Hedgesville News

A 25-year-old Hedgesville man who told police he was a bounty hunter was arrested after he allegedly sold cocaine during two controlled drug purchases, according to West Virginia State Police.

Searching for a box of random items buried in the ground might not sound like a lot of fun, until you learn about the high-tech treasure hunting game that is geocaching.

The late Ray Johnston, founder of The Woods Resort west of Hedgesville, had worked on improving W.Va. 9 from Berkeley Springs to the Virginia line since the mid-1980s. In tribute to his tireless efforts to improve the highway, the portion of W.Va. 9 between Martinsburg and the Berkeley County/Morgan County line has been named in Johnston's honor.

A preliminary hearing remains on hold for the accused murderer who was shot last month at City Hospital while allegedly attempting to escape from Eastern Regional Jail corrections officers.

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Firefighters were busy Wednesday morning trying to put out fires at two separate mobile homes in Martinsburg and Falling Waters.

A preliminary hearing for accused murderer Donald Berkley Surber Jr. was postponed Thursday so he could undergo a psychological evaluation, said Berkeley County Prosecuting Attorney Pamela Games-Neely. "They did it for purposes of checking his competency," she said.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A man charged with stabbing his girlfriend to death during a 26-hour standoff with police is back in West Virginia after being released from a Virginia hospital.

A Hedgesville resort and conference center says its customers have been mistaking it for a restaurant and pub with a similar name located only three miles away.

Berkeley County Schools Superintendent Manuel P. 'Manny' Arvon II said Friday he plans to ask taxpayers in the next two to four weeks to help finance the construction of a new high school and other growth-related building projects.

A new date and time have been set for a preliminary hearing for the man who is accused of murdering Katherine Nicole Sharp during a 26-hour hostage standoff at her home earlier this week.

The Berkeley County woman killed while being held hostage in her home near Hedgesville this week will be remembered during funeral services Saturday in Inwood.

A 19-year-old Charles Town, W.Va., woman was killed Thursday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident near the entrance to The Country Day School on W.Va. 51, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

An apparent hostage situation is being handled by law enforcement at a home on Raider Lane in Martinsburg.

An armed standoff with police ensued Sunday morning in Berkeley County after a gunman took his ex-girlfriend hostage in Ridgefield subdivision near Hedgesville.

A Hedgesville family is homeless after a fire destroyed a house on Rodeo Drive. It happened just after 1:00 Saturday morning.

A local principal and his family spent much of the day Saturday sorting through the few belongings they had been able to salvage from their home, after a fire broke out early that morning.

Firefighters were on the scene of Quad/Graphics on Caperton Boulevard for more than six hours early Friday morning trying to fight a fire that broke out on one of the presses and attempting to remove the billows of smoke that resulted from it.

An early morning fire tore through a home on Rodeo Drive on the city's west side.

Relays For Life are emotionally charged events regardless, but the Berkeley County Relay For Life on Saturday was especially poignant for Teri Barnhart.