The Week in Review is a quick roundup of links to stories that we wrote and you clicked on the week of April 22, 2016.
- The Times asked each of the candidates running for the school board to address some of the issues they may find themselves dealing with if elected to the board.
- A Harford man was convicted Wednesday on charges stemming from the robbery of the Finksburg Pharmacy at gun point in 2015.
- The Carroll Veterans Shuttle was dedicated to Mike "Mad Dog" Sater, an army veteran who served — and was wounded — in Vietnam.
- The 45th annual Carroll County Special Olympics Spring Games were held on Wednesday.
- The fate of the Carroll County Career and Tech Center remains uncertain as the Board of Commissioners approaches the final days of budget deliberations.
- The Carroll County Health Department warned that counterfeit pain and anxiety medications sold on the street are being laced with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid up to 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
- Just after 5 p.m. Tuesday, about 60 men, women and children in red shirts marched into the TownMall of Westminster, formed a circle outside the Verizon Wireless store, and marched around under the gaze of mall management and security, who asked them to leave.
- Family and friends of Ray and Susannah Badders, and Jason Simpkins stood outside of the Takoma Park Police Department with signs demanding answers about a car crash last year that claimed those three lives.
- Authorities said Monday that it's too soon to say whether charges will be filed against a man who fatally shot one firefighter and injured another who were attempting to enter his home to check on his health.
- Mary Kay Nevius-Maurer was named as the newest member Carroll Community College board of trustees.
- The U.S. Attorney's Office presented Cpl. Chris McMillen with the Project Safe Childhood Award.
- A competitive contest for the Democratic nomination — and a huge investment by a self-funded candidate — has made the fight for Maryland's 8th Congressional District the most expensive House race in the nation.
- Carroll County school board President James Doolan lodged a written complaint with the State Board of Education over a visit to North Carroll High School by a state board member, calling it "inappropriate" in the midst of discussions about the school's closure.
- Spikes in homicides in Baltimore, Chicago and the District of Columbia accounted for more than half of the national increase in killings in the 30 largest cities in 2015.
- An agreement will give consumers who bought nearly 600,000 Volkswagen vehicles rigged to cheat on emissions tests the option of having the automaker buy back the cars or fix them, a judge said Thursday.
- Take a look at this week's Carroll Varsity power rankings for Girls Lacrosse and Boys Lacrosse.
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