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• Police Investigating After Homeowner Fatally Shoots Man Who Broke Into Car

  28-12-2017 23:48
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Detectives and prosecutors are trying to determine if a homeowner in Prince George’s County who shot and killed a suspect just outside his house was justified.
  Police say around 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, the owner of a house in the 6200 block of Sligo Parkway in Chillum opened fire from inside his home after spotting someone in the driveway breaking into his vehicle.
  Police say when the homeowner opened fire, the suspect — 32-year old Deontae Parker —
  
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• How Baltimore Residents Are Staying Warm As Cold Grips Region

  28-12-2017 22:15
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —  Mother Nature isn’t releasing her icy grip on Baltimore anytime soon. Until the next warm up, residents will have to stay warm and prepared.
  “I just knew it was going to be this cold,” Marvin Hawkins, Baltimore resident, said.
  Baltimore’s third Cold Blue Alert of the season has been extended through Tuesday, Jan. 2.
  “Put two jackets on and then this. It’s just so cold out here,” says Baltimore resident Makayla Kess, bundled
  
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• Ravens Look To Clinch Wild Card Berth Against Bengals

  28-12-2017 22:00
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens fully understand the ramifications of Sunday’s regular-season finale against Cincinnati.
  “It pretty much lets us know if we’re going to be on the couch next week or on the field,” Ravens tackle Brandon Williams said. “Definitely don’t want to be on the couch.”
  Beat or tie the Bengals (6-9), and the Ravens (9-6) end a two-year hiatus from the postseason. Lose, and Baltimore will need help (a loss or tie by eithe
  
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• Eating Fish Makes Kids Smarter And Sleep Better, Study Says

  28-12-2017 21:46
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Parents looking to give their kids a boost in the classroom may want to choose fish for dinner. According to a new study, eating fish helped children sleep better and increased their IQ.
  A study of 541 Chinese students between the ages of 9 and 11 found that children who ate fish at least twice a week scored nearly five points higher on IQ tests taken at age 12. The findings, published in Scientific Reports, conclude that eating fish results in a better sleep and less dayt
  
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• Names Released Of Woman, 2 Children And Partner Found Dead In NY Home

  28-12-2017 21:45
  (CNN) — Police in Troy, New York, released photos on Thursday of two children and two adult women who were killed in a “horrific” quadruple homicide.
  “The Troy Police Department is releasing these photos not only for the media but to further appeal to the public for any information regarding this horrific case,” Capt. Dan DeWolf of the Troy Police Department said in a statement.
  Brandi Mells, 22, Shanta Myers, 36, and Myers’ children Shanise, 5, and Jeremiah,
  
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• This Week in College Basketball: Big 12 Solidifying Itself As Top Conference

  28-12-2017 21:15
  By Steve Silverman
  There may not be a contest for college basketball’s best conference this year.
  The ACC, Big Ten, Big East and Pac-12 may feel fairly proud of their accomplishments over the years, but the Big 12 appears to be far and away the best conference from top to bottom this year, and the league appears to be on a pace that is quite shocking.
  TCU has raced off to a 12-0 start and the Horned Frogs have an impressive team with five players averaging in double figures, including 6-7
  
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• Police: Woman Ruined $300K Worth Of Art On Date With Lawyer

  28-12-2017 21:14
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say an intoxicated Dallas woman on a first date with a prominent Houston trial lawyer caused at least $300,000 in damage to his art collection, including two Andy Warhol paintings.
  Lindy Lou Layman was arrested Saturday on criminal mischief charges after her date with Anthony Buzbee. She was released on $30,000 bond. Online court records don’t list an attorney for her.
  Prosecutors say Buzbee told investigators that the 29-year-old Layman got too intoxicated
  
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• Diamond Dallas Page Talks About Helping Friend Justin Credible

  28-12-2017 21:13
  By Chuck Carroll
  His friend Justin Credible was hurting. So Diamond Dallas Page reached out and offered a helping hand.
  Credible was heavily intoxicated and had publicly humiliated himself, while the cell phones of onlookers recorded the entire incident. The record buttons were pushed just as everything began to unfold, and the recordings didn’t stop until after he was forced out of the building. It wasn’t long before the footage went viral, spreading rapidly like a contagion. It did
  
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• Claire’s Pulls Child Makeup Products After Asbestos Claims

  28-12-2017 20:40
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —Claire’s has pulled several of its children’s makeup products after a Rhode Island mother claimed the items contained the cancer-causing chemical asbestos.
  Kristiana Warner, who works at a law firm specializing in asbestos lawsuits, says she was working on another case when she decided to have her daughter’s makeup tested.
  “You assume that when you’re purchasing it, it is safe,” Warner told WPRI-TV. According to lab results fro
  
