Hagerstown budget approved with no change in tax rates

Hagerstown budget approved with no change in tax rates

Hagerstown City Council members passed a $133.1 million budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year Tuesday night, but not without a lot of...  more...

Fire chief confident search for Okla. tornado victims is complete

Fire chief confident search for Okla. tornado victims is complete

Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth...  more...

Washington Co. Free Library reconstruction work winding down

Washington Co. Free Library reconstruction work winding down

Construction at the new Washington County Free Library is expected to begin winding down over the next couple of months, with August being...  more...

Washington Co. groups, individuals recognized for historic preservation

Washington Co. groups, individuals recognized for historic preservation

An old store in Fairview is now in the Washington County Rural Heritage Museum and aviation artifacts are in another museum, factors in...  more...

Grant to help neighborhoods hit by foreclosure, subprime lending

Grant to help neighborhoods hit by foreclosure, subprime lending

Washington County has been awarded a $715,000 state grant for housing counseling, foreclosure prevention and other housing programs, a...  more...

Collision between car and tractor-trailer snarls northbound i-81 in w.Va.

Collision between car and tractor-trailer snarls northbound i-81 in w.Va.

A two-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer and a Mini Cooper clogged traffic on the northbound lanes of Interstate 81 in Berkeley...  more...

Film producers create movie teaser in Hagerstown to attract production company

Film producers create movie teaser in Hagerstown to attract production company

Local dancers, martial artists, actors and movie producers met on the third floor of Mulberry Lofts Monday at 22 N. Mulberry St. to shoot...  more...

Retired World Bank official talks of rising above paralysis and discrimination

She started her story with the night she was paralyzed — a then 18-year-old lying on the side of a European road, rain splashing on...

Late Washington Co. EMS director recognized posthumously

Brigitte Heller, who served as director of Washington County Emergency Medical Services, on Tuesday was posthumously awarded a Maryland...

Man pleads guilty to assaulting infant, gets 14 months in jail

Charged with breaking his infant son’s leg, a Hagerstown man was sentenced to 14 months in jail after pleading guilty Tuesday in...

Woman accused of stabbing boyfriend with comb gets probation

A woman charged with stabbing her boyfriend in the back with a plastic rattail comb pleaded guilty Tuesday in Washington County Circuit...

USMH graduate shares her inspiring story with other achievers at ceremony

It was seconds after taking the stage that 26-year-old Elese Wade was choking back tears.

Former military intelligence officer talks to Rotary group about ethics, integrity

Honor and integrity are important issues within the Rotary organization, but a local Rotary club decided it was time to involve the...

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New Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics campus in Washington County to help fill industry void

With the national aviation industry experiencing a workforce shortage of aircraft mechanics and technicians, a new Pittsburgh Institute of...

Hagerstown man pleads guilty to series of Christmas burglaries

One of three Hagerstown men charged in a series of break-ins and package thefts before Christmas entered guilty pleas Monday in Washington...

Accident closes lane of I-70 near Hagerstown for about an hour

The slow lane of eastbound Interstate 70 near the U.S. 40 exit east of Hagerstown was closed for about an hour Monday because of a single-...

Girl, 17, struck by vehicle in Waynesboro is taken to shock trauma center

A 17-year-old girl was taken to the hospital Monday morning after she was struck by a vehicle while crossing West Main Street in Waynesboro,...

Car fire in Hancock area causes $10K in damage

The Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office was investigating the cause of a fire that caused $10,000 in damage to a 2008 Mercedes Benz...

Zook, Evans lead primary races for Pa. judgeship

A Franklin County, Pa., prosecutor was the top vote-getter among Republicans casting votes in Tuesday’s 39th District of the Court...

Chambersburg man charged after child injured

A Chambersburg man has been charged with aggravated assault and simple assault after a 6-month-old boy suffered bone fractures in both legs,...

Teen struck by pickup truck in Pa. remains hospitalized

A 17-year-old girl hit by a pickup truck Monday morning at the intersection of Fairview Avenue and West Main Street remained hospitalized...

Washington Township moves toward allowing chickens in low-density residential areas

The flap over chickens continued Monday in Washington Township, Pa., where township supervisors took steps toward allowing hens in...

Two Waynesboro women killed in one-vehicle crash

Two Waynesboro women were killed early Sunday when their vehicle hit a guardrail on Interstate 81 north of Harrisburg, Pa.

Gun safety a top priority during 150th at Gettysburg

The document is 39 pages long. And this year it is going to contain some of the most important words read in Gettysburg — maybe not...

Politics get local in Pennsylvania primary election

Former U.S. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill once declared that “all politics is local,” and voters across Pennsylvania...

Oceanographer urges Wilson College grads to effect positive change in world

Wilson College’s Class of 2013 is poised to make a great impact on the natural world because the next 10 years will be key in...

Letterkenny furlough reduced to 11 days

Employees at Letterkenny Army Depot are facing fewer furlough days than originally expected — workers are looking at 11 days without...

Greencastle Relay for Life is a time to 'celebrate, remember and to fight back'

Tina Schaubroeck of Greencastle walked around the track at Kaley Field with a renewed pep in her step during the American Cancer Society&...

Two Franklin County townships to vote on referendum questions in upcoming election

Most Franklin County, Pa., voters headed to the polls Tuesday will be making choices in local races, but voters from Montgomery and Warren...

76-year-old woman died after being struck by car

A 76-year-old woman died Saturday after she was struck by a car while attempting to return to her vehicle from a yard sale in Franklin...

Martinsburg High grads 'must never forget where our path started'

Martinsburg High School graduates, their families and faculty were forced to evacuate the Butcher Center at Shepherd University Tuesday...

Gateway Garden Club envisions whimsical play area at Ambrose Park

A “mountain” for children to scale, a pretend fossil dig and a large caterpillar they can crawl through are part of a...

Berkeley County school board OKs larger, tighter budget

The 2013-14 budget for Berkeley County Schools will be “absolutely tighter” than the current year as the district absorbs the...

Berkeley County Schools honor retirees

More than 70 employees of Berkeley County Schools are scheduled to retire in 2013 and were honored at a banquet Monday night.

Hearing postponed for woman accused of selling heroin to man who died

The pretrial hearing for a Bunker Hill, W.Va., woman accused of selling a lethal dose of heroin to a man who died at her home in March...

Ground broken for medical office building in Charles Town

Ground was broken Monday for a new medical office building, soon to be the 21st clinic in the Eastern Panhandle run by University Healthcare...

Firefighters called to American Legion home in Berkeley Springs

The Berkeley Springs Volunteer Fire Company was called to the Berkeley Springs American Legion building around 10 a.m. Monday because of a...

Big decision looms for W.Va. House

West Virginia’s House of Delegates faces a momentous decision after Speaker Rick Thompson departs for Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s...

Shot fired in Shepherdstown apartment

A shot fired Sunday afternoon in a second-floor apartment in the 100 block of East German Street sent a bullet through the floor and into...

One step closer to obtaining funding to finish new Hedgesville public library building

The Berkeley County Building Commission advanced a bond ordinance to second reading Thursday that would allow officials to obtain up to...

18-year-old woman accused of embezzling from Martinsburg Mall Bon-Ton

An 18-year-old woman is accused of embezzling more than $1,000 in cash and merchandise from the Bon-Ton store at Martinsburg Mall, according...

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