Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland)

Head of investigations at corrections department retires

2013-05-17 17:56:42

Jesse Ballard III, the head of internal investigations at the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, will retire in June to take a federal job, the state agency said Friday. The move comes as the department continues to handle the fallout...

Rocky Gap to host open house Saturday for prospective gamblers

2013-05-01 10:04:00

The Rocky Gap Casino Resort hopes to open its doors for gaming in three weeks. In the meantime, the resort said today it’s holding an open house this Saturday to offer customers – and the merely curious – a glimpse of the resort’...

Joseph E. Welsh, educator

2013-04-27 11:16:11

Joseph E. Welsh, a retired Baltimore County public school educator who was also a hospice volunteer and Eucharistic minister, died Monday of melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Oak Crest Village resident was 80. "He was both my teacher and...

Summer of '57 ties Westminster man to Pennsylvania Railroad

2013-03-31 18:54:00

Westminster resident Jack Norris had a long, full 50-year career as a business owner in the sales industry. He is the father of two and grandfather of five. But when he talks about what's closest to his heart, you quickly realize that nothing has ever...

Friday weather forecast includes afternoon snow and sleet

2013-02-22 09:46:00

Snow and sleet could move into a cloudy Baltimore region on Friday afternoon, complicating the afternoon commute and changing to rain or freezing rain in the evening hours, according to the National Weather Service. But forecasters said Friday morning...

Rocky Gap to hold job fair for 250 casino jobs

2013-02-14 13:50:00

Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort, which will become the state's fourth operating casino when it opens later this year, will hold a job fair Saturday, Feb. 23 to fill about 250 full- and part-time jobs. The fair will be held at Allegany College of Maryland'...

Gwen McDade, architect

2013-02-07 14:42:00

Gwen Darwin McDade, a retired architect who worked on the Johns Hopkins medical campus and later designed structures for the State Highway Administration, died of heart disease Saturday at his Glen Arm home. He was 87. Born in Verona, Pa., he was the son...

The animal verdict is in: Winter will soon be but a memory

2013-02-02 15:45:00

The only thing colder and stiffer than the crowd bundled up near a Washington fountain early Saturday morning was a woodchuck standing on its hind legs on a small wooden platform. Potomac Phil, you see, is stuffed. Or more precisely, taxidermied. When...

Two arrested for selling illegal magazines at Timonium gun show

2013-01-16 13:18:00

Baltimore County Police arrested two men last week for selling high-capacity bullet magazines during a trade show at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium. Police said John Heilmeier, 57 of the 100 block of Anderson Highway in Cumberland, Va. and...

When it comes to political corruption, one Md. judge says: 'Enough'

2012-12-06 12:58:00

Will Rogers once observed that a newspaper ad was worth about 40 editorials, which many of us in the opinion writing side of that equation suspect would be quite the bargain. Little else could explain the public's indifference to a topic that has launched...

Inmate, 20, from Baltimore dies after severe prison beating

2012-11-28 13:58:00

A 20-year-old prison inmate from Baltimore found severely beaten in his prison cell in Cumberland and transferred to Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Monday has died from his injuries, according to his family and hospital officials. Jerod Pridget, of...

Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know Wednesday

2012-11-28 04:45:00

WEATHER: Mostly cloudy, then sunny, with a high near 46. Tonight is expected to be mostly clear, with a low around 33. TRAFFIC: Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues. TOP NEWS City schools unveil 10-year plan, school closures: In the...

From left, Jeanne Labash, Stephany Peschke, Cumberland (Md.) Mayor Brian K. Grim, Donnell Householder, Susan Mongan and Peggy Hughes hold a proclamation designating April 21 to 27 as Administrative Professionals Week and April 24 as Administrative Professionals Day.

2013-05-12 18:04:00

This May 3 photo shows the swimming pool at the Rocky Gap Casino Resort near Cumberland, Md. Maryland's fourth casino is tentatively scheduled to open Wednesday pending state regulators' approval of the slot machines and table games at a demonstration Monday.

2013-05-03 00:00:00

Diablo is a bobcat who lives at Tri-State Zoological Park in Cumberland, Md. A concert Saturday, April 27, featuring former �American Idol� contestant Bucky Covington, above left, will benefit the zoo.

2013-04-19 12:02:00