Western Maryland

Maryland health experts are urging residents to stay indoors Friday as wildfire smoke pushes air quality to dangerous levels.

State police and corrections officials are conducting a “potential criminal misconduct” investigation into staff at a Western Maryland prison after the latest in a rash of killings of prisoners across the state.

An F-16 fighter jet intercepted a civilian plane that was flying through restricted airspace over Hagerstown on Saturday afternoon, military officials said.

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James Dodson Jr., 39, of Emmitsburg, faces a maximum sentence of 1 1/2 to five years in prison.

Colin Wolf, 32, was found unresponsive in his cell at Roxbury Correctional Institution in Hagerstown around 11:15 p.m. Wednesday.

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A 33-year-old was found dead in his cell at Western Correctional Institution, state police announced, marking the third death of a Maryland prisoner in just over a week.

A 23-year-old jailed for a Thanksgiving Day 2023 shooting in Landover Hills was found dead in his Allegany County prison cell, Maryland State Police said.

The injunction prohibits building and operating detention space inside the facility while awaiting further arguments in the federal court case.

The sprawling blue-and-white warehouse in Washington County has been the subject of intense debate in part because of the way commissioners voiced their support for ICE.

The federal government is “reconsidering the precise scope” of a planned immigration processing and detention facility in Washington County, according to new court records.

Seeking to quell concerns about their plans to convert a sprawling Western Maryland warehouse into a makeshift detention facility, federal officials met with Washington County leadership to address the local impact.

The pause on construction came shortly after the DHS awarded a $113 million contract for the build-out of the facility.

County commissioners detail their DHS meeting on the Williamsport ICE facility that could hold up to 1,500 detainees — including job projections and who would pay for infrastructure upgrades.

Clay Kearns and his mother, Erica, want lawmakers to require local governments to address safety issues.

A review of public contracting records by The Banner reveals details about the private companies that are helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement turn a massive Washington County warehouse into a detention center.

The contract brings total Department of Homeland Security spending to at least $215 million on the proposed detention and processing site that has sparked massive controversy in Western Maryland.

Shadow Robinson joins Frostburg from the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith.

Washington County commissioners declared support for the conversion of a sprawling warehouse outside Hagerstown into a proposed federal immigration detention facility on Tuesday.