Sting

The Augusta GreenJackets rallied back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Hagerstown Suns 5-3 on Tuesday night in the first game of the their four-game series. The Suns took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Adrian Sanchez hit a one-out double, took third on a groundout and scored on a single by Kevin Keyes. The Suns scored twice in the fifth to up their lead to 3-0. With two outs, Blake Kelso reached on an error and went to second on a single by Sanchez. Each runner then moved up a base on a wild pitch, and both scored on Russell Moldenhauer’s double to left.

Three Hagerstown pitchers held Augusta to three hits, and the Suns took control with a three-run fifth inning on the way to a 6-1 victory over the Greenjackets in a South Atlantic League game Saturday. The Suns (12-9) opened the scoring in the first inning against Greenjackets starter Bryce Bandilla (1-1). Cutter Dykstra led off with a double and scored on Adrian Nieto's two-out single. Augusta (9-12) tied the game against Suns starter Brian Dupra in the fourth. Shawn Payne led off with a single, stole second and took third on Ben Thomas' single.

You've heard of drug stings and prostitution stings. On Thursday, local police conducted a different operation - an unlicensed driver sting. cont. from front page Police and investigators from the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration staked out the local probation office to check on people whose licenses had been suspended or revoked because of drunken driving. Lurking in unmarked cars, law enforcement officers followed them to make sure they did not drive themselves away from meetings with their probation officers at 100 W. Franklin St. "It's pretty surprising how many people do drive when they're not supposed to," said Robert Myers, chief investigator for the MVA. About 30 people had regular appointments with probation officers Thursday.

Scott Cassidy used the Muhammed Ali method of picking up a loss on Tuesday. The Hagerstown Suns starter was KO'ed when his pitches began to float a little like a butterfly and he was stung by a bee. Or in this case, a BB. Cassidy locked up with Savannah starter Travis Hughes in a good, ol' fashioned pitching duel for seven innings. But Cassidy took a flurry of hits, starting with a double and a single and compounded by his first two walks of the game, in a three-run eighth inning before going down in a 4-1 loss to the Sand Gnats.

A wasp? That's all you got? A tiny, all but microscopic insect is supposed to save us from the Great Stinkbug Invasion of '11? We're doomed. All I hear from the bug experts is how if you thought the stinkbugs were bad last year, just you wait, because this year they will assault us in "biblical proportions. " I realize that I might seriously regret saying this, but it is hard for me to see how they could get worse. At our house last fall we had to be careful to differentiate between cosmetic stinkbugs and load-bearing stinkbugs that, if you killed too many of them, would cause a bedroom to collapse.

Police charge 24 in sting Hagerstown City Police officers posing as drug dealers charged 24 people with drug offenses in a reverse sting conducted in the Westview housing development and North Jonathan Street. Information about the sting, conducted Feb. 19 and 27, was released Monday. Charged with one count of possession/purchase of a noncontrolled dangerous substance were: Harold Ronald Bean Jr., 28, of 104 Buena Vista Ave. William Albert Nelson III, 33, of 130 Fawnhaven Court, Martinsburg, W.Va.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A Baltimore man was in Eastern Regional Jail Friday night on a felony count of crack cocaine distribution after police said he sold the drug near the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, according to jail and court records. Martez Micuel Countess, 30, was arraigned Friday by Magistrate JoAnn Overington, who set a $25,000 cash-only bond for the defendant, according to court records. The drug deal, which was orchestrated by the Eastern Panhandle Drug and Violent Crime Task Force, happened Thursday in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven just outside the entrance to the medical center, according to a complaint filed by West Virginia State Police Sgt. K.E. Miller.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Jefferson County (W.Va.) Schools teacher faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal charge of sexual enticement of a minor. Shepherdstown Elementary School art teacher Douglas E. Hunt, 51, of Charles Town, was arrested in December after he was caught in an Internet sex sting conducted by police in Leesburg, Va. According to the U.S. Attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia, Hunt agreed to pay $220 for what he thought would be sex with two girls, ages 12 and 13. He was arrested at a Leesburg hotel.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A man suspected of dealing crack cocaine in Martinsburg allegedly attempted to flee from police Thursday, even after he was struck in the chest with a Taser dart, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Another man allegedly involved in the undercover drug deal set up by members of the Eastern Panhandle Drug and Violent Task Force was arrested Thursday without incident, police said. Aaron Lionel Smith, 32, of 128 Terrace St. in Martinsburg, was charged with obstructing an officer and distribution of a controlled substance (crack cocaine)

Each time we walk outside, my kids want to know what to expect. Will this bug bite me? Will it hurt? Anyone who has dealt with the itchy bumps and other irritations associated with bug bites knows that their concerns are not unfounded. "Once you step outside your house, you are in someone else's environment," says skin toxicologist Steve Pennisi. "When we invade their home, they get defensive. " Kids should know that there is a difference between bugs that sting and bugs that bite, Pennisi says.

