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• City Leaders Hope $5 Million Bloomberg Grant Will Help Curb Violent Crime In Baltimore

  04-12-2017 23:49
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Nearing the end of a violent year, city leaders are taking new steps to end the carnage in Baltimore.
  Soaring violence and a skyrocketing murder rate have made Baltimore one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
  The mayor hopes a $5 million donation can help curb the epidemic of violence here.
  City leaders say that gift will pay for more crime fighting technology.
  The donation was announced just days after Governor Larry Hogan said the state plans to step
  
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• Keidel: Case Keenum Leading Vikings To Top Seed In NFC

  04-12-2017 23:08
  By Jason Keidel
  The matter seems resolved, except where it matters most.
  The Minnesota Vikings, twelve games into a surreal season sans their starting or backup quarterback, seem to be the only ones who realize that their third-string QB is the main reason why.
  At 10-2, firmly in first place in the NFC North and suddenly the top seed in the NFC, the Vikings keep telling us that QB Case Keenum is playing for his job every week. This was not an issue until recently, when Teddy Bridgewater returned
  
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• Baltimore County volunteer firefighter killed, homicide detectives ... - Fox Baltimore

  04-12-2017 22:49 via foxbaltimore.com
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  BALTIMORE, Md. (WBFF) -- A local volunteer firefighter was found shot to death inside his home in the Upper Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore.Jon Hickey, 31, was found dead inside his home on East Pratt Street November 30th.Police had been called ...
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• Orioles announce tickets for Jan. 27 FanFest on sale now - Baltimore Sun (blog)

  04-12-2017 22:19 via baltimoresun.com
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  Orioles announce tickets for Jan. 27 FanFest on sale now
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  Hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh, far right, and players answer fans' questions. From left: players Adam Jones; Mark Trumbo; Chris Davis; Manny Machado; J.J. Harby and coach Coolbaugh. Orioles FanFest is held at the Baltimore Convention Center. (Algerina ...
  
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• Baltimore County police charge 4 in armed robberies targeting business owners returning home - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 22:10 via baltimoresun.com
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  Baltimore County police charge 4 in armed robberies targeting business owners returning home
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  Booking photos of the four suspects charged in Baltimore County robberies. (Baltimore County police / Handout). Jessica AndersonContact ReporterThe Baltimore Sun. Baltimore County police charged four people, including two teens, in eight robberies ...
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  04-12-2017 22:10 via baltimoresun.com
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  Baltimore County police charge four men in eight robberies targeting business owners, who were robbed once they returned to their homes in the county.
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• Jimmy Smith Suspended 4 Games For Performance Enhancing Substance

  04-12-2017 22:08
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith has been suspended without pay for the team’s next four games for violating the NFL’s performance enhancing substances policy.
  Smith, who also left Sunday’s game with a season-ending torn Achilles late in the first half, will begin serving his suspension immediately.
  Smith has been bothered by a sore Achilles for much of the season. The seven-year veteran has missed several practices, but started all 12 games and is second o
  
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• City Council considers requiring City Hall supervisors to live in Baltimore - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 21:58 via baltimoresun.com
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  City Council considers requiring City Hall supervisors to live in Baltimore
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  City Councilwoman Shannon Sneed submitted legislation Monday that would require all top officials in Baltimore's government to live in the city. Baltimore's City Charter already requires the heads of each of Baltimore's 55 departments and agencies to ...
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• Astronauts Make, Fling, Float, Eat Pizzas On Space Station

  04-12-2017 21:56
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first-ever pizza party in space is getting sky-high reviews.
  Astronauts at the International Space Station posted pictures and a video over the weekend of their small, made-from-scratch pizza pies. The fixings flew up last month on a commercial supply ship, and the crew wasted little time pulling out the flatbread, tomato sauce, cheese, pepperoni, olives, olive oil and anchovy paste and pesto.
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• Fifth Baltimore police officer to plead guilty in gun task force case - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 21:50 via baltimoresun.com
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  Fifth Baltimore police officer to plead guilty in gun task force case
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  A fifth officer charged in the Baltimore police gun task force scandal is set to plead guilty, his attorney confirmed. Sgt. Thomas Allers, who is charged with stealing more than $100,000 over three years while he was the supervisor of the Gun Trace ...
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• Court Suggests It May Side With State In Sports Betting Case

