West Virginia State Police

Six separate vehicle crashes have occurred in the southbound lanes of Interstate 81 in West Virginia starting at the 9.9 mile marker, said a Berkeley County 911 spokeswoman. There did not appear to be serious injuries, although the traffic was becoming clogged in the southbound lanes, the dispatcher said. West Virginia State Police were on the scene sorting out how the accidents occurred, the dispatcher said. The string of crashes occurred at about 3:45 p.m. The dispatcher said she has not heard about any of the lanes being shut down.

One woman was killed and three men were injured Friday in a two-vehicle crash on U.S. 340 south of Charles Town near the Virginia line, Citizens Fire Co. president Ron Fletcher said. West Virginia State Police were investigating the wreck, which occurred near the Rainbow Diner & Truck Stop and Wheatland Road, said Fletcher, who responded to the crash scene at about 6:30 p.m. The deceased was a passenger in an older model Toyota pickup, Fletcher said. The driver of the truck was flown to Winchester (Va.)

A car traveling southbound on Interstate 81 hit a jersey wall and rolled across the highway near Exit 23 (U.S. 11, Marlowe/Falling Waters), according to West Virginia State Police. The driver was taken to Martinsburg City Hospital, police said. Trooper Kennedy of the state police says he received the accident call around 8:13 a.m. and arrived on the scene at 8:18. The car was towed away and the scene was cleared at 9 a.m. — Caleb Calhoun

West Virginia State Police have released the name of a Martinsburg man who died in a traffic accident Sunday in Berkeley County. Darrin Neal Mitchell, 51, of Martinsburg was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident on Needy Road about a quarter-mile north of Hogan Road, according to a state police press release that was issued Tuesday morning. Troopers said an investigation determined that Mitchell was driving north on Needy Road in a 1991 BMW 318 LS at about 8:20 p.m., when the car went off the road and struck a tree.

A Maryland woman and her son were taken to hospitals Monday afternoon after the vehicle she was driving collided with a truck on Interstate 81 in Berkeley County, West Virginia State Police said. Jennifer Rae Marick, 26, of Sykesville, was driving a 1999 Isuzu Rodeo northbound at 5:27 p.m. when she went off the west side of the road, police said. The Rodeo went back onto the road, but then spun into the median and onto the southbound lanes, police said. The Rodeo collided with a trailer being pulled by a Volvo truck driven by J. Barry Holmes, 50, of Slatington, Pa., police said.

The ROCS convenience store in the 1600 block of West King Street outside Martinsburg was robbed at about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, a Berkeley County Emergency Services supervisor said. The supervisor said West Virginia State Police was handling the investigation. State police said Tuesday morning that further details were unavailable.

West Virginia State Police were looking for an unidentified male who shot a Martinsburg man several times in the upper body early Sunday at a bar in Charles Town. Travis Coon, 26, of Martinsburg, was taken to Jefferson Memorial Hospital and later flown to a Washington, D.C., area hospital after he was shot two or three times in the upper body, according to a state police press release. Troopers said the shooting occurred at about 2:30 a.m. at the Tap House sports bar at 107 Keyes Ferry Road.

A Hagerstown man who allegedly fled the scene of a fatal motorcycle accident Thursday night and was apprehended by police a short time later was flown to a Virginia hospital to be treated for his injuries, West Virginia State Police said. Steve Thompson was listed in fair condition Saturday at Fairfax Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said. The accident happened at about 11 p.m. Thursday when Thompson and his passenger, Lorena Roberts of Inwood, W.Va., were traveling south in the 6500 block of Winchester Avenue (U.S.

A Martinsburg man died Thursday night in a single-vehicle crash in Berkeley County, West Virginia State Police said in a news release. The crash near the intersection of Paynes Ford Road and Airport Road was reported at about 10:45 p.m., police said. Police determined that the vehicle, driven by  Lucky L. Phipps, 34, of Blairton Road, was traveling north on Airport Road when it left the paved portion of the roadway, then went onto an embankment, rolled over and crashed into a small stand of trees.

  A Jefferson County man accused of stealing a street sign in Frederick County, Va., was being held in Eastern Regional Jail Wednesday night after police said he attempted to flee from police in Virginia and West Virginia several hours earlier, police said. Christopher Michael Shenton, 38, of 19163 Charles Town Road, Harpers Ferry, W.Va., was charged with one felony count of driving revoked for driving under the influence, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department Chief of Staff Jesse Jones said.