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1 dead in Anne Arundel Co. tractor-trailer crash

A man was killed when the tractor-trailer he was driving crashed Wednesday morning in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.

The Maryland State Police said in a statement that the truck overturned around 5 a.m. on Interstate 97 on the ramp to eastbound Benfield Boulevard.

The truck went off the curved ramp and overturned in a ditch below. The driver was ejected and trapped under the truck’s cabin, the police said. He was declared dead at the scene of the accident.

After the crash, the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration closed the ramp off to traffic for around five hours.

The crash is under investigation, and the police are waiting to release the victim’s name until their family can be notified.

1 dead, 1 hurt in possible house explosion in Annapolis

One person is dead and one is hurt after what investigators are calling a possible house explosion in Annapolis, Maryland, Wednesday afternoon. Fire crews arrived in the 1100 block of Green Holly Drive shortly after 12:20 p.m. after 911 calls poured in from neighbors, fire officials said. They found what they believed had been a two-story structure, with the second floor collapsed onto the first floor. "There was no fire present, just significant damage, including a debris field that extends about a half a block up the street," Assistant Anne Arundel County Fire Chief Larry Schultz said at a news conference.
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