The Hagerstown Suns have been saying it all with their opening statements. The Suns did all their scoring early and then settled in behind their pitching to score a 3-1 victory over Augusta on Thursday. Hagerstown (15-11) scored three runs in the second inning off GreenJackets starter Chris Stratton. It came on the heels of Wednesday's victory, when the Suns scored all five of their runs in the first inning in a 5-3 victory. Wes Schill and Hunter Bailey drew leadoff walks and advanced on Pedro Severino's sacrifice bunt.

The Saint James football team found out why they are called “special teams” on Saturday. That's because there was nothing ordinary about the third phase of Avalon School's game. In fact, it was extraordinary. The Black Knights broke the game open with a pair of special teams plays and added six two-point conversions to turn an outstanding early effort from the Saints into a drop in the bucket in a 60-18 rout in Saint James' season finalé. Avalon (6-4) came back from an 18-16 deficit late in the first quarter and scored the final 46 points of the game to leave the Saints bruised, battered and beaten.

A Frederick, Md., attorney who was among four men arrested in a prostitution sting in February will have the opportunity to have the misdemeanor charge filed against him dismissed. Roger Charles Simmons, 65, was charged with one count of solicitation of prostitution after police said he responded to an Internet adult escort advertisement, according to court documents. The charge will be dismissed in six months if Simmons is not charged with any jailable offenses in that time, according to a resolution that Berkeley County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Christine Riley presented Wednesday morning to Magistrate Jim Humphrey.

The Hagerstown Police Department got stung during a Friday afternoon kickball match with the swarming Bees of Winter Street Elementary School. Although the score wasn't kept, the Bees seemed to mark up points at will - sometimes with the help of police officers who carried their half-pint opponents across home plate. “I think they were better than last year,” fifth-grader Kaytie Banzhoff said of the police squad. “I think me and my team are going to do good. We have really good kickers and fast runners.” Teacher Jennifer Redding, coordinator of the Hagerstown school's Positive Behavior Intervention Support program, said not all of the students got a chance to play.

Three Hagerstown pitchers held Augusta to three hits, and the Suns took control with a three-run fifth inning on the way to a 6-1 victory over the Greenjackets in a South Atlantic League game Saturday. The Suns (12-9) opened the scoring in the first inning against Greenjackets starter Bryce Bandilla (1-1). Cutter Dykstra led off with a double and scored on Adrian Nieto's two-out single. Augusta (9-12) tied the game against Suns starter Brian Dupra in the fourth. Shawn Payne led off with a single, stole second and took third on Ben Thomas' single.

The Augusta GreenJackets rallied back from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Hagerstown Suns 5-3 on Tuesday night in the first game of the their four-game series. The Suns took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning. Adrian Sanchez hit a one-out double, took third on a groundout and scored on a single by Kevin Keyes. The Suns scored twice in the fifth to up their lead to 3-0. With two outs, Blake Kelso reached on an error and went to second on a single by Sanchez. Each runner then moved up a base on a wild pitch, and both scored on Russell Moldenhauer’s double to left.

A wasp? That's all you got? A tiny, all but microscopic insect is supposed to save us from the Great Stinkbug Invasion of '11? We're doomed. All I hear from the bug experts is how if you thought the stinkbugs were bad last year, just you wait, because this year they will assault us in "biblical proportions. " I realize that I might seriously regret saying this, but it is hard for me to see how they could get worse. At our house last fall we had to be careful to differentiate between cosmetic stinkbugs and load-bearing stinkbugs that, if you killed too many of them, would cause a bedroom to collapse.

Every now and then, some wannabe comedian will play a character that is "a superhero with the power to be super-annoying. " Then they make an irritating sound and look for approval from the audience, who either frown or boo. Now comes "The Green Hornet," a film that asks you to spend $8.50 and waste two hours of your time watching Seth Rogen play a superhero with the power to be super-annoying.   Rogen plays Britt Reid, a lazy millionaire playboy who inherits a newspaper empire after his father's mysterious death.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Police arrested four people Thursday in two drug buy stings, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Kristina Marie Tetaz, 25, 215 W. John St., Apt. C, Martinsburg, and Isaac Eugene Massey, 28, of the same address, were arraigned Friday on charges of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and possession with intent to deliver marijuana, according to court records. A confidential informant was used by the Eastern Panhandle Drug and Violent Task Force to purchase crack cocaine Thursday from Massey and Tetaz, his girlfriend, according to court records.

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett says a Franklin County man accused of traveling to York, Pa., to have sex with what he believed was a 14-year old girl, and a former girls' volleyball coach for a suburban Philadelphia school were among those arrested in an online sex sting. Corbett said Chad Randall Keefer, 43, of 13327 Locust Level Road, Greencastle, Pa., allegedly used an Internet chat room to approach an undercover agent who was using the online profile of a 13-year-old girl from York, Pa. Keefer allegedly asked if she would be interested in meeting so they could "play" -- explaining that he was interested in touching and feeling her, along with "whatever else" she would allow, Corbett said.