  04-12-2017 21:45
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday suggested it may side with New Jersey in its effort to make sports gambling legal in a case that could make betting on football, basketball and other sports widely available.
  The justices heard New Jersey’s challenge to a federal law that bars states from authorizing gambling in most professional and college sports. If the Supreme Court strikes down the law, giving sports betting the go-ahead, 32 states would likely offer it within five y
  
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• Driver Critical After Car Overturns Into Pond Off Route 100 In Ellicott City

  04-12-2017 21:39
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Howard County police are investigating a single-vehicle collision in which an SUV overturned into a pond in Ellicott City.
  Police received a report around 1:30 p.m. of a Ford Edge traveling erratically on eastbound Route 100. At some point the vehicle left the roadway, struck a guard rail, overturned and came to rest in a pond near Executive Park Drive.
  Officers responded to the scene and a fire department water rescue team pulled the driver from the vehicle. He was trans
  
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• Explosion at Baltimore Highlands home seriously injures one person - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 21:32 via baltimoresun.com
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  Explosion at Baltimore Highlands home seriously injures one person
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  One person was seriously injured after an explosion was reported at a home in the Baltimore Highlands in Southwest Baltimore County Monday afternoon, fire officials said. (Kenneth K. Lam / Baltimore Sun video). Jessica AndersonContact ReporterThe ...
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• Explosion at Baltimore Highlands home seriously injures one ... - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 21:32 via baltimoresun.com
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  One person was seriously injured after an explosion was reported at a home in the Baltimore Highlands Monday afternoon, Baltimore County fire officials said.
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• ‘Confirmed Explosion’ At Single Family Home In Lansdowne

  04-12-2017 21:27
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore County authorities say there has been a “confirmed explosion” at a single family home in Lansdowne.
  It happened in the 2800 block Virginia Avenue.
  One patient has been transported in serious condition to Shock Trauma.
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• Trump Scales Back 2 Big Utah National Monuments

  04-12-2017 21:12
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed proclamations to formally scale back two sprawling national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante.
  Trump traveled to Salt Lake City to make the announcement and sign the declarations. The move is supported by Utah’s top Republican officials but opposed by tribes and environmental groups.
  Trump said in a speech Monday at the Utah State Capitol that past presidential administrations had “severely abused&rdq
  
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• Same Fishing Crew Catches 2nd Rare Opah Fish In 2 Weeks Off Md. Coast

  04-12-2017 20:47
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Last month, 62 miles off the coast of Ocean City, Austin Ensor caught the surprise of his life.
  It was an Opah fish, the world’s only warm-blooded fish. And Ensor’s catch was the only known recreational catch of that type of fish in Maryland waters.
  Then, this past Saturday, he caught a second Opah that was 60 pounds heavier than the 105-pounder he pulled in in November.
  “It was pretty unreal when we saw the second one coming up,” he said. “J
  
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• More Time On Smartphones Linked To Higher Suicide Risk In Teens, Study Says

  04-12-2017 20:47
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Parents commonly struggle finding ways to pry their children away from smartphones and other digital devices but a disturbing new study is giving them new incentive. Researchers at Florida State University (FSU) say there’s a link between an increased risk of suicide in teens and the time spent using mobile devices.
  “There is a concerning relationship between excessive screen time and risk for death by suicide, depression… All of those mental healt
  
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• Toni Trucks: ‘I’m Proud To Be Part Of SEAL Team’

  04-12-2017 20:21
  Actress Toni Trucks has been keeping a log of her auditions since 2003. She can tell you everything she ever wore, who she auditioned for and what their response was. Inspired by her college professor, Trucks has been chronicling how many jobs she’s booked, how many times she’s been called back and how many times she’s been rejected for almost 15 years. In a career filled with many rejections and many different outfits, Trucks finally landed her dream role on CBS’s hit mi
  
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• Report: House Of Cards To Resume Filming Next Year, Sans Spacey

  04-12-2017 20:19
  BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) —House of Cards chief content officer Ted Sarandos says the final season of the show will resume filming early next year, without its former star Kevin Spacey.
  The show about political intrigue in Washington, D.C., had centered around Spacey’s character Frank Underwood since it debuted in 2013. However, after a series of allegations of sexual harassment and assault were made against the actor in October, Netflix announced in early November that it would be cutting
  
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• Eric Weddle Leading the Way on Baltimore's Turnover-Happy Defense - BaltimoreRavens.com

