Frederick County News

A basement fire trapped the father of Frederick County's chief fire marshal in his house Sunday afternoon.

Firefighters pulled a wheel-chair bound senior citizen out of a house fire Sunday afternoon in Frederick County.

A man who kept his domesticated cat indoors for nine years before turning him loose outside a house he was having built was convicted Tuesday of four counts of animal cruelty in Frederick County District Court.

The Commissioners downzoned a number of properties on Tuesday night. In a meeting which lasted nearly four hours Tuesday night, the Frederick County Commissioners tentatively voted on a number of rezoning requests from property owners, and several of those parcels were downzoned.

Roy Wilson Craddock may hear the train a comin', but it ain't the whistle outside Folsom Prison.

A man wanted in a stabbing in Hagerstown on Friday was caught after a chase in the Myersville, Md., area, police said.

The sheriff in Frederick County, Maryland denies allegations by a Salvadoran woman that deputies violated her civil rights when they arrested her in 2008.

Two civil rights organizations are suing on behalf of a Frederick County woman who says she arrested for no reason and jailed for more than a month last year before being released.

Larry Blank eased off Interstate 70 west of Frederick and into the rest stop where he works as a custodian.

The civil-rights group LatinoJustice PRLDEF says it plans a federal lawsuit alleging immigration enforcement violations by the Frederick County Sheriff's Department.

Lawyers say Sheriff Jenkins and his deputies have been engaged in a pattern of racial profiling against Latinos and other people of color in Frederick.

Frederick CountyPublic School officials say a fire broke out in a portable classroom at Parkway ElementarySchool early Monday.

Rockville native Steve Chambers bought a Quikcam in 1994, but he wasn't sure what the best use of streaming video would be.

Officials in Maryland say a man has died after he caught fire at a gas station pump.

A Frederick County grand jury Friday indicted two men on attempted murder charges, two men on burglary charges and four illegal immigrants on drug distribution charges, Deputy State's Attorney Nanci Hamm said.

Voters in Frederick did what many others have threatened to do: elected a whole new legislative body.A Political reporter Pat Warren explains none of the incumbent aldermen in Frederick appears to have won re-election. Halloween decorations still hang in Ed Robinson's front yard.A Maybe it's a haunting illustration of what happened in the city ...

When police arrived, they saw a man on fire. Police and rescue responded to a fire early this morning at a gas station near a busy interstate.

The Frederick County sheriff believes Montgomery County 's light stance on illegal immigrations could be a detriment to safety and security in Frederick County.

Complaints have arisen over a Halloween display that some find offensive in a Frederick public park.

Emergency preparedness partners unite to remind citizens that on Sunday, November 1, when daylight savings time ends, it is time to set their clocks back one hour, change their smoke alarm batteries and check their emergency supply kit.