What happened on July 27, 2010

NEWS

• Candidates get a night out at Potomac Fish & Game Club By DAVE McMILLION

• N.Y. man charged with illegally transporting cigarettes By DON AINES

• PONY Stars zone in to win West Region title 

• Douglas Edward Spiker, 65 

• Martinsburg finishes fiscal year with surplus By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• Top stories for Monday, July 26th 2010 

• Ag calendar 

• Donald Edward Nickles Sr., 81 

• Beulah Ardella Anderson, 93 

• Community calendar 

• Staley would continue father's support for vocational programs By JULIE E. GREENE

• Md., Pa. among 19 Race to the Top finalists By JULIE E. GREENE

• Beauty of Yosemite By COURTNEY BRADFORD / Pulse correspondent

• Maj. Lloyd Edwin Dimick Jr., USAF (retired) 

• Capito's mobile office plans stops in Panhandle 

• Hunter Daniel Johnson Sr., 76 

• W.Va. man unearths pelvic bone in backyard By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• Learning Center hosting open house Wednesday 

• Tow boat strikes well, spilling more crude into Gulf of Mexico 

• Hagerstown snaps 6-game skid in split By BOB PARASILITI

• Mail Call 

• Letters to the Editor 

• Patrick Lynn Loftis, 55 

• Senate Republicans block campaign finance bill 

• Big war boost clears Congress, despite Afghan leak 

• Joseph S. Antoon, 57 

• Still no answers at Halfway Fire Co. 

• Found animals 

• Cause of George St. fire still unknown, but appears to have been unintentional 

• Blue Ridge title goes to Orioles again By JACK HILL III/Staff Correspondent

• Class on preserving food set for Thursday 

• Milestones 

• Area Scouts head to national jamboree 

• Commissioners OK $5,000 for Clear Spring Little League By HEATHER KEELS

• Mabel V. Dove 

• Julie Chiappetta, 53 

• Greencastle Church of God plans family event 

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

• Washington County Commission briefs By HEATHER KEELS

• Maugansville off to 1-1 start at state tournament 

• Second dentist has joined staff at Healthy Smiles By MATTHEW UMSTEAD

• Fulton, Franklin counties' jobless rates improve By JENNIFER FITCH

• Residents speak against Long Meadow annexation By KATE S. ALEXANDER

• Lutherans help build Habitat home in Smithsburg 

• Woman charged with trying to smuggle drugs to inmate 

• Loss of $850M in federal funding potentially 'disastrous' for Pa. By JENNIFER FITCH

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

• Longtime elementary school bus driver retires By TRISH RUDDER

• Ricky Lee Myers Sr., 56 

• Potterfield plunge 

• Spontaneous combustion fire causes damage to Lexus 

• Nationals pitcher gets schooling with Suns By BOB PARASILITI

• BP's next CEO says company will remain committed to Gulf 

• GOP candidate for Pa. governor visits Shippensburg fair By C.J. LOVELACE

• Judith Ann "Judy Valentine" Sharer, 70 

• Young graffiti artists use paper, not underpasses and buildings By JENNIFER FITCH

• Brook Lane holds autism open house 

• County OKs repairs for Devil's Backbone Dam By HEATHER KEELS

• Case against man accused of impersonation put on inactive docket By DON AINES

• Teen pulled from lake showing signs of improvement