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• New Crackdown Aims to Jam Inmates’ Illegal Cell Phones

  18-01-2018 23:48
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Authorities are trying to curb access to illegal cell phones in state-run and federal jails and prisons in Maryland.
  Wednesday, federal prison officials conducted a rare test at a Western Maryland lockup that blocks phone signals.
  RELATED: Cellphone Jamming System Tested At Maryland Prison
  It drew the attention of Gov. Larry Hogan.
  “This jamming technology is a test for the federal government just to stop these prisoners from conducting these criminal gang activ
  
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• Cellphone Jamming System Tested At Md. Prison To Combat Smuggling

  18-01-2018 23:48
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– The high-stakes battle continues against inmates smuggling in cell phones as small as a ChapStick or a quarter.
  Wednesday, federal prison officials conducted a rare test at a Western Maryland lockup that blocks phone signals.
  RELATED: Cellphone Jamming System Tested At Maryland Prison
  It drew the attention of Gov. Larry Hogan.
  “This jamming technology is a test for the federal government just to stop these prisoners from conducting these criminal gang activities
  
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• Universities Help Baltimore Police Rebuild Trust

  18-01-2018 23:19
  BALTIMORE (AP) — University professors and students are lending their expertise to local police departments looking for new ways to rebuild relationships and accountability with the communities they serve.
  Universities “can explore grant opportunities that we may not be aware of or eligible to apply for without their partnership,” Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said in an interview with Capital News Service.
  “The marriage of academic institutions and boots on t
  
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• Baltimore Schools' Heating Crisis A 'Day Of Reckoning' For The City And State - NPR

  18-01-2018 23:12 via npr.org
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  Baltimore Schools' Heating Crisis A 'Day Of Reckoning' For The City And State
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  Teacher Loraine Wilson, top right, helps bundle up pre-kindergarten students as they wait to be picked up at the end of a school day at Lakewood Elementary School in Baltimore on Jan. 9. The day before, Lakewood students were sent back home just after ...and more »
  
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• Family of woman found outside Baltimore hospital in just a gown speaks out - Baltimore Sun

  18-01-2018 23:11 via baltimoresun.com
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  Family of woman found outside Baltimore hospital in just a gown speaks out
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  Cheryl Chandler, mother of the woman left outside of University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown in just a gown on a cold night, speaks out at a press conference. (Karl Merton Ferron, Baltimore Sun video). Andrea K. McDaniels and Meredith CohnContact ...
  Woman forced out of Baltimore hospital was denied care, mother saysWTOP
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• Hogan Backs Redistricting Reform, No Matter Who’s In Power

  18-01-2018 23:05
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he believes congressional redistricting should be taken out of the hands of politicians, “regardless of who the governor is or what party’s in power.”
  The Republican governor announced Thursday he would again push for a measure to put redistricting before a nonpartisan commission, despite the bill’s failure to advance in recent years in the General Assembly, which is controlled by Democrats. That prompted a questi
  
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• Md. Cop’s Basketball Moves In One-On-One Game Goes Viral

  18-01-2018 22:55
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Good police officers are always looking for ways to better connect with the community they serve.
  One officer in Howard County has gone viral for a move he performed in a game of one-on-one hoops.
  The Carter Community Center in Ellicott City is the unlikely place for the creation of a viral video.
  Those present were in disbelief by the basketball move made by a Howard County police officer on the night shift.
  “I seen him size him up, like go between the legs, behind
  
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• Nancy Pelosi To Be Guest Judge On ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’

  18-01-2018 22:41
   (CNN) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will be a guest judge in the new season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars.”
  Yes, really.
  For those unfamiliar with the show, the program is a reality competition series that features putting drag queens through a series of challenges that culminates each week with the top two contestants lip-syncing for the power to send one of their peers home.
  “Competition will be fierce as the queens shift their strategies and work
  
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• Man Fools Cops With Car Made Of Snow, Gets Fake Parking Ticket

  18-01-2018 22:14
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A man in Canada and local police had a good laugh after the Montreal resident fooled officers with a full-size car made entirely of snow.
  According to CBS46, Simon Laprise sculpted a life-size model of a DeLorean DMC-12 in the middle of a local snow removal zone. The “car,” made famous by the “Back to the Future” movie franchise, drew the attention of one police officer who was so fooled by Laprise’s snow work he called for a s
  
