Townsend Cook was sitting in his mother’s home 136 years ago this week when a gang of white men dragged him out after a white Mount Airy woman accused him of assault. “They all said, ‘lynch him, lynch ...

More than 75 people gathered outside the historic Carroll County jail on Court Street in Westminster Sept. 8 for a solemn memorial service for lynching victim Townsend Cook. On June 2, 1885, Cook, a ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The original idea for the Port Townsend Chili Cook-off was to determine whether Texas or Oklahoma recipes were the best. After 34 years, the jury is still out, but it doesn’t seem to ...