• Confusion And Uncertainty At The Border After Trump Acts

    McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The federal government wrestled with the fallout Thursday over President Donald Trump’s move to stop separating immigrant families, with no clear plan to reunite the more than 2,300 children already taken from their parents and Congress again failing to take action on immigration reform.
    Democratic mayors and other leaders traveled to the border to step up pressure on the White House over its hardline immigration policies, and the Justice Department went to cour
  • Kate Spade’s Father Dies On Eve Of Her Funeral

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The family of fashion designer Kate Spade says her father died on the eve of her funeral.
    The family released a statement Thursday saying Earl Brosnahan, Jr. died Wednesday night at his home in Kansas City, Missouri. The family says he was 89 and had been in failing health.
    The statement says he was “heartbroken over the recent death of his beloved daughter.”
    The statement was released as a funeral began for his daughter Thursday afternoon
  • Early Voting Ends Thursday For Primary Election

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Marylanders have until 8 p.m. Thursday to cast their ballots in early voting.
    Primary early voting will end with a whopping 53 percent increase in turnout.
    The question is: What will this mean for the general election?
    Tens of thousands of ballots cast during early voting coming to an end means lots more energy for candidates and poll workers alike
    “People coming in exercising their rights to vote. We need you,” one person said over the megaphone at a polling
  • Proceeds From Fundraiser Going To Scholarship Named After Fallen Ellicott City Hero

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Following the tragic death of sergeant Eddy Hermond in the Ellicott City flood, his close friends gathered to remember his life and raise money for a scholarship.
    We’ve all heard about what happened to a hero when trying to help a woman trapped by the floodwaters. He lost his footing and was taken to his death.
    “He was the best guy I’ve ever met. He made you feel as though, from when you first met him that he was your best friend,” friend Josep
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  • 24-Hour Lacrosse Tournament Raises Money For Veterans

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — What started as a local fundraiser six years ago to raise money for veterans has turned into a national effort as teams play lacrosse for 24 hours straight – all for a good cause.
    Shootout for Soldiers was started in 2012 by a group of seniors at Boys’ Latin School of Maryland who decided to use lacrosse to raise money.
    Boys, girls, adults, veterans and special needs players received a military sendoff before taking the field to raise money &mda
  • Local Group Pushing For Cleaner Air In Baltimore Region With Campaign

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Summer has started and in Baltimore, that means hazy, hot and humid conditions will soon return.
    Thursday morning, Clean Air Partners kicked off its “Breathe Easy” campaign on Federal Hill.
    “The good news story is that Baltimore City, in fact, exactly where we’re standing, the air is getting dramatically cleaner. It’s improving just over the last several years,” said Maryland Secretary of the Environment Ben Rumbles. “The ste
  • Cause Finally Revealed In Deaths Of 13 Bald Eagles Back In 2016

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — In 2016, four dead bald eagles were found by a man walking in a field in Federalsberg on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
    When Natural Resources Police responded, they found another nine, bringing the total to thirteen dead eagles.
    “That would be the single largest die-off in more than 30 years,” NRP spokeswoman Candy Thompson said at the time. “There was no sign of trauma. No sign of gunshots.”
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife took over the case and sent the
  • Melania Dons Jacket Saying ‘I Really Don’t Care. Do U?’ Ahead Of Border Visit

    WASHINGTON (AP) — First lady Melania Trump boarded a flight to a facility housing migrant children separated from their parents wearing a jacket that read “I really don’t care, do u?”
    The green hooded spring military jacket has the words written graffiti-style on the back.
    President Donald Trump says his wife, Melania, was taking a dig at the news media with the jacket.
    The jacked caused a commotion on social media, which Trump responded to by tweet.
    He says the slog
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  • Md. Man Found Dead In Beach Chair At North Carolina Condo

    ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. (AP) — Police say workers at a North Carolina condominium complex found a man dead in a beach chair.
    Atlantic Beach Police Chief Jeff Harvey told news outlets employees at The Dunes Club were setting up for the day Thursday and saw the man in the chair. Harvey said when the workers approached the man to ask him to move, they discovered 50-year-old Howard James of Maryland was dead.
    Harvey said James’ hometown wasn’t immediately known.
    The chief said it&rsqu
  • ‘This Is How I Save My Life’ Excerpt From Amy B. Scher

    Amy B. Scher’s “This Is How I Save My Life” is the true story of a fiery young woman diagnosed with late-stage, chronic Lyme disease whose journey takes her from near-death in California to a trip around the world in search of her ultimate salvation. This excerpt coincides with the book’s release in paperback from Gallery Books, an imprint CBS sister company Simon & Schuster.
    I am twenty-eight years old when I arrive in magnificent India. I am here with my parents, an
  • Prince George’s Co. Man Arrested At BWI With Loaded Handgun, Ammo

