Delivery Truck

A delivery truck stocked with Berger cookies rolled out of the Cherry Hill bakery Monday morning for the first time in more than a month. The well-known sweets are finally back in stores after Berger's closure by the Baltimore City Health Department Jan. 31; the bakery was closed for operating without a city-issued food-service license. The Health Department approved the bakery's license Wednesday, and the bakery started to gear up for production the next day. On Monday, workers in hairnets and aprons frosted cookies, packed the treats and sent them off. Corey DeBaufre, whose family has been making the cookies since 1969, said the bakery would keep its regular production schedule for the time being.

Picture a one-sided tug of war in an Anne Arundel Community College parking lot: At one end of the rope is a group of students, digging heels against the asphalt to gain traction. The other end is tied to a delivery truck set in neutral, its 14,000 pounds making it a formidable challenger. The community college is primed for the return this week of the AACC Truck Pull, which began last year as one of the more intriguing spectacles on the sprawling Arnold campus. Hosted by the college's Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Program, the event, scheduled for Thursday, involves teams of students, faculty and community leaders pulling delivery trucks and racing for the best time on a closed course.

A pharmaceutical delivery driver was abducted while making his rounds in West Baltimore on Monday morning by thieves who made off with a truckload of drug products, police said. Police called the morning robbery "incredibly thought-out," and were looking for three suspects. The robbery occurred about 9 a.m. in the 2000 block of W. Pratt St., outside the tiny Westside Pharmacy and Wellness Center. The 55-year-old driver was forced at gunpoint into the back of his delivery truck and taken to an unknown location where the suspects unloaded about 80 crates of drug products.

A delivery truck stocked with Berger cookies rolled out of the Cherry Hill bakery Monday morning for the first time in more than a month. The well-known sweets are finally back in stores after Berger's closure by the Baltimore City Health Department Jan. 31; the bakery was closed for operating without a city-issued food-service license. The Health Department approved the bakery's license Wednesday, and the bakery started to gear up for production the next day. On Monday, workers in hairnets and aprons frosted cookies, packed the treats and sent them off. Corey DeBaufre, whose family has been making the cookies since 1969, said the bakery would keep its regular production schedule for the time being.

An 82-year-old driver was killed after his vehicle collided with a delivery truck at an Essex intersection Tuesday afternoon. The elderly man was driving a Chevrolet station wagon south on Stemmers Run Road when police said a 51-year-old driver of a delivery box truck traveling west on Eastern Boulevard ran a red light, striking the station wagon about 2:30 p.m. Police said a Ford Focus traveling behind the station wagon was also involved in...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A one-of-a-kind, handcrafted machine gun disguised as a briefcase, portable and deadly as a James Bond secret weapon, has been stolen from the back of a delivery truck, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms says.The feds want it back, pronto.ATF spokesman Ed Gleba said the weapon had been lifted from a parked Federal Express truck Tuesday while its driver was making deliveries.Mr. Gleba said the gun was evidence from a federal case that had recently been completed in Salt Lake City and was headed for Washington for examination and cataloging by federal firearms experts.

Two thousand dollars was stolen from a delivery truck parked in the 800 block of Bestgate Road in Annapolis between 3:40 p.m. and 3:55 p.m. Thursday, county police said.The Pepsi Cola truck was parked in front of the Environmental Protection Agency when the theft occurred, police said. Four money bags were in the truck: three were locked in a steel safe and one was on the floor in the cab of the truck.When the driver returned, he found all four bags gone, and the padlock of the safe open.

Instead of showing their works at the World Fantasy Convention this weekend in downtown Baltimore, an artist couple found themselves searching alleys and trash bins for the nearly two dozen framed oil paintings of fantasy characters reported stolen from a delivery truck."

State police have arrested three men and charged them with stealing 22 cartons of cigarettes from a delivery truck in New Windsor.David W. Shepherd, 24, of Glen Burnie was released Wednesday from Carroll County Detention Center after posting a $2,000 bond.Peter Maminski, 25, of Glen Burnie was released on a $1,500 unsecured bond, and Douglas L. Moore, 34, of Millersville was released on a $2,000 unsecured bond.All face charges of theft over $300 and two counts of conspiring to commit a theft.

ATLANTA - Buttoned-down UPS is handing video gamers the keys to its boxy brown delivery trucks. In return, it expects excessive speeds, dent-free driving and a whole lot of brand awareness. The delivery giant paid to have a depiction of a UPS delivery truck embedded in the latest edition of a popular racing video game for Xbox and PlayStation2 console systems. The game, NASCAR 06: Total Team Control, is expected to be on store shelves nationwide by today. Price not disclosed UPS wouldn't disclose the price for the product placement, but spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg said the cost exceeds what UPS shells out for a single airing of a national television spot.