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• Surveillance Video Captures Moment Woman Delivers Baby Inside Market

  28-12-2017 18:50
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —The staff at a Fresno, California market got much more than they bargained for with one customer the day after Christmas, when she dropped to the floor and started delivering a baby inside the establishment.
  Staff members worked as spontaneous midwives, with multiple people pitching in to get the baby out safely. The surveillance camera at El Parian market captured the moment, and one staffer went live on Facebook after the baby was safely in the arms of EMTs.In a Facebook
  
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• Fewer People Set ‘Being A Better Person’ As Their 2018 Goal

  28-12-2017 18:35
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —While “being a better person” is still topping the list of New Year’s resolutions, more people are focusing on their health as they enter 2018.
  According to a Marist poll of over 1,000 Americans, being a better person and losing weight tied for this year’s most popular resolution with each receiving 12 percent of the vote. Exercising more and eating healthier were each selected by nine percent of the respondents. Seven percent of the group want
  
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• Police: Parents Locked Daughter In Room For 15 Years Until She Died

  28-12-2017 18:15
  By Lawrence Davidson, CNN (CNN) — A couple in Japan have been arrested after their emaciated adult daughter was found dead in a windowless room where she had apparently been locked for at least 15 years.
  The daughter, 33, weighed less than 42 pounds — about the average weight of a 4-year-old — when her body was discovered Saturday, police said. She appeared to have died from exposure to the cold, police said. The couple, who live in Osaka, kept their daughter in an unheated str
  
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• WEATHER BLOG: It’s ‘Code Blue’ Cold In Baltimore

  28-12-2017 18:03
  Hi Everyone!
  Well the pressure is off. And that is making this cold snap, at least, tolerable. Let me explain. Before the beginning of the Winter season people are always wondering, asking, (or both), how will the season be. Will it be cold? When will it get cold? And so on.Many times we are, in the early Winter, looking over our shoulders waiting for the “shoe to fall.” Well it just has. No more looking over your shoulder, No more stress about “when”. Liberating actually
  
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• Barber Arrested For Giving Bad Haircut, Cutting Customer

  28-12-2017 17:51
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —A Wisconsin barber had his clippers taken away by police after leaving a customer bloody and missing a large portion of his hair.
  Khaled A. Shabani allegedly started twisting his 22-year-old customer’s ear, accused him of fidgeting in the barber’s chair, and then snipped the man’s ear with scissors. To make things worse, police report that Shabani then took out his electric clipper and ran it down the middle of the customer’s head.
  Madison police sp
  
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• Marylanders Should Have New Smoke Alarms Installed By Jan. 1 To Comply With New Law

  28-12-2017 17:00
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —A new smoke detector law goes into effect in Maryland on Jan. 1.By that time, residents or landlords should have swapped out older detectors with new, tamper-resistant alarms with longer-lasting batteries and hush buttons.
  The law was put in place to help save lives by modernizing the technology in Maryland homes. It only applies to homes only using the older alarms with removable batteries, or homes without any alarms at all, the Capital Gazette reports. It doesn’t
  
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• Dietz & Watson’s Hometown Hero: Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Tyler Grove

  28-12-2017 16:32
  (Sponsored Content) – Tyler became interested in the Navy when he was a little kid.  But, it really hit him in 8th grade when he was responsible for taking down the flag each day at school and folding it into a triangle.  At that point, he decided that he really wanted to do something for this country.
  Tyler joined the Navy when he was 18 and calls his time in the Navy, “the best time in his life.”
  He recently went to Bahrain for seven months, looking for underwater m
  
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• Gallup: Obama, Hillary Clinton Remain Most Admired

  28-12-2017 16:00
  By Eli Watkins, CNN (CNN) — Former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remain the most admired man and woman in the United States — a 10-year trend for Obama and 16 years running for Clinton.
  Gallup’s December poll found 17% of respondents named Obama the man they admired most, a dip from 22% of respondents saying the same last year. President Donald Trump took second place with 14% of respondents citing him when asked, open-ended, to name the m
  
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• Suspect In Fatal Columbia Stabbing Turns Himself In

  28-12-2017 15:40
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —The suspect in a Christmas Day stabbing that left a man dead in Columbia has turned himself in, police say.
  Damien Gary Clark, of Baltimore, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder, assault and reckless endangerment. The 41-year-old is being held without bond at the Howard County Detention Center.
  According to Howard County police, it was about 9:40 p.m. on Christmas when officers responded to the Trellis Center convenience store in the 10700 block of Hickory Ridge
  
