Sept. 19

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Bound for a slaughterhouse less than a year ago, Rescued Performance Machine — RPM for short — rose to stardom earlier this month at the Horse World Expo.

DRYFORK, W.Va. (AP) — Authorities have released the identity of a Maryland woman who died in a kayaking accident in northern West Virginia.

News outlets report the accident occurred Sunday...

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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — Police in Hagerstown, Maryland, say a missing man has been found dead in Berkeley County, West Virginia.

News outlets report Hagerstown police say the body 27-year-old Christopher Turner was found Wednesday. Police say the manner and condition of the body indicated that Turner was killed.

Police say Turner's family last heard from him in mid-January. His car was found in Hagerstown days later.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — When Dr. Allen Ditto retires on Jan. 31, he has plans for the fine motor and problem-solving skills he honed during his almost 40-year medical career.

He will tackle the collection of 4,000 models — mostly airplanes — he's stockpiled in the basement of his Fountain Head home in Hagerstown.

He enjoyed the hobby as a kid. Even though he doesn't love flying in planes, Ditto said he is "fascinated with the engineering of them."

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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A fire official says operations have been suspended at a Macy's distribution center in West Virginia after a fire broke out. No one was hurt.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Dozens of people gathered outside of a National Park Service office in Maryland in a push to stop construction of a pipeline under the Potomac River that would connect natural gas produced in Pennsylvania to industries in West Virginia.

YORK, Pa. (AP) — A Maryland man is facing a simple assault charge after using a dog leash to lead his wife around a Pennsylvania fair because she has late-stage dementia.

West Manchester police say Walter Wolford yanked the 8-inch long red nylon leash, causing his wife's head to jerk back and leave red marks around her throat. But the 66-year-old Hagerstown man says he only gently tugged on the leash, which he uses to keep his wife from getting lost.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Authorities in Maryland say a Hagerstown police sergeant set to appear in court next week on charges of drug theft has killed himself.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Maryland county official's wife has accused him of domestic violence.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A veteran administrator in Alabama's community college system has been named interim president at Calhoun Community College.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Forward Bryce Golden, who averaged 15 points and eight rebounds during his senior season at Saint James School in Hagerstown, Maryland, will play college basketball at Butler.

The 6-foot-9 Golden joins 6-7 forward Markeese Hastings of Wyoming, Michigan, as the second recruit in the Bulldogs' fall recruiting class. Hastings signed his national letter-of-intent in November.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A Maryland man has been indicted in West Virginia on federal charges of transporting a 12-year-old girl across state lines for sex.

U.S. Attorney Bill Powell says in a statement a federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted 37-year-old Kenneth Earle Ewing of Hagerstown, Maryland.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Maryland man who viciously abused a 2-year-old girl has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A police sergeant in Maryland has been charged with stealing prescription opioids from a paralyzed woman after she and a friend caught him on video.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A mental evaluation has been ordered for a man accused of seeking sex with children.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police in western Maryland are looking for a man they say shot and killed a woman two days after he was released from prison.

The Washington County Sheriff's Office said in a statement Wednesday that an arrest warrant has been issued for 33-year-old Devaughn Tyrone Drew. He is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 23-year-old Destiny Boccone.

SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Kevin Simmers knows the feeling of helplessness in fighting heroin addiction first hand.

For Simmers, a retired Hagerstown police officer, that helplessness developed into frustration as he and his then 18 year-old daughter Brooke ran into a series of roadblocks and administrative red tape in seeking treatment for her heroin addiction in late 2013.

SANDY HOOK, Md. (AP) — Authorities are investigating an accidental death inside Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown, Maryland, reported Friday that the accident was reported about 2:30 p.m. on Friday.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Maryland State Police have arrested a Los Angeles man wanted in a stabbing death in North Carolina.

Raleigh police spokeswoman Laura Hourigan said in a news release that troopers arrested 29-year-old Sean Flores of Los Angeles on Interstate 70 near Hagerstown, Maryland, early Monday. Troopers say Flores was driving 90 mph (145 kph) in a car stolen in North Carolina before he was stopped.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Troopers conducting speed enforcement in western Maryland have arrested a man who police say was wanted in relation to a North Carolina slaying.

Police said in a statement that troopers spotted a Nissan Maxima traveling around 90 mph on Interstate 70 early Monday and began pursuing the vehicle. The car eventually stopped in the Hagerstown area and troopers arrested the driver.

SHARPSBURG, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump's salary, which he promised to give away, will go toward two restoration projects at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke made the announcement Wednesday at Antietam. He says Trump's first quarter salary donation is $78,333, and $22,000 was pledged by an anonymous donor.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Tim Tebow has had hits in four of his last six games and might be developing some consistency at the plate with the Columbia Fireflies.

