SUITLAND — Authorities say a driver was killed when the semitractor-trailer he was driving fell from a Capital Beltway overpass onto a parkway in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C. Maryland State Police say the driver lost control on the ...

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Welcome to the final Monday of spring.  Here are some end-of-season news items to get your week started.

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WASHINGTON — The luxury cruise liner that ran aground off the Italian coast has rattled even the most die-hard “cruisers” in an industry where catastrophic accidents are rare, but it’s unlikely to do significant long-term damage. The Costa Concordia hit ...

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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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Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein said Thursday that after an “exhaustive” investigation, no criminal charges would be filed against four police officers involved in a shooting at the Select Lounge that killed a plainclothes officer. “It is our conclusion ...

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WASHINGTON — It has been two years since a pair of Metro trains collided in Washington, killing nine people, but a lawsuit resulting from the crash could take until 2012 to resolve. Wednesday marks two years since a malfunctioning electronic ...

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A man who pleaded guilty to the 2009 hit-and-run death of a Johns Hopkins University student has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. Thomas Meighan Jr. of Elkridge was sentenced Wednesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Meighan pleaded guilty ...

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The “live burn” training exercise that cost Racheal Wilson her life does not create grounds for a civil rights action in U.S. District Court, a federal judge has ruled. Although it would have meant failing the program, Wilson could have ...

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