A Washington County jury recently found a Frederick, Md., man guilty in the St. Patrick’s Day 2022 shooting death of Hagerstown resident Jermaine Reed II in Hagerstown’s West End. The weeklong trial included testimony on Thursday, June 27, from a co-defendant in the case who supplied Hagerstown Police with information that Kyeron, or Kye’ron, Zaimere […]
A Hagerstown man and Maryland Vehicle Administration employee was arrested Friday after threatening to bomb his workplace, according to police. The 38-year-old employee faces one count of making a threat of mass violence and one count of arson threat after other MVA employees told Maryland State Police that the suspect said he was going to […]
Hagerstown Police are investigating two weekend shootings in which vehicles were damaged by gunfire. There were no reports of people shot in either incident, according to police news releases. The investigation includes whether the two shootings are related, according to Lt. Rebecca Fetchu, spokesperson for the police department. Heat index expected to exceed 100: Low […]
Daphne Wang is a current junior at North Hagerstown High School involved in the International Baccalaureate program, her school’s Key Club, and the academic quiz team. But on top of Wang’s busy schedule, she has just been elected to serve on the Washington County Board of Education as the 2024-2025 student representative. As the student […]
Sheetz is celebrating its newest convenience store in Washington County on Tuesday with a grand opening that includes free self-serve coffee and soda for the day, according to a news release announcing the opening. The Sheetz, along eastbound Dual Highway near Mount Aetna Road, will open to the public at 8 a.m. Tuesday, with grand […]
A Washington County Circuit Court judge ordered another mental health evaluation for Anthony Lee Donnelly on Tuesday after Donnelly’s attorney entered an insanity plea regarding allegations Donnelly killed his wife a year ago. Rachela Virginia Disandro, 37, of Hagerstown, was found dead early on May 26, 2023, inside a stone alcove beneath the porch of […]
Hagerstown Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash Monday afternoon in which the motorcyclist later died. The motorcyclist was identified as Francis Walter, 35, of Hagerstown, according to a news release from Hagerstown Police. This is the second motorcycle fatality in April in the city. Hagerstown’s South End: Former Hagerstown hardware store to be condemned after […]
A Hagerstown man being held Monday morning in a Harrisburg, Pa., jail is a suspect in a case that Hagerstown Police believe is a domestic-related murder, according to a post on the police department’s Facebook page. Hagerstown Police found an apparent homicide victim Sunday after being asked around 10:30 a.m. to do a welfare check […]
A Martinsburg, W.Va.-area man was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in state prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to second-degree assault in a July shooting in a strip mall parking lot east of Hagerstown. Washington County Circuit Court Judge Mark K. Boyer sentenced Taevon James Davis, 20, to 10 years in state prison, suspending all but […]
Hagerstown is getting a new ballpark downtown, the state is paying the bills, and now the future stadium’s owners and operators are asking the state’s legislators to provide the legal protections of a local government. A bill, the Local Government Torts Claim Act, or Senate Bill 849, has been proposed to give the Hagerstown Multi–Use […]
A Hagerstown man has been charged with second-degree arson and other crimes for allegedly setting fire to the former Snook’s Poultry building in downtown Hagerstown, according to the Hagerstown Fire Department and the Office of the State Fire Marshal. An estimated 90 firefighters from several fire companies battled the blaze Sunday night at 24-28 W. […]
A former Hagerstown man received a suspended sentence Thursday after paying almost $4,000 in restitution for an animal cruelty case last summer in which three German shepherds were found in a hot shed. One of the dogs, Tallka, died suddenly in her kennel on July 17, a few days after authorities removed the dogs under […]