  04-12-2017 19:53 via baltimoreravens.com
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  Eric Weddle Leading the Way on Baltimore's Turnover-Happy Defense
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  The veteran safety has five interceptions and a pair of forced fumbles for a Ravens defense that leads the NFL in takeaways. When the Ravens brought safety Eric Weddle to Baltimore last year, they had visions of how he could help transform the ...
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• Johns Hopkins Physics Professor Shares In $3 Million Award

  04-12-2017 19:47
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A physics professor at Johns Hopkins University will share in a $3 million prize for his research into the origins of the universe.
  The university said in a statement Sunday that Charles L. Bennett led a NASA project that provided the first-ever “baby picture” of the universe.
  The scientists revealed key properties of the cosmos by measuring its oldest light. For instance, the universe is 13.8 billion years old. Only five percent of it is made up of atoms. Abou
  
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• 22-Year-Old Man Flies 1,000 Miles To Meet 86-Year-Old ‘Words With Friends’ Partner

  04-12-2017 19:42
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —A young man in New York City went the extra mile to finally meet the elderly woman he befriended through the online game “Words With Friends.” The 22-year-old flew over 1,000 miles to spend time with his 86-year-old ‘pen pal,’ who lives in a Florida retirement community.
  Spencer, an aspiring rapper, has played 324 rounds of the Scrabble-style game with Roz. The two formed a heart-warming friendship over the last year using the app.
  “We played
  
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• 22-Year-Old Man Flies 1,000 Miles To Meet 81-Year-Old ‘Words With Friends’ Partner

  04-12-2017 19:42
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —A young man in New York City went the extra mile to finally meet the elderly woman he befriended through the online game “Words With Friends.” The 22-year-old flew over 1,000 miles to spend time with his 81-year-old ‘pen pal,’ who lives in a Florida retirement community.
  Spencer, an aspiring rapper, has played 324 rounds of the Scrabble-style game with Roz. The two formed a heart-warming friendship over the last year using the app.
  “We played
  
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• Dietz & Watson’s Hometown Hero: Army First Sgt. Brie Kotula

  04-12-2017 19:40
  (Sponsored Content) – In 2001, Brie was in college – training to become a police officer. Then, 9/11 happened and she changed her career plan and decided to enlist in the army. Brie felt that was her calling. In 2002, she shipped off to basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
  Brie serves as first sergeant for the 767 explosive ordnance disposal – a unit which handles all nuclear chemical biological explosive hazards. She classifies the group as “the Army&rsqu
  
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• New industrial laundry facility that will employ 400 opens in East Baltimore - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 19:22 via baltimoresun.com
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  New industrial laundry facility that will employ 400 opens in East Baltimore
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  Up To Date Laundry, a Baltimore-based commercial laundry operation that cleans sheets, doctors' scrubs and other linens for many of the area's major health care systems, celebrated the opening of a new facility that doubles its capacity in Hollander ...
  
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• Monday Night Football has playoff implications for Ravens - Baltimore Beatdown

  04-12-2017 19:14 via baltimorebeatdown.com
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  Monday Night Football has playoff implications for Ravens
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  The Pittsburgh Steelers (9-2) and Cincinnati Bengals (5-6) will go toe-to-toe on Monday Night Football. This game is very important for both squads. The Steelers will look to re-claim the top spot in the AFC, while the Bengals look to creep closer to ...and more »
  
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• Police: 2 Adults, 2 Teens Accused Of Robbing Business Owners After Following Them Home

  04-12-2017 19:01
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Two adults and two teens are facing charges in Baltimore County due to their alleged involvement in a string of robberies targeting business owners.
  Three of them are also facing carjacking charges.
  The incidents took place between Sept. 15 and Nov. 27.
  Police say they first started receiving reports from business owners who said they were followed to their homes from their businesses.
  The date and location of each robbery is as follows:
  9/15/17 1700 block of Yakona Road,
  
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• 2 Adults, 2 Teens Charged In String Of Armed Robberies, Carjackings

  04-12-2017 19:01
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Two adults and two teens are facing charges in Baltimore County due to their alleged involvement in a string of robberies targeting business owners.
  Three of them are also facing carjacking charges.
  The incidents took place between Sept. 15 and Nov. 27.
  Police say they first started receiving reports from business owners who said they were followed to their homes from their businesses.
  The date and location of each robbery is as follows:
  9/15/17 1700 block of Yakona Road,
  
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• Giant Mattress Built For Families Who Want To Sleep Together