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Authorities arrested a Prince George’s County man at Baltimore Washington International Airport Thursday for attempting to bring a loaded handgun through security.
    Transportation Security Administration officers say a Fort Washington man had a loaded .22 caliber revolver and ammo in his carry-on luggage.TSA officials say they discovered the weapon when the bag entered the x-ray machine.
    Maryland Transportation Authority police were contacted. They confiscated the gun
  • It’s National Selfie Day, Here’s Proof The First One Was Taken In 1839

    (CBSNewYork/CBS Local) – June 21 is National Selfie Day. People around the country are celebrating the start of summer by grabbing their cameras, smartphones, and selfie sticks to snap a quick photo of themselves.
    The casual self-portraits have become so popular in recent years that the word “selfie” is now in the Oxford Dictionary.
    While the selfie revolution has gone hand-in-hand with the spread of smartphone users around the world, did you know the first “official&rdqu
  • Trooper Fatally Shoots Dog After It Attacked Woman

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland State Police troopers fatally shot a dog Thursday morning after it attacked a woman outside her home.
    A trooper was called out to the unit block of Cherry Hill Rd. and Route 4 in Huntingtown just before 7:15 a.m.
    The responding trooper arrived to find a large dog attacking 28-year-old Jenna Rae Sutphin near the front yard of her home.
    As the trooper approached, the dog reportedly began moving “aggressively” towards him.
    The trooper shot the dog,
  • Trooper Fatally Shoots Dog After It Attacked, Killed Woman

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland State Police troopers fatally shot a dog Thursday morning after it attacked and killed a woman outside her home.
    A trooper was called out to the unit block of Cherry Hill Rd. and Route 4 in Huntingtown just before 7:15 a.m.
    The responding trooper arrived to find a large dog attacking 28-year-old Jenna Rae Sutphin near the front yard of her home.
    As the trooper approached, the dog reportedly began moving “aggressively” toward him.
    The trooper shot
  • Melania Trump Visits Migrant Children At Texas Detention Center

    McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to a Texas facility Thursday, talking with children and staff as she got a first-hand look at some of the migrant children sent there by the U.S. government after their families entered the country illegally.
    The first lady’s stop at Upbring New Hope Children’s Center came the morning after President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting the practice of separating these families. The visit to the one-story r
  • Melania Trump Makes Surprise Visit To Border Facilities

    (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump touched down in McAllen, Texas, Thursday making a publicly unannounced and hastily planned trip to get a first-hand look at the crisis affecting immigrant families at the US border.
    “I want to thank you for your hard work, your compassion and your kindness,” the first lady said at a roundtable briefing at Upbring New Hope, with doctors and medical staff, social workers and other experts on hand.
    Melania Trump becomes the first Trump fa
  • As Loneliness Rises Among Americans, Experts Warn It’s Making Many Sick

    (CBS Local)- Former Surgeon General Doctor Vivek Murthy brought mental health to the forefront last September when he wrote in the Harvard Business Review that loneliness is a “growing health epidemic.” Now a recent survey by health service company Cigna adds to that by showing many Americans say they sometimes or always feel alone.
    The survey of more than 20,000 U.S. adults ages 18 years and older revealed some alarming findings:Nearly half of Americans report so
  • Diabetes Breakthrough: Common Vaccine Can Improve Blood Sugar Levels Long-Term

    BOSTON (CBS) – Researchers at Mass General Hospital announced a breakthrough in treating Type 1 Diabetes. In a long-term study released Thursday, patients in a clinical trial had their blood sugar levels restored to near normal, with lasting results.
    Patients in the trial received two doses of the bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine, an inexpensive vaccine that is widely used to prevent tuberculosis. Results were not immediate, but after three years, every patient, “showed an impr
  • Governor Announces $19 Million In Education Funding

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is announcing $19 million in education funding to implement some of the recommendations of a high-profile commission.
    Hogan said Thursday that the new money includes $4.5 million for before- and afterschool academic programs, $2.5 million for an early literacy program and $2 million for career and technical education.
    He also authorized an additional $1.8 million in need-based higher-education scholarships.
    Hogan said the funding incorporates
  • Police: Man Nearly Struck Father, Daughter; Threatened To Shoot Victim

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Authorities arrested a Maryland man for allegedly nearly striking a father and his daughter with his car and then threatening to shoot the father with a gun.
    Anne Arundel County police say around 5:03 p.m. Wednesday, they responded to a Target parking garage in Annapolis located at 1911 Towne Centre Boulevard, where they were told by a father that George Amos Guthridge, 32, of Churchton, Maryland, nearly struck the man and his daughter.The father then told police that Guth
  • Fast Food Restaurant Employee Fired For Stirring Tea With Her Hands

    Kansas City, Mo. (CBS Local)- Customers at Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers in Missouri might want to order something to drink besides tea.
    A female employee at the fast food chain lost her job after a video showed her stirring tea in a large container with her hand.Raising Cane’s official Facebook page commented on the viral video and the status of the employees involved.
    “Our 19,000+ Crewmembers take pride in what we do; we take the integrity of our products very seriously
  • NFL Players Respond To President Trump’s Request For Names Of People To Pardon

