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A tractor trailer overturned on southbound Interstate 95 in Howard County Monday afternoon, injuring the driver and leaving trash and other debris strewn across the road, Maryland State Police said. Police and Howard County fire and rescue units were first called to the scene just north of Route 32 about 5 p.m., police said. The man driving the truck sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Laurel Regional Hospital, police and fire officials said. The two left lanes of the highway were closed to traffic for hours as crews worked to clear the truck and the debris, officials said.

An overheated tractor trailer on northbound Interstate 95 just south of Route 32 in Howard County caused a significant traffic backup Wednesday afternoon, according to police officials. Maryland State Police responded to the disabled vehicle in the roadway shortly after 4 p.m. and assisted in moving it to the right-hand shoulder of the highway, according to a dispatcher in the state police's Waterloo barracks. All lanes were clear as of 4:45 p.m. krector@baltsun.com twitter.com/rectorsun

A combination of diesel fuel and sugar from an overturned tractor trailer closed the I-95 north ramp onto Route 100 west in Laurel early Thursday. Crews from the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services responded to the accident just after midnight. The truck was carrying 40,000 pounds of sugar and was leaking 60 gallons of diesel fuel. The services' special operations unit, which conducts hazardous materials mitigation, worked with Maryland Department of Environment and State Highway Administration to clear the scene and minimize the impact of the spill.

Wednesday, on the United States' 236th Independence Day, Ubisoft sent around the newest trailer for October's fervently-awaited "Assassin's Creed 3. " The trailer, titled "Rise," (watch it below) is 95 percent live-action scenes that will not appear in the game, but is nonetheless a powerful and well-crafted appetizer to keep the aura of the game alive in the minds of gamers a full business quarter before its release. I have to respectfully disagree with a couple industry writers and commentators who thought the trailer was "terrible," tapping into "good old Tea Party-style American nationalism" and (this is the best one)

A handful of new food trucks are circling Baltimore's streets. We're catching up with them in advance of A Taste of Two Cities , the big June 23 Baltimore vs. D.C. food truck rally. Although Karlita's Latin and American Mobile Cuisine has been on the streets since last September, We're only just heard about it recently, when its operator, Karla Flores rang us up. A native of Honduras, Flores also sells things quesadillas, taquitos, burritos, fried plantains and tacos -- Latin food with an authentic Honduran flair, Flores calls it. A former city employee, Karla Flores left her job in the mayor's office last year to launch.

Microsoft led off the lineup of developers and publishers who will be showcasing everything new in digital entertainment at this week's E3expo in Los Angeles. While the news out of Redmond was very heavy on the Xbox's capabilities as a media center, there was still plenty of gaming news and announcements for the coming fall and following year on the world's best-selling console. Microsoft Studios president Phil Spencer proclaimed this year as the “biggest year ever for games on the Xbox.” Not surprisingly, Microsoft opened the event with an extended trailer for “Halo 4” (in stores Nov. 6)

News Roundup •••• Bethesda released their trailer for the “Dawnguard” expansion to “Skyrim,” and like everything in the last three years, it's about vampires. Anything that breathes new life into “Skyrim” is welcome, because even fantastic games get stale when you play them for 250 hours. Not that they have a way to keep track of that. Do they? [ YouTube ] •••• EA has confirmed “Dead Space 3” is real and will be announced next week at E3. This is kind of one of those “everyone already knew this but it's still exciting nonetheless” tidbits.

The trailer for "The Great Gatsby," Baz Luhrmann's new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel, shows promise. (It certainly couldn't be as bad as the 1974 adaptation, which was flat and passion-less, despite a cast that include Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and Bruce Dern.) The new version, scheduled for a Christmas release, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan as the lovers separated by a vast gulf of wealth (not to mention marriage vows). The party scenes featured in the trailer bear a close resemblance to the scenes in Luhrmann's "Moulin Rouge," and that's a good sign, because it contrasts sharply with the lifelessness of the earlier version.

Seven students from the private GreenMount School in Charles Village will travel Tuesday to Knoxville, Tenn., to compete in an international problem-solving competition. The team – dubbed Soul Seven – participates in Destination Imagination, a program that presents challenges to students, from kindergarten through college, and judges their solutions on effectiveness and creativity. The competition has six categories: technical, scientific, fine arts, improvisational, structural and community service.

Howard County fire fighters on Thursday extinguished an early morning fire outside the Sears store at The Mall in Columbia. According to the Howard County Department of Fire and Rescue Services, emergency units responded to a call at 5:40 a.m. and found a fire in a trailer attached to a loading dock outside Sears. Crews quickly put out the fire and obtained a ventilation unit from Montgomery County to help remove smoke from inside the store. No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire is under investigation, according to the fire department.