Steve Appel, who's been in the business of selling cool furniture to Baltimoreans since the 1980s, called me after one of my give-a-guy-a-chance columns. It was 2009, with the recession lingering and the national unemployment rate at double digits. Baltimore's was just under 11 percent — and higher, as always, among guys between 18 and 24. Appel, the affable co-owner of Nouveau Contemporary Goods in North Baltimore's Belvedere Square, had an opening for someone from that demographic to make furniture deliveries.

Three people were taken to Baltimore trauma centers last weekend after being injured in two separate crashes. The first was last Friday, when a car and delivery truck collided at the intersection of Juniata and Superior streets. The second was just about 24 hours later on Route 155 near Graceview Drive. In the first, Chester James Dawson, 80, of the 400 block of South Tollgate Road in Bel Air, driving a Subaru Forrester, turned into a box delivery truck stopped and waiting to turn onto Superior Street to go to Route 155. Dawson's car hit the delivery truck right in the middle and went underneath.

Harry Tsakalos, who put the "H" in H&S Bakery and helped build the company he co-founded into a baking empire that's the largest supplier of McDonald's buns, died Thursday at his Harbor East residence. Family members said he had had Alzheimer's disease for several years. He was 93. Family and friends recalled Mr. Tsakalos on Friday as a pillar in the Greek community. The son of immigrants, he loved his work and was noted for his warmth, simplicity and generosity. "He was more comfortable with a broom in his hand than he was with meeting the politicians," said a grandson, Michael Tsakalos of Hunt Valley.

Twenty Giant Food workers will be laid off by the end of the month after a dry-goods warehouse in Jessup that supplies Giant stores closes, union locals representing workers said Monday. Warehouse operator Jessup Logistics LLC said in April that it was shutting down the warehouse and laying off about 250 people. The subsidiary of New Hampshire-based C&S Wholesale Grocers said it would save about $13.5 million a year by shifting the distribution work to a more technologically advanced facility in York, Pa. Giant, the region's largest grocery chain, outsourced the dry-goods operation to Jessup Logistics but still owns the center and runs a fresh-foods warehouse as well as the transportation and recycling divisions.

A pharmaceutical delivery driver was abducted while making his rounds in West Baltimore on Monday morning by thieves who made off with a truckload of drug products, police said. Police called the morning robbery "incredibly thought-out," and were looking for three suspects. The robbery occurred about 9 a.m. in the 2000 block of W. Pratt St., outside the tiny Westside Pharmacy and Wellness Center. The 55-year-old driver was forced at gunpoint into the back of his delivery truck and taken to an unknown location where the suspects unloaded about 80 crates of drug products.

An 82-year-old driver was killed after his vehicle collided with a delivery truck at an Essex intersection Tuesday afternoon. The elderly man was driving a Chevrolet station wagon south on Stemmers Run Road when police said a 51-year-old driver of a delivery box truck traveling west on Eastern Boulevard ran a red light, striking the station wagon about 2:30 p.m. Police said a Ford Focus traveling behind the station wagon was also involved in...

Picture a one-sided tug of war in an Anne Arundel Community College parking lot: At one end of the rope is a group of students, digging heels against the asphalt to gain traction. The other end is tied to a delivery truck set in neutral, its 14,000 pounds making it a formidable challenger. The community college is primed for the return this week of the AACC Truck Pull, which began last year as one of the more intriguing spectacles on the sprawling Arnold campus. Hosted by the college's Transportation, Logistics and Supply Chain Management Program, the event, scheduled for Thursday, involves teams of students, faculty and community leaders pulling delivery trucks and racing for the best time on a closed course.

Three people were taken to Baltimore trauma centers last weekend after being injured in two separate crashes. The first was last Friday, when a car and delivery truck collided at the intersection of Juniata and Superior streets. The second was just about 24 hours later on Route 155 near Graceview Drive. In the first, Chester James Dawson, 80, of the 400 block of South Tollgate Road in Bel Air, driving a Subaru Forrester, turned into a box delivery truck stopped and waiting to turn onto Superior Street to go to Route 155. Dawson's car hit the delivery truck right in the middle and went underneath.

The death of a 45-year-old woman, initially reported Tuesday as a traffic accident, is being investigated by homicide detectives after witnesses told police that the woman was seen fighting with her boyfriend moments before she was struck by a delivery truck. The woman, who has not been identified, was struck at about 1:15 p.m. in the 2400 block of Greenmount Ave. and pronounced dead at about 4:30 p.m. Police confirmed Wednesday that witnesses said the woman had been seen assaulting her boyfriend, striking him numerous times in the face, before "falling backwards into the street and in front of a moving vehicle," according to Anthony Guglielmi, a police spokesman.

A Reisterstown woman was killed Tuesday morning after her car crashed into a delivery truck on Interstate 795 north of Owings Mills Boulevard, closing the northbound roadway for about three hours, according to Maryland State Police. Amy L. Brooking, 21, of the first block of Sebastian Court was pronounced dead at Sinai Hospital, police said. Brooking was driving a 2004 Honda Civic south in the left lane of I-795 about 10:30 a.m., approaching the Owings Mills metro station, when her car crossed the median and struck a box truck, police said.