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City repairs traffic lights showing both red and green
A traffic light at 25th Street and Maryland Avenue in Baltimore's Remington neighborhood was replaced Thursday after showing a constant green light for more than an hour. It made for a bit of a confusing situation, because the intersection’s other traffic signals were working properly, causing the lights to show one red and one green during stoplights. But it appeared to have caused no accidents. Baltimore City Department of Transportation spokesman German Vigil said a cable issue caused the malfunction. A crew replaced the broken light at about 3:15 p.m. Thursday. On Friday, DOT crews were also adjusting traffic signals at two other intersections where the lights were facing the wrong way. Crews were fixing the lights at the intersection of York Road and Northway, and at Greenmount Avenue and 39th Street, Vigil said. Vigil encouraged residents to report problems with traffic lights to the city by calling 311.
Anne Arundel man arrested on drug, weapons charges
Anne Arundel County police arrested Odenton resident Brandon Nicholas Young, 37, and charged him with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, distribution and weapon-related offenses after executing a search warrant at his home Friday in the 400 block of Holiday St. in Odenton and recovering drugs and guns. They executed a search warrant and recovered two loaded Glock handguns with magazines; several 9 mm/10 mm rounds; several 12-gauge and 20-06 shells; a digital scale; 111.75 grams of marijuana with an estimated street value of $2,235; 72.1 grams of THC wax (in containers) with an estimated street value of $2,100; 88 grams of THC oil with an estimated street value $4,400; 31 Suboxone strips with an estimated street value of $775; paraphernalia and $950 in U.S. currency. Young was located in the residence and arrested.
$1,000 bill sold for $1.92 million at auction
A rare $1,000 bill — called the “unicorn” of U.S. paper money — sold for nearly 2,000 times its worth at an auction in Baltimore. The 1891 bill, called a Marcy Note, is one of only two known in existence, according to Stack’s Bowers Galleries, which auctioned the bill. It sold for $1.92 million to a private buyer during the final sale of the Joel R. Anderson Collection at the Whitman Spring Expo in Baltimore. The currency features the portrait of its namesake, William L. Marcy, who served as New York’s governor, a U.S. senator and war secretary under President James Polk. The only other known Marcy note is housed in the National Numismatic Collection at Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. “You can’t own a rarer piece of American paper money,” Brian Kendrella, president of Stack’s Bowers Galleries, said in a statement. “The Marcy Note is the centerpiece of the Anderson Collection and we’re honored to be the first to sell it at auction.”
Prince George’s 11-year-old charged with child abuse
An 11-year-old girl has been charged with first-degree child abuse after she allegedly assaulted a 1-year-old she was left to care for on Sunday and the baby died Thursday from his injuries, police said. Prince George’s County police are not naming the girl who was arrested because she is being charged as a juvenile, but they said the victim was Paxton Davis of 19th Street SE in Washington, D.C. The girl charged is currently being held at a juvenile detention facility, police said. The mother of the baby had left the boy in the care of adult members of the 11-year-old’s family at their Suitland home on Pearl Drive on Sunday, police said. The girl’s mother left the house to run an errand and left the baby alone in the care of her young daughter, police said. The 11-year-old girl has admitted to assaulting the baby during that period, but police declined to say if a weapon was used.
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