Discharge

WILLIAMSPORT - A woman who was critically wounded in a shooting at her Williamsport-area home a month ago was discharged from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said. Washington County Sheriff's Department Investigator Christopher Weaver said Tuesday that Cathy Myers' family planned last week to send Myers, 44, of 12507 Kemps Mill Road near Williamsport, to a rehabilitative hospital upon her release from the Baltimore facility. He said he did not know to which hospital she was taken.

Man guilty of discharging gun in store By JULIE E. GREENE / Staff Writer A Hancock man received probation before judgment Monday after pleading guilty to discharging a firearm in a liquor store in Hancock, officials said. Douglas Burnett, 33, of Main Street, has paid almost $800 in restitution to the owners of two vehicles damaged by the bullet after it went through a wall of the store, his attorney, Wiley Rutledge, told Washington County Circuit Judge Donald E. Beachley.

gregs@herald-mail.com MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A 30-year-old soldier who grew up in Martinsburg and said he personally watched the statue of Saddam Hussein fall died in a single-car accident in Washington County Wednesday night. Despite Robert "Bert" Carl Wright's recent service in the Middle East, "he was the most happiest-go-lucky kid you'd ever seen," his father, Jon Wright, 56, of Martinsburg said Thursday. Robert Wright had served in the U.S. Army for 10 years until he was officially discharged Jan. 16, Jon Wright said.

HAGERSTOWN -- A homeless man who acted as his own lawyer Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court had his conviction for discharging a firearm within Hagerstown's city limits struck, and received probation before judgment. Probation before judgment means if he successfully serves a year of probation, the conviction will not appear on his record. James Michael Devine, 57, must also serve 50 hours of community service within 60 days, and may not live on the streets of Hagerstown or possess firearms during his probation.

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Hedgesville, W.Va., woman injured in a motorcycle accident on Tuesday afternoon was taken to York (Pa.) Hospital, Chambersburg police said. Cindy Seckman was hit while riding a 2001 Yamaha on Orchard Drive at 1:35 p.m., Chambersburg police said. Police said Fay Montgomery, of Chambersburg, started to turn her 2002 Chrysler into CVS Pharmacy's parking lot, cutting in front of Seckman. Seckman was flown to York Hospital by helicopter. A hospital spokeswoman said Seckman was discharged.

A Hagerstown man who was struck by a train Saturday morning in the area of Hopewell Road and Interstate 81 was discharged from the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, a spokesman for the center said Sunday evening. Jimmy E. Lewis, 30, suffered internal injuries in the accident, which happened shortly after 11:30 a.m., Deputy 1st Class Bryan Teets of the Washington County Sheriff's Office said previously. Teets said Lewis was lying across the tracks when he was struck.

A woman who had been in critical condition at Washington County Hospital following a motorcycle accident last weekend on Interstate 81 was discharged from the hospital Monday, a hospital spokesman said. The crash that injured Deborah Nusbaum happened about 5 p.m. Saturday in the southbound lanes near exit 6A, which leads to U.S. 40, a Washington County 911 dispatcher said. Maryland State Police Trooper 1st Class J.R. Bowers said Nusbaum, 52, of Boonsboro, was coming off a ramp and struck a passenger car on southbound I-81.

HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. - A Baltimore woman seriously injured in a kayaking accident Saturday afternoon in the Potomac River had been discharged from Washington County Hospital late Monday, a nursing supervisor there said. Dawn S. Ruben, 39, was kayaking on the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry when she was separated from her group just before 1 p.m., Maryland Natural Resources Police Sgt. Ken Turner said. She was 100 feet from the West Virginia shore when the accident took place.

shappell@herald-mail.com julieg@herald-mail.com Hagerstown Police are asking for help in finding a man who allegedly pistol-whipped a woman at a party Thursday night on North Locust Street. When the woman was hit in the forehead with the gun, it accidentally discharged, Detective Steve Hoover said this morning. The incident was reported just after 11 p.m. Thursday. No one was shot, he said. A 28-year-old Hagerstown woman was treated and released from Washington County Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.

A 12-year-old girl who was injured in a traffic accident that killed her father Tuesday on Interstate 70 near the Washington-Frederick county line has been discharged from Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday night. Macey N. Gammon was steering a disabled vehicle that her father and 11-year-old brother were pushing on I-70 east when they were struck from behind by a vehicle at about 6:45 p.m., according to Maryland State Police.