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charlestown@herald-mail.com CHARLES TOWN, W.VA. - Three local men were charged following a police pursuit on W.Va. 51 Saturday morning and police alleged that they found $2,350 in crack and $1,543 in cash after the car was stopped near Childs Road, court records say. David Allen Twyman, 28, of 426 E. North St., Charles Town; Joroy Nigel Twyman, 25, of 100 Cider Lane, Ranson, W.Va.; and Jorfory Nevin Twyman, 25, of 100 Cider Lane, Ranson, were charged with possession with intent, according to Jefferson County Magistrate Court records.

charlestown@herald-mail.com An 18-year-old Martinsburg man was charged Monday in last week's two-vehicle collision on Golf Course Road that left a West Virginia State Police officer seriously injured, police said. Aaron Curtis Lewis was charged with fleeing from an officer causing injury, a felony charge. Lewis was being held in the Eastern Regional Jail on $50,000 bond Monday night, West Virginia State Police 1st Sgt. Deke Walker said. Lewis turned himself in at Berkeley County Magistrate Court, Walker said.

About 3 pounds of marijuana was seized in separate traffic stops in Hagerstown this week, Hagerstown police said. Charged in the incidents were Misti Marie Yates, 39, of 23 Doral Lane, Martinsburg, W.Va., and Ivan Augustus Ransome, 34, of 407 S. Potomac St., Hagerstown, city police said. Yates was charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana and use of drug paraphernalia, according to police and Washington County District Court records.

A stolen car from Baltimore being pursued Wednesday by a Washington County sheriff’s deputy hit a tree and rolled over near the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and Indian Lane outside Hagerstown, authorities said. The driver of the car, an unidentified juvenile, was taken to Meritus Medical Center, where he was in stable condition Wednesday afternoon, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said in a news release. Deputy Aaron Horton was dispatched at 9:27 a.m. to Maranatha Brethren Church on Scott Hill Drive west of Hagerstown for a report of property found in the church's parking lot, the release said.

martinsburg@herald-mail.com MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - An Inwood, W.Va., man faces drunken driving and drug charges after police allege he crashed his vehicle into a utility pole late Sunday after a brief high-speed chase with police along Arden Nollville Road in Berkeley County. Cardinal James Carter, 45, of 425 Harranda Court, was charged with one felony count of fleeing with DUI and another count of possession with intent to deliver a counterfeit substance after crashing into a utility pole while attempting to outrun a police cruiser driven by West Virginia State Trooper 1st Class J.D. Burkhart, police said.

A Maryland State Police trooper broke up a road-rage confrontation in Hagerstown on Wednesday in which one driver allegedly pointed a gun at and tried to ram the other car, police said. Shortly after 4 p.m., a trooper in a marked patrol car on Dual Highway, east of Mount Aetna Road, saw two eastbound vehicles “that appeared to be driving in circles around one another in the middle of the roadway,” a police news release said. Activating his emergency lights and siren, the trooper followed the vehicles onto Edgewood Drive, then the parking lot of Martin's Food Market, where the vehicles made several laps in the parking lot at a high rate of speed, the news release said.

waynesboro@herald-mail.com WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Volunteers running the New Hope Shelter face fines or possible eviction of its nearly 50 residents if they fail to correct 30 violations discovered this week in a surprise inspection, Waynesboro Fire Marshal Jerry Hartman said Thursday. Hartman, who on Tuesday inspected the homeless shelter at 25 S. Potomac St., said the fire alarm system worked when he pulled handles throughout the building, but none of the 16 residents inside at the time went outside when it sounded.

Police: Driver shows gun during street race Maryland State Police believe two cars were involved in a street race early Sunday when one of the drivers displayed a large handgun, according to police. Police said the incident was reported about 7:30 a.m. Sunday. Police said a red Corvette and a black Honda Accord were driving side by side on westbound Interstate 70, between Md. 66 and U.S. 40, when one driver brandished the gun. Police allege a gun was found in one of the vehicles, which was stopped on Acme Road near Virginia Avenue, during a subsequent traffic stop.

City agrees to buy three Ford vehicles The city agreed Tuesday to buy three new Ford vehicles - two for the engineering and inspections department and one for the fire department. According to a memo, the city, under a state contract, will buy a 2006 Ford Focus for $10,541 and a 2006 Ford Ranger compact pickup truck for $10,351 from Miller Brothers Ford in Ellicott City, Md. Those vehicles would replace a 1995 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck with an engine that no longer works and a 1993 Ford Escort, according to the memo.