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For years, Kelwin and Kelli Hagen lived the Los Angeles lifestyle Kelwin worked as an actor and contractor, and Kelli worked in costume design for television and movies

From building a business, to being a high school principal, to serving as Frederick County commissioners president, Delegate Galen Clagett said he knows what it takes to be in charge

The mayor and aldermen opened negotiations Wednesday with a developer who wants to bring nearly 49 acres into Frederick's city limits

BALTIMORE -- Electric utilities will be ordered to improve their distribution systems to make them more reliable following last summer's derecho storm when nearly 1 million customers lost power, but the Maryland Public Service Commission said Wednesday it would not impose any fines or penalties

Frederick County's Board of Education approved on Wednesday a proposed $548 4 million operating budget for 2014, roughly half of which comes from the county

ANNAPOLIS -- Maryland Delegate Neil Parrott has headed up petition drives that gave voters a final word on same-sex marriage and congressional redistricting

Thurmont Community
Ambulance Service Vice
President Jim Humerick, right, takes Thurmont Town
Commissioner Ron Terpko for a ride in a recently purchased six-wheel-drive, all terrain
vehicle to be used for off-road rescues The town also helped the service buy a Ford utility truck to transport the Polaris ATV and an enclosed trailer Mayor Martin Burns, the four town commissioners and chief administrative officer Bill Blakeslee were honored at the thank-you event

Phil Arnold, right, architecture and engineering design teacher at Frederick County’s Career and Technology Center, and student Zack Hudak test a design model built to carry a small ball up through and around the maze of the plastic structure built in their
computer-aided design class The display was one of many at the Technology Exposition Fair on Tuesday night at Francis Scott Key Mall In addition to the displays, middle school students from around the county competed in a number of problem-solving
competitions including straw bridge weight and hovercraft designing and buildin

Students encouraged to apply for contest

A Pennsylvania man facing assault and sex offense charges was expected to be released on bail after his trial was postponed Tuesday