20 years ago - More than 200 Frederick County teens Tuesday pledged to help rid their schools of drugs. In a new twist in the war on drugs, school officials turned to students for advice on how to drive illegal substances from their schools. Students met at Hood College for a first-ever, five-hour drug summit sponsored by county schools.

Four Mount St. Mary’s students were injured Tuesday in an alcohol-related accident near Graceham.

50 years ago - A Takoma Park couple, who own land at Lewistown sought by the Board of Education in a condemnation proceeding filed in Circuit Court, contend that the land should not be condemned for a school building as obsolete as the Lewistown elementary school.

The bodies of two lifeless men were lifted from the wreckage of a 1960 English MG which crashed under a tractor-trailer on U.S. 15 north of Frederick early this morning.

100 years ago - Earl R. Hack, of Baltimore, was electrocuted at the B. & O. yards at Brunswick last night. Hack, who was an electrical engineer, went up a pole to make some repairs. He had a lamp with him and is supposed to have gotten tangled up in the wires, and to have come in contact with the current, by which he was killed.

Charles Gilbert, 36 years old, of Frederick, was arrested in Baltimore yesterday charged with the larceny of a horse and carriage belonging to George Burdette, West Fifth street, this city. “I suppose you are looking for me,” said Gilbert to the officers who arrested him, “because I drove that horse away from Frederick. Well here I am.”