Collision

The Rockets' Carl Landry was taken to a hospital after breaking teeth in a collision with the Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki during the second quarter of Friday night's game. Nowitzki drove into the lane and missed a short jumper with 9 minutes, 28 seconds left in the second quarter. He was fouled by Landry, who was hit in the mouth on Nowitzki's follow-through. Before leaving for X-rays and three stitches to close a cut on his right elbow, Nowitzki, a right-hander, shot two free throws left-handed, converting one. •Bucks rookie Brandon Jennings was fined $7,500 by the NBA for posting a message on his Twitter account after Milwaukee's 108-101 double overtime win over the Trail Blazers but before the end of media access last weekend.

A 21-year-old Annapolis man died Sunday night in a head-on collision on Harry S. Truman Parkway in Annapolis. Brian Michael Hendricks was driving a 1999 Honda Civic eastbound on the parkway when the vehicle crossed the center line of the roadway and struck a 2011 Toyota Venza at about 8:53 p.m., Anne Arundel County Police said. Hendricks was transported to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. A passenger in the Toyota, 20-year-old Garrett Randall Sullivan of Annapolis, was transported to Shock Trauma and was in serious but stable condition.

A 23-year-old Toyota Camry driver who wasn't wearing a seat belt was killed early Sunday morning in Howard County after the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree, police announced. Kelly Jordan Duffy, of the 1900 block of Greengage Road in Windsor Mill, was the car's only occupant, police said. The accident occurred about 3:17 a.m. on Maryland Route 32 near Fox Chase Road, according to Howard County police. "Preliminary investigation reveals failure to drive within a single lane as the primary cause of the collision," police said Sunday in a statement.

A 23-year-old Toyota Camry driver who wasn't wearing a seat belt was killed early Sunday morning in Howard County after the vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree, police announced. Kelly Jordan Duffy, of the 1900 block of Greengage Road in Windsor Mill, was the car's only occupant, police said. The accident occurred about 3:17 a.m. on Maryland Route 32 near Fox Chase Road, according to Howard County police. "Preliminary investigation reveals failure to drive within a single lane as the primary cause of the collision," police said Sunday in a statement.

The biggest question in America these days is how to revive the economy. The biggest question among activists now occupying Wall Street and dozens of American cities is how to strike back against the nation's almost unprecedented concentration of income, wealth and political power in the top 1 percent. The two questions are related. With so much income and wealth concentrated at the top, the vast middle class no longer has the purchasing power to buy what the economy is capable of producing.

A collision at a rail yard early Sunday injured three workers on Washington's Metro. The transit agency says a six-car subway train was returning to the West Falls Church Rail Yard when it rear-ended a parked six-car train. Two workers were cleaning the parked train to get it ready for service. Three employees were treated for minor injuries at a nearby hospital and released. No passengers were on board when the crash occurred at about 4:30 a.m. It was the latest in a series of recent accidents involving Washington's rail system.

A 21-year-old Annapolis man died Sunday night in a head-on collision on Harry S. Truman Parkway in Annapolis. Brian Michael Hendricks was driving a 1999 Honda Civic eastbound on the parkway when the vehicle crossed the center line of the roadway and struck a 2011 Toyota Venza at about 8:53 p.m., Anne Arundel County Police said. Hendricks was transported to Anne Arundel Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. A passenger in the Toyota, 20-year-old Garrett Randall Sullivan of Annapolis, was transported to Shock Trauma and was in serious but stable condition.

The Harford County sheriff's office said Monday that a 22-year-old Abingdon man was killed Sunday morning after riding his motorcycle on the wrong side of the road and being hit by a Cadillac Escalade in Joppa. Richard Vito Genna Jr. was traveling at high speed on Singer Road near Atkisson Road about 10 a.m. when he lost control and slid under the front of the Escalade, the sheriff's office said. Genna was transported to Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. No one in the Escalade was injured.

