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Shooting in Washington County damages vehicle The Washington County Sheriff's Department is investigating a shooting that damaged a vehicle at about 2 a.m. Sunday, Deputy James Sword said in a news release. The shooting took place in the 11900 block of Pheasant Trail, near Robinwood Drive east of Hagerstown, Sword said. Someone approached the property on foot and shot a firearm, striking a vehicle in the driveway five times, Sword said. Two additional bullet strikes were found on the house, Sword said.

martinsburg@herald-mail.com One of the numerous photographs of Terry Lee Walker Jr. taped to his parents' refrigerator stood out from the rest. Taken less than a week before Terry died in a head-on collision on W.Va. 9 last summer, the picture was smaller than many others. It showed Terry cooly leaning against the side of a building, his head slightly turned away, his characteristic smile absent. As she looked at the picture, Terry's mother, Margaret, also momentarily lost her characteristic smile.

A 1995 Jeep Cherokee was reported stolen sometime between midnight and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday from Cathedral Avenue, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department. Deputies said the four-door Jeep disappeared from the home of Joseph R. Frazier at 12901 Cathedral Ave. It was black with tinted windows, roof rack, trailer hitch and a red stripe on the side molding, they said.

Jeep careens into paint store No one was injured Saturday afternoon when a Hagerstown woman blacked out behind the wheel of her Jeep Grand Cherokee, crossed four lanes of a street and a parking lot before smashing into a paint store. "Everybody was lucky," said Lloyd McAllister, who was northbound on North Burhans Boulevard just before 2 p.m. when the Jeep came down George Street and just missed his Oldsmobile on Burhans Boulevard. "She passed right in front of us," said McAllister, 62, of Falling Waters, W.Va.

martinsburg@herald-mail.com A 17-year-old boy in a wheelchair was hit by a car while waiting to be picked up by a school bus Friday morning, police said. The driver of the car was charged with driving under the influence, said West Virginia State Police Sgt. Deke Walker. Because the boy is a juvenile, Walker declined to publicly release his name. The boy was taken by ambulance to Winchester Medical Center, where a spokeswoman refused to release his condition. The teen is a student at Martinsburg High School, said Mary Jo Brown, a schools spokeswoman.

Brand expansion is the name of the game at Jeep and the 2007 Compass charts a whole new course. DaimlerChrysler's off-road experts division will launch the Compass and equally new Patriot by summer, in addition to a restyled Wrangler this fall. In many ways, the Compass is the most radical of the trio. Radical because, unlike every other model in Jeep's 65-plus-year history, the Compass will come with standard front-wheel drive, not rear-/four-wheel drive. And in another departure from the norm, even four-wheel-drive versions are not rated or necessarily recommended for off-road excursions.