Metro Briefs

MARYLAND

CUMBERLAND

Absent woman 200 miles away

Police in Delaware’s New Castle County say a missing 75-year-old Wilmington woman was found driving erratically in Cumberland, Md., about 200 miles from her home.

Police spokesman Cpl. Trinidad Navarro said Dolores D. Pollack was reported missing Friday and found uninjured Saturday morning. Cpl. Navarro said Ms. Pollack was taken to a hospital for evaluation.

Police said she was reported missing after she failed to return home for dinner.

BELTSVILLE

Three dead in single-car wreck

Prince George’s County fire and rescue officials say three people died in an early morning crash Saturday.

Officials said four of the five occupants were ejected from a car after it crashed into two trees and a utility pole in the 8000 block of Muirkirk Road shortly after 3 a.m. Saturday.

Two people were declared dead at the scene. Another person died after being taken to a hospital, and two others remained in critical condition.

Authorities were investigating.

VIRGINIA

POWHATAN

Slave plantation to go up on block

A registered Virginia historic site is headed for the auction block.

The early 19th century plantation in Powhatan is scheduled to go to the highest bidder Sunday. Called Paxton, the main house is loaded with furniture and other items dating to the early 1800s.

Built in 1820 as a rural homestead, the house is located about 20 miles west of Richmond. The property includes a smokehouse, two small slave quarters and a four-stall barn.

Motley’s Auction & Realty Group will conduct the sale on behalf of the property’s owners, who are now in a nursing home.

NORFOLK

Carrier returns to Navy station

Thousands of sailors aboard the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt are back in Norfolk after a seven-month deployment.

Family and friends greeted the returning sailors Saturday at Naval Station Norfolk as the Nimitz-class carrier arrived home. Hours earlier, the guided missile cruiser Monterey and the guided missile destroyers Mason and Nitze sailed back to Virginia waters.

The ships are part of a carrier strike group that was deployed in support of maritime security operations in the Navy’s 5th, 6th and 7th fleet areas of operations.

Members of the Roosevelt’s air wing arrived home to Oceana Naval Air Station on Friday.

From wire dispatches and staff reports