SANDY POINT — A Calvert County woman who survived a plunge off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge after a crash says she decided she didn’t want to die and swam to safety. Morgan Lake, 22, of Sunderland was on her way ...

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A Dallas-based trucking company has agreed to pay $5 million to the widow and four children of Leroy Corbin, who was killed when a tractor trailer plowed into his car on an interstate outside Hagerstown early last year.

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SEOUL, South Korea — Asiana announced Monday that it will sue a San Francisco TV station that it said damaged the airline’s reputation by using bogus and racially offensive names for four pilots on a plane that crashed earlier this ...

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Stop signs at a rail crossing where a train and trash truck crashed in a Baltimore suburb were faded and one was hung upside down and facing away from the road, according to a preliminary report on last month’s derailment ...

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CSX says rail lines where a freight train and trash truck collided near Baltimore have reopened. CSX spokesman Bob Sullivan said in an email Friday that rail service at the crash site in Rosedale was restored on one track at ...

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The state health department says a woman was killed in a Montgomery County crash related to the effects of Hurricane Sandy, but county police say the accident may have other causes. Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein says the medical examiner confirms ...

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The family of a 24-year-old woman killed in a traffic accident in Baltimore in 2010 was awarded $760,000 by a city jury — almost all of it in solatium damages.

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HYATTSVILLE — The U.S. Transportation Department will have the power to withhold grant money to urban transit systems that don’t make safety improvements under a law signed this month by President Barack Obama. Lawmakers and transportation officials gathered Monday to ...

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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The father of a 20-year-old South Carolina woman crushed under a truck as she slept in a tent at the All Good Music Festival is suing the event producers, hosts, traffic directors and security providers for negligence. ...

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WASHINGTON — Metro has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $13 million from its insurance company, claiming that it has failed to pay costs and extra expenses in connection with the 2009 rail crash that killed nine people. The lawsuit ...

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