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An unidentified farmer rescued a motorist from his flooded car Tuesday by having the man, who had gotten up on his car roof, climb into a bucket attached to his farm tractor, said Robert Myerly, deputy chief for the Leitersburg Volunteer Fire Company. The driver was taken to Meritus Medical Center on Tuesday to be checked out, although he hadn't been complaining of anything, Myerly said Wednesday. The man, who is not familiar with the area, was driving on Leiters Mill Road around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday and did not see the high water signs or the high water on the road near the Antietam Creek bridge, Myerly said.

Trafic on northbound Interstate 81  in northern Berkeley County was tied up for hours Tuesday morning as crews cleaned up the scene of a tractor-trailer accident. The accident took place at around 5:45 a.m., when the tractor-trailer crashed through a guardrail on the right side of the highway near mile marker 19. Gravel covered the right lane. The tractor-trailer cab came to rest to the right of the highway, with the trailer on the shoulder of the road. No one was injured, a Berkeley County Emergency Services supervisor said.

Norm Potter likes garden tractor pulling and eating at Dixie Diner in Smithsburg. The diner staff like to go all out raising money for their Step-n-Stride Against Breast Cancer team. The two parties saw an unlikely compatibility there. “The Dixie ladies just said, 'It would be perfect if we mix what we're doing with what you are doing,'” Potter said. So three times now, the ladies have hit The Reserves, a pulling track surrounded by cornfields off Smithsburg Pike. They peddle raffle tickets on breast-cancer-awareness-pink items in pink buckets, pink cakes and pink quilts while Potter and friends pull tractors at Pulling for a Cure.

A tractor-trailer driver has died from injuries he sustained when the rig plunged 100 yards down an embankment last week near Hancock. Victor Doros, 26, of Wheeling, Ill., died Friday at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Medical Center in Baltimore, a hospital spokeswoman said. The accident happened the morning of Sept. 24 as Doros was driving the tractor-trailer east on Interstate 68. Hancock Fire Chief Danny Shirley said the tractor-trailer went off the south shoulder of the roadway and rolled down the embankment, splintering a tree on the way down.

The driver of a tractor-trailer was critically injured Monday morning when his rig went down an embankment off Interstate 68 about five miles west of Hancock, Maryland State Police said. Lt. Tom Woodward said 26-year-old Victor Doros, of Wheeling, Ill., was flown to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Medical Center in Baltimore. Doros was listed in critical condition Tuesday morning, a hospital spokeswoman said. “The driver had substantial injuries,” Hancock Fire Chief Danny Shirley said at the scene.

The barn at Springfield Farm in Williamsport had enough tractors sitting outside it Saturday to plow a few thousand acres before sunset. The signature orange Allis-Chalmers, green and yellow John Deeres, red Farmalls, Massey Fergusons, Fords and other models were assembled there for the Washington County Antique Tractor Show and a downtown parade of chugging, diesel smoke-belching agricultural power. It was the first time the club had moved the show to Williamsport, club President Dean Lowry said.

As part of Pet Appreciation Week, Tractor Supply Co. will award two customers at each store a $200 gift card or a $100 vet services rebate from Hills Science Diet.  Also, one online grand prize winner will be the owner of a new Ford F-150 King Ranch pickup truck and a one-year supply of Purina pet food from Nestle-Purina.  The promotion is going on through Sunday, with the main event in stores Saturday.  For more information, go to ...

The director of Washington County Emergency Services said he was optimistic that Interstate 70 east would be open to traffic sometime Saturday morning after the roadway was shut down Friday after a tractor-trailer carrying explosive material caught on fire near Clear Spring. Kevin Lewis, director of Washington County Emergency Services, said a private contractor from Baltimore and crews from the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Maryland State Highway Administration remained on the scene well into Friday night cleaning up hazardous residue.

A tractor-trailer fire was reported on southbound Interstate 81 at Exit 2 to U.S. 11 near Williamsport, a supervisor for Washington County Emergency Services said. Police were responding to the fire at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. Interstate 81 remained open.

Both lanes of westbound Interstate 70 in the Clear Spring area are now open following a tractor-trailer crash, according to a Washington County 911 spokeswoman. The tractor-trailer struck a guardrail along the interstate but there were no injuries, the spokeswoman said. The crash occurred around the 15 mile marker and the accident immediately caused westbound traffic to become congested, officials said.