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• ROH Champion Silas Young Expects To Re-Sign Following WWE Joke

  18-01-2018 22:13
  By Chuck Carroll
  When a champion in a rival promotion hints at signing with WWE, people take notice. Such was the case when Ring of Honor World Television Champion Silas Young tweeted recently that his contract had expired and he was looking for “something to do in Orlando.” The host city of last year’s WrestleMania just so happens to be the home of the WWE Performance Center, the first stop for wrestlers on their journey to the bright lights of Monday Night RAW or SmackDown Li
  
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• Man Found Guilty In Double Homicide Of Montgomery County HS Students

  18-01-2018 22:00
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Jose Canales-Yanez, 25, was found guilty Thursday in the June 2017 murders of two Montgomery County HS students.
  17-year-old Shadi Najjar and 18-year-old Artem Ziberov were found shot to death in a car in Montgomery Village the night before they were supposed to graduate from Northwest High School.
  Police said Najjar had been shot four times and Ziberov 10 times.
  Authorities say the teens drove to a location expecting to meet someone who wanted to buy a commencement ticke
  
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• Police Searching For Suspects Who Set Cat On Fire

  18-01-2018 21:48
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Baltimore Police Department is asking for the public’s help to find a group of suspects accused of assaulting a cat, then setting it on fire.
  Police say the incident happened on December 16, in the 5100 block of Harford Rd.
  The suspects are seen on video assaulting the cat, before setting in on fire.
  These individuals beat, stabbed, and set a cat on fire. We’re looking to identify them. https://t.co/LAH1hz6B9p
  — T.J. Smith (@TJSmithMedia) January 18,
  
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• Student Found With Loaded Gun At Baltimore School

  18-01-2018 21:04
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A student was found with a loaded gun at a Baltimore City Public School Thursday.
  A Baltimore school police officer recovered the loaded gun at Carver Vocational-Technical High School.
  The gun was found after school police received an anonymous tip.
  The student was arrested and taken to Central Booking for processing.
  The student faces possible permanent expulsion.
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• Dumped Patient’s Lawyer: The Hospital ‘Left My Client To Die’

  18-01-2018 20:50
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The video sparked outrage across the country. Today, the fallout continues.
  Last week, it appears that a Baltimore hospital dumped a patient at a bus stop, leaving her to fend for herself in the freezing cold. Today, that woman’s attorney spoke out.
  WJZ’s Rick Ritter reports the family is being represented by J. Wyndal Gordon, who says 22-year-old Rebecca was left outside virtually naked, and that hypothermia could have easily claimed her life.
  He also says sh
  
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• Authorities Seize Lollipops Laced With Marijuana At BWI Airport

  18-01-2018 20:44
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Authorities seized lollipops laced with marijuana at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport.
  U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found the lollipops during an inspection of baggage from a traveler from Iceland.
  The lollipops were found in a plastic container, with packaging that had marijuana leaves on them.
  There were 186 grams of the lollipops, which tested positive for THC.
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• Baltimore City Bank Robber Wanted

  18-01-2018 19:59
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of a suspect accused of robbing 3 banks in Baltimore City.
  Authorities say the man robbed the following banks:
  • January 12, 2018 (2:06 p.m.) — M&T Bank, 159 N Luzerne Ave, Baltimore• January 13, 2018 (1:13 p.m.) — Wells Fargo, 5040 Sinclair Lane, Baltimore• January 16, 2018 (10:31 a.m.) —Wells Fargo, 7639 Harford Road, Baltimore
  According to police the suspect
  
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• WATCH: Fisherman Captures Destruction Of His Boat By Distracted Boater

  18-01-2018 19:49
  CBS LOCAL —An Oregon fisherman whose dramatic escape from an oncoming motorboat was caught on video is now suing the boater for $372,500 after allegations claim the driver was talking on a cell phone during the accident.
  Bryan Maess filed the lawsuit this month after the Hermiston police officer and two friends were forced to jump into the Columbia River to avoid being crushed by the speeding boat in August 2017. The GoPro video of the crash, submitted to the magazine Salmon Trou
  
