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• ‘Tis The Season: Woman Gets Help With Brother’s Special Gift

  03-12-2017 23:27
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A toy company and strangers are pitching in to help a Maryland woman find a particularly important Christmas gift for her disabled brother.
  Cassie Gretschel turned to Reddit recently for helping tracking down a discontinued Tonka truck for her 25-year-old brother, Max, who lives in Baltimore.
  Max has cerebral palsy and severe scoliosis, and Gretschel says the truck’s design is easy for him to play with. It’s his favorite toy, and her family is always
  
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• Flacco, Ravens Crank Up The Offense In 44-20 Win Over Lions

  03-12-2017 22:36
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Joe Flacco threw for 269 yards and two touchdowns, and the Baltimore Ravens survived a strong comeback bid by Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions in a 44-20 victory Sunday.
  After relying heavily on their opportunistic defense for much of the season, the Ravens (7-5) finally received an ample contribution from the league’s 31st-ranked offense.
  Flacco helped Baltimore take a 20-0 halftime lead and directed three scoring drives in the fourth quarter to keep the Raven
  
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• CVS Pushes Into Insurance With $69 Billion Aetna Bid

  03-12-2017 21:20
  DALLAS (AP) — CVS will buy insurance giant Aetna in a roughly $69 billion deal that will help the drugstore chain provide more health care and keep a key client, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
  The person said Sunday that CVS Health Corp. will pay about $207 in cash and stock for each share of Aetna Inc. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not been announced publicly.
  Reports of a possible deal surfaced in late October.
  The combination pairs
  
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• Some See Echoes Of ’68 Court Case In Wedding Cake Dispute

  03-12-2017 20:56
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The upcoming Supreme Court argument about a baker who refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple makes some civil rights lawyers think of South Carolina’s Piggie Park barbecue.
  When two African-Americans parked their car at a Piggie Park drive-in in August 1964 in Columbia, South Carolina, the waitress who came out to serve them turned back once she saw they were black and didn’t take their order.
  In the civil rights lawsuit that followed, Piggie Park owner
  
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• 1 dead, 4 injured in shootings in Baltimore Sunday - Baltimore Sun - Baltimore Sun

  03-12-2017 20:35 via baltimoresun.com
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  Police are investigating several shootings in Baltimore on Sunday, including a triple shooting that left one man dead. At about 2:30 a.m., officers responded to the 3700 block of S. Hanover St. in Brooklyn for a report of a shooting. Police said ...
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• Alabama Joins Clemson, Oklahoma And Georgia In Playoff

  03-12-2017 19:30
  Alabama is in.
  The Crimson Tide got the nod over Ohio State and will play Clemson in the College Football Playoff on Jan. 1 in the Sugar Bowl. Oklahoma and Georgia will meet in the Rose Bowl semifinal a few hours earlier.
  Tide or Buckeyes was the question facing the selection committee, the toughest call in the four-year history of the playoff.
  The Tide had been more consistent and lost just once. The Buckeyes lost twice, including an embarrassing 31-point beating at unranked Iowa, but have the
  
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• Man Claims He Caught Eye-Eating Parasite At Amusement Park

  03-12-2017 18:30
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A man has filed a lawsuit against a Pittsburgh amusement park claiming he contracted an eye-eating parasite after getting splashed on a water ride.
  Robert and Krystsina Trostle claim in their lawsuit filed Tuesday that he contracted the parasite while riding Raging Rapids at Kennywood Park July 2.
  Robert Trostle claims his eye became inflamed, and he was diagnosed with acute conjunctivitis. His symptoms worsened, and on July 14 he says he was diagnosed with microsporidia
  
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• Amid The Bloodshed, Baltimore Group Seeks To Break The Cycle

  03-12-2017 17:58
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Akai Alston was 13 when he was shot for the first time. It was during a robbery in East Baltimore, in broad daylight.
  As he lay in his hospital bed, shaken and frightened, he knew he had a choice to make.
  “I put it in my head that I’d rather be a suspect than a victim,” he said.
  Ten years later, Alston faced another grim decision. He was dealing crack and hooked on prescription pills. He’d squeezed triggers, and seen friends and family members lose
  
