Carroll County News

How many species of fish live in Maryland's freshwater streams? Historically, about 100 species of freshwater fish were known to occur in Maryland.

Spencer Robert Bivins,18 A Woodbine teen has been charged with stealing more than $16,000 of valuables from parked cars in a residential neighborhood in South Carroll.

Are you game enough to watch sausage being made - then eat it? Rob Kasper November 4, 2009 T he less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night." I agree and disagree with that remark, which is attributed to Otto von Bismarck, founder and chancellor of the German Empire in the 19th century.

Karl started a career in law enforcement with a major metropolitan police department where he was a police cadet, patrol officer and detective.

Late Tuesday morning Carroll County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 30 year old John Ritcey.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 12:31 pm US/Eastern Reporting Weijia Jiang WESTMINSTER, Md.

Prosecutors dropped all but the most serious traffic offenses - those carrying jail time - against Thomas Meighan Jr.

Eschol Amelia Studnitz lost her $58,000 accounting job July 31 because a government background check deemed her "unsuitable" for a low-level security clearance.

The driver charged additionally in Howard County for assault on a police officer.

Share + Oct 24, 2009 5:23 pm US/Eastern Police have made an arrestA in theA hit-and-run accident thatA killed a Johns Hopkins student.A Police say theyA arrested Thomas Meighan, 39,A Saturday afternoon.A He isA from Sykesville, Carroll County.

If you have recently traveled the northern stretch of Route 32 in Howard County, you surely noticed that improvements have begun in response to the community's call for greater road safety.

Baltimore City Police are continuing to investigate the Oct. 16 hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student, but have yet to make an arrest.

A Carroll County man died Monday after the motorcycle he was riding struck a car head-on in Westminster.

The National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for several counties on the Eastern Shore early Monday morning.

I am a certified organic farmer in Carroll County and would like to alert your readers to the main reason for the bad gardening season we just experienced.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that Colin Lee Gambill, 25, of Frederick pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County to two counts of abuse of a vulnerable adult.

Maryland wildlife officials are searching the Potomac watershed for the rusty crayfish, an import they fear could displace native crayfish.

The Web site for the town of Hampstead describes the Carroll County municipality as "the quintessential American small town." The introduction from Mayor Haven N. Shoemaker Jr.

A homeless man was recovering from severe head injuries after an unprovoked beating Sunday in Westminster , according to the Carroll County Sheriff's Office.

Area where homeless man was attacked according to Carroll County Sheriff's Office.