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• Baltimore Police Search For Missing Woman

  28-12-2017 15:20
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore Police are asking for the public’s help with locating a missing 47-year-old woman.
  They say Tamar McNight-Johnson’s friends and family are concerned about her after she went missing Wednesday.
  She was last seen in the 800 block of McCabe Avenue, wearing a red and black wig, a grey Ravens sweater and black pants.
  Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Tamar McNight-Johnson is urged to contact the Baltimore Police Department’s Missi
  
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• Soaring Overdose Deaths Cut U.S. Life Expectancy For 2nd Year

  28-12-2017 15:05
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. deaths from drug overdoses skyrocketed 21 percent last year, and for the second straight year dragged down how long Americans are expected to live.
  The government figures released Thursday put drug deaths at 63,600, up from about 52,000 in 2015. For the first time, the powerful painkiller fentanyl and its close opioid cousins played a bigger role in the deaths than any other legal or illegal drug, surpassing prescription pain pills and heroin.
  “This is urgent and
  
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• Roy Moore Files Complaint To Block Alabama Senate Result

  28-12-2017 14:45
  By Madison Park and Keith Allen, CNN (CNN) — Roy Moore filed an election complaint on Wednesday, alleging potential voter fraud in Alabama’s special election and urged a delay in certifying the results.
  Moore, a Republican, has refused to concede after losing the Senate race on Dec. 12 to Democrat Doug Jones by more than 20,000 votes. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is slated to certify the special election results Thursday. But the Moore campaign launched a last-minute court
  
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• Weather Blog: Frigid Overnight Temps

  28-12-2017 04:17
  Wind Chill Advisory in effect for Western, MD until 7AM Thursday.
  Link:  http://www.weather.gov/lwx/
   
  Normal high & low: 43° & 26°
   
  Tonight
  Partly cloudy, with a low around 14.
  Northwest wind 9 to 11 mph.
   
  Thursday
  Mostly sunny, with a high near 24.
  Northwest wind around 8 mph.
   
  Thursday Night
  Mostly cloudy, with a low around 16.
  North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening
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• New York Jail Population Below 9,000 For 1st Time Since 1982

  28-12-2017 02:29
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City says its jail population is below 9,000 for the first time since 1982 and is hailing the drop as a step toward closing the notorious Rikers Island jail complex.
  Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday the city is on track for a daily average jail population in December of about 8,980 people.
  Crime has been falling for years in the nation’s largest city. Officials also reduced detention for people charged with low-level crimes and took ste
  
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• Power Mostly Back At Disneyland After Guests Taken Off Rides

  28-12-2017 01:22
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Power was largely restored at Disneyland on Wednesday after an outage at the California theme park forced some guests to be escorted from stalled rides.
  A transformer problem caused the late morning outage in Toontown and Fantasyland, park spokeswoman Suzi Brown said.
  About 12 rides were affected, No one was hurt, she said.
  An unknown number of guests were taken off rides.
  Power was restored in Toontown and much of Fantasyland within a couple hours and was expected t
  
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• West Baltimore Community Celebrates Kwanzaa To Unify City

  28-12-2017 01:01
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Community leaders in West Baltimore are hoping the celebration of the Kwanzaa holiday can be a catalyst to unify the city.
  Kwanzaa has seven founding principles, and Wednesday’s lesson was “Kujichagula,” which means self-determination.
  “When people are working together we can find a way to empower ourselves,” Charlene Collier said.
  The week-long holiday honors the past while also building for the future.
  The holiday celebrates seven founding p
  
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• Police: Man Arrested After Aiming Gun At Victim, Nearly Causing Crash

  28-12-2017 00:29
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Maryland State Police arrested a man Wednesday for a road rage incident on Dec. 15.
  Shortly before 7 a.m. on the day of the incident, a man called authorities and said a man, who was identified as Brandon Jones, 31, of Woodlawn, was driving a 2017 black Ford Expedition, when Jones merged into his lane on the ramp from Security Blvd to the outer loop of I-695 and almost caused a crash.
  The victim, who was driving a 2006 Subaru Forester, told police that Jones also pointed a
  
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• Baltimore Bakery Closing After 40 Years Of Business

  28-12-2017 00:18
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Goldman’s Kosher Bakery in Baltimore is closing, but the owners say they’re going out on their own terms.
  Leah Cohn, along with her brother, own, run, manage, cook, clean and practically live at Goldman’s.
  Business is great, but a day starting a midnight has gotten old for the owners.
  “It’s a lot of work. My parents did it until they were 80, and we don’t want to do that,” Leah said. “We want to enjoy family… go to the
  
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