Maryland State Police

A woman was killed and another injured last week in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Point of Rocks and Lander roads, Maryland State Police in Frederick County said. The crash occurred at 6:09 p.m. Thursday when the driver of a 2003 Kia Sorento, Linda M. Weddle, 65, address not given, failed to stop at a stop sign on Lander Road, police said. The Kia went into the intersection and was hit on the passenger's side by a westbound 2012 Ford Escape driven by Kay A. Brown, 54, address not given, police said.

Emergency crews responded to the scene of a multiple-vehicle crash on the Potomac River bridge on U.S. 340 shortly after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to a Washington County 911 supervisor. Two vehicles were involved in the incident, according to the Maryland State Police. All parties involved refused medical treatment, police said. The crash occurred on the Potomac River bridge at the southern tip of Washington County near the Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia borders. The road was closed for about 30 minutes, police said.

Several children made up a story that led Hagerstown Police and a Maryland State Police helicopter on a wild goose chase Monday evening, according to police. The children told officers they were playing in a wooded area behind Little Elliott Drive at about 7:30 p.m., when a man tried to abduct one of them at gunpoint, according to a Hagerstown Police Department news release. Officers said that while they searched the area, they discovered that a 12-year-old boy who had been playing with the children was missing.

The Maryland Comptroller's Office and Maryland State Police from the Hagerstown barrack stopped two vehicles earlier this week that authorities allege were carrying 26,000 packs of contraband cigarettes worth $154,000 across state lines, law enforcement officials said. The traffic stops resulted in charges against a Philadelphia man and three men who live in New York, according to a comptrollers office news release. Mohammad T. Issa, of College Point, N.Y., was charged with one count of transportation and possession of contraband cigarettes in the State of Maryland.

Maryland State Police on Aug. 8 conducted a sobriety checkpoint on U.S. 40 at Crestview Drive. Fifteen state police personnel were used in the opertion, according to an e-mailed release.  During the operation, 652 vehicles passed through the checkpoint, 12 vehicles were identified for further testing and one person was charged with driving while impaired, police said. Three people were charged with possession of marijuana, police said. State police also were deployed in the immediate area of the checkpoint to conduct saturation patrol to identify impaired drivers.

FREDERICK, Md. -- Trooper Gregg Lantz had just finished scarfing down his fast-food lunch in anticipation of receiving a call when word came that a worker had been injured at a manufacturing plant in Buckeystown, Md. Moments later, Lantz, a paramedic for Maryland State Police, and helicopter pilot Matthew Wagner took off in Trooper 3, a Eurocopter Dauphin N3 helicopter based at Frederick Municipal Airport, and were on their way to the scene of...

tarar@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - Maryland State Police will add more road troopers and another supervisor to the Hagerstown barrack this spring in response to community concerns over the declining number of troopers in recent years, Western Region Commander Major Vernon Herron said Friday. Herron said three new road troopers and a supervisor will start working at the Hagerstown barrack the first week of March. The employees will be seasoned officers who live in or near the county and have requested transfers to the Hagerstown barrack, he said.

Sandra Volneck has faced many challenges over the years, but the hardest thing she ever had to do was look at her 15-year-old daughter's battered, lifeless body before closing the casket and burying her. “I wouldn't wish that on nobody. I'll never get over it,” Volneck said last week. “Never.” Twenty-nine years later and recovering from surgery for lung cancer, Volneck still does not know who killed her only child. Maryland State Police recovered Lorraine “Lori” Zimmerman's body from a wooded area outside Boonsboro in April 1984.

A local man and woman who both were traveling alone died Wednesday in separate, single-vehicle accidents in Washington County, Maryland State Police said. Read the full story in Thursday's Herald-Mail newspapers.

A tractor-trailer carrying watermelons overturned Saturday morning on Interstate 81, Maryland State Police said. The truck flipped over near the Pennsylvania state line on Saturday about 6:30 a.m., police said.

Westbound Interstate 70 near Frederick was closed for about 10 hours following a tractor-trailer rollover that occurred Wednesday night, Maryland State Police said. A tractor-trailer carrying fertilizer overturned on the ramp at 8:55 p.m. Wednesday, state police said in a news release.  The driver and the passenger in the tractor-trailer were taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital, the release said. Westbound I-70 was closed until shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday, when one lane reopened.

