Dual Highway

A man made off with an undisclosed amount of money following a robbery at Brother's Pizza Express at 1732 Dual Highway Tuesday afternoon, said Sgt. John Lehman of the Hagerstown Police Department. The man showed a handgun during the 3:50 p.m. robbery and escaped in a vehicle, Lehman said. No one was hurt Lehman said. Lehman declined to give more specifics of the robbery Tuesday night because of an ongoing investigation.

The left shoulder of westbound Dual Highway near Manny's Home and Design Center was closed Tuesday morning and early afternoon while a cable television line was replaced, John Wisner of Trenching Unlimited is reporting. Traffic was not affected by the work. Wisner says the line was replaced because it snapped when the city put a manhole between Manny's Home and Designers and the Comfort Suites Hotel on Dual Highway. Antietam Cable contracted Trench Unlimited to fix the problem.

The left lane of Dual Highway (U.S. 40) eastbound was closed between Mount Aetna Road and Edgewood Drive on Thursday as part of the long-term plan to widen the intersection of Dual Highway and Edgewood Drive, said David Buck, a State Highway Administration spokesperson. The lane will be closed until 3 p.m. Thursday and could be closed Friday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Earlier Thursday, motorists could not turn left from Dual Highway eastbound onto Edgewood Drive, but that part of the intersection reopened around noon.

An empty lot near Edgewood Drive will become the site of a Sonic restaurant in Hagerstown. The city's seven-member Planning Commission approved site plans for the drive-in restaurant at 1710 Dual Highway by a unanimous vote at a workshop meeting last week. Plans call for a 1,460-square-foot building and 17 covered drive-in stalls to be built on the 0.623-acre lot next to PNC Bank and Hampton Inn. Traffic will enter and exit using the westbound lanes of Dual Highway. The site plan application was submitted Nov. 16, 2011, according to City Planning Director Kathleen A. Maher.

The occupants of a pickup truck said they were glad no one was injured when their vehicle flipped on its side after it collided with a car Friday morning on Day Road near Hagerstown. The driver of the pickup, Hagerstown resident Krista Sipes, said at the scene that she remembered a big crash, then heard a "thunk. " "I got completely turned around," Sipes said. "I think maybe I blacked out or my eyes were shut really tight. " Sipes' passenger, Jeff Brown, said the collision caused the pickup to spin 180 degrees and flip on its side.

The Hagerstown Hotel & Convention Center on Dual Highway is scheduled to close this month, a tourism official said. DFIN LLC is buying the property, according to Bill Barnes, a partner in the limited liability company. The sale is expected to become final in about three weeks. He declined to give the sale price. DFIN hasn't decided what to do with the property, Barnes said. He said the property's current owner, VFC Partners 8 LLC, and its management company made the decision to close the hotel, not DFIN.

A Boonsboro man died early Saturday as a result of injuries he sustained in a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of Dual Highway and Crest View Road, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Office news release. Anthony David Neal, 36, of 20834 Reno Monument Road, was taken to Meritus Medical Center after the 1:47 a.m. crash. He later was pronounced dead at the hospital, troopers said. Neal was driving a 1993 Dodge passenger vehicle east when he passed another vehicle, troopers said.

Hagerstown Police have charged a man with trying to rob a local gas station Monday morning. A masked man entered the BP station at 1760 Dual Highway at about 1:54 a.m., police said in a news release. The robber displayed a knife and approached a clerk behind the counter. The clerk struggled with the robber, who suffered a cut on his hand and then left, police said. A police K-9 followed a blood trail to an apartment on Edgewood Hill Circle, near the intersection of Dual Highway and Edgewood Drive.

Work at the intersection of Dual Highway and Edgewood Drive took longer than expected because of a rainy spring, but it should be finished in early September, barring any unforeseen issues, a State Highway Administration official said Thursday. The project, a joint effort between the state, Washington County and city of Hagerstown, has been going on since August 2009. It included widening both Dual Highway (U.S. 40) and Edgewood Drive and creating a double left-turn lane from southbound Edgewood Drive to eastbound Dual Highway, among other improvements.

Police responded to a Burger King on Dual Highway Sunday night at 6:56 p.m. for a possible bomb, but nothing was found, a Hagerstown Police Department spokesman said Sunday night. Police went to the restaurant at 503 Dual Highway after a note was found in the men's bathroom saying a bomb might be present, a 911 supervisor said. The restaurant was evacuated, the supervisor said. Authorities left the restaurant shortly before 8 p.m., after nothing was found, officials said.