  04-12-2017 18:41
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Parents who let their kids sleep with them in one bed may enjoy the bonding experience but hate how cramped a regular-sized mattress can quickly get for everyone. One company has now created the perfect solution for families who co-sleep: the family-sized mattress.
  The Ace Collection has produced a line of mattresses which make a normal king-sized bed look tiny in comparison. Ace is manufacturing three types of super-sized beds included the company’s “Ace famil
  
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• Man robbed while inside car in Baltimore - ABC2 News

  04-12-2017 18:32 via abc2news.com
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• 5 minutes with Juan Webster, general manager, Hotel Monaco Baltimore - Baltimore Business Journal

  04-12-2017 18:16 via bizjournals.com
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  5 minutes with Juan Webster, general manager, Hotel Monaco Baltimore
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  In fact, the former general manager of the Radisson Hotel Baltimore Downtown-Inner Harbor had a week where he was juggling two roles as he went through training for his new position as the head of Kimpton Hotel Monaco Baltimore Inner Harbor while ...
  
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• Opponents In LGBT Case Agree: It’s Not About Wedding Cake

  04-12-2017 18:09
  In a legal case with profound implications for LGBT rights and religion’s place in public life, the opposing sides agree on this: It’s not about the cake.
  At its core, the case that goes before the U.S. Supreme Court for oral arguments on Dec. 5 is a showdown between a gay couple from Colorado and a Denver-area baker who in 2012 cited his Christian faith in refusing to make a cake for their wedding celebration.
  Jack Phillips, owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood, was judged thro
  
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• Trump refutes story on firing Rex Tillerson as fake news - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 17:30 via baltimoresun.com
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  Trump refutes story on firing Rex Tillerson as fake news
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  President Trump is considering replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo, multiple reports said. A Mexican immigrant in the country illegally was found not guilty in the fatal shooting of Kate Steinle. The Republican tax ...and more »
  
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• A Man’s Tattoo Left Doctors Debating Whether To Save His Life

  04-12-2017 17:22
  By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Picture this: A man is admitted to the hospital, unconscious, with a history of serious health problems and a high blood alcohol level. He has no identification and no family with him. On his chest, he has a tattoo: “Do Not Resuscitate.”
  What would you do?
  It sounds like a worst-case-scenario question from a medical ethics course, but it really happened recently at a Florida hospital. A newly published study in The New England Journal of Medicine e
  
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• No word from FBI on Baltimore police request that it take over Det. Sean Suiter investigation - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 17:21 via baltimoresun.com
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  No word from FBI on Baltimore police request that it take over Det. Sean Suiter investigation
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  The FBI had yet to respond Monday to a request from Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis that the agency take over the Police Department's investigation into the killing last month of Detective Sean Suiter. The Federal Bureau of Investigation ...and more »
  
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• No word from FBI on Baltimore police request that it take over Det ... - Baltimore Sun

  04-12-2017 17:21 via baltimoresun.com
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  No word from FBI on Baltimore police request that it take over Det ...
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  The FBI had yet to respond Monday morning to a request from Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday that it take over the police department's investigation into the killing last month of Det. Sean Suiter.
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• Cold temps, slim chance of flurries this week in Baltimore, weather service says - Baltimore Sun (blog)

  04-12-2017 16:08 via baltimoresun.com
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  Cold temps, slim chance of flurries this week in Baltimore, weather service says
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  After highs of 53 degrees Monday and 59 degrees Tuesday, it's about to get cold this week. Tuesday night is expected to be 42 degrees and rainy, with wind gusts as high as 20 mph, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures could rise by as ...and more »
  
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• Ken Niumatalolo: Love That Army-Navy Game Gives Our Kids The National Spotlight For The Day

  04-12-2017 16:00
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  The regular season for most of college football ended this past weekend. However, there is still one big game left to be played, and it rightfully gets its own national spotlight on Saturday, December 9th. That afternoon, the Army West Point Golden Knights and the Navy Midshipmen will meet at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia for the annual Army-Navy Game.
  Last year, Army snapped a 14-game losing streak in the rivalry with a 21-17 win over the Midshipmen at M&T Bank Stadium
  
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• Report: Jimmy Smith Suspended 4 Games For Performance Enhancing Substance

  04-12-2017 15:50
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith left the game with an apparently season-ending torn Achilles late in the first half of the Ravens-Lions game Sunday.
  In a new twist to the story, ESPN’s Adam Schefter is reporting that Smith is now being suspended for four games for violating the NFL’s performance enhancing substance policy.
  According to Schefter’s source, Smith is out for the year and will withdraw his appeal of the suspension so he can begin serving the su
  
