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- Sharpsburg Emergency Responders Talk Flu Season, Patient Triaging for Emergency Care December 29, 2025SHARPSBURG, MD — With flu season ramping up, Sharpsburg Area EMS says they don’t control who gets placed in the hospital for care. They offered an explanation of how patients might be prioritized. “As flu season is in full swing, our local hospitals are experiencing very high patient volumes. We want to help our community…[email protected]
- Five Years Following Arson Death of 167th Firefighter’s Death, Investigators Still Looking For Answers December 29, 2025BERKELEY COUNTY, W. Va. –Saturday marked five years Air National Guard firefighter Logan Young was killed while battling an arson fire. Young and another firemen were battling a barn fire in the 3800 block of Charles Town Road in Berkeley County on December 27, 2020. Investigators believe that a beam in the barn collapsed striking Young…[email protected]
- West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles: Kearneysville Location Closed Today After Vehicle Drove Into Building December 29, 2025KEARNEYSVILLE, W.Va. — The Division of Motor Vehicles Office in Kearneysville is closed today, according to the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles. On Sunday afternoon, scanner page Eastern Panhandle Working Fires reported a call out to the DMV location after a vehicle ran into the building just after 4 p.m. There were no injuries,…[email protected]
- Eastern Panhandle Under a Wind Advisory through Tuesday Morning December 29, 2025BALTIMORE, MD — The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory that began Sunday night and will be in effect until December 30 at 1:00AM EST West winds OF 20 to 30 mph could gust up to 55 mph. The advisory is in effect for portions of north central Maryland, northwest and western Virginia, and…[email protected]
- Update: Cleared — Crash on Hedgesville Road still affecting traffic December 29, 2025Update: Crash cleared as of Monday afternoon. HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. — Crews have been on the scene of a crash off US 9 and BJ Dennie Lane in Hedgesville this morning. Alert Berkeley announced the closure at 9:35 this morning: Vehicle Crash on US-9 (BJ Dennie Lane). The northbound road is closed. The southbound road is…[email protected]
- Christmas Cash for Kids Donors Came Through In Big and Small Ways — More than 800 Children helped in the Eastern Panhandle December 24, 2025MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — In its 20th year, Christmas Cash for Kids organizers set a lofty goal of $75,000 to make Christmas brighter for children in the Eastern Panhandle. On Wednesday’s Christmas Eve edition of Panhandle Live, we got an update on whether that goal was met. “We went $14,000 over,” board member Mary Beth Blair…[email protected]
- Great Cacapon VFD Read Along Raises more than $900 for Toys for Tots December 24, 2025GREAT CACAPON, W.Va. — The Great Cacapon Volunteer Fire Department had a pretty successful fundraiser for Toys for Tots this Christmas season. Anyone donating $10 or more got a chance to help read The Night Before Christmas. Among those reading were some notable community members including the folks from Roy’s Service Center, and in this…[email protected]
- Trustees for historic African American cemetery allege harrassment, property damage by neighboring cemetery’s caretaker December 24, 2025MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Last Friday in Berkeley County Magistrate Court, Donald Russ, the now former caretaker for the Green Hill Historic Cemetery in Martinsburg was sentenced to 80 hours of community service for violating the terms of a plea agreement he had reached in the fall. That plea after Russ had pleaded no contest to…[email protected]
- Berkeley County Commission Holds Final Meeting Before End of the Year December 23, 2025MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — At Thursday’s meeting of the Berkeley County Commission, Commissioner John Hardy gave an update on Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe, who was. Injured in an ambush-style shooting the day before Thanksgiving in Washington, DC. “I’m sure everyone has heard and read that Sergeant Wolfe has been removed out of the hospital, is now…[email protected]
- Bridge Replacement Could Close Morgan County Road For a Year and a Half December 23, 2025BURLINGTON, W.Va. — Bridge Replacement work in could close a Morgan County road for a year and a half. The West Virginia Division of Highways says The Pallet Factory Bridge, on Winchester Grade Road in Morgan County, will be closed beginning Wednesday, January 7, 2026, to replace the existing bridge. The bridge will remain closed…[email protected]