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• $5M Bloomberg Grant To Provide Baltimore Police With More Cameras, Technology

  03-12-2017 17:08
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A $5 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies is helping the Baltimore Police Department purchase new cameras, mobile license plate readers and gunshot detection technology.
  “Equipping our police officers with the tools they need to fight and solve crime is a critical component of our violence reduction strategy,” said Mayor Catherine Pugh. “This grant will help provide state-of-the-art equipment to our police force to ensure the safety of our city&rs
  
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• McConnell: Tax Bill Won’t Add To Nation’s Debt Woes

  03-12-2017 16:04
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Fresh off his biggest legislative victory of the Trump era, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Saturday disputed projections that the Senate’s tax bill would add to the nation’s debt woes.
  Back home in Kentucky just hours after the Senate narrowly pushed through the nearly $1.5 trillion tax bill, McConnell predicted that the boldest rewrite of the nation’s tax system in decades would generate more than enough economic growth to prevent the bu
  
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• Police: 1 Dead After Man Angry About Parking In NYC Stabs 2, Mows Down Others

  03-12-2017 16:00
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man angry about a parking dispute stabbed two people and then drove into a group of pedestrians on a sidewalk Sunday, leaving one person dead and several others injured, one critically, police said.
  The violent altercation started around 4:30 a.m. outside a hookah lounge in Queens, when the driver of a white Hyundai sedan got out of his car and stabbed two other people, New York Police Department Assistant Chief David Barrere said. They were both stabbed in the chest, aut
  
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• Baltimore County volunteer firefighter killed in Upper Fells Point ... - Baltimore Sun

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  Baltimore police on Sunday identified the man found fatally shot inside his home in Upper Fells Point as 31-year-old Jon Hickey — a volunteer firefighter who was being mourned online.
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• Former Stanford Swimmer Files Appeal In Sex Assault Case

  03-12-2017 15:50
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside a campus fraternity party is appealing.
  Lawyers for Brock Turner filed an appeal Friday. They argued the Ohio native’s initial trial was “a detailed and lengthy set of lies.”
  The attorneys say they hope a new trial will help overturn Turner’s mandatory lifetime requirement to register as a sex offender.
  The case gained national attention when Judge Aaron Pers
  
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• 1 Dead In Triple Shooting On South Hanover Street

  03-12-2017 15:30
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Police are investigating a triple shooting in south Baltimore.
  Around 2:30 a.m. Sunday, officers found three men shot near the 3700 block of South Hanover Street in Brooklyn.
  A 21-year-old man was shot in the leg, a 20-year-old was shot in the hip and a third man was shot in the chest and leg.
  All three were taken to an area hospital where the man who was shot in the chest died.
  Preliminary investigation revealed that the men were standing in the 3700 block of South Hanove
  
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• Power Plant Live!’s Pig & Swig

  03-12-2017 13:45
  Join 105.7 The Fan’s Rob Long this Saturday at Power Plant Live!’s Pig & Swig! This is a “best of the best” event, where we’ve invited the greatest brewers, distillers and BBQers to come together and bring you a one-of-a-kind artisan event! Sample over 100 different kinds of craft beers, countless signature bourbons, and amazing pig roast, all while enjoying live entertainment, in the beautiful in Leinenkugel’s Beer Garden. This is truly an All-Star BBQ, B
  
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• Charles Village Pub – Post Game Show

  03-12-2017 13:35
  After every Baltimore football game, join Baltimore Gameday Uncensored’s Ken Weinman and Terry Ford at Charles Village Pub in Towson for our post game show, sponsored by Jose Cuervo Tequila. Enjoy Cuervo Margarita specials before, during and after the game. Must be 21 or older. Please drink responsibly. Charles Village Pub is located at 19 West Pennsylvania Ave., Towson, MD 21204.
  