Emergency crews responded to the scene of a multiple-vehicle crash on the Potomac River bridge on U.S. 340 shortly after 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to a Washington County 911 supervisor. Two vehicles were involved in the incident, according to the Maryland State Police. All parties involved refused medical treatment, police said. The crash occurred on the Potomac River bridge at the southern tip of Washington County near the Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia borders. The road was closed for about 30 minutes, police said.

A woman was killed and another injured last week in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Point of Rocks and Lander roads, Maryland State Police in Frederick County said. The crash occurred at 6:09 p.m. Thursday when the driver of a 2003 Kia Sorento, Linda M. Weddle, 65, address not given, failed to stop at a stop sign on Lander Road, police said. The Kia went into the intersection and was hit on the passenger's side by a westbound 2012 Ford Escape driven by Kay A. Brown, 54, address not given, police said.

A woman crossing the road as she walked her dog was struck by a car and killed Thursday morning on Downsville Pike, Maryland State Police said. Elinor McLeod, 81, of Williamsport, died when she was struck by a Volkswagen sedan driven by Mohamed A. Majeed, 49, of Fairplay, state police said in a news release. Majeed was traveling north on Downsville Pike when the accident happened shortly before 8:30 a.m., state police said in a press release. McLeod was walking east across the travel portion of the roadway when she was struck, according to state police.

One of three men accused of passing counterfeit currency Monday has been charged with assaulting Maryland State Police troopers as they attempted to take him into custody in the parking lot of Premium Outlets, according to Washington County District Court records. Tyreik L. Gibson, 28, of Lansdowne, Pa., was charged by state police with three counts each of first- and second-degree assault, and one count each of second-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and malicious destruction of property of more than $500, court records said.

Sandra Volneck has faced many challenges over the years, but the hardest thing she ever had to do was look at her 15-year-old daughter's battered, lifeless body before closing the casket and burying her. “I wouldn't wish that on nobody. I'll never get over it,” Volneck said last week. “Never.” Twenty-nine years later and recovering from surgery for lung cancer, Volneck still does not know who killed her only child. Maryland State Police recovered Lorraine “Lori” Zimmerman's body from a wooded area outside Boonsboro in April 1984.

Rescue workers and police worked for hours Monday night at the scene of a tractor-trailer crash on eastbound Interstate 70 near Hancock. Adam Vanhorn, 25, of Lancaster, Ohio, was driving a 2013 Kenworth near the 3-mile marker when he went to the right side of the interstate and overturned on a guardrail about 5 p.m., according to Maryland State Police. Vanhorn suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene. A state police spokesman said Monday night that investigators were still trying to determine what caused Vanhorn to wreck.

A Woodsboro, Md., man has been identified as the driver killed in a tractor-trailer accident Monday morning at the intersection of Md. 75 and Clemsonville Road, Maryland State Police said. Terry Lee Myers, 58, was pronounced dead at the scene of the 6:15 a.m. accident, police said. He was driving the tractor-trailer south on Clemsonville Road when he failed to negotiate a curve at the intersection, causing the tractor-trailer  to overturn into a culvert, police said. The intersection was closed until shortly before 2 p.m. to allow for removal of the truck, police said.

One person was taken to the hospital Wednesday morning after a tractor trailer accident on I-81 north of Maugansville, according to Maryland State Police. The accident happened shortly before 3 a.m. when the driver of the tractor-trailer, John Kluka, of Dover, Pa., fell asleep at the wheel while heading southbound on I-81, state police said in a news release. The tractor-trailer went off the roadway and down the embankment, police said. Kluka was taken to Meritus Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the release.

It's been 22 years since brothers Jimmy and Bobby Harsh joined the Maryland State Police, both earning awards and recognitions along the way. They celebrated their retirements with a joint party at the Potomac Fish and Game Club on Nov. 17. “I probably have one of the best jobs in the world,” Jimmy Harsh, 48, said. “Without a doubt. It was an honor - to actually make a difference in people's lives,” said Bobby Harsh, 45. The brothers, along with their older brother, Dwayne Harsh, grew up with a father who volunteered with the Williamsport Ambulance Service in addition to farming a 300-acre farm.