Regional Digest

Hotel owner pleads guilty in CO leak

OCEAN CITY - The owner of a boardwalk hotel where a carbon monoxide leak sickened several people over the summer has pleaded guilty to failure to provide carbon monoxide detectors.

Salvatore Rinaldi, owner of the Americana Hotel, pleaded guilty to the 10 counts yesterday in District Court. He also agreed to make a donation to the Ocean City Fire Department to help with its CO detector outreach programs.

On Aug. 11, the Americana was evacuated after high levels of carbon monoxide were detected in the building. According to the Ocean City Fire Marshal's Office, CO detectors were not installed in the hotel's rooms.

3 killed in head-on collision in LaVale

LAVALE - Three people were killed in a head-on collision in the Allegany County community of LaVale Wednesday night.

State police said Mandy May, 31, of Mount Savage, was driving east on U.S. 40 when her vehicle crossed the center line and collided with an SUV driven by Leon Brashears, 59, of Frostburg.

Police said May and both of her passengers - Tana Lynn Davis, 31, and Thadius Duckworth, 11, both of Mount Savage - were killed.