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shappell@herald-mail.com HAGERSTOWN - A city man was charged by Hagerstown Police Department Sunday with striking a woman on the head with a hammer inside their apartment. An argument over cable television use between the man and the woman, who are roommates, resulted in the woman running into an adult video store and locking herself inside, police said. Timothy A. Wilt, 42, of 23 E. Washington St., Apt. 3W, was charged with first- and second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and openly carrying/wearing a weapon with intent to injure, according to a police news release.

Man arrested after chase in Chambersburg CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A man wanted on multiple charges in New Jersey was picked up in Chambersburg Wednesday after officers identified him as the man who led them on a high-speed chase through the borough last week, police reported Thursday. Christian Foster, whose address was not available, was charged with possession with intent to deliver and possession of marijuana, police said. The investigation is continuing. Chambersburg Police became involved in the case at 2 a.m. Friday when a man known as "Jamaican Chris" was seen driving a black Chevrolet Blazer at Catherine and Main streets.

Friday the 13th turned out to be an unlucky day for the Hagerstown Police Department’s kickball team. The city’s finest were dispatched in another way during a Friday afternoon match against the half-pints from Winter Street Elementary School. Fourth-grader Kaytie Banzhoff acknowledged that the officers took it easy on the students, but said: “We handled them.” Second-grade teacher Jen Hardy, who also serves as coordinator of the school’s Positive Behavior Intervention Support program, said five students were chosen from each of the school’s 15 classes to play in the game.

Editor's note: An earlier version of this story listed an incorrect age for Danielle R. Paikin. That age was provided by the Maryland State Police. The Herald-Mail apologizes for the error. HAGERSTOWN --The medical conditions have improved for two of three Washington County residents who were injured in a fatal car accident Thursday on Md. 65 near the entrance to Antietam National Battlefield. William J. Turner, 20, of Sharpsburg, was released Saturday from Washington County Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Three Washington County residents remained hospitalized Friday, a day after they were injured in a three-car crash that claimed the life of a Delaware woman near the entrance to Antietam National Battlefield on Sharpsburg Pike. Lauran Dwyer, 21, and Joseph Dwyer, 25, both of Clear Spring, were listed in serious but stable condition Friday night at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, a hospital spokeswoman said. William J. Turner, 20, of Sharpsburg, was listed in good condition at Washington County Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday afternoon.

pepperb@herald-mail.com Harpers Ferry Police Chief Donald Buracker posed on the Internet as a 15-year-old girl to help arrest a man accused of distributing child pornography. Robert Lawrence Brown, 63, Apt. 310, Potomac Terrace Apartments, off East Spring Street in Bolivar, W.Va., was arrested Wednesday night following the Internet sting. He is being held on $200,000 bond at Eastern Regional Jail. Brown is charged with attempting to distribute and display to a minor any obscene matter, attempting to distribute and display by any means any obscene matter to the minor with the intent to seduce or abuse the minor, and sending, distributing, exhibiting, possessing, displaying and transporting any material visually portraying a minor engaged in any sexually explicit conduct, Buracker said.

A Baltimore man who led authorities on a high-speed chase through West Virginia and Maryland Thursday morning was apprehended near Williamsport when the car he was driving crashed into a police car and ended up in a wooded area near the C&O Canal, according to Maryland State Police. Gary Silas Wingate Jr., 23, was charged with two counts of first-degree assault, two counts of second-degree assault, theft, malicious destruction of property and false statement to a police officer, according to a spokesman for the Washington County Detention Center, where Wingate was being held Thursday night.

In a move that ought to be challenged immediately in court, the West Virginia State Police have said that the family of a woman killed in a high speed chase can't review a videotape of the chase. Sorry officers, but your denial holds water about as well as a brown paper bag. Amanda Smailes, 21, of Berkeley County, W.Va., was killed last Nov. 24 when a motorist being pursued by state police rammed her car. The case brought new calls for stricter guidelines on police chases and for the use of new technology to stop fleeing motorists before they injure innocent bystanders.

ROUZERVILLE, Pa. -- Some classic-car buffs who like the old "Dukes of Hazzard" TV show have a replica of Bo and Luke Duke's orange Dodge Charger. Josh Delauter of Greencastle, Pa., took a different angle as a fan. He found a Plymouth Fury and made it look like the police car driven by the Duke boys' nemesis, Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane. The white car says "Hazzard County Sheriff" on the side. While showing it off Saturday at Red Run Park during Rouzerfest '09, Delauter said he gave the car to his son, Benjamin, for his fourth birthday.

martinsburg@herald-mail.com Jurors deliberated for 2 1/2 hours Wednesday night before finding 19-year-old Aaron Lewis guilty of crashing a Nissan Pathfinder into an off-duty state trooper's car last spring, permanently injuring the officer. Lewis, 19, showed no visible reaction as Circuit Judge David Sanders pronounced him guilty of fleeing from an officer creating injury, driving left of center, reckless driving, driving without insurance, leaving the scene of an accident involving injuries, driving on a learner's permit without an unimpaired adult in the car, failure to render aid and failure to immediately report an accident.