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• This Week in College Basketball: Duke’s Bagley Plays Role Of Doctor, Pops Own Shoulder Back In

  18-01-2018 19:40
  By Steve Silverman
  Bagley plays role of orthopedist and fixes own shoulder
  It could have been a nasty injury when Duke freshman Marvin Bagley III was unable to move his shoulder early in Monday night’s game against Miami.
  He came out of the game as a result, and he quickly popped his own shoulder back into its socket. While that is difficult to do in most cases and can be quite painful, Bagley accomplished the feat without any problems and he was able to return to the game shortly after ge
  
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• Baltimore's loss — and Amazon's - Baltimore Sun

  18-01-2018 19:09 via baltimoresun.com
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  Baltimore's loss — and Amazon's
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  While Baltimore did not make the cut to get Amazon's HQ2, Montgomery County did. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's administration will submit legislation in the next few weeks to build a $5 billion incentive package to lure Amazon HQ2 to Montgomery County ...
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• Hospitals Teaming Up To Start Not-For-Profit Drug Company To Combat Drugmakers’ High Prices

  18-01-2018 19:03
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Fed up with the perceived underhanded business tactics of drugmakers and growing costs of generic medications, four hospitals are coming together to form their own not-for-profit drug company.
  In a Jan. 17 announcement by Intermountain Healthcare, the hospital network is teaming up with Ascension, SSM Health, and Trinity Health to combat rising prices of life-saving drugs. In their mission statement, Intermountain says they hope to provide patients with “a
  
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• Massage Parlor Employees Arrested For Prostitution

  18-01-2018 18:37
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Two massage parlor employees have been arrested for prostitution.
  Huazi Jin, 56, and Young Jo Truman, 52, both face charges of prostitution and performing massage therapy without a license.
  The investigation was into the massage parlor in the 7900 block of Baltimore Annapolis Blvd. in Glen Burnie.
  The Anne Arundel County Police Department’s Narcotics & Special Investigations Section’s Vice Unit investigated, and found that employees were taking p
  
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• Maryland Governor To Propose $5B Amazon Incentive Package

  18-01-2018 18:31
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan will propose an incentive package of more than $5 billion to try to attract Amazon’s second headquarters to Montgomery County.
  Doug Mayer, the governor’s spokesman, said Thursday there will be multiple pieces of legislation introduced in the next several weeks in the Maryland General Assembly. He says they will include tax incentives, as well as transportation improvements for roads and transit.
  Amazon has narrowed its hunt for a
  
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• Ocean City’s Topless Controversy Continues, Town Now Faces Lawsuit

  18-01-2018 18:25
  OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — A Maryland town’s ordinance prohibiting topless women in public is being challenged by a lawsuit.
  The Daily Times reports the suit filed Tuesday by five women in federal court includes Ocean City and several officials as defendants. Officials had unanimously passed the ordinance during an emergency session in June after the beach patrol said lifeguards would no longer approach and scold women who are topless.
  Chelsea Eline, one of the plaintiffs, had
  
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• Man Given 2 Year Prison Sentence For ‘Swatting’

  18-01-2018 18:06
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A 26-year-old Maryland man has been sentenced to two years in prison for “swatting.”
  Zachary Lee was given the two year prison sentence, followed by three years of supervised release, for a charge of conspiracy to provide false information and false information and hoax.
  Another person in this case, 19-year-old Robert Walker McDaid, of Coventry, England, has also been indicted. He’s been arrested in the United Kingdom, and has an extradition he
  
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• Man Found Guilty Of Sexually Assaulting Girlfriend’s Autistic Granddaughter

  18-01-2018 17:58
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —A man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison after being convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl with autism in 2016, according to the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office.
  Authorities say the victim went to spend the night at her grandmother’s house on August 26. When her grandmother went to work, she left the girl in the care of her boyfriend, Wayne Parker.At some point, Parker grabbed her by the arm, led her into a bedroom, and sexually a
  
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• Three Baltimore Ravens Compete For MVP: Most Valuable Performer

