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Maryland man remembers taking childhood picture with Jimmy Carter
DMV residents are remembering former President Jimmy Carter, including one Maryland man who has a picture worth a thousand words.
Josh Davidsburg shared a photo of himself at 2-years-old with News4. The photo shows him sitting on Carter’s lap.
“Even though I don’t remember it, it’s still like a big part of my life,” Davidsburg said.
The adorable photo printed in a local paper was snapped during a Fourth of July parade in Atlanta in 1981.
“I just kind of wandered off and wandered up to Jimmy Carter and I said, ‘uppy’ and he picked me up and put me in his lap,” Davidsburg said.
In the photo, Davidsburg has an American flag in his mouth. He says the flag came from none other than Rosalynn Carter.
The memory was so special, he made sure to immortalize it.
“My wife actually printed it out and actually got a signed copy from him,” Davidsburg said.
Davidsburg lives near Baltimore now, but was born in Georgia when his father was a reporter at a TV station in Atlanta.
More than 40 years after this photo was taken, he says the once-in-a-lifetime encounter changed his life.
“For him it was probably nothing,” Davidsburg said. “I was this little kid that kind of hobbled up to him, but it kind of helped set me on the path of where I am today.”
Like his dad, Davidburg used to be a reporter, working up and down the East Coast for about a decade before becoming a Senior Lecturer teaching journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park.
“Going into reporting, it was the first kind of the biggest politician I’ve ever met and everybody else has kind of paled in comparison,” Davidsburg said.
He says while he and the rest of the world mourns former President Carter’s passing, they will also remember his enduring legacy forever.
“How many people can say that they not only did they live to 100, but they made such an amazing use of that time,” Davidsburg said. “Giving back to the country that he loved and the state and city that he loved.”
Police said Dequan Gravely, 23, of Charles County, was driving northbound on Route 210 near Pine Drive when his Mercedes collided with the school bus turning left from the southbound lanes.
The driver of a car involved in a crash with a Prince George’s County school bus in Accokeek, Maryland, on Friday has been identified.
Prince George’s County police said Dequan Gravely, 23, of Bryans Road in Charles County, was driving northbound on Route 210 near Pine Drive around 7:20 a.m. when his Mercedes collided with the school bus turning left from the southbound lanes.
Investigators said the crash happened in the intersection, causing the school bus to flip onto its side. Gravely died at the scene.
The school bus driver was transported to a hospital and treated for injuries that were not considered life-threatening. Police said no students were on the bus at the time of the crash.
Investigators said they believe debris from the collision damaged a third vehicle. The driver of that vehicle “declined medical attention,” police said.
The Prince George’s County Police Department’s Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Unit is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to contact investigators at 301-731-4422.
WTOP’s Acacia James contributed to this report.
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A D.C. man won $5 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket in Maryland last week, and the matching number that netted him the prize happened to be his age.
Talk about a birthday surprise! A D.C. man won $5 million from a scratch-off lottery ticket in Maryland last week, and the matching number that netted him the prize happened to be his age.
Maurice Williams, a school bus driver in D.C., claimed the first top prize on a $5,000,000 LUXE scratch-off. He had used his $50 winnings from a previous LUXE scratch-off ticket to buy a new one the next day.
In a release from the Maryland Lottery, Williams said he didn’t know he had won until he scanned the ticket: “It’s crazy because the matching number was 59 and I just turned 59 the other day.”
Williams said he sat in shock for a while before calling his mother.
He said he plans to buy his mother a house with the winnings and then save up.
Two more top prizes from the scratch-off have yet to be claimed, the Maryland Lottery said, as well as nine $200,000 prizes, 10 $50,000 prizes and thousands of prizes ranging from $50 to $10,000.
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