The former Heisman Trophy winner and NFL quarterback played in seven games this week for the New York Mets' Class A South Atlantic League franchise. His best performance was on Thursday when he went 2 for 3 in a 3-2 loss at the Hagerstown (Maryland) Suns.

A look how Tebow has fared this week and this season:

BOONSBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland high school senior has been barred from participating in her school's graduation ceremony because she is pregnant.

Media outlets report 18-year-old Maddi Runkles was barred from the June 2 ceremony at the Heritage Academy in Hagerstown because she violated the school's code of conduct by having premarital sex. Runkles discovered she was pregnant in January.

BOONSBORO, Md. (AP) — A Maryland high school senior has been barred from participating in her school's graduation ceremony because she is pregnant.

Media outlets report 18-year-old Maddi Runkles discovered she was pregnant in January. The teen attends Heritage Academy, a small private Christian school in Hagerstown. Upon Runkles' pregnancy announcement, school officials also suspended her for two days and removed Runkles from her student council position.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A late-season storm is dumping a messy mix of snow, sleet and rain on the mid-Atlantic, complicating travel, knocking out power and closing schools and government offices around the region.

Officials are urging people to stay home while crews clear roads Tuesday. Virginia and Maryland have declared states of emergency.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — When Devon John Eason's 4-year-old son couldn't pronounce the word "four," authorities in Maryland say the father beat the boy severely enough to send him to the hospital.

The Herald-Mail newspaper (http://bit.ly/2m3e7Um) reports court records show the 33-year-old Eason faces child abuse and assault charges.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — U.S. Rep. John Delaney is hosting a workshop on opioid addiction that includes health-care workers from three western Maryland counties and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Delaney's office says the event Thursday night in Hagerstown is designed to connect residents with resources and advice on how to respond to the increase in addiction cases, and how to help those who may be at risk.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Maryland judge sentenced a homeless heroin addict to life imprisonment Wednesday for killing a woman who had given him shelter but then threatened to expose him for stealing several hundred dollars from two businesses.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A man who fled to New York City after a fatal shooting in western Maryland has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

The Herald-Mail newspaper (http://bit.ly/2lrLlgJ ) reports that 47-year-old Demitrius Wright also pleaded guilty Monday in Hagerstown to using a handgun in a crime of violence in the August 2015 shooting of 41-year-old Antonio Mooney.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The uncle of a 9-year-old boy who was fatally beaten over a missing piece of birthday cake was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for handcuffing him to a chair and watching the mother's boyfriend pummel the boy senseless after weeks of escalating discipline in the apartment they shared.

BOONSBORO, Md. (AP) — For Rick Stephens, it all started in the garden.

When his mother-in-law moved into the Stephens' Boonsboro home in early 2015, Rick planted a garden for her.

In search of ideas for improving the garden, they started thinking about bees, prompting Stephens to start gathering information on beekeeping.

He started his first hive and was looking for a local bee group, only to discover it had been about five years since a Hagerstown club had disbanded.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A man who shot up his hotel room in a hallucinatory, drug-induced panic, sending bullets through occupied rooms nearby, was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison by a judge who told him, "You are a dangerous person."

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Washington County school officials have chosen a new superintendent to take over when the current superintendent heads to Charlotte, North Carolina next month.

The Washington County Board of Education on Tuesday approved Boyd Michael as its choice for interim superintendent and then unanimously voted to affirm its intention to appoint him to the post permanently. Boyd's official appointment is pending state approval.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Maryland woman has pleaded guilty to first-degree child abuse in the beating death of her 9-year-old son over a missing piece of birthday cake.

Prosecutors agreed to drop a second-degree murder charge and seek a sentence of no more than 20 years for 27-year-old Oriana Garcia, who appeared Wednesday in a Hagerstown courtroom.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore jury has acquitted a man of all charges in the 2014 slaying of the transgender sister of Detroit Pistons player Reggie Bullock.

The Baltimore Sun (http://bsun.md/2jMcvkY ) reports that 46-year-old Shawn Oliver of Hagerstown was acquitted of all charges Thursday.

He was charged with first-degree murder in the July 2014 stabbing death of 26-year-old Mia Henderson, formerly known as Kevin Long.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan played Santa Claus on Thursday, pledging $7 million over five years to help the western Maryland city of Hagerstown with a downtown revitalization plan anchored by educational and arts institutions.

The Republican governor even sang "Jingle Bells" with scores of students from the Barbara Ingram School for the Arts, a public high school that opened in 2009. It would be expanded under the $30 million plan.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — A homeless heroin addict acknowledged Monday that he killed a friend's girlfriend after she threatened to expose him for stealing $250 from the cash registers of a dollar store and a gas station.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police are announcing the arrest of a Pennsylvania man suspected of firing a handgun during a credit union robbery in western Maryland earlier this month.

Hagerstown police said in a statement Wednesday that 53-year-old Edwin Hoerner is also a suspect in the Dec. 7 armed robbery of a bank in Westminster, Maryland.