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By Liz F. Kay | September 27, 2009
The problem:: A smelly utility pole languished in Patterson Park. The backstory:: John Lundquist noticed a utility pole lying in the park across the street from his Ellwood Avenue home, as well as several others on Linwood Avenue, in July. The poles on Linwood disappeared after a few weeks, but "this one across the street just sat and sat and sat." He called 311 to report it. He spotted a tag on the pole indicating that it belonged to Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., so he also called the utility.
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August 12, 2008
Boy, 15, killed when bike is hit by van A 15-year-old Reisterstown-area boy was killed yesterday afternoon when he drove his dirt bike into the path of a van in the street at the end of his driveway, Baltimore County police said. Connor Richard Kohls was riding a Yamaha 125cc dirt bike up and down the lengthy driveway of his home in the 13000 block of Dover Road near Tufton Springs Lane when he entered Dover Road and was struck by a northbound Ford Econoline van about 3:30 p.m., said Sgt. Robert Czawlytko of the county police crash team.
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By DAN THANH DANG | July 15, 2008
The Q: Kathleen Chance wants to put an above-ground pool in the back of her Baltimore home, but she says that utility lines droop dangerously low through her yard. "The electrical line has been this way for 40 years and has prevented us from doing anything with our backyard," Chance said. "We have tried over the years to get this wire moved, but have failed. And not only does that electrical line cross over the backyard to the utility pole, but we also have four other wires that cross our backyard to that same pole from our neighbors' yards."
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By Richard Irwin | June 25, 2008
Two children and three adults were injured yesterday after two vehicles collided at a Northwest Baltimore intersection while one of them was being followed by police for a traffic violation. One of the vehicles caught fire after it struck a utility pole, police said. Names of the injured were not available. About 5 p.m., at Gwynn Oak and Ferndale avenues in Howard Park, a van and an Audi, which was being followed by police, crashed, and one of them struck a parked vehicle. One vehicle caught fire after hitting a utility pole, and firefighters quickly extinguished the flames.
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By LIZ F. KAY | May 27, 2008
THE PROBLEM // A Hampden resident says a nearby business doesn't get enough deliveries to warrant a truck-loading zone out front. THE BACKSTORY // Bill Fields said he has been puzzled by a truck-loading zone outside a building on Chestnut Avenue in Hampden since he moved to the neighborhood in 2003. The signs reserve spaces in front of a building on the 3400 block of Chestnut for truck loading between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., but Fields said he has never seen deliveries being made there. "I see nothing taken in. I see nothing taken out," he said.
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By LIZ KAY | May 20, 2008
THE PROBLEM // A utility pole damaged in a car accident remained in place with a cable power box dangling from it for more than a year, even though a utility company had installed a new pole nearby. THE BACKSTORY // Catonsville resident Denise Stanco wrote to Watchdog with a perplexing problem she observed on North Rolling Road at Altavue Avenue, near Catonsville Community Park. A utility pole there was cracked, the result of a car accident more than a year ago. But even though a replacement pole had been installed, the damaged pole was still in place.
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By Sara Neufeld | January 12, 2008
An 85-year-old New Windsor woman died yesterday after losing control of her sport utility vehicle and slamming into a utility pole, police said. Maryland State Police at the Westminster barracks identified the woman as Zelma Lorraine Adler. Adler was driving west on Medford Road near Stone Chapel Road about 1:45 p.m. when she lost control of her Honda CR-V, according to police. She drove onto the shoulder, veered back on to the road, then veered off again. The car then flipped onto the driver's side and hit the pole, police said.
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By Mary Gail Hare and Julie Scharper | December 21, 2007
A man stormed into a Harford County manufacturing plant yesterday in search of his estranged wife, chased her down and stabbed her along with three other people, the county sheriff's office said. The man, described as a former employee of the Harford Duracool facility on the outskirts of Aberdeen, fled the business after the stabbings, police said. Having crashed the truck he was driving, police said, the suspect commandeered another vehicle before being arrested a short time later. Nine people were hurt in the incident, authorities said.
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November 22, 2007
Career criminal ruling means a 30-year term A 30-year-old Baltimore man received a 30-year prison sentence yesterday in federal court after a judge ruled he was an armed career criminal who also distributed illegal drugs. U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett also sentenced Larry Johnson, to serve three years of supervised release. The suspect was convicted at trial of possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, use of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted person.
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By Richard Irwin | November 19, 2007
Two people were killed last night when the vehicle they were in struck a utility pole near Sparrows Point Country Club in southeastern Baltimore County, police said. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. Their names were withheld pending notification of family members, police said. Police said the vehicle was traveling in the 8600 block of Wise Ave. shortly after 10 p.m. when for an unknown reason it left the road near Country Club Road and crashed into a utility pole. The impact, authorities said, caused one of the occupants to be thrown from the vehicle, and the vehicle was torn apart after striking the pole.