Bathroom

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Another phony bomb threat scrawled on a bathroom wall emptied another area school, with 1,400 students at Faust Junior High School having to wait on the bleachers outside while Chambersburg police searched the building Monday afternoon. "We have them out in the stadium," Superintendent Joseph Padasak said at about 2 p.m. "We'll let them back in the building once (the police) give us the building back. " The message, indicating the school was going to be blown up, was discovered at about 1:30 p.m., written on the wall of a second floor boys bathroom, school district spokeswoman Sylvia Rockwood said.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A 17-year-old girl alleged she fought off a man who was sexually attacking her Monday in a bathroom at Hoyts Cinemas, according to police. The Martinsburg Police Department charged Jason Paul Williams, 22, of Berkeley Springs, W.Va., with first-degree sexual abuse. Bond was set at $10,000. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for March 29. Williams has asked the court to appoint an attorney to represent him. A written account of the incident filed by Officer Terry Shetley in Berkeley County Magistrate Court alleges a man entered a women's bathroom, forced open a stall and pushed the teenager against a wall.

WILLIAMSPORT - Williamsport High School was evacuated Thursday for the second time in two days after a bomb threat was found written on a bathroom wall at the school. Deputy 1st Class Carl Witmer of the Washington County Sheriff's Office said the threat was discovered by a school employee in an upstairs bathroom near the school's main office about 9:30 a.m. Students were evacuated and walked to an adjacent school, where they spent about three hours before returning to Williamsport High about 1 p.m. after police investigated the threat.

martinsburg@herald-mail.com MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Harpers Ferry, W.Va., man was charged Friday with placing a hidden camera in his bathroom so he could record his roommate getting ready to take showers, according to records filed in Berkeley County Magistrate Court. Allen Gibson, 56, of 840 Kidwiler Road, was charged with 12 misdemeanor counts of criminal invasion of privacy. West Virginia State Police Trooper M.L. Dickerson started an investigation after Julien Hubert spoke to police on May 9. Hubert called police after he found a camera hidden in the ventilation grate in the home's bathroom.

CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - Police and state medical officials have ruled that a woman who was found dead in a local nursing home last week was the victim of an accidental death. Police said the 78-year-old woman, who had been a resident of the Blue Ridge Care and Rehabilitation Center since 2000, was found hanged by her neck in a bathroom at the nursing home. The woman was hanged from a shower head extension on a bathroom at the nursing home, said Charles Town Police Chief Mike Aldridge.

Decorative switch plates make a difference While shopping with her husband at a lumber/home-improvement store, Heloise noticed a selection of decorative light switch plates. "There are some darling ones out there," she says. She took the do-it-yourself approach in her guest bathroom, which has "beigy bamboo" wallpaper in an Oriental theme on some of the walls. Heloise spray-painted the switch plate black and drew in a little bamboo with a felt-tipped marker.

chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - The trial of a Spring Run, Pa., man charged with raping a teenage relative of his wife featured something the defense and prosecuting attorneys had experienced just once between them in their years of practice - a viewing of the crime scene by the jury. Thursday morning, shortly after the opening statements in the trial of Ronald James Daihl Jr., the jury was taken by bus to view his home, particularly the downstairs bathroom where the assault allegedly took place.

This is not your typical rectangular floor plan, though you'll find enough squared corners inside to put you at ease. The dining room is an elongated octagon, linked to a basically rectangular kitchen that is wide open on another side to a vaulted, half-octagonal great room. The short hallway linking the foyer to the carport is almost straight. But the hallway that leads to the owners' suite cuts a long, bold diagonal that leads past a home office, before offering entry to the owners' bathroom, huge walk-in closet, and finally the roomy sleeping area.

charlestown@herald-mail.com SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. - Someone set a trash can on fire in a boy's bathroom at Jefferson High School Thursday morning, the second day in a row a fire was reported at the school. The trash can was set on fire at about 11 a.m. in a boy's bathroom in the "C" wing, said Detective Sgt. Sam Harmon of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. School officials put out the bathroom blaze with a fire extinguisher, Harmon said. Harmon said the incident was under investigation and added that he is narrowing down a list of suspects.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. -- A woman and two of her children will be staying with relatives after their home was damaged by a fire Tuesday afternoon. The call for a fire at 48 N. Federal St. was dispatched at about 3:30 p.m., and the blaze caused fire damage to a rear first-floor bathroom, and heavy smoke and heat damage to the rest of the house, Emergency Services Chief Terry Osborne said. The cause of the fire had not been determined, he said. "There were flames in the bathroom," said Stephanie Hawley, who had just parked behind the house and was about to enter when she saw the flames.