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• Twinkling Tots For Families And Children

  04-12-2017 15:24
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Tonight, parents and their children will be able to walk through a winter wonderland in Columbia.
  Twinkling Tots at Symphony of Lights will host families who would like to stroll through more than 100 holiday light displays. The event welcomes children in strollers and wagons. No pets are allowed. Tickets can be purchased here. Children under 4 are free.  Parking is available at the garage on the corner of Broken Land Parkway and Divided Sky Lane or at the mall.
  
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• Ravens CB Jimmy Smith suspended 4 games for PED violation - ESPN

  04-12-2017 15:12 via espn.com
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  OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Baltimore Ravens cornerback Jimmy Smith, who suffered a season-ending Achilles injury Sunday, has been suspended four games for violating the NFL's policy on performance-enhancing substances, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter ...
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• Hogan To Declare ‘Cancer Screen Week’

  04-12-2017 14:43
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gov. Larry Hogan is issuing a proclamation to declare the first week of December as “Cancer Screen Week.”
  The governor, who is a cancer survivor, says the preventative measures increase the chance of catching cancer early, when they are most likely to be treated successfully.
  Hogan is joining governors from Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas in signing a proclamation.
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• Police Officers To Answer The Call To Give Children Joy For The Holidays

  04-12-2017 14:33
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Children who need help shopping for a president for the holiday season will have a hero with them.
  On Saturday at 9 a.m., December 9 in Harford County, police officers will shop with children during the Shop With a Cop event. The sponsor will be The Maryland Troopers Association Lodge 96. Their goal is to provide holiday gifts to more than 30 children who are identified through social and community groups.
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• State Leaders To Help Marylanders Enroll In Health Insurance

  04-12-2017 13:54
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A Coalition of state leaders will be announcing “Last Chance” events to help people in Maryland enroll in health insurance under the Affordable Care Act during the weekend of December 8-10.
  A press conference will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Annapolis office of Medchi. In attendance will be the Maryland State Medical Society, Maryland House of Delegates Speaker Mike Busch, members of the NAACP, and the Maryland Health Benefit Exchange.
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• Bloomberg donates $5 million to Baltimore for police technology - Technical.ly Baltimore

  04-12-2017 13:38 via technical.ly
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  The funding will be used for cameras, gunshot detection and license plate readers. Mayor Catherine Pugh cast the upgrades as part of the effort to stop violence. Bloomberg donates $5 million to Baltimore for police technology. By Stephen Babcock ...and more »
  
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• Trump Offers Full Support For Embattled Republican Roy Moore

  04-12-2017 13:08
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is throwing his full support behind embattled Republican Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race.
  Trump tweeted early Monday that “Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama.”It was Trump’s most full-throated endorsement of Moore, who has lost backing of many top Republicans since he was hit with allegations of sexual misconduct decades ago.
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• Baltimroe County Expands Student Laptops As Concerns Loom

  04-12-2017 12:58
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Schools in Baltimore County will be expanding student laptops this month as part of one of the nation’s largest digital overhauls of a school district.
  According to our media partners at The Baltimore Sun, companies have until Friday to seal bids for a contract to supply more than 100,000 county students and teachers. The new contract will replace a deal that provided the county 150,000 laptops four years ago.
  While the Board of Education focuses on getting the
  
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• Baltimore County Expands Student Laptops As Concerns Loom

  04-12-2017 12:58
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Schools in Baltimore County will be expanding student laptops this month as part of one of the nation’s largest digital overhauls of a school district.
  According to our media partners at The Baltimore Sun, companies have until Friday to seal bids for a contract to supply more than 100,000 county students and teachers. The new contract will replace a deal that provided the county 150,000 laptops four years ago.
  While the Board of Education focuses on getting the
  
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• Beyond Rx? CVS Health-Aetna Deal May Mean More Services

  04-12-2017 12:26
  Associated Press — CVS Health wants to do much more than fill your prescription or jab your arm with an annual flu shot.
  The second-largest U.S. drugstore chain is buying Aetna, the third-largest health insurer, in order to push much deeper into customer care. The evolution won’t happen overnight, but in time, shoppers may find more clinics in CVS stores and more services they can receive through the network of nearly 10,000 locations that the company has built.
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