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911 Calls from Ellicott City Flood: 'The Floor is Buckling'
The Howard County Police Department released calls that its 911 center received Saturday night, when downtown Ellicott City was swept up in a deadly flash flood.
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"Flooding is an understatement," said one of the callers in the 10-plus minutes of conversations released Wednesday. She was inside Ellicott Mills Brewing Company. >>> Read more.
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A bus stop perched on six-lane Route 29 in Silver Spring – a stop with no sidewalk leading to it – is called a disgrace by a local resident and is in the finals for the country’s worst bus stop.
The Streetsblog’s Sorriest Bus Stop tournament has gathered votes on the worst transit stops nationwide, and says “only the least appealing, most dehumanizing bus stops are still standing.” >>> Read more.
- Two Maryland universities were ranked among college football's top 100 all-time teams by the Associated Press.
- Attorneys for murder suspect Lloyd Welch -- accused of kidnapping and killing Sheila and Katherine Lyon -- won a new date for his trial.
- A man waiting in the Annapolis Motor Vehicle Administration office stopped breathing; an alert trooper performed CPR and saved a life.
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