One killed in bus crash
Maryland State Police say one person is dead and six others have been taken to a hospital after a pickup truck crossed the median and hit a broken-down bus along Interstate 70 in Washington County.
The accident happened near the exit for Big Pool around 10 a.m. Monday. Police say a person riding in the truck died in the crash.
Lt. Thomas Woodward says three of the 18 people on the bus were taken to Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown with minor injuries. He says a woman and her two children also were taken to the hospital after their vehicle crashed as she tried to avoid the first accident.
Fifteen other people from the bus were taken to the Red Cross in Hagerstown to await another bus.
Man who knifed three at embassy sentenced
A man who cut three people with a knife at the Embassy of Togo was sentenced and likely will be deported.
A judge sentenced Kokou Dzifa Bocco to time served. He has already spent more than 15 months in jail, and immigration officials are now holding Bocco, who is from Togo.
Bocco pleaded guilty and admitted that in 2009 he went to the West African embassy on 2208 Massachusetts Ave. NW to get a passport and was told he would have to wait for a new passport. Bocco became angry, pulled out a serrated 12-inch knife and cut three people, including Charge d’Affaires Lerempo Tchabre Lanjergue, who suffered cuts on both hands.
Man falls on highway, killed
A 50-year-old Laurel man was killed when he stumbled across a highway and fell in front of an oncoming traffic.
Anne Arundel County police said it appeared that the pedestrian, Robert Leo Gore, was intoxicated. At about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Gore was trying to cross Maryland Route 198, just west of Whiskey Bottom Road, when he fell in the westbound lane.
He was run over by a Buick Century followed by a Mercury Mountaineer and pronounced dead at the scene.
– Scott McCabe
