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Special Sections
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Civil War
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In and Around Frederick County.
One hundred and fifty years ago, the Civil War began. This section will feature stories and multimedia related to the Civil War and especially commemorative events in and around Frederick County.
The section will grow over the next four years and will feature interactive maps, timelines and links to more information.
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The Great Race 2011
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Are all commutes created equal?
That was the basic idea behind The Great Race of 2011, an intense morning of nerves, laughter and plenty of (off-camera) cursing.
Four reporters, four separate routes from Frederick to Washington, four different perspectives on the best way to travel daily to our nation's capital.
One relaxed on the MARC train; one drove to the Shady Grove Metro station and hopped on the subway; and two rode the rush-hour wave on I-270.
All were headed to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington.
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Laura's Legacy: The Road to MADD
About noon, a woman was driving west on Md. 26, to a grocery store. A man was speeding toward her on the hilly country road. The woman had a baby beside her. The man was drunk. Their two vehicles collided just west of Mount Pleasant.
The crash was one of three in the county resulting in injury that day. It was not one of the year's 20 fatal crashes — eight of which involved alcohol — so it did not seem noteworthy. It did not even rate its own headline in the local paper.
But in its aftermath was born a national organization bent on transforming the way governments, law enforcement and citizens of the United States view drinking and driving.
The woman was Cindi Lamb. The baby was her daughter, Laura. The man was Russell Newcomer.
The organization is MADD.
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Coverage: Bruce Ivins and the Anthrax Mailings
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Bruce Ivins, a Fort Detrick scientist and leading anthrax researcher, was named the sole suspect in the 2001 anthrax mailings that killed five people and 17 others.
The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI publicly presented their case against Ivins on Aug. 6.
The evidence, although lacking in physical proof, could have found Ivins guilty of the mailings beyond a reasonable doubt, said Jeff Taylor, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
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Domestic Violence
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Twenty-one men, women and children in and around Frederick County died as a result of domestic violence in 2007. To understand how and why these deaths occurred, The Frederick News-Post began an extensive investigation into domestic violence. The investigation included dozens of interviews with victims, their families, counselors, police officers, attorneys and others. It also included a detailed analysis of the 214 final protective orders granted in Frederick County in 2007. more » |
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Left Behind
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When the battlefields fall silent and the wisps of smoke from fired rifles dissipate, the tasks are far from done. Nine service members from Frederick County who served in the Korean and Vietnam wars are still unaccounted for. The News-Post brings you their stories. more » |
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Downtown Frederick Hotel and Conference Center Project
Mark Gaver strolled along Carroll Creek Park in downtown Frederick and pointed enthusiastically at the surroundings when he considers the potential for economic development.
Mayor Randy McClement appointed Gaver to represent the community’s interests on a committee exploring ways to get a 200-room hotel and conference center built within walking distance of downtown. The hotel conference center could serve as a bridge between the eastern edge and center of the city, more » |
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Black History Month: Living Treasures
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To mark Black History Month, our Slice of Life stories in February will focus on African-American Frederick County residents age 90 and older. The African American Resources — Cultural and Heritage Society honored these residents last month as “Living Treasures.” Their life stories highlight the evolution of the county’s black population over a tumultuous century. more » |
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Frederick Marathon
The Frederick Marathon is held the first weekend of May each year in the City of Frederick. For complete marathon coverage, click over to our special section for full results, multimedia and stories from years past. more » |
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Locked Down
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The Frederick News-Post obtained 73 use-of-force reports from the Frederick County Adult Detention Center in 2008 by making a request
under the Maryland Public Information Act. Read the stories and check out a searchable database by clicking here.
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TASER Turmoil
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The Frederick News-Post obtained 44 use-of-force reports from the county's police agencies during a 16-month period by making a request
under the Maryland Public Information Act. Read six stories and check out a searchable database by
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Inauguration 2009
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Before a jubilant crowd of more than a million, Barack Hussein Obama claimed his place in history as America's first black president,
summoning a dispirited nation to unite in hope against the "gathering clouds and raging storms" of war and economic woe.
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Labor Never Sleeps
Many of the 150,000 people who are employed in Frederick County work a traditional 9 to 5 shift.
But plenty of folks also do not work such conventional hours.
To mark the 125th anniversary of the first Labor Day celebration, The Frederick News-Post assigned 24 reporters one hour each
- from midnight to midnight - and assigned them to spend that hour with someone at work.
The culmination of that assignment is this multimedia package, Labor Never Sleeps.
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144th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg
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The 144th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg took place July 1-3, 2007. Seven key points in the battle are highlighted in our interactive map. more » |
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A look back at the Rodriguez/Benitez tragedy:
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Five bodies -- four of them young children -- were discovered in a Hillcrest community home March 26. Police found the body of 28-year-old Pedro Rodriguez, the children's father, hanging from a yellow rope off the stairwell bannister. The bodies of the children -- girls ages 9, 4 and 1, and a 3-year-old boy -- were covered in blankets and tucked in beds in different rooms of the three-bedroom townhouse at 1252 Danielle Drive. Rodriguez's wife and the children's mother, Deysi Benitez, was last seen March 18. more » |
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STOPWATCH:
Two-part series
Among city, county and state police, blacks and Hispanics were more likely than white drivers to be searched by police officers after a traffic stop, and in many cases those searches were unnecessary, an investigation by The Frederick News-Post found. more » |
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OMAN REDISCOVERED:
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MISSION TO GUATEMALA:
Four-part series
Two pastors, a doctor, a teacher, a corporate recruiter, a business owner and her daughter, and a newspaper reporter went on a mission to Guatemala last month. All returned exhausted, all but two sick, and one ended up in a hospital. more » |
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AN ARABIAN ADVENTURE:
Seven-part series about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Linda Pappas Funsch
As a result of her 10-day trip, Ms. Funsch has put together this extensive seven-part multimedia series about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. From the logistics of getting there to its history and the customs of its people, Ms. Funsch leaves no noteworthy topic unmentioned. She describes this country as "concerned with modernization while, at the same time, determined to preserve its rich cultural traditions." more » |
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A CROSS-COUNTRY BICYCLING ADVENTURE:
Follow the 10-week voyage of Fredric and his friends
Fredric Scire is part of a group making a 4,300-mile cross country trip this summer. But it isn't your normal journey. Fredric and his friends will be making their way from Seaside, Ore. to Yorktown, Va. on bike. That's right, they'll be pedaling their way across 11 states. Fredric will maintain a journal about his travels and take photos of his trip. more » |
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BEYOND THE BREACH:
Four-part series by Alison Walker
During a two-week period in April four years ago, officials at the Army's lead biodefense laboratory at Fort Detrick discovered anthrax spores had escaped carefully guarded suites into the building's unprotected areas. Through a Freedom Of Information Act request, The Frederick News-Post obtained a 361-page report on the 2002 breach compiled by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, which oversees USAMRIID. more » |
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