Trailer

Here's a first-look at the HBO satire, "VEEP," starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and it's a winner. The series from Armando Iannucci ("In The Loop") was filmed in Baltimore last year and debuts April 22 on the premium cable channel. I'm working on a magazine story about the series. It includes a set visit and interviews with Iannucci, Louis-Dreyfus, executive producer Frank Rich and others. This trailer makes me feel like my sense during the set visit -- that this was a smart, savvy and special TV series -- was right.

A pickup truck was towing an overloaded trailer when it caused a multiple-vehicle accident Thursday afternoon that closed westbound Route 32 in Howard County for several hours and sent four people to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries, according to Howard County police. A Ford Ranger was hauling a flatbed trailer carrying a Bobcat front-end loader. The trailer and the construction equipment weighed a combined 9,220 pounds, said Pfc. Jamie Myers, a spokesman for police, well over the 3,700-pound weight limit of the trailer hitch, Myers said.

A trailer with all of the goods of a fledging church - its television and video equipment, children's toys, chairs and tables, and Bibles - was reported stolen yesterday from a shopping center parking lot in Perry Hall. The Rev. Kent Stewart, pastor of the nondenominational Church of White Marsh, said he had permission to park the trailer at the shopping center at Belair and Silver Spring roads and had checked on it Saturday afternoon. It had been secured with locks and chains, he said, so that no one could move the trailer - which Stewart tows with a van to his church's services Sundays and Tuesdays in the cafeteria of Perry Hall High School.

Police arrested three people Thursday night during a raid on a trailer at the Severn Mobile Estates in the 7900 block of Telegraph Road.Detectives raided the trailer at 8:30 p.m. They seized 39 grams of suspected marijuana, a scale, a 1986 Camaro, pipes and packaging material for drugs, police said.Michael S. Henning, 33, and Jeanie M. Henning, 25, who live in the trailer, and Richard L. Allen, 29, of the 200 block of Snow Cap Court, were charged with possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said.

An early morning fire in Cockeysville yesterday killed a 37-year-old man and gutted the travel trailer he was using as a makeshift residence.John Patrick Morgan, who sporadically took shelter in the trailer, was pronounced dead at the scene."

A 52-year-old Montgomery County woman was killed when the car she was riding in was struck by a tractor-trailer, thrown in the air and smashed against a guardrail early Saturday on Interstate 70 in Howard County.Grace Raymond Guay of Germantown died at Frederick Memorial Hospital an hour after the accident, which occurred just east of the Carroll-Howard counties border.State police said the eastbound 1991 Chevrolet in which Ms. Guay was riding slowed in the center lane after being signaled by a disabled motorist in the westbound lane.

A motorist fell asleep and his pickup truck struck the rear of a tractor-trailer on Route 140 near Dede Road in Finksburg on Friday morning, state police said.The drivers of both trucks were treated at Carroll County General Hospital and released Friday.David Grant Hollinger, 26, of the 100 block of Pennsylvania Ave. in Westminster was driving a 1983 Ford Ranger pickup north on Baltimore Boulevard at 8:55 a.m. when he fell asleep and his truck hit the rear of the tractor-trailer, state police said.

Two Manassas, Va., women were seriously injured yesterday when their car went out of control, struck a tractor-trailer and became wedged under the rear of the trailer on northbound Interstate 95 in Elkridge, state police reported.Their 1976 Dodge Aspen was dragged 200 yards after it collided with the tractor-trailer near Route 100 and got caught under the trailer, police said.A heavy-duty wrecking vehicle was borrowed from an Elkridge towing business to lift the rear end of the trailer while a rescue vehicle pushed the smashed vehicle out from under it.Howard County firefighters extricated Joan Ann Lewis, 50, the driver of the Aspen, and took her by ambulance to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, said Battalion Chief Donald Howell of the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services.

Fire destroyed a house trailer in the 8400 block of Forest Stream Club Road in Detour about 8 p.m. Friday night, causing no injuries but leaving a family of seven homeless."

A Jarrettsville man suffered a heart attack and three people escaped serious injury after a mobile home they were dismantling collapsed about noon yesterday in the community of Street, the Harford County sheriff's office reported.Rescue workers freed three people trapped under the debris of the collapsed trailer on Trappe Road, including Leonard F. Cochran, 48, of Jarrettsville, who went into cardiac arrest and was in critical condition at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.Thomas E. Hitchcock, 32, of Forest Hill who pushed his 12-year-old son to safety as the trailer collapsed, was treated for superficial injuries at Fallston General Hospital.