pedestrian killed

A driver who hit a piece of furniture on Interstate 270 on Tuesday was struck and killed after getting out of her vehicle, Maryland State Police say. The woman’s SUV was among several vehicles to hit the piece of furniture, believed to be a chair, in the northbound lanes near I-370 in Montgomery County, police said. It happened about 10:30…

A 6-year-old boy is dead and a mother is hurt after a driver struck them in a crosswalk in Columbia, Maryland, Monday afternoon, police say.