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Steven Timothy Flanagan, infant son of Steven Wayne Flanagan, died Friday, July 6, 2012, at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh. The family will receive friends Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at South Berkeley Funeral Chapel, Inwood, W.Va. The service will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the funeral chapel. Burial will be in Mount Carmel Bible Church Cemetery, Charles Town, W.Va.

William Holtzman Pringle, 80, of Charles Town, W.Va., died Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2012, at Willow Tree Manor in Charles Town. Visitation will be Tuesday from 10 to 11 a.m. at Melvin T. Strider Colonial Funeral Home, Ranson, W.Va. The memorial service will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. Burial will be private.

A trash collection truck worker who died Thursday after he was struck by a pickup in the 800 block of Dominion Road near Gerrardstown was identified Friday as Jeremy Lee Tabler of Martinsburg, police said. Tabler, 30, was working as a driver for Apple Valley Waste when he was struck by a green Ford F-250, according to police and a Berkeley County Emergency Services supervisor. Tabler of Whitings Neck Road, was pronounced dead at City Hospital in Martinsburg, W.Va., where he succumbed to his injuries, police had said.

A 26-year-old man is accused of sexually assaulting a woman after a birthday party over the weekend, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Darryl Fountaine Clinksdale II, no fixed address, was arraigned Tuesday on one count of second-degree sexual assault by Magistrate JoAnn Overington, according to court documents. Clinksdale was allowed early Sunday into the residence where the victim was staying upon returning from the party, but another woman who lived there told police he wasn't supposed to stay, according to court documents.

A man wanted by the West Virginia State Police on six counts of sexual abuse of a minor was arrested last month by members of the Mountain State Fugitive Task force, a deputy U.S. Marshal announced Friday. Donald Freedman Graham, 29, of Kearneysville, W.Va., was arrested Feb. 27 after task force members converged on a mobile home where he was located, according to a news release from deputy U.S. Marshal Jon LaLiberte. The case pending against Graham was investigated by State Police Trooper W.R. Garrett and LaLiberte said in the news that additional victims were identified and interviewed after the man's arrest.

A Martinsburg man entered a guilty plea Monday in U.S. District Court in Martinsburg, U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II said Wednesday. Douglas D. Starling, 49, entered a plea of guilty to one count of an Indictment charging him with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and oxycodone in Martinsburg, Ihlenfeld said in a news release. Starling, who is in custody pending sentencing, faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin K. Reisenweber and was investigated by the Martinsburg Police Department.

A 57-year-old Falling Waters, W.Va., man is accused of sexually abusing a girl multiple times over a span of about three years, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court records. Edward Lee Gross of 66 Nozzle Drive was arraigned on one count of first-degree sexual abuse by Magistrate Joan V. Bragg, according to court documents. Gross was released from custody after bail for a $10,000 bond was posted, according to court documents. The victim told authorities that Gross had abused her five times a month since she was in seventh grade, according to a complaint filed in Berkeley County Magistrate Court by West Virginia State Police Trooper J.A. Padilla.

Firefighters responded to a fire at a log home Saturday afternoon in the 500 block of Zig Zag Lane, a Berkeley County 911 dispatcher said. The fire was reported at 5:15 p.m., and the last units cleared the scene at about 7:45 p.m., the dispatcher said. The South Berkeley Fire Co. could not be reached for further details Saturday night.

A Martinsburg woman was killed Sunday evening in a single-vehicle crash on W.Va. 9 east of Martinsburg, West Virginia State Police said in a news release. Elizabeth Ann Putman, 56, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which was reported at 7:07 p.m., police said. Putman was the front-seat passenger in a Kia Sportage driven by Andrea Irene Hawkins, 20, which was traveling eastbound on W.Va. 9 near Opequon Lane, police said. The vehicle veered to the right and went off the south side of the roadway, struck a guardrail and came to rest on the shoulder of the road, the release said.

Authorities Friday arrested a 31-year-old fugitive from Virginia at an Inwood, W.Va., residence, the U.S. Marshal Service said. Fred Hasenbaughler III, who was believed to be living at Chantilly Lane, was wanted on charges of obtaining money on false pretenses in Virginia, Deputy U.S. Marshal Michael Ulrich said in a news release. Task force members from the U.S. Marshals Service, West Virginia State Police, Martinsburg Police Department and West Virginia Parole located Hasenbaughler in a residence on Tabler Station Road in Inwood, authorities said.

