Carroll County

Sykesville, Maryland, was the epicenter of a small earthquake Tuesday night.

Fire officials say an 11-year-old boy has been charged with arson after a fire destroyed a Maryland dollar store earlier this month. 

Authorities in Maryland say an ambulance was stolen from a hospital and hit two law enforcement vehicles involved in the search for it

Police say two adults have been charged for assaulting minors during a fight at a youth football game in Maryland

Three people were killed in a car crash in Carroll County, Maryland, on Saturday after a driver going more than 100 MPH plowed into another car head-on, police say.  Todd Baker, of Westminster, died after speeding the wrong way on Maryland Route 140, state police said. He was 53.  Anna Marie Lienhard, also of Westminster, was killed when Baker smashed…

Authorities in Maryland say a body found last year has been identified as a man who was killed in a 2015 murder

Police in Maryland say a man was injured when a package exploded at a home Friday

A retired D.C. firefighter and Maryland resident has died from the coronavirus, D.C. Fire and EMS says. Francis “Gary” Holmberg, 77, fell victim to COVID-19, according to the fire department. He retired from D.C. Fire and EMS in 1988, the department said. Holmberg was a resident of Carroll County. More than 30 D.C. firefighters have coronavirus and seven of...

Another resident of a Maryland nursing home has died after contracting COVID-19 in an outbreak that has sickened dozens of the facility’s residents and strained a short-handed staff, health officials said Sunday.  A man in his 80s brings the total number of fatal cases at the Pleasant View Nursing Home in Mount Airy to nine residents. Carroll County officials...

Three more residents of a Maryland nursing home died after contracting COVID-19 in an outbreak that has sickened dozens of the facility’s residents and strained a short-handed staff, health officials said Sunday.  The deaths of a man in his 60s and two women in their 80s — all with underlying health issues — brings the total number of fatal cases…

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx says the next two weeks are crucial in helping slow the spread of coronavirus.

Three more residents of a Maryland nursing home died after contracting COVID-19 in an outbreak that has sickened dozens of the facility’s residents and strained a short-handed staff, health officials said Tuesday.  The deaths of three residents at the Pleasant View Nursing Home in Mount Airy bring Carroll County’s total to five, according to the county health department. The...

A resident of a Maryland nursing home died after contracting COVID-19 in an outbreak that has sickened dozens of the facility’s residents and strained a short-handed staff, health officials said Sunday.  A man in his 90s who was a resident at the Pleasant View Nursing Home in Mount Airy died Saturday night after testing positive for COVID-19, Carroll County...

Sixty-six elderly residents of a longterm care facility in Carroll County, Maryland, have contracted the novel coronavirus, health officials say. “Tonight, Maryland has experienced a tragic coronavirus outbreak at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Mount Airy,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said in a statement Saturday night. Eleven of the 66 residents who tested positive are hospitalized at Carroll County Hospital…

A Maryland medical examiner’s office says a Delaware man who complained of stomach pain as he was booked into a detention center died in his cell of a perforated ulcer

Commissioners in a Maryland county are looking to repeal at 2013 ordinance that made English the official language of the community. The Carroll County Board of Commissioners unanimously voted Thursday to hold a public hearing about undoing the law, The Carroll County Times reported. The ordinance requires all county documents, publications, hearing notices and public business to be written or…

Families visited the Humane Society of Carroll County to take home new pets for the annual Clear the Shelters event on March 17, 2019.

An 89-year-old man died after a tree fell on him in Maryland Monday evening, police said.

Some storms and rain is expected into the overnight hours after a tornado warning in parts of Maryland.

Maryland State Police say a trooper shot and killed a man who stabbed the trooper during a struggle.