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Maryland woman dies in car wreck that leads to house damage

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Maryland State Police say a young woman died after the car she was riding in struck another vehicle on a Maryland road as her driver attempted to pass the other car.

Police said 19-year-old Melaine Melendez, 19, of Smithsburg, died from injuries she received in Friday night’s accident.

The crash created a chain reaction that led to damage to a house along Jefferson Boulevard in Hagerstown.

Troopers say the car that she was in swiped another vehicle, entered a residential property, then struck a tree and a stationary vehicle.

The accident was still under investigation Saturday, and no charges had been filed.

Grammy-winner Ledisi brings Dinah Washington, her own music and a reverence for history to Strathmore

Ledisi has spent much of her career looking backward without ever losing sight of where she is going. That will be particularly evident when the Grammy-winning singer brings her music — and her reverence for the artists who helped shape it — to Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland, for two shows this Friday and Saturday. Audiences can expect the storytelling and vocal power that have defined Ledisi’s concerts, but with a significant addition: the music of Dinah Washington, the legendary singer she honors on her recent tribute album, “For Dinah.” “What you will hear is a spiritual experience inside of the blues, inside of my music, inside of the relationship between my influence with ‘For Dinah,’” Ledisi said in an interview with WTOP.
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