A West Virginia State Police trooper is accused of “fraudulent double-dipping” while working as a trooper. Johnathan D. Brand, 25, of 1327 Riddle Ave., #5, Morgantown, W.Va., was indicted Wednesday by a grand jury in Berkeley County Circuit Court on one felony count of fraudulent scheme, according to an indictment released by Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Games-Neely's office. Assigned to the Martinsburg detachment, Brand was placed on administrative leave without pay March 27 following allegations he was involved in criminal activity, state police 1st Sgt. Michael Baylous said Wednesday.

More than two dozen Eastern Panhandle residents got their chance to vent against billing practices by Potomac Edison, which were based on estimated not actual usage and resulted in monthly electric bills that, they said at a public hearing Wednesday night, can soar into the hundreds and even thousands of dollars. One by one they came up to a microphone in the Wright Denney Intermediate School auditorium to relate their experiences, their stories often backed by a handful of utility bills.

A two-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer and a Mini Cooper clogged traffic on the northbound lanes of Interstate 81 in Berkeley County for about six hours Tuesday, according to police and emergency officials. There were no injuries in the accident, which was reported at about 11:25 a.m., the West Virginia State Police and a Berkeley County 911 Central Dispatch supervisor said. The driver of the maroon 2003 Kenworth truck was Frank Harris of Pennsylvania and the driver of a green 2004 Mini Cooper coupe was identified as Easley Abraham III of North Carolina, police said.

Food Network personality Donatella Arpaia has her life scheduled to the minute. After all, these days the 41-year-old restaurateur has a lot on her plate. When she's not opening up a restaurant, whipping up some of her award-winning meatballs, penning her own cookbook, dishing out her opinion as a guest judge on “Iron Chef America” and “The Next Iron Chef,” popping up on morning shows to offer home chefs advice or hawking her own line of food and homewares on HSN, Arpaia is also a busy wife and mother.

Dr. Erik Hurst will offer free skin cancer screenings from 9 to noon Saturday, May 25,in the Dorothy McCormack Center on the City Hospital campus. Registration is required and is limited to 75. To register or for more information, call 304-264-1232.

Firefighters were at the scene of a mobile home fire Friday night in Hedgesville, W.Va., a Berkeley County Emergency Services dispatcher said. The dispatcher said the fire was reported at 9:15 p.m. in the 3700 block of Allensville Road. Further information was not immediately available.

A woman was killed Thursday night in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 81 in Berkeley County, police said. The woman, who police said was 29, was pronounced dead at the scene, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department said in a news release. Her name is not being released pending notification of family, police said in the release. The accident occurred about 9:35 p.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 81 near the Tabler Station Road exit, police and 911 dispatchers said.

Two people were taken to City Hospital in Martinsburg after a tractor-trailer and two passenger vehicles collided Monday night on Interstate 81, the Berkeley County Sheriff's Office said. The accident occurred at 9:17 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-81 near the 15-mile marker, which is northwest of Martinsburg, according to a sheriff's office news release. Deputies said the drivers of the passenger vehicles were taken to the hospital. The sheriff's office said Tuesday morning that the names of the drivers were unavailable.

Traffic was snarled in the southbound lanes of Interstate 81 near the Marlowe-Falling Waters exit Tuesday morning while workers repaired a jersey wall that was struck by a tractor-trailer at about 4:30 a.m., a Berkeley County Emergency Services supervisor said. The supervisor said about 350 feet of the wall was damaged. Southbound I-81 was closed for about two hours until the tractor-trailer was towed from the scene. One southbound lane remained closed while the wall was being repaired.

Police seized more than 87 grams of heroin from a vehicle that was stopped early Sunday for speeding on Interstate 81 near the Spring Mills exit, according to Berkeley County Magistrate Court documents. Andre Lashun Hill, 30, and Herman Eugene Boddy Jr., 26, both of Memphis, Tenn., were being held in Eastern Regional Jail on Monday night on $250,000 bonds set by Magistrate Betty Jo Hersh, according to court and jail records. Both were men were charged with single counts of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession with intent to transport a controlled substance into the state and conspiracy, according to court documents.