With New Year’s Eve coming up on Saturday, Maryland State Police are urging those who plan to celebrate with alcohol to be safe and smart and avoid impaired, distracted and aggressive driving. With an increase in impaired drivers expected throughout the state this weekend, state police will be conducting saturation patrols at each of the 23 barracks focusing on impaired, aggressive and distracted driving. Enforcement will be bolstered by impaired driving saturation patrol funds from the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration’s Highway Safety Office. The initiatives, which will take place on various days through New Year’s, include saturation…

Maryland property values jumped 20.6% over the last three years amid the pandemic’s strong market, the largest increase in recent years according to state tax officials. WBAL reports Maryland’s 2 million property accounts are split into three groups and appraised once every three years to help determine property taxes owed. The 2023 reassessment was the first for the nearly 800,000 commercial and residential properties for this group since the pandemic began, according to the State Department of Assessments and Taxation. The reassessment, based on 89,880 sales, saw an increase in value for 96.4% of the residential properties in the group. Residential…

The swearing-in ceremony for the newly elected mayor and City Council members will be held Jan. 3 at City Hall. The event will take place at noon in the rotunda of City Hall with Dawne D. Lindsey, clerk of the Circuit Court, officiating. Cumberland Mayor Raymond M. Morriss, who ran unopposed, will be sworn in for another four-year term. City Council election-winners Richard J. “Rock” Cioni and James L. Furstenberg will also take the oath of office for four-year terms. An incumbent, Cioni, a U.S. Army veteran, finished first among candidates for City Council in the November general election. Furstenberg,…

Community: TRANSIT REMINDER: No Bus or Van service on Friday, December 30, through January 2.  service will resume regular scheduled service on Jan 3.

A suspect in the killings of four slain Idaho students has been arrested in eastern Pennsylvania, an official said Friday. Arrest paperwork filed by Pennsylvania State Police in Monroe County Court says 28-year-old Bryan Kohberger was being held for extradition in a criminal homicide investigation based on an active arrest warrant for first degree murder issued by the Moscow Police Department and Latah County Prosecutor’s Office. The four students were all friends and members of the University of Idaho's Greek system. They were stabbed to death at a rental home near campus sometime in the early morning hours of Nov….

According to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office, the victim of the Dec. 20 fatal fire at 525 Columbia Ave. has been identifed as 35-year-old Brandy Alisea Walker. Positive identification of the victim was made by the Maryland State Medical Examiner's Office. Walker was found dead on the second-floor of the property. Although the cause of the late-afternoon fire has not been determined, investigators do not suspect foul play

With New Year’s Eve coming up on Saturday, Maryland State Police are urging those who plan to celebrate with alcohol to be safe and smart and avoid impaired, distracted and aggressive driving. With an increase in impaired drivers expected throughout the state this weekend, state police will be conducting saturation patrols at each of the 23 barracks focusing on impaired, aggressive and distracted driving. Enforcement will be bolstered by impaired driving saturation patrol funds from the Maryland Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Administration’s Highway Safety Office. The initiatives, which will take place on various days through New Year’s, include saturation…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of December 30, 2022, there are currently 1,503 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 11 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 7,672 deaths attributed to COVID-19. DHHR has confirmed the deaths of a 68-year old male from Kanawha County, a 62-year old female from Lincoln County, an 88-year old female from Wood County, a 71-year old female from Cabell County, a 59-year old female from Brooke County, a 72-year old male from Mercer County, an 85-year old female from Jackson County,…

The 2022 WCBC Sports Athlete of the Year is Mikey Allen. Unanimously voted on by the WCBC Sports Team, no one had a bigger 2022 locally than Allen- where he hit 2 buzzer beaters to give Bishop Walsh their first 2-win weekend in the ACIT in school history, and last month, helped lead Fort Hill to a state football title. Allen recently announced that he was signing with Southern Utah University to play Division 1 football. 

On 12/29/2022 at approximately 8:00AM the Cumberland City Police Department were dispatched to a residence in the 200 block of Davidson Street for a home invasion. Upon arrival officers spoke to the victim and learned that Nickoli Dundar Cakus had entered the residence without permission and assaulted a resident, taking an item from them. Cakus then took more property from the residence before fleeing. A neighbor and the victim confronted Cakus outside and were able to recover most of the stolen property. Cakus fled the area but was apprehended a short time later by law enforcement without issue. Cakus was taken…