Delaware

SMITHSBURG - Marilyn Hembrock, a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, has been elected president of the Delaware-Maryland Synodical Women's Organization of the Women of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Hembrock assumed her post at the annual convention, which was earlier this summer at Baltimore Lutheran High School in Towson, Md. Active for many years in the organization, Hembrock has been president of the Feeser scholarship committee for the past six years. "We give scholarships to women entering the full-time ministry," Hembrock said, noting that at least one scholarship has been awarded annually through that committee.

Approximately 600 Lutherans, some from Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore, are meeting for their annual convention June 9-11 at the Clarion Conference Center Antietam Creek in Hagerstown. The Delaware-Maryland Synod includes more than 20 congregations in Washington County and many of the organizers, including the Rev. David Kaplan, chairman; the Rev. Julie Brigham, assembly chaplain; and the Rev. Marton Roberson, chairman of the coordinating assembly worship. Wayne Wold is keynote speaker.

A Funkstown man was killed Saturday night in Dover, Del., when he was struck by a car traveling on a highway he attempted to cross, Dover Police Department Capt. Lester Boney said Monday. Robert Davis, 43, of 43 Frederick Road in Funkstown, was killed at about 11:23 p.m. Saturday when he was struck by a car traveling north on U.S. 13 near Dover Downs International Speedway, Boney said. Boney said U.S. 13 is a six-lane highway. No charges were pending against the driver of the car, Boney said.

COLLEGE BASEBALL COCOA BEACH, Fla. - Kyle Robinson's bases-loaded, two-out walk in the bottom of the eighth inning gave Hasgerstown Community College a wild 7-6 victory over Delaware Tech at the Cocoa Expo on Monday. The Hawks (2-3) gave up three runs in the top of the eighth before rallying, with a lot of help from Delaware Tech. With one out, Marty Kaetzel singled, Lowell Coates walked and Drew Counselman smacked an RBI double to make it 6-4. After the second out, Robbie Davis walked to load the bases, Eric Miksitz walked to make it 6-5, Alex Bower was hit by a pitch to tie the game and Robinson walked to win it. Counselman, Miksitz, Coates and Kaetzel each had two hits for HCC. WOMEN'S BASKETBALL Hood players honored Hood College's Rita Willis for the second straight year was voted the Atlantic Women's Colleges Confererence's Most Outstanding Player by the conference coaches.

He might have divided important tracts of rich farmland, sawn magnificent stands of oak and walnut and smelted iron ore, shipping grain, timber and metal down the Potomac River and bringing boatloads of cloth, plaster, seeds and tools back upstream - perhaps under the power of a prototypical steamship - to tame the wild frontier. Instead, George Washington settled for becoming the nation's first president. If his mind was on the Revolutionary War and a fledgling government, his heart was in Berkeley Springs, Hancock, Oldtown, Cumberland, Romney and points west, a region he tramped so often that the wilderness became known as "Washington's Woods.

kauffman@herald-mail.com What Chambersburg senior Heather Ranck knew in November became official on Wednesday - she'll be attending University of Delaware on a full scholarship starting this fall to play NCAA Division I volleyball. Ranck, a 2002 Herald-Mail All-Area selection, is one of six freshmen expected to play next year for the Fighting Blue Hens, members of the Colonial Conference. During a telephone interview Thursday, Ranck said she was impressed by "the school itself academically and the size of it, and of course the coaches and the team.

GREENCASTLE, Pa. - Pennsylvania State Police are investigating the death of a Delaware woman whose car was struck by a Conrail train in Antrim Township after she apparently drove onto the tracks Saturday night. Anna McCusker, 53, of Dover, was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:57 p.m. by Franklin County Coroner Kenneth L. Peiffer Jr. An autopsy conducted Sunday at the Lehigh Valley Medical Center in Allentown, Pa., determined that she died of multiple trauma, according to Peiffer.