What happened on August 18, 2009

NEWS

• Power forward 

• Strasburg is Nationals' $15 million man 

• Vikings reach deal with Favre 

• Top stories for Monday, Aug. 17 

• Roadside bomb kills two U.S. troops in Afghanistan 

• Milestones 

• Found animals 

• Jackson to be buried Aug. 29, family spokesman says 

• 10 things you should ... read 

• Firefighters practice near Hagerstown airport By HEATHER KEELS

• Milestones 

• Wholesale prices dropped sharply in July 

• Ella E. Graham, 84 

• Human services money might run out in Pa. By JENNIFER FITCH

• Board delays vote on coaching rules 

• Chemical device explodes outside Leitersburg Pike home 

• Community calendar 

• Hagerstown City Council briefs By ANDREW SCHOTZ

• Douglas E. White, 47 

• Lockerbie bomber drops appeal, hopes for release 

• Case forwarded against juvenile accused of rape By DAVE McMILLION

• Community calendar 

• North End group holds block party 

• Back to campus 

• Johnnie E. Powell, 79 

• Eighth-graders tell how they survived sixth grade By EMILY WARD / Pulse correspondent

• Ag calendar 

• Jackets zip up win over Suns 

• Mail Call 

• Five cases of parvo in dogs from downtown 

• City water, sewer rate hikes might be phased in By ANDREW SCHOTZ

• Frances Louise Talbott, 90 

• Conway crystal clear about Chanticleers By TIM KOELBLE

• Mail Call 

• Found animals 

• Around Williamsport By PAULA GREEN SHUPP / 301-302-3878

• Letters to the Editor 

• Washington Co. school board briefs By DAN DEARTH

• Warren E. Tomlinson, 86 

• Bessie Marie Tress 

• Skating helps Shatzer turn into big wheel By ANDREW MASON

• Around Smithsburg and Robinwood By DARYLENE MOWEN / 301-331-5683

• Peter O'Neil Everly, 72 

• Area roundup - Shepherd names its captains 

• Noland Village residents get into Healthy Groove By DAVE McMILLION

• Fire causes $5,000 in damage to Taco Bell By DAVE McMILLION

• What killed Mozart? Strep, report suggests 

• Cases forwarded against man charged in three rapes By KATE S. ALEXANDER

• Ray S. Koontz, 93 

• Franklin Co. Fair Queen assumes duties By JENNIFER FITCH

• Shuster tours JLG in McConnellsburg By KATE S. ALEXANDER

• Police briefs 

• Lt. Col. James O. Robinson, (USAF Ret.) 

• Novak, journalism's 'Prince of Darkness,' dies of brain cancer 

• One farmer's feed is another's weed By JEFF SEMLER

• Charles A. "Chuck" Johnson, 81 

• Hagerstown man gets more prison time in W.Va. drive-by shooting 

• Getting to know Emily Ward By KEIRA CALE / Pulse correspondent

• 8 men charged after park sting By ERIN JULIUS

• Sauce to savor By Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Around Clear Spring By CHERYL WEAVER

• Arbutus Mae "Boot" Whorton, 82 

• Around Funkstown By SUSIE HOFFMAN / 301-790-2413

• Dr. Eugene Willis Jr.