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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Two people remained hospitalized Sunday after a two-car crash that killed a Martinsburg man on Saturday. Sonny Claye Gray, 21, of 1551 Charles Town Road, was killed when the car he was driving on U.S. 11 hit a van head-on, according to West Virginia State Police. cont. from news page At about 12:30 a.m., Gray, who was traveling south in a 1988 Plymouth Sundance, tried to pass another vehicle on the left in a no-passing zone, police said. Gray's car collided head-on with a 1992 Dodge Caravan driven by Michael Rea, 40, of 1010 Magnolia Lane, Falling Waters, W.Va.

A 20-year-old Hagerstown man charged with impersonating an emergency responder at a crash scene earlier this year was found not guilty Tuesday in Washington County Circuit Court. Circuit Judge Daniel P. Dwyer said he could not find Forrest Jordan Gunter guilty beyond a reasonable doubt on charges of impersonating and conspiring to impersonate an emergency responder. "Although I think Mr. Gunter is probably guilty," Dwyer said. Before announcing the verdict, Dwyer granted defense attorney David Harbin's motion for a judgment of acquittal on charges of obstructing and conspiring to obstruct police.

A former corrections officer at the Maryland Correctional Institution at Hagerstown was placed on probation for two years after pleading guilty Wednesday in Washington County District Court to smuggling telephones to two inmates. Chad Struntz, 26, of 11610 Poplar Ave., Cumberland, Md., received probation before judgment after entering the plea before visiting Judge Frederick Bower, according to court records. Under probation before judgment, a conviction can be removed from the defendant's record if he or she successfully completes probation.

marlob@herald-mail.com Within minutes of a shooting Tuesday afternoon at the Washington Garden Apartments on Security Road, a teenager was in custody, Hagerstown City Police said. The 1:45 p.m. shooting sent Marvin Eugene Moyer, 31, of 950B Security Road, to Washington County Hospital with a gunshot wound to his upper left thigh. At 2:25 p.m., Charles E. Kelley, 17, of 980A Security Road, was pulled over on Wesel Boulevard by Cpl. Roy Harsh and Deputy 1st Class Brad Creek, both of the Washington County Sheriff's Department.

Man calls mascots offensive By TARA REILLY tarar@herald-mail.com The Kensington, Md., man who persuaded the Montgomery County Board of Education to stop using American Indian nicknames and mascots for schools is asking the Washington County Board of Education to do the same, but the School Board has not made a decision. continued Richard Regan, a Lumbee Indian, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that the use of American Indian mascots and names mocks American Indian people, demeans the culture, "tramples upon American Indian tradition" and "equates American Indians to animal species.

Kids Stuff yard sale The Longmeadow Lions Club and the Chewsville Lions Club will again provide food at the Kids Stuff yard sale Saturday. The event is held at Volvo Powertrain, 13302 Pennsylvania Ave., Hagerstown, from 7 to 11 a.m. The sale will be held rain or shine, and no commercial vendors are permitted. Beginning this month, the Longmeadow Lions Club's regular meeting start time is 6:15 p.m. Meetings are the second and fourth Thursdays of each month at Always Ron's Restaurant, Burhans Boulevard.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Pennsylvania State Police on Tuesday said drug-trafficking charges had been filed against five people as a result of joint investigations by the state police Vice Unit and Franklin County Drug Task Force. Ronald Lacy, age and address unavailable, of Marlowe, W.Va., and Dale "Mike" Mooney, age and address unavailable, both have been charged with several counts each of delivery of cocaine, criminal use of a communication facility and criminal conspiracy to deliver cocaine, police said.

Editor's note: This is the third in a monthly series about neighborhood grocery stores. Aside from being the provider of penny candy, produce, steamers and pot pie, Locust Point Market has helped give a neighborhood its identity, according to the residents who've shopped there for decades. "I can't imagine Locust Point without it," said Lynda Evans, president of Neighborhoods 1st, Locust Point, part of a network of community groups throughout Hagerstown. Locust Point Market is a family-owned corner store in a residential neighborhood colloquially referred to as Locust Point.

The Hagerstown man charged in the Jan. 15 shooting death of Damon M. Scott was indicted on one count of murder Tuesday by a Berkeley County grand jury, according to Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Games-Neely's office. Brock Jerome Smith, who turns 22 today, is being held at Eastern Regional Jail without bond. Also indicted Tuesday was co-defendant, Dionnday M. Anderson, 21, who is charged with making a false statement to a law enforcement officer. Anderson, who also is incarcerated at ERJ, is accused of lying to Berkeley County Sheriff's Department Deputy Trampus Boyles, according to the indictment returned by sequestered jury.

An open house celebration commemorating completion of a $300,000 restoration project plus the movement of 264 acres into permanent farmland protection status will be held Sunday at the Claymont Society's main mansion from noon to 2 p.m. The 34-room house off Huyett Road was built in 1820, the largest of 12 mansions built in Jefferson County by siblings, relatives and descendants of George Washington in the late 18th and early 19th centuries....