What happened on October 27, 2009

NEWS

• Redistricting panel approves 19 proposals By DAN DEARTH

• Judge gives Meyers two life sentences for fire that killed two girls By ANDREW SCHOTZ

• Grace advances in state tourney 

• Ag calendar 

• Mail Call 

• Smithsburg to delay water rate increases By DAVE McMILLION

• Top stories for Monday, October 26th 2009 

• How to survive a zombie invasion By RACHAEL JOHNSON / Pulse correspondent

• Helen B. Sager, 80 

• Blazers serve up sweep of South By JACK HILL III/Staff Correspondent

• What Do You Think? 

• Comment sought on proposed child-support guidelines 

• Know your horror movie slashers By BOB GARVER / Special to The Herald-Mail

• Left behind 

• City electric rates to drop in 2011 By ANDREW SCHOTZ

• Community calendar 

• A strange journey: 'The Rocky Horror Show' By KACEY KEITH / Pulse correspondent

• Robert L. Gilliland Sr., 79 

• Doub annexation request sparks debate By ANDREW SCHOTZ

• Police briefs 

• Milestones 

• Pet Watch 

• Terry Lee Kittell, 66 

• Around Clear Spring By CHERYL WEAVER / 301-842-0087

• Found animals 

• Fulton County's jobless rate drops slightly By JENNIFER FITCH

• Pamela June Owens, 57 

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

• Man charged with murder in UConn player's stabbing death 

• Helen Lee Bowers, 79 

• Kids could learn a lot from a school farm By JEFF SEMLER

• College/Career Night 

• Ruth O. Drummer, 84 

• Leopards scrub Hubs to win title By DAN KAUFFMAN

• Woman ruled incompetent to stand trial in husband's slaying By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• Daniel John Anthony, 69 

• Commissioners balk at price for easements near mall By HEATHER KEELS

• Robert N. "Pappy" Gallagher 

• Getting to know Harley Harrison By LAKIN THOMAS / Pulse correspondent

• Eight more U.S. troops die in Afghanistan 

• Commissioners deadlocked on hiring of advanced life support techs By HEATHER KEELS

• Letters to the Editor 

• Two teens charged in escape and chase 

• Food gets gross for Halloween By ARLENE BURNETT / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Surber seeks to represent himself in murder trial By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• 3 bodies found in wreckage of U.S. plane in Afghanistan 

• Around Boonsboro By KRISTY SMITH / 301-432-8615

• W.Va. man gets 22 years for robbing disabled man By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• Gail Franklin Moreland, 65 

• Woman accused of stealing from nursing home resident By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• Clarence W. "Bill" Mull, 70 

• Man charged with possession with intent to deliver 

• Catherine V. Harshman, 90 

• H. Hart Bennett, 26 

• Robert Lee Oberholzer, 67 

• Cyrus E. Wolf, 87 

• Continuance granted in latest Harshman appeal By KATE S. ALEXANDER

• Liquor Board issues citation to Waynesboro's Eagles Club By JENNIFER FITCH

• No bingo for DC: Eagles roll, beat Redskins 27-17