NEWS
By Mary Gail Hare and Steve Kilar, The Baltimore Sun | January 20, 2012
A four-alarm house fire early Friday in Cumberland has claimed the lives of two young sisters, according to an afternoon statement from the Maryland State Fire Marshal. Paige M. Ford, 7, was rescued through a window on the second story of the row house. She was suffering cardiac arrest, received CPR at the scene and was taken to Western Maryland Regional Medical, where she was pronounced dead. Her 4-year-old sister, Jymera D. Ford, was missing for several hours. Firefighters located her body in a second-floor bedroom.
NEWS
By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun | December 11, 2011
Three people died early Sunday in a house fire in Cumberland, according to the state fire marshal's office. A passerby spotted fire in a two-story, single-family dwelling at around 3 a.m. and called 911, officials said. Officials said that about 20 firefighters from Cumberland and Ridgely, W.Va., extinguished the one-alarm blaze within 20 minutes. The names of the victims were not released. Officials said the cause of the fire was under investigation. Tim.wheeler@baltsun.com Text NEWS to 70701 to get Baltimore Sun local news text alerts
BUSINESS
By Jamie Smith Hopkins, The Baltimore Sun | November 8, 2011
Pillar Hotels & Resorts warned state regulators Tuesday that it would lay off more than 150 employees in Frederick and Cumberland as it ends a management contract with Holiday Inn and Holiday Inn Express locations. The workers could be hired by the Texas company's successor, however. Pillar told the state Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation that it expected the new managers would ask employees to apply to stay on. Neither Pillar nor Holiday Inn's parent, InterContinental Hotels Group, returned calls seeking comment.
EXPLORE
September 7, 2011
Todd and Denise Warehime Grim, of Westminster, formerly of Forest Hill, have announce the birth of their first son, Nicklas Scott Grim. Born August, 18, at 6:10 p.m., he weighed 8 pounds, 15.4 ounces and measured 21.5-inches. Grandparents are Donald and Anna Warehime, of Forest Hill, Marie Grim, of Cumberland, and Craig and Cecelia Grim, of Keyser, W.Va. and great grandmother is Maxine Martin, of Cumberland.
BUSINESS
By Eileen Ambrose | June 22, 2011
Marylanders on average have to pay more for houses than the typical homebuyer across the country, according to a new survey by Coldwell Banker Real Estate. Coldwell Banker reports the national average price of a 4-bedroom, 2-bathroom house is $293,251. In Maryland, that house would go for $381,314. Coldwell Banker allows you to comparison shop markets on its site. There you can find that a 250,000 house in Baltimore would cost you $652,778 in Annapolis -- ouch. But that house would only cost you $152,778 in Cumberland.
NEWS
By Scott Calvert and Kate Smith, The Baltimore Sun | June 25, 2010
The five men on Maryland's death row were quietly moved this week from the hulking Baltimore prison once known as Supermax to a Western Maryland facility hailed recently as one of the most technologically advanced maximum-security prisons in the United States. The transfer to the North Branch Correctional Institution near Cumberland was carried out amid such secrecy that even now state prison officials won't give any details — not even which day the condemned men were moved.