Williamsport News

The Washington County Sheriff's Office say a Williamsport woman has been charged in sexual abuse of a minor.

The cannons mounted on historically accurate carriages were taken by horse back to Doubleday Hill on Saturday.

An 8-year-old Williamsport boy was flown to the Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., on Friday evening after he was shot accidentally, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.

According to police, Maryland State Police Hagerstown Barrack responded to a call just before 8:30 in the morning on Thursday, May 2. The single vehicle crash was reported from the 8700 block of Downsville Pike and involved a pedestrian.

The Washington County Teachers Federal Credit Union in Williamsport was robbed at gunpoint Monday afternoon.

Kevin Brandt, superintendent of the C&O Canal National Historical Park, asked a crowd of about 80 Williamsport Elementary School fourth-graders Friday if it was a great day to take a hike.

Organizers say this was an effort to keep the area clean. They say they all used trash pick ups, disposing all types of garbage.

Jason Hitchner's defense attorney said a combination of a traumatic brain injury and alcohol consumption left him with little recollection of sexually abusing two children, but Washington County Circuit Court Judge Daniel P. Dwyer went with the state's recommendation and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.