  18-01-2018 17:54
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Baltimore Ravens are hoping to bring home a different kind of MVP trophy this season; this time for Most Valuable Performer.
  3 players, kicker Justin Tucker, defensive tackle Brandon Williams, and running back Alex Collins are competing for this award.
  The new CBS talent show “MVP: Most Valuable Performer” airs on Thursday, Jan. 25, at 8 p.m. and is hosted by LL Cool J.
  Tucker and Williams will attempt to win your votes with their voices. Tucker will
  
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• Wells Fargo Glitch Leaves Customers With Empty Bank Accounts

  18-01-2018 17:40
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Many Wells Fargo customers got a terrifying shock after finding their checking accounts drained due to a series of errors by the embattled bank. The Jan. 17 glitch reportedly emptied several customers’ accounts after processing their online bill payments twice and doubling transaction fees.
  According to CBS News, the banking error also triggered overdraft fees on many checking accounts as customers around the country were mistakenly informed they had a zero bal
  
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• J.K. Simmons Talks Career & New Show

  18-01-2018 17:32
  For 20 years of his life, J.K. Simmons’s world revolved around the stage. The Academy Award winner began his career on Broadway and didn’t get into film and television until the mid 1990’s. One of the first films he did was alongside one of his idols Sidney Poitier. Simmons grew up loving Poitier’s work and worked with him in the 1997 film “The Jackal.” While the 63-year-old has been in countless noteworthy movies since like “La La Land,” “Wh
  
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• iPhone Update Will Allow Users To Stop Battery Slowdown, Tim Cook Says

  18-01-2018 17:00
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —  After Apple was forced to apologize for intentionally slowing down the performance of older iPhones, the company’s CEO is now saying customers will soon have the choice to stop battery throttling for good.
  Tim Cook says a future iOS update will give older iPhone users the option to disable Apple’s ramping down of performance, which Apple claimed was done to improve power management and prevent unexpected shutdowns in many iPhone 6 models. Cook
  
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• Equus Film Festival Coming To Timonium Fairgrounds

  18-01-2018 17:00
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) —The Equus Film Festival is coming to the horse auction pavilion at the Timonium Fairgrounds.
  It’s the first time the horse-themed festival, which was founded in 2013, will be held there.
  Twenty films involving equine themes will be shown over the course of two days, Jan. 19 and 20.
  One of those, “Christmas Ranch,” was produced, directed and shot in Maryland.
  If you like horses, the festival is the place to be. The filmmakers say, even if you don’t l
  
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• Country Stars From Vegas Festival To Perform Grammy Tribute

  18-01-2018 16:49
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Three performers at last year’s Route 91 Harvest Festival where a gunman opened fire on fans will perform a tribute at this year’s Grammy Awards to honor victims killed at live music events this past year.
  Eric Church, Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne, who performed at the three-day country festival prior to the mass shooting last October, will collaborate on a special performance at the 60th annual Grammy Awards, airing live on CBS from New York on Jan
  
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• Mayor: U.S. Marshal Shot, Killed While Serving Warrant

  18-01-2018 16:46
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The mayor of Harrisburg says a U.S. marshal is dead after being shot while serving an arrest warrant in Pennsylvania’s capital city.
  Mayor Eric Papenfuse says two other officers were wounded in the Thursday morning shooting, including one from Harrisburg.
  The York City Police Department says one of its officers had non-life threatening injuries.
  Dauphin County District Attorney Fran Chardo says the officers were part of a U.S. Marshals Service task force and mu
  
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• Pharrell And N.E.R.D To Headline NBA All-Star Halftime Show

  18-01-2018 16:44
  NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA announced Thursday that 11-time Grammy winner Pharrell and his hip-hop-rock band N.E.R.D will headline the halftime show at the 2018 NBA All-Star game in Los Angeles next month.
  Fergie, who has eight Grammys, will sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” prior to tip-off. Canadian rockers Barenaked Ladies will perform the national anthem of their home country.
  The Feb. 18 game will air live at 8 p.m. Eastern on TNT from the Staples Center. It will be seen in more
  
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• Midterm Exams Rescheduled After Heating Issues Close Another Baltimore School

