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There was no official word Thursday as to whether an apparent impasse on filling a judicial vacancy on the Washington County Circuit Court was resolved at Wednesday's meeting of the county judicial nominating commission.

When Neal Glessner first proposed a hospice house in Washington County, he was worried that the community might not support it. But nothing was further from the truth.

The Hagerstown Police Department responded to the following incidents: Wednesday • 2:15 p.m., property-damage accident at East Washington and North Potomac streets • 2:58 p.m., personal-injury accident at Summit Avenue and West Antietam Street • 4:07|

The City of Hagerstown is having difficulty receiving calls on a number of lines, including one for the Hagerstown Police Department.

Bond was set at $10,000 Thursday in Washington County District Court for a firefighter accused of setting fire to his mother's home last year shortly after he learned he was to be suspended from the Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Co.

FREDERICK, Md. — A two-year, $21.7 million project to realign and widen Monocacy Boulevard in Frederick is halfway completed.

Hagerstown resident Robert Zellner said he wanted to be liked by everyone after his father died.

It's being called "the house that love built." A quick tour of Doey's House and visitors will see why the phrase coined by visionary Neal Glessner has taken hold in a big way.

The Burger King on Dual Highway in Hagerstown has been leveled as developers gear up to rebuild another one in its place.

Area roundup — Wednesday, September 6, 2017