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Bond for a Boonsboro man accused of attempted first-degree murder in a Saturday night stabbing remained at $700,000 Monday after a bail hearing in Washington County District Court. “Go ahead and slam me,” Daniel Edward Romano, 22, of 8414 Tusings Way, told District Judge R. Noel Spence when asked if he could cite any reasons why Spence should reduce the bail set by a District Court commissioner. “You're just here to tell me I'm guilty and slam me with bond,” Romano told Spence.

Shotgun, building supplies are missing The following crimes were reported to the Washington County Sheriff's Department: A .410-gauge shotgun was reported stolen Friday at about 11:30 p.m. from a residence in the 14000 block of Spickler Road east of Clear Spring, said Washington County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Mark Knight. He said the shotgun was valued at $400. More than $1,100 worth of building supplies were reported stolen at 8:30 a.m. Saturday from a job site at 11856 Boyd Road off U.S. 40 near Clear Spring, Knight said.

Who can say why it might have happened - when a kindergarten student at a public school in Washington County was accused of sexual harassment? The 5-year-old student allegedly pinched the buttocks of a female classmate in a hallway at Lincolnshire Elementary School on Dec. 8. The incident, however, raises a broader question: What do children at that young of an age really know about sex? They might know more than you think, researchers say. Sexual development begins well before children reach their teenage years, experts say. Kids draw on influences from every direction - from family, media and their peers, and personal experience as they get older.

Hagerstown police respond to calls The Hagerstown Police Department recently responded to the following incidents: Monday: · At 8:16 a.m., a burglary involving construction tools was reported in the 200 block of East Washington Street. Sunday: · At 7:52 a.m., a theft of meat was reported in the 700 block of East Wilson Boulevard. Saturday: · At 4:51 p.m., police responded to reports of thefts at Circuit City and Wal-Mart on Garland Groh Boulevard.

Four years after the death of a Hagerstown man memorialized for his roles as an educator, coach and Tuskegee airman, Memorial Recreation Center this month will be renamed the Robert W. Johnson Community Center in his honor. “As far as I'm concerned, he was the cream of the crop - but I guess I'm a little partial,” Patricia “Tish” Johnson said of her late husband.   Johnson, who died June 17, 2009, served in the Army Air Force as an aviation cadet in the United States during the waning days of World War II. He later taught science and coached basketball at the all-black North Street School, which is now the recreation center that will bear his name.

Police chief supports Zook in Pa. judicial race To the editor: As the chief of the Shippensburg (Pa.) Police Department and a retired state police sergeant with more than 40 years of combined experience, I write this endorsement. I have had the opportunity to work with many judges in several Pennsylvania counties. Each judge approached his duties in his or her own unique way. No one person is perfect in all they do - neither judge nor police officer. However, there are several qualities I look for in a judge.

charlestown@herald-mail.com MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - It is one of the moments in Deke Walker's West Virginia State Police career that sticks out in his memory. The then-24-year-old trooper had been with the state police two years when he was told in 1979 that he was being sent to the old West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, W.Va., because of a riot. When inmates broke out of the prison, an off-duty trooper who was outside the facility was shot to death and dragged out of his car, Walker said.

pepperb@herald-mail.com A man already serving 35 years for a 1991 murder conviction was sentenced to serve 13 more years after he pleaded guilty Thursday in Washington County Circuit Court to the attempted rape of a Roxbury Correctional Institution correctional officer in July. Delmar William Patrick III, 31, is serving a 50-year sentence, all but 35 years of which were suspended, for a 1991 murder conviction in Cecil County, Washington County State's Attorney Charles Strong said.

The following incidents were reported by the Washington County Sheriff's Office from 8 a.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Monday: A burglary in the 300 block of North Colonial Drive. A theft in the unit block of South Clifton Drive in Williamsport. A theft from a motor vehicle in the unit block of Haywood Circle. A theft from a motor vehicle in the 1200 block of Kuhn Avenue. A theft from a motor vehicle in the 17200 block of Reiff Church Road. A theft from a motor vehicle in the 6300 block of Coffman Farms Road.