Eight light rail passengers were taken to a hospital Thursday after a train collided with a Ford Taurus in Mount Vernon, a Maryland Transit Administration spokeswoman said. The passengers were taken to Maryland General Hospital, where their injuries were not considered life-threatening, according to the spokeswoman, Jawauna Greene. The crash, involving the train and one car, occurred about 2 p.m. in the 600 block of N. Howard St. Greene did not have information on the driver of the car or a cause for the crash, which is under investigation by MTA and Baltimore police.

A car traveling westbound Thursday, June 9 in the 4300 block of Brittany Drive in Ellicott City ran off the road, struck a mail box and then crashed into a tree, killing the driver, 51-year-old Lynn Ann Lubitz, of Ellicott City. According to Howard County police, the collision occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m. Police said the car, a 2007 Infiniti M35x, failed to negotiate a bend in the road. Lubitz, of the 8300 block of Spring Breeze Court, was the only occupant of the vehicle and might have suffered from a medical condition before the collision, police said.

A woman was killed after two cars collided Sunday morning in Eldersburg, Maryland State Police said. A Chrysler making a left turn from Liberty Road onto Georgetown Boulevard collided with a Nissan shortly before noon, police said. Myrtle Coghill, a passenger in the Chrysler, was taken to the Carroll Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead. The driver of that vehicle, Wallace Coghill, of Sykesville, was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, police said.

Last summer, when the paving trucks showed up, fans of the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad deservedly got a little nervous. The object of their veneration is a sliver of railroad track that bisects North Charles Street in the Woodbrook neighborhood of Baltimore County. Thousands of drivers who pass over the track every day probably have no idea what it was and where it went. It is left over from the days when the Ma & Pa zigzagged for 77.2 miles across the Maryland countryside from Baltimore to York, Pa. That track, which was left unpaved, is where a head-on collision shattered the tranquillity of a late-spring Saturday afternoon.

Three school buses crashed into one another Monday afternoon in Upper Marlboro, sending 34 high schoolers to the hospital for treatment of minor injuries. Paramedics triaged 75 students on the scene, according to Prince George's County Fire and Emergency Medical Services spokesman Mark Brady. The buses had just left Frederick Douglass High School and were loaded with teenagers headed home when they rear-ended one another at a low speed, Brady said in a news release. The buses were in line at a traffic light on the 7600 block of Croom Road, near Route 301. "All injuries are considered very minor," the release said, adding that parents of the transported children were notified.

Police are asking for help locating the driver involved in a hit-and-run incident early Saturday involving a construction worker on Interstate 95. The worker, whose identity was not immediately released, was in stable condition. The worker was installing pavement markings in a closed land when he was struck, an initial investigation found. The collision occurred about 12:15 a.m. on I-95 southbound near exit 50 for Caton Avenue, police said. The driver was in a silver or gold-colored GM sedan or Pontiac Grand Prix with damage to the right side headlamp.

Howard County police are investigating a two-vehicle crash that sent a woman in critical condition to Maryland Shock Trauma Center Tuesday night. Police are categorizing the crash as a "serious personal injury collision. " The collision occurred at about 8:45 p.m. when Mary Ann Cecile Levant, 64, of Columbia, was traveling east on Route 32 near Route 29 in a 2003 Toyota Avalon. Levant lost control of the vehicle and struck the guardrail on the shoulder of the road, police said.

An accident involving a train and a tractor trailer closed a Westminster road this morning — but resulted in no injuries. Just before 11 a.m. this morning, Carroll County sheriff's deputies responded to 911 calls reporting a collision between a tractor-trailer and a train at the Hahn Road railroad crossing north of the intersection with Route 27, near the Westminster Antique Mall. According to the Sheriff's Office, witnesses report the tractor-trailer was traveling east along Hahn Road when it crossed the tracks into the path of an oncoming locomotive, which was traveling north.

Three Anne Arundel County teens traveling the wrong way toward oncoming traffic were killed early Saturday in a head-on collision that also killed the second driver on state Route 50 near Davidsonville Road, Maryland State Police said. Breanna Marie Franco, 18, Brittany Ann Walker, 19, and Zachary Tyler Rose, 18, were in a vehicle traveling west in an eastbound lane of Route 50 that struck a second vehicle head on before 3:30 a.m., troopers said. The vehicle operated by the teens briefly caught fire.