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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A gunman opened fire at an Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer on Monday, killing five people and wounding four others before turning the gun on himself in what police said was a domestic violence dispute. The shooting at Emcore Corp. appeared to involve the 37-year-old gunman's ex-wife or girlfriend, police Chief Ray Schultz said. It was not immediately clear whether she was among the dead, or what caliber weapon he used. Schultz said the gunman was a former employee, but did not release his name.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - Three people were robbed at gunpoint in a pair of separate incidents Sunday night and early Monday in the City of Martinsburg, police said. Martinsburg City Police were investigating a possible link between the robberies. In the first robbery at about 10:15 p.m. Sunday, a man was approached by a gunman at the intersection of West King Street and Delaware Avenue, police said. The gunman took an undisclosed amount of cash from the man and was seen getting into the passenger side of a dark-colored car with a loud exhaust, police said.

Baltimore police say a gunman shot six people sitting on a porch in southwest Baltimore, killing one and critically injuring two others. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says initial reports also show two were in critical condition at Shock Trauma following the shooting Thursday about 1:30 p.m. The three other victims appear to have non-life-threatening injuries. Guglielmi says the six people were on a porch talking when a gunman walked down the street and opened fire. He fled on foot.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Martinsburg woman thwarted an attempted robbery Wednesday morning after a masked gunman broke into her mobile home, police said. Paula Gorman said she awoke shortly after midnight when she thought she heard someone knocking on the front door of her home at Gantt's Mobile Home Park on Grade Road. Gorman, 29, said she turned on the porch light and opened the front door to find a man in a ski mask pointing a gun at her. "He said, 'Open the door or I'm going to shoot you,'" Gorman said.

chambersburg@herald-mail.com CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - Already serving a prison sentence for one armed robbery, a Chambersburg man is looking at up to 46 more years behind bars after a Franklin County jury convicted him Thursday of another holdup. Corey L. Williams, 21, formerly of 412 Linden Ave., will be sentenced Dec. 3 by Judge Douglas Herman for the Jan. 30, 2002, robbery of Getty Mart, 4188 Lincoln Way West, St. Thomas, Pa. Earlier this year, Williams was convicted by a jury and sentenced to 81/2 to 35 years in prison for the March 3, 2002, armed robbery of a 7-Eleven at 11374 Buchanan Trail East, Rouzerville, Pa. The jury deliberated less than 90 minutes before finding Williams guilty of robbery, four counts of simple assault, four counts of recklessly endangering another person and one count each of making terroristic threats and carrying a firearm without a license.

By FRANCA LEWIS Staff Writer A branch of the Home Federal Savings Bank was robbed Friday night just before closing, Hagerstown City Police said. A lone, masked gunman walked into the bank branch at 1700 Dual Highway at the intersection of Edgewood Drive in the East End of the city, police said. The robber displayed a "long-armed weapon," police said. No arrests have been made. Police described the gunman as white, about 25 years old, medium build, and 5 feet 8 inches tall.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - As city police on Tuesday looked for four men who robbed McDonald's on North Queen Street at gunpoint, no one was panicking at other shops in the neighborhood. The managers of several other stores, particularly fast-food restaurants, had their own crime stories to report. But no one was writing off the neighborhood as dangerous. "We don't have problems like that," said Joe Lightcap, working at nearby Dunkin' Donuts on Edwin Miller Boulevard. "It's pretty nice here.

RANSON, W.Va. - A first-degree murder warrant has been issued charging the former husband of a Ranson woman who was gunned down in the living room of her East Sixth Avenue home Monday night, police said. Police across the Eastern Panhandle continued to search Wednesday for William Trampas Widmyer, charged in a warrant with shooting his former wife and wounding a man who was with her in her home. --cont. from front page -- One of two vehicles Widmyer was believed to have stolen after the shooting was found in Morgan County on Wednesday morning, police said.

shappell@herald-mail.com A Hagerstown man remained in critical condition Friday at Washington County Hospital as police continued their investigation to find the gunman who shot him. A Washington County Hospital spokeswoman said Tony Lamar Moorehead, 25, of the 600 block of North Prospect Street, was in critical condition at the hospital. Officers from the Hagerstown Police Department found Moorehead lying in front of the Neighborhood Inn at 139 N. Mulberry St. at 11:18 p.m. Thursday with a bullet wound to the abdomen.