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- The Joppa automotive business that was the site of a fire Monday was cited for multiple fire violations and operating without proper licensing, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's Office reported.
- An auto shop in Cedonia was robbed at gunpoint.
- In one of the largest drug busts at the port of Baltimore in years, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized nearly 128 pounds of cocaine from a Panamanian shipping container last week.
- James L. Akers Jr., a retired financial analyst and businessman who collected and restored vintage arcade machines, died Wednesday of kidney failure at his Ellicott City home. He was 73.
- An academic adviser at Bowie State University has died several days after police said he went crazy along a road in Odenton and has taken to a hospital for an emergency evaluation.
- Maryland jobs: Presidential action needed to correct unfair trade situation
- A collapsed roof at an auto parts store in Lochearn at about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday remains under investigation and resulted in no injuries.