HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Bound for a slaughterhouse less than a year ago, Rescued Performance Machine — RPM for short — rose to stardom earlier this month at the Horse World Expo.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — When Dr. Allen Ditto retires on Jan. 31, he has plans for the fine motor and problem-solving skills he honed during his almost 40-year medical career.
He will tackle the collection of 4,000 models — mostly airplanes — he's stockpiled in the basement of his Fountain Head home in Hagerstown.
He enjoyed the hobby as a kid. Even though he doesn't love flying in planes, Ditto said he is "fascinated with the engineering of them."
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police in western Maryland are looking for a man they say shot and killed a woman two days after he was released from prison.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Wednesday that an arrest warrant has been issued for 33-year-old Devaughn Tyrone Drew. He is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Destiny Boccone.
SHARPSBURG, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump's salary, which he promised to give away, will go toward two restoration projects at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.
Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke made the announcement Wednesday at Antietam. He says Trump's first quarter salary donation is $78,333, and $22,000 was pledged by an anonymous donor.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Maryland judge sentenced a homeless heroin addict to life imprisonment Wednesday for killing a woman who had given him shelter but then threatened to expose him for stealing several hundred dollars from two businesses.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The uncle of a 9-year-old boy who was fatally beaten over a missing piece of birthday cake was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for handcuffing him to a chair and watching the mother's boyfriend pummel the boy senseless after weeks of escalating discipline in the apartment they shared.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A man who shot up his hotel room in a hallucinatory, drug-induced panic, sending bullets through occupied rooms nearby, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison by a judge who told him, "You are a dangerous person."
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Maryland woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree child abuse in the beating death of her 9-year-old son over a missing piece of birthday cake.
Prosecutors agreed to drop a second-degree murder charge and seek a sentence of no more than 20 years for 27-year-old Oriana Garcia, who appeared Wednesday in a Hagerstown courtroom.
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A homeless heroin addict acknowledged Monday that he killed a friend's girlfriend after she threatened to expose him for stealing $250 from the cash registers of a dollar store and a gas station.