What happened on December 15, 2005

NEWS

• Obituaries 

• Sinclair Hamilton - new Hancock councilman by MARLO BARNHART

• Preps Boxscores 

• Gaels break tie, Titans' hearts by CURT HORNBECKER / Staff Correspondent

• Hagerstown briefs by ANDREW SCHOTZ

• Found Animals 

• Jury finds man guilty in meat cleaver assault by DON AINES

• Firm's CEO says former fort will be an 'American dream' By TARA REILLY

• Letters to the editor 

• Mail Call 

• Weather forecast - The ice cometh by KAREN HANNA

• Leopards meet their matches by ANDREW MASON

• Toy trains are the them of Historical Society open house 

• Preps Area Roundup 

• Police briefs 

• Punt's grant could be boost for downtown by RICHARD F. BELISLE

• Tejada must endure pain of O's ultramarrathon by ANDY MASON

• Ads can reveal state of the union By TIM ROWLAND

• Snow Madonna by Kevin G. Gilbert

• Secrets building to remain empty by DANIEL J. SERNOVITZ

• Police search for knife used in W.Va. school-bus stabbing by CANDICE BOSELY

• Santa meets the symphony by KATE COLEMAN

• Artist continues to evolve by KRISTIN WILSON

• Students share their creativity with the MSO by KATE COLEMAN

• Boys placed on detention, probation for vandalism by PEPPER BALLARD

• Judge locks up youth who's late for court by PEPPER BALLARD

• Rams don't horse around with Trojans by CHRIS CARTER /Staff Correspondent

• Woman doesn't let struggles break her Christmas spirit by MARLO BARNHART

• 'We needed to do something' by ERIN CUNNINGHAM

• Bulldog detachment presents Marine of the Year award by ALICIA NOTARIANNI

• Church's Geneva Bible has famous buyer by RICHARD F. BELISLE

• Downtown business district proposed in Waynesboro by RICHARD F. BELISLE

• Freedom from Smoking classes offered at hospitals 

• Hagerstown man convicted in Pa. shooting by DON AINES

• Charles Town names new police chief by DAVE McMILLION

• Woman believes foul play involved in sister's death by DON AINES

• Friends will miss couple killed in fire by BONNIE H. BRECHBILL