Carroll County’s history of racial violence, including the 1885 lynching of an African American man named Townsend Cook, was the subject of a weekend hearing in Westminster. The event Saturday was ...

On Aug. 8, 1924, the editor of the Westminster newspaper the American Sentinel wrote an article about the renaissance of the area at the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and West Main Street, on ...

McDaniel College in Westminster announced a gift amounting to nearly $15 million from the late Jonas Eshelman, a Western Maryland College alumnus. The school was renamed to McDaniel College in 2002.

McDaniel College has received a record $15 million gift from alumnus Jonas Eshelman, launching the "Reaching New Heights" ...