Students mourn deaths of teens in car crash

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More than 100 students met with counselors Monday at Liberty High School in Carroll to mourn a classmate, who died in a car crash this weekend.

Emily Burke, 15, a Liberty High sophomore, and Rodolfo “Rudy” Calderon, 14, a Westminster Senior High School freshman, died Saturday when their Chevrolet minivan swerved off Louisville Road in Finksburg and crashed head-on into a tree about 11:30 p.m., according to state police reports.

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