Downtown Frederick is a great place to eat and shop, but improvement is possible, a retail expert says.

Rescuers went building to building in search of victims and thousands of survivors were homeless on Tuesday, a day after a massive tornado tore through a suburb of Oklahoma City, wiping out whole blocks of homes and killing at least 24 people.

After a month-long search, police arrested an 18-year-old Gaithersburg man for allegedly committing a burglary in Carroll County last month.

The Carroll County State’s Attorney’s Office is holding a presentation Thursday to help educate parents on how to protect their children from sexual predators.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s election overseers removed potential wild-card candidates from the presidential race Tuesday, blocking a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former pres

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit auto factories are forgoing their traditional two-week summer break and speeding up production to meet buyers’ growing demand for new cars and trucks.

The Quaker Hill Historic Preservation Foundation and Quaker Hill Neigh­borhood Association will hold their annual picnic at 6 p.m. June 5 on the grounds of the Wilmington Friends Meeting at 401 N. West St. in Wilming­ton.

Tuscarora High School and each of its feeder schools raised $2,200 at the Empty Bowls Benefit Concert on April 25. Funds benefit the Emmanuel Trinity Lutheran Church Food Bank. At the concert, choral

Sussex County's general fund may climb over $50 million next year, fueled partly by increases in building permits and the realty transfer tax, a draft budget published Tuesday shows.

Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children.

While the Carroll County Board of Education is set to approve its Fiscal Year 2014 budget today, its funding remains uncertain as the county board of commissioners plans to debate how much it will giv