What happened on December 19, 2008

NEWS

• Community briefs 

• Colleagues still haunted by officer's slaying By HEATHER KEELS

• Library events 

• Movies Now Playing 

• Some oppose annexing railroad land south of Hagerstown By DAN DEARTH

• Writing doesn't have to be difficult By LISA PREJEAN

• Letters to the Editor 

• Steelers, Big Ben better late than ever 

• Hagerstown introduces measure to sell bonds for system improvements By DAN DEARTH

• Preps Area Roundup -- Middletown knocks off North girls 

• Police briefs 

• Pulling strings By KEVIN G. GILBERT / Staff Photographer

• Prescription drug workshop helps Wash. Co. seniors navigate program By DAN DEARTH

• In Berkeley Co., W.Va. reopened nearly 12 hours after crash 

• Parts of Catoctin Mountain Park to close 

• Crash ties up traffic on I-81 near Marlowe 

• Capitol Theatre nears its goal for fundraising 

• Mail Call 

• Weekend calendar 

• Mary E. Martz, 81 

• Time for Redskins to think about next year 

• Hickory Elementary celebrates award By ERIN JULIUS

• Club meetings, fundraisers 

• Old-fashioned fun BY CRYSTAL SCHELLE

• Harold H. Jones, 92 

• Blue Ridge Summit to host Christmas event 

• Philip B. Holcomb, 83 

• New Waynesboro officer was head of class By KATE S. ALEXANDER

• Jefferson Co. firm to relocate By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• Derek G. Winman, infant 

• Susan Frick McKibben, 48 

• Brook Lane chaplain gives a well of faith By MARLO BARNHART

• Evelyn J. Alger, 87 

• West Virginia briefs 

• Peggy W. Davis, 59 

• Leo E. Peck, 85 

• Mary E. Waltrick, 78 

• Helen F. Wadel, 89 

• Christopher K. Fischbach, 29 

• Shepherdstown teacher faces sex charges By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• Wayne Edward Albright, Sr., 71 

• John H. Waggoner 

• Lisa M. Schetrompf, 42 

• Indians deck rival Trojans By CHRIS CARTER

• Paul R. Kindle, 59 

• The Rev. Marton J. Roberson, 57