Martinsburg News

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When Harry M. Siegel started HMS Technologies Inc. in late 2003, he knew he could bring in business by providing top-flight computer hardware and software along with high-tech problem-solving processes.

If the number of clients who have come to CCAP/Loaves & Fishes for emergency food supplies during the first week of November continues at the same rate through the rest of the month, the food pantry in Martinsburg could see more than 600 people cross its threshold.

The Martinsburg City Council on Thursday agreed to accept the donation of property along Tuscarora Creek near the B&O roundhouse and shops that is being eyed for a recreational use.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A Martinsburg aviation company plans to hire up to 300 workers during the next five years.

A Martinsburg man has been arraigned on one count of felony child abuse resulting in injury in connection to a domestic incident in August in which he allegedly slammed his 12-year-old son's head against a wall after chasing the boy's mother with an ax.

Several events have been held this week across the tri-county to raise awareness of homelessness and hunger and to raise funds to help the homeless and hungry.

Recently the Berkeley County Historical Landmarks Commission received the forms and map from Michael Gioulis on the completion of a $10,000 survey grant through the Department of West Virginia Archives and History Division.

Police arrested two people Monday after 158 marijuana plants were found growing in a home near Martinsburg following an anonymous tip about the illegal growing operation.

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A man armed with a 20-gauge shotgun was taken into custody Tuesday evening following a confrontation with police at his estranged wife's home, West Virginia State Police said in a news release.

Shoppers ready to spend money and college students ready to spend time in class will soon be side by side at the Martinsburg Mall, the struggling Foxcroft Avenue retail hub that opened 18 years ago.

A neighbor of a Berkeley Springs man accused of killing his father has been charged with concealing the dead man's body, West Virginia State Police said in a news release.

A 23-year-old man was arrested Tuesday afternoon in the July 2008 shooting death of a Virginia man who police say was an innocent bystander when he was killed in a spray of gunfire outside a club near Martinsburg.

A man suspected of stealing four vehicles and setting them on fire was arrested Saturday morning after a high-speed pursuit, according to a news release issued late Sunday night by the Berkeley County Sheriff's Department.

The first thing one notices about the new house on Rothwell Avenue in the north end of Martinsburg is its stylish, contemporary design.

The head of a nonprofit that provides shelter to men, women and children said the issue of homelessness must be included in any discussions of poverty in the Eastern Panhandle.

From the streets of Shepherdstown to downtown Martinsburg, traditional morris dancers, complete with colorful costumes and intricate dance numbers, entertained and educated curious crowds Sunday on the ancient English custom.

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- A former Berkeley County teacher has pleaded not guilty to charges she kissed a 14-year-old male student during a lunch break at Musselman Middle School.

The house of Capt. John Kerney, Huxley Hall, was marked with a bronze plaque by the National Society Colonial Dames XVII century, Sir George Calvert Chapter of Maryland.