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• Bloomberg donates $5 million to Baltimore police for new cameras ... - Baltimore Sun

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• Local Firefighter Murdered In Upper Fells Point Apartment

  03-12-2017 05:40
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A young firefighter was found murdered in Upper Fells Point and homicide detectives are searching for a gunman.
  John Hickey’s family told WJZ they think he knew his killer. Police aren’t saying much about the murder but Hickey’s family say they won’t have closure until the killer is behind bars.
  The horrifying crime devastated Hickey’s mother and uncle.
  “I’m surviving,” Hickey’s mom said. “It’s hard. He
  
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• Shortage In Christmas Trees Causing Prices To Climb Across Country

  03-12-2017 05:33
  PERRY HALL, Md. (WJZ)– Not the news people want to hear this time of year. The low supply of trees is forcing some tree retailers to raise their prices or even turn away customers.
  At Frostee Tree Farm in Baltimore County, they’ve already sold more than half of their mature trees and they say it’s still early in the season, and they’re on track to run out fairly quickly.
  Christmas tree shopping is an annual holiday outing that brings people together, but it&rsqu
  
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• Md. Organizers Of Puerto Rico Holiday Relief Need Help Transporting Items

  03-12-2017 05:29
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– It has been 73 days since Hurricane Maria devastated the island of Puerto Rico and left behind a trail of death and destruction.
  Just in time for the holiday season, some elves in Baltimore are helping people there.
  Water, food and power remain commodities, but as the holidays approach on the island more than 1500 miles away, nearly 100 dedicated elves are busy inside a Baltimore workshop, sorting, stacking and preparing to ship 1500 boxes of life and love to tho
  
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• Selfie-Service: Man Cooks Waffle House Meal As Worker Sleeps

  03-12-2017 03:35
  WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When a man found the only worker at an empty South Carolina Waffle House asleep, he took his meal into his own hands.
  On Facebook , Alex Bowen chronicled with selfies how he made his own double Texas bacon cheese steak melt at the famous Southern 24-7 diner around 2 a.m. Thursday.
  Bowen says on Facebook he waited 10 minutes, then cooked his meal and “even scraped the grill when I was done.”
  Bowen’s photos showed him with the sleeping worker
  
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• Police Investigating Homicide Where Man Was Shot In Head

  03-12-2017 02:46
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– City police are investigating a Saturday homicide where a man was shot in the head.
  Officers say a man was fatally shot in the 4600 block of York Road around 7:05 p.m.
  He was transported to an area hospital where he later died.
  Detectives found a handgun on the victim’s waistband during the investigation.
  Homicide detectives are asking anyone with information to contact them at 410-396-2100, Metro Crime Stoppers at 1-866-7lockup or text a tip to 443-902-4824.
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• Opossum Breaks Into Liquor Store And Gets Drunk As A Skunk

  03-12-2017 02:24
  FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — An opossum that apparently drank bourbon after breaking into a Florida liquor store sobered up at a wildlife rescue center and was released unharmed.
  Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge officials say the opossum was brought in by a Fort Walton Beach, Florida, police officer on Nov. 24. A liquor store employee found the animal next to a broken and empty bottle of bourbon.
  “A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor w
  
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• Baltimore County Water Main Break Effects 100 Customers Saturday Night

  03-12-2017 01:40
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Baltimore County officials have reported a water main break in Rosedale Saturday night.
  The break is 10 inches in diameter at 6407 Golden Ring Road, officials say.
  Baltimore City reports that a ten-inch diameter water main has broken at 6407 Golden Ring Road 21237. One hundred customers and one hydrant are out of service.
  — Baltimore County (@BaltCoGov) December 3, 2017The county says 100 customers and a hydrant are without service at this time.
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• Girl’s Body Found; Mom’s Boyfriend Charged With Hiding Death

  03-12-2017 01:14
  JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The body of a missing 3-year-old North Carolina girl was found in a creek less than a day after her mother’s boyfriend was charged with hiding her body after knowing she didn’t die of natural causes, authorities said.
  Investigators continue to stay tight-lipped about what happened to Mariah Woods. But they left little doubt Earl Kimrey knew how she died and was trying to cover it up. He was charged late Friday with concealing of death.
  “It w
  
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• It’s Academic: December 2, 2017

  03-12-2017 00:54
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