  18-01-2018 16:35
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Midterm exams have been rescheduled at a Baltimore City Public School after heating issues caused the school to close early Thursday.
  National Academy Foundation High School will dismiss at 10:30 a.m. because of heating issues, and Thursday’s midterm exams will be rescheduled.
  The middle school building will remain open Thursday, as the heating issues do not affect that building.
  ALERT: NAF High School will dismiss at 10:30 a.m., due to heating issues. Today's
  
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• Jim Spanarkel: Carter Is The Catalyst For West Virginia

  18-01-2018 16:31
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  Bob Huggins’ West Virginia Mountaineers teams have always been tough to play. They play a full-court, attacking defense that rarely allows their opponents a breath during the course of a game. This year, after a loss to open the season, that suffocating style allowed WVU to rip off 15 straight wins, before falling to Texas Tech and Kansas in back-to-back games last weekend/earlier this week. What went wrong? To find that out, we spoke to CBS Sports Network college basketball ana
  
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• Has #MeToo Gone Too Far? Ansari Story Sparks Debate

  18-01-2018 16:22
  The #MeToo movement has been embraced by legions of women as a vital step toward countering widespread sexual abuse and misconduct. This week, more so than at any point in the movement’s brief history, there’s visceral discussion about its potential for causing harm.
  The catalyst was the publication by Babe.net of an account by a woman identified only as “Grace” detailing her 2017 encounter with comedian Aziz Ansari. The article intimated that Ansari deserved inclusion in
  
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• Patriots Team Headlines: Brady And Co. Have Plenty Of AFC Title Game Experience

  18-01-2018 16:21
  By Danny Cox
  On Sunday, the New England Patriots will host the Jacksonville Jaguars in the AFC Championship Game, and the winner will move on to the Super Bowl. For many NFL players, it will be the first time they have ever participated in a game this late in the season, but the Pats are more than familiar with being on the field in late January. In fact, the Patriots have 19 players who know exactly what it’s like to get to the AFC Championship.
  Pats Experienced in the Post Season
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• Trump Admin Blocks Haitians From Temporary Visas

  18-01-2018 16:19
  (CNN) — The Department of Homeland Security will stop allowing Haitians to get temporary agricultural and seasonal visas — a move that comes amid concerns about the Trump administration’s feelings toward immigrants of that country and broader restrictions on legal immigration.
  The announcement, which was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, removes Haiti from a list of countries that are eligible for the visas, called the H-2A agricultural and the H-2B non-agricultura
  
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• Championship Picks: Who’s Moving On To Super Bowl LII?

  18-01-2018 15:39
  CBS Local Sports talent from across the country looks at the Championship match-ups. Who are our NFL experts picking this week?
  
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• Baltimore Won’t House Amazon’s 2nd HQ, But Maryland Still Could

  18-01-2018 15:32
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Amazon has narrowed down its list for the company’s second headquarters in North America, and Baltimore didn’t make the cut.
  Today we are announcing the communities that will proceed to the next step in the HQ2 process. Getting from 238 to 20 was very tough – all the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity https://t.co/x1bFYbk4Ui pic.twitter.com/J2x0HHzBTR
  — Amazon News (@amazonnews) January 18, 2018There are 20 places that Amazo
  
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• Restaurant Week Kicks Off In Baltimore County

  18-01-2018 14:53
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — If you’re still hungry after Baltimore City’s Restaurant Week, you may soon want to head outside of the city to get a meal for a great deal.
  This is because Baltimore County’s Restaurant Week is kicking off on Friday, January 19. On Thursday, Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz will join the county’s restaurateurs to launch the big event. The kick-off event will take place at Cunningham’s in Towson at 11:30 a.m..
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• Slow-Moving Winter Storm Leaves Lingering Effect In South

  18-01-2018 14:39
  DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Several Southern states were dealing Thursday with the lingering effects of a slow-moving winter storm that dumped up to 12 inches (30 centimeters) of snow in central North Carolina, dusted the Deep South and killed at least 10 people.
  From Charlotte to Raleigh, North Carolina’s five most populous cities all saw significant snow from a system that followed an atypical west-to-east path across the state — and moved more slowly than forecasters had predicted.
  
