Harpers Ferry News

Hospice of the Panhandle received a big monetary pledge toward its capital campaign at the second Homegrown for Hospice fundraiser Monday night at The Anvil Restaurant in Harpers Ferry.

An attempted traffic stop late Tuesday evening near Harpers Ferry resulted in a vehicle pursuit after the driver failed to stop the car.

The Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society has scheduled a forum on John Brown's Raid and trial.

The Shepherdstown Town Council is looking to add 600 residents by annexing dormitories on the Shepherd University campus.

A man killed Wednesday night in a head-on collision on W.Va. 51 was identified by police Thursday as Robert Lawrence Brown, 69, of Harpers Ferry, W.Va. The 1993 Toyota Camry that Brown was driving east on W.Va. 51 toward Charles Town crossed the center line and collided with a westbound 2001 Dodge Durango near Images nightclub, according to ...

A 69-year-old Harpers Ferry, W.Va., man was killed Wednesday night when the Toyota Camry he was driving east on W.Va. 51 crossed the center line and collided with a westbound Dodge Durango near Images nightclub, according to a Jefferson County Sheriff's Department spokesman.

PanTran officials are doing all they can to promote their agency during November, which has been designated by county commission members in both Berkeley and Jefferson counties as Public Transit Month.

The Concerns of Police Survivors not-for-profit organization has announced that last month's Fifth annual COPS WALK in Jefferson County raised more than $180,000 for families of law enforcement officers who have died in the line of duty.

John Browna s descendants relived the raid on Harpers Ferry, W.Va., during the eventa s sesquicentennial on Oct.

Getting there From Lebanon, drive west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Exit 236.

In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader: FLOOR SCHEDULE FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2009 House Meets At... 10:00 a.m.: Legislative Business First Vote Predicted... 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Last Vote Predicted... 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. "One Minutes" Suspensions S. 1929 - Providing for additional a temporary extension of programs under the ...

A Jefferson County school bus driver was one of two people arrested on drug charges Wednesday afternoon after a traffic stop led to the seizure of marijuana.

Workers at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park are focused on cleanup and repairs after discovering a leaking heating-fuel line.

A school bus driver has been arrested on drug charges in Jefferson County. Harpers Ferry Police say they found 21 packets of marijuana in Anthony Gaddy's car.

Talk about a warm welcome on a cold rainy day. We were searching for a restaurant in historic Harpers Ferry, Wand asked a man on the street for directions.

For long, the ties have bound in a general way church and business for civil rights, a just society and a better world, which nonetheless wreaks in war in Afghanistan and other places.

Gentle readers, I'll bet you've never heard of the Secret Six. Neither had I until a few years ago.

The beginning of their five-mile walk, the log farmhouse in western Maryland, is the very spot where Brown and his raiders left for the Federal Arsenal in Harpers Ferry.

The Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce put on its ninth annual Public Service Recognition Banquet to honor the finest in law enforcement and other first responders in Jefferson County on Tuesday night.

As part of the kickoff for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, and also the commemoration of John Brown's Raid, the town of Harpers Ferry is presenting what many believe to be the most powerful drama ever created about the bloody time of war.