 million in tax-exempt federal stimulus bonds are available for building projects and expansions in certain parts of Washington County.

The Washington County Commission on Aging will take at least one van to the Maryland Senior Idol Contest, but space is limited.

A male reportedly was cut or stabbed in a fight with another male early Saturday at the Waffle House in Williamsport, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Department press release.

Board of County Commissioners' Actions: Commissioners Tour New 9-1-1 Center, Discuss Commission on Aging Project 1/17/2010 Board of County Commissioners' Actions Commissioners Tour New 9-1-1 Center, Discuss Commission on Aging Project January 12, 2010 In its first regular meeting of the new year, on January 12th, 2010, the Washington County Board ...

During December, Williamsport Volunteer Fire and Emergency Medical Services responded to 53 fire-related calls and 110 emergency medical calls, according to company spokesman Scott Bragunier.

Some Hagerstown Water Department customers in the Halfway area experienced problems with low water pressure and interruption of water service Tuesday following a rupture in a water transmission line on Bottom Road in the Williamsport area, a Hagerstown Water Department spokeswoman said.

The first day at Washington County's new consolidated 911 center went smoothly, aside from a few minor issues that were mostly solved on the spot, officials said.

Florence 'Sis' McCauley might have turned 95 on Jan. 7, but she didn't let that stand in the way of her regular Thursday bowling date at Southside Bowl on Virginia Avenue in Halfway.

A barn fire Wednesday night on Kemps Mill Road resulted in $25,000 in damage and the deaths of several goats and rabbits, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office said in a news release.

David Greeley told his parents he didn't want to miss this year's Polar Bear Plunge.