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HAGERSTOWN - A National Pike resident said he was robbed at gunpoint by two masked men who broke into his apartment Tuesday night, Maryland State Police said in a news release. Police received a call at about 11:35 p.m. from a man who said two men wearing masks kicked in the door of his apartment on the 16700 block of National Pike. held him at gunpoint and demanded money from him, the release said. The man said he was bound with duct tape before the men left the apartment and drove away in a light-colored sedan, possibly a silver or gray Oldsmobile Alero, police said.

A Kentucky man died Wednesday after his car ran off Interstate 70 and overturned, Maryland State Police said. John Franklin Souder, 61, of Shelbyville, Ky., was westbound on I-70 east of the Sharpsburg Pike exit when his car veered onto the right shoulder and hit a guardrail about 1:40 p.m., police said. The 1994 Oldsmobile then swerved back to the left and became airborne over the center median embankment, police said. The vehicle overturned and Souder, who was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the car, police said.

WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Two people were taken to Waynesboro Hospital with minor injuries Wednesday after two separate vehicle accidents on Mentzer Gap Road around 5:20 p.m., according to Pennsylvania state police. The first accident occured when a vehicle traveling west in the 8900 block of Mentzer Gap Road rear-ended another vehicle, according to police. Debra Cain, 50, of Waynesboro, Pa., was taken to Waynesboro Hospital with minor injuries, police said. Two other people in the vehicles were unhurt.

FAYETTEVILLE, Pa. -- Two women were killed as a result of a Monday afternoon two-vehicle crash on U.S. 30 in Guilford Township, Pa. Teresa M. Henicle, 52, of 11131 Orchard Road, was pronounced dead at the scene, Franklin County (Pa.) Coroner Jeffrey R. Conner said. The cause of death was multiple blunt-force trauma, he said. An eastbound pickup truck driven by Karen E. Justice of Gettysburg, Pa., crossed the center line and prompted a head-on collision with Henicle's 1992 Oldsmobile, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

BOLIVAR, W.Va. - An 89-year-old Fayetteville, Pa., man died, and his wife and a 59-year-old Hagerstown woman were injured in a two-car crash Thursday, West Virginia State Police in Charles Town, W.Va., said. Julius Bernhardt was driving a black Nissan Sentra south on U.S. 340 at about 5 p.m. when he failed to stop for a traffic light at the intersection with Washington Street just outside Bolivar, police said. The car struck a blue 1988 Oldsmobile Intrigue driven by Nancy Manuel, 59, of Hagerstown, who was attempting to make a left turn onto U.S. 340, police said.

Two injured in Pa. accident By MARC G. AUBER / Staff Writer, Chambersburg WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Two Franklin County residents sustained major internal injuries early Sunday when the driver of the car they were riding in lost control of the vehicle. The vehicle came to rest in a bank parking lot and touched off a chain-reaction collision. Ryan Dover, of Fayetteville, Pa., and Christopher Baker, of Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., were transported to Washington County and Waynesboro hospitals, respectively, a Pennsylvania State Police report said.

andrews@herald-mail.com Two men were injured Monday during a large fight on South Potomac Street, Hagerstown police said. One of the two men - Robert Brown III, 33, of Temple Hills, Md. - was charged with first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and malicious destruction of property. Police said the fight broke out about noon in the road near 423 S. Potomac St. About four people were involved. Police alleged in a press release that Brown used a knife to cut a 33-year-old Hagerstown man on his left hand.

Two people involved in a weather-related accident Wednesday were involved in a second accident on their way to the hospital when the ambulance in which they were riding was struck by another car, according to a release from Maryland State Police. The first accident happened at 8:30 p.m. on Md. 62 at Beard's Spur north of Chewsville, according to police. A 1996 Ford Probe, driven by Darrell Lynn Clopper, 19, of Greensburg Road, Smithsburg, was traveling south when it skidded across the center line and hit a 1993 Oldsmobile Acheiva head-on, the release said.

Head-on collision results from wrong-way driver By DAVE McMILLION / Staff Writer, Charles Town CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. - Despite efforts by West Virginia State Police to warn motorists, a man traveling the wrong way on Interstate 81 early Sunday morning struck another car head-on, leaving the driver of the second car in critical condition, police said. West Virginia State Police Senior Trooper T.C. Kearns said he was operating a radar for speeding motorists on Interstate 81 near the Inwood exit when a car passed him traveling north in the southbound lane.