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City leaders took the once-a-year gathering of residents to celebrate achievements and accomplishments in 2023 and 2024, with Oroville sports teams taking the spotlight of the event.

City leaders took the once-a-year gathering of residents to celebrate achievements and accomplishments in 2023 and 2024, with Oroville sports teams taking the spotlight of the event.

A former hospital on Milwaukees East Side is moving through the process of being added to the National Register of Historic Places and its next stop is the City of Milwaukee Historic Preservation Commission.

A Westminster woman indicted in the March 2023 beating death of her husband has been found incompetent to stand trial. On Tuesday, Gail Joy D’Anthony, 76, appeared in Carroll County Circuit Court for a second competency hearing in front of Judge Fred Hecker. The judge ordered D’Anthony to be sent to a hospital for further evaluation, based on the findings of a Maryland Department of Health ...

The judge ordered her to undergo a mental evaluation. Westminster, Md (KM) The trial of a Westminster woman charged with the murder of her husband has been postponed.   In Carroll County Circuit Court on Tuesday, Judge Fred Hecker issued that order because the defendant had not undergone a comp

Lucas Alexander Hartman, 24, of Westminster, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of his father two years ago and was sentenced May 3 in Carroll County Circuit Court to 40 years in prison.

Carroll County commissioners voted 3-2 to approve bonuses for county court employees, which amount to $250,000, from the county’s fiscal 2023 budget reserve. Bonuses will be based on each employee’s gross salary.

Liberty High School’s team of student prosecutors and simulated witnesses prevailed in the fictional case of the State of Maryland v. Ryan Grimes Tuesday, defeating Westminster High School to win Carroll County’s mock trial championship. Both teams will compete in Annapolis next month in a regional competition.

Liberty High School’s team of student prosecutors and simulated witnesses prevailed in the fictional case of the State of Maryland v. Ryan Grimes Tuesday, defeating Westminster High School to win Carroll County’s mock trial championship. Both teams will compete in Annapolis next month in a regional competition.

Ravi Pansuriya, the Westminster man charged with first-degree murder in October in the stabbing death of his father, a Carroll County doctor, appeared in court in person for the first time Wednesday.