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• Grandparents Shocked By Reports Of 13 Starved Grandchildren

  18-01-2018 13:38
  LOS ANGELES (AP/WJZ) — The grandparents of 13 starved and tortured children say their son’s family looked happy and healthy when they last visited California six years ago.
  “They were just like any ordinary family,” said Betty Turpin, the 81-year-old mother of David Turpin. “And they had such good relationships. I’m not just saying this stuff. These kids, we were amazed. They were ‘sweetie’ this and ‘sweetie’ that to each other.”
  
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• Democrats Dig In On Immigration, Shutdown Risk Or No

  18-01-2018 13:26
  NEW YORK (AP/WJZ) — Congressional Democrats aren’t backing down from their threats to reject any government funding bill that isn’t paired with protection for thousands of young immigrants, as hard-line liberal groups shrug off risks of a government shutdown.
  Top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer says there’s “very, very strong” sentiment among his party’s lawmakers to oppose GOP-drafted legislation that would only keep the government’s doors open for
  
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• Weather Blog: A Warm-Up Is Ahead

  18-01-2018 13:16
  Hi Everyone!
  All things considered we really got off easy yesterday. As I type this I am listening to the CBS morning news and reports from the South of widespread ice, polar vortex cold, and in general lousy conditions. A low impact event here though and now the warm up.
  Today near 40°. Yesterday 34° so yes a bit warmer. But near 50° tomorrow and the low mid 50’s as we move through the weekend. Sunny, and dry. that means a lot of the snow that fell yesterday will evaporate, an
  
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• Federal Responsibility In Nuclear Attack Alerts Is Unclear

  18-01-2018 12:47
  HONOLULU (AP) — A timeline shows Hawaii officials botched efforts to immediately correct a false missile alert over the weekend, taking more than 20 minutes to contact federal authorities for approval they didn’t need and then taking another 15 minutes to cancel the alert that was sent to mobile devices statewide.
  The astonishing error and dismal response has prompted both state and federal investigations and left one of the state’s U.S. senators wondering aloud if top brass at
  
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• Code Blue Alert Expected To End, Warmer Temperatures Are Ahead

  18-01-2018 12:37
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Warmer weather is on the horizon as the Code Blue Alert in Baltimore is expected to end Thursday morning.
  The alert was began Wednesday evening as freezing temperatures took place. The temperatures came after snow fell all over Maryland.
  For the start of Thursday morning, WJZ’s Marty Bass says temperatures in the Baltimore area started in the teens with a wind chill at 9 degrees. Throughout the day, temperatures will still be a bit cold with high of 38 degrees
  
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• More than 700 CitiWatch Cameras Across Baltimore

  18-01-2018 12:00
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — While you’re walking in the city of Baltimore, you may have noticed CitiWatch cameras that are across Baltimore.
  There are 750 cameras and CitiWatch has been operating in the city for 12 years. One of these cameras captured a scene where two suspects were lurking outside the 7-11 near Charles and Saratoga. The camera captured the moment they walked in. The camera also zoomed in. Minutes later, officers arrived to the store where the suspects shot at them.
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• Lawyer: Woman Was Having Psychotic Episode When Left In Cold

  18-01-2018 05:17
  BALTIMORE (WJZ/AP) — An attorney for a woman who was left outside a Baltimore hospital wearing a patient gown and socks on a frigid night says she was having a psychotic episode when the institution turned its back on her.
  J. Wyndal Gordon told our media partner, the Baltimore Sun, the woman named Rebecca is now at an undisclosed inpatient facility undergoing mental health treatment. Gordon said Wednesday he was hired to represent the patient on behalf of her family. He says the actions of
  
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• Who’s Watching The More Than 700 CitiWatch Cameras Across Baltimore?

  18-01-2018 05:11
  BALTIMORE (WJZ)– You’ve probably taken notice of some of the cameras all across Baltimore and wondered, who is watching this video?
  Police use the wide-video network to stop criminals before they do more harm.
  The network is composed of 750 cameras across the city. A few nights ago, some of those cameras captured a scary scene, where suspected robbers started shooting at officers.
  RELATED: ‘They Didn’t Have A Care In The World’; Video Shows Suspects O
  
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