Route 50 crash

A multiple-vehicle crash on westbound Route 50 tied up traffic on the Severn River Bridge for more than an hour this morning, state police said.

The crash happened about 8:45 a.m. when a vehicle overturned, causing other vehicles around it to collide. Two lanes were closed in each direction on the bridge for about 30 minutes. All but one lane remained closed westbound until the crash was cleared just after 10 a.m., police said.

Two people were injured and taken by ambulance to Anne Arundel Medical Center in Parole, said Capt. Harry Steiner, a county Fire Department spokesman. One had serious injuries and the other had very minor injuries, he said.

Further information about the crash or those injured was not available.

North County

Game store robbed

GLEN BURNIE - A Glen Burnie video game store was robbed by an armed man Saturday night, county police said.

Just before 8:50 p.m. a man with a black, semiautomatic handgun walked into the Game Stop store at 6619 Ritchie Highway and demanded money from the register. He took the cash and ran east toward the Motor Vehicle Administration, police said.

Officers, including a K-9 unit and helicopter unit, searched the area but could not find him.

He is described as dark skinned with facial hair, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, 240 pounds, and from 35 to 40 years old. He was wearing a white polo shirt with black and blue stripes, blue shorts, and a tan baseball hat.

Woman robbed

BROOKLYN PARK- A woman was choked, thrown to the ground, and robbed after she dropped off her child at a babysitter's house yesterday morning in Brooklyn Park, county police said.

At about 5:15 a.m. she had just handed her child over to the babysitter in the 200 block of Doris Avenue when a man grabbed her around her neck, and from behind, and shoved her to the concrete porch of the home. He grabbed her purse that was on top of her child's stroller and ran, police said.

The woman had minor scrapes on her elbow and bruising on her neck, but did not require medical attention.

Several officers searched the area but could not find the man. He is described as black, about 6 feet tall, with dark skin and a stocky build. He was last seen wearing a black or dark-colored baseball hat, a dark-colored short-sleeved T-shirt and blue jeans.