A multi vehicle accident near Wendys Restaurant in downtown Cumberland had traffice backed up in the noon hour.  Units quickly cleared the scene. Queen City Drive at Centre Street was temporarily shut down as result- no word on injuries

Bill O'Reilly's new program, "No Spin News," will debut tonight on WCBC following the news at 10 PM. After leaving his top rated Fox TV program in 2017, O'Reilly began digitally streaming a video version of No Spin News.  In May 2017, O'Reilly began to appear as a recurring guest on Friday editions of the Glenn Beck Radio Program. 

On Sunday, May 1, 2022 at approximately 8:54 AM, officers of the Cumberland Police Department responded to the area of Baltimore Street at N. Waverly Terrace for a possible assault in progress.  A witness had observed a male pursuing a female on foot and the male tackled the female to the ground.  Upon their arrival, police located a male standing next to a female who was sitting on the curb.  The male was identified as Gerald Kimmell.  Police officers observed that both subjects appeared to have been in a physical altercation.  The subjects were separated and interviewed.  The female reported…

City officials voted last month to accept $6.3 million in state grant assistance for renovations to the downtown mall.  The funding is being issued through the Maryland State Highway Administration's Transportation Alternative Program to cover the reinstallation of Baltimore Street through the pedestrian mall. Baltimore Street extended through the downtown city center before the area was bricked over in 1977 to create a pedestrian mall. The funding represents a large portion of the project's estimated $10 million cost. In addition to installing Baltimore Street, the project includes replacing aging underground utility lines and creating a new streetscape that will include…

U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen, both Maryland Democrats have announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will release an additional 35,000 H-2B temporary non-agricultural worker visas for the second half of fiscal year 2022. These visas are vital to the small businesses that make up Maryland’s crab and seafood industries, and the supplemental release follows efforts from the Senators to press DHS to provide more visas after only one of Maryland’s ten crab processors was selected to receive them. The Senators also worked to secure language with the fiscal year 2022 omnibus to provide DHS with…

U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen is continuing to bash Republicans for what he says have been completely hypocritical positions on the deficit. There have been consistent criticisms from the GOP over the spending plans and budget from the Biden administration- with most of the focus on the impact it will have on the nation’s deficit. Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, notes there were no such concerns about  record spending during the four years of the Trump administration…

The subject of tax differential has always been a tricky one between the city of Cumberland and Allegany County. The differential is a rebate on property taxes town residents pay the county for services like emergency management; libraries; the health department and animal control. What that rebate should be has been subject to some heated debates over the years – at one point leading the two sides into court with the city claiming the county collects an excessive amount of real property tax revenue from municipal residents. While the subject no longer rises to that level of contentiousness, during the…

It took a few years, but fencing began going up this past week along the Clarysville Bridge. Hoping to reduce incidents of suicide at the bridge that crosses Vale Summit Road- Delegate Mike McKay introduced legislation last year seeking action in the General Assembly to address the escalating number of suicides, and attempted suicides, by installing fencing at the bridge on Interstate 68 between LaVale and Frostburg.  The hope is that the barriers will act as a deterrent. McKay says the idea was first presented to him by a mental health advocate…

Kelly Schulz, former Maryland Secretary of Commerce and former Secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation visited and toured the Western Maryland Works facility in LaVale Friday afternoon- and walked away impressed with the local effort. Western Maryland Works, located at 7 Lane Avenue, is a full-service makerspace, workforce development, and training facility that provides access to state of the art technology and equipment.  Schulz, a Republican candidate for governor, talked with WCBC News following her tour…

Bill O'Reilly was debut a new show Monday evening on WCBC. At 10 PM, The No Spin News will be broadcast for an hour Monday through Friday.   O'Rielley is presently featured dailay at 7 PM and 6 PM on WCBC. The show will allow the host more time for in depth analysis of today's news landscape.