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Carroll County's first clubhouse for drug and alcohol recovery celebrated its first anniversary in September, and awareness of the club has been steadily increasing since it opened. → Read More
As law enforcement and prosecutors shift to a model of early intervention and treatment to combat drug addiction, an approach that some say is already paying dividends in Carroll County, access to treatment and recovery services grows even more important. Heroin and opioid addiction is seen as a public health crisis, and the Carroll County Health Department is partnering with law enforcement and… → Read More
The day before Christmas Eve, a group of people recovering from addiction sat around a table at the Carroll County Health Department discussing ways to sustain sobriety during the holidays at a time when it's an even greater challenge. → Read More
It took Greg Hendricks 28 months to complete Carroll County's Drug Treatment Court, a program that requires a minimum of 13 months if the participant doesn't stumble along the way. → Read More
It was an unseasonably muggy day with a slight drizzle when Greg Hendricks visited the Carroll County Detention Center on Dec. 23, but once you pass through the metal detector and the sally port, the climate is always the same; the air tepid and still. Down a narrow, dimly lit hall was his destination, a rectangular room in institutional green, where 16 men waited to greet Hendricks, to pull up… → Read More
Drug addiction drives Carroll's crime statistics. → Read More
Beginning in August, Carroll Hospital staff who meet with victims of possible domestic violence will screen them to determine if they are at a high risk of being injured or killed if they return to their situation. → Read More
A New York man is being held at the Carroll County Detention Center on burglary and malicious destruction charges from August 2014, when he allegedly broke a window in a Westminster apartment, then broke into a second apartment over the course of two days. → Read More
A judge will determine whether a defense attorney will be allowed to view the personnel files of former Westminster Police Department officers involved in his client's case. → Read More
A Baltimore County woman is charged with driving while impaired by drugs and possession of drugs with the intent to distribute after police say she used heroin then was involved in a vehicle collision in Finksburg. → Read More
The investigation into the death of a 2-month-old Westminster boy is ongoing and a report from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner could take up to two months. → Read More
A two-week trial for a Baltimore County man accused of first-degree murder will go forward in August after a Carroll County judge denied a motion by defense attorneys claiming Maryland's post-death penalty abolition sentencing laws are unconstitutional. → Read More
A Westminster man will serve one year in jail for threatening a woman with a pellet gun last year. → Read More
A Westminster woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to running theft scheme involving the theft of items from homes where she was employed as a cleaner. → Read More
A judge issued a warrant Tuesday morning for a Taneytown man charged with drug-related offenses who failed to appear for the first day of his jury trial. → Read More
A Westminster man received two three-year sentences with all but time served suspended for entering a woman's Mount Airy apartment and assaulting her and another person in March. → Read More
Charles Barnhart began working as an emergency dispatcher in 1973, 10 years before 911 came to Carroll County, and during his career he saw cell phones go from being rare to a time when emergency calls from mobile devices surpassed those made from landlines. → Read More
A Westminster woman is charged with 15 counts of animal cruelty for allegedly failing to provide adequate living conditions for more than a dozen dogs and a goose. → Read More
A Westminster man on probation for assault is being held on $25,000 bond for allegedly hitting a woman during an argument. → Read More
Plans for a Sheetz service station east of Westminster can move forward after the city's Common Council approved annexing property that developers are eyeing as the site for the project. → Read More