HAGERSTOWN, MD — Officers with the Hagerstown Police Department arrested a bank robbery suspect on scene at the bank. A press release from the HPD says around 10 Monday morning, officers were called to the F&M Trust bank at 83 West Washington Street for the report of a robbery in progress. An employee told them…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Senate President Craig Blair (R-Berkeley) says the day after state legislature passed a two percent income tax reduction to keep in mind it’s not the only cut West Virginians will see: Senator Blair spoke about the extensive turnover in state government including a lot of turn over from eastern panhandle representatives following…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Local citizens Bob Myers and Cassandra Daniels collected donations two days last week in Martinsburg to benefit those in some remote areas of Tennessee and North Carolina. Bob Myers reflected on the trip on Wednesday’s Panhandle Live: Myers says the need is dire and the local residents are doing the best they can…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — 98th District Delegate Paul Espinosa (R-Jefferson) resigned from his post Tuesday during a special session of the West Virginia Legislature. He ran unsuccessfully against 16th District Senator Patricia Rucker for that position, losing to her in the primary election. In a statement to the Panhandle News Network, Espinosa said, “It’s been an…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — American Water announced this week it had been the target of a cyber attack. Its subsidiary West Virginia American Water serves nearly 4,000 customers in Jefferson, Morgan and Berkeley counties. A link on the West Virginia American Water website announced that in response, the online payment system and other online systems had…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A Honduran national was sentenced to more than 27 years in prison after being found guilty of ‘coercion and enticement’ of a ten year old girl from Jefferson County. The US Attorney’s office reports Daniel Eliazar Ramos Rosa, 24, of Honduras, has been sentenced to a total of 327 months in federal…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Hurricane Helene is being blamed for at least 90 deaths in the Southeast after it made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane. More than two-million people are still without power and around a quarter-million are without cell phone service. Many roads in Western North Carolina — and especially in the…
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Elaine Bartoldson of the Eastern Panhandle Transit Authority gave an update on the construction of the new multimodal transit hub coming to Martinsburg Matt Mullenax of the Hagerstown/Eastern Panhandle Planning Organization says there’s currently a survey out to improve public transportation: He also spoke about the Get a Job Get a Ride…
MARTINSBURG, W. Va. — A Hagerstown man has been sentenced to decades in prison following convictions for two counts of felony sexual abuse and sexual assault as well as other charges. In a press release, Berkeley County Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Joseph Kinser said Dustin Albert Carey, 35, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced Thursday to…
KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. — West Virginia American Water officially took over Jefferson Utilities last year, and now has water customers in Jefferson, Berkeley and Morgan Counties. Brooks Crislip is the Director of Development for West Virginia American Water. On Panhandle Live Thursday, he was asked why rates for customers in Jefferson County were raised by 44…