    Ryan Mayer
    A quartet of current NFL players published an editorial in The New York Times today responding to President Trump’s request that they provide the names of people they believe have been treated unfairly by the justice system.
    The President said in an interview earlier in the month that if he agrees they’ve been treated unfairly, he will pardon them.
    Malcolm Jenkins, Anquan Boldin, Doug Baldwin and Benjamin Watson’s piece in the Times argues that the President should u
  • The Best NBA Draft Pick Ever From Each Slot

    There’s a definitive answer every year to the question of who is No. 1 in the NBA draft.
    But who is the No. 1 pick of all No. 1 draft picks ever? Or No. 1 among the list of No. 2 draft picks? Those are questions that have no definitive answer, except perhaps in a handful of rare cases.
    Here’s a look at The Best of The Best — the top all-time NBA picks in each of the top 30 draft spots. The best No. 1 overall pick, the best No. 2 overall pick… and so on.
    One note: This do
  • Appeals Court Grants New Sentencing Hearings For DC Sniper

    RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court says a sniper serving life in prison after terrorizing the Washington, D.C., region as a teenager must get new sentencing hearings.
    Thursday’s decision denies an appeal by prosecutors who said they already complied with the requirements of the Supreme Court, which ruled against mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles.
    Lee Boyd Malvo was 17 when he and his mentor, John Allen Muhammad, killed 10 people in Virginia, Maryland and
  • Venomous Caterpillar Sends Teen To Emergency Room

    Land O’Lakes, Fla. (CBS News/CBS Local)– A teen in Land O’Lakes, Florida, experienced what his mom said was “the worst pain he ever felt” after coming in contact with a venomous caterpillar. Fifteen-year-old Logan Pergola was doing volunteer landscaping work with his family on Saturday, WFLA-TV reports.
    His mom, Andrea Pergola, said Logan was picking up tree branches when his arm brushed up against the caterpillar. It wasn’t the kind of harmless
  • High Court: Online Shoppers Can Be Forced To Pay Sales Tax

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says states can force online shoppers to pay sales tax.
    The 5-4 ruling Thursday is a win for states, who said they were losing out on billions of dollars annually under two decades-old Supreme Court decisions that impacted online sales tax collection.
    The high court ruled Thursday to overturn those decisions. They had resulted in some companies not collecting sales tax on every online purchase. The cases the court overturned said that if a business was s
  • Police Investigating Reported Bomb Threat At Baltimore Co. Building

    BALTIMORE CO., Md. (WJZ) — The Baltimore County Police Department is investigating a report of a bomb threat Thursday morning.
    Police say the bomb threat was called in to the Drumcastle Building on York Rd. in Towson.
    The building was evacuated as a precaution.
    No further details have been released at this time.
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  • Police Investigate Reported Bomb Threat At Baltimore Co. Building

    BALTIMORE CO., Md. (WJZ) — The Baltimore County Police Department investigated a report of a bomb threat Thursday morning.
    Police say the bomb threat was called in at the Health and Human Services Building on York Road in Towson.
    The building was evacuated as a precaution, but police said “no evidence of a dangerous device” was found.
    The building was later reopened.
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  • Mother Of Mixed-Race Family Asks Blue Bell To Change “The Great Divide” Flavor Name

    Ryan Mayer
    In an open letter on Love What Matters, Traci Schmidley, a mother of six children and a foster mom to more, is asking Blue Bell Ice Cream to change the name of their chocolate and vanilla flavor, which is currently named “The Great Divide.”
    According to Schmidley, the family was sitting down to celebrate the end of a long week with some ice cream when her 10-year-old son saw the name on the carton and decided to make a joke calling it “The Civil War flavor.”
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  • Baltimore Police Investigating After Teens Injured In Separate Shootings

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Police are investigating two separate shootings overnight Wednesday that sent a 15-year-old and 19-year-old to the hospital.
    The first shooting was reported just after 10:30 p.m., in the 4400 block of Saint Thomas.
    Responding officers found a 19-year-old inside a vehicle who had been shot in the back. The victim was taken to an area hospital. His condition is unknown at this time.
    The other shooting happened just before 3:20 a.m., after a 15-year-old went to a l
  • Santiago Cabrera: ‘Salvation Is Full Of Surprises & Incredible Twists’

    An asteroid is heading to Earth and tech billionaire Darius Tanz is back to solve the problem. Season two of “Salvation” returns to CBS on Monday and Santiago Cabrera reprises his character that loves being the smartest person in the room.
    Cabrera chatted with CBS Local’s DJ Sixsmith about his acting career, working on “Salvation” and what to expect in season two.
    DJ Sixsmith: How did you get your start as an actor?
    Santiago Cabrera: I did a play when I was abo
  • Suspect Arrested In Rapper XXXTentacion’s Shooting Death

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A suspect has been charged in the shooting death of rising rap star XXXTentacion, authorities in Florida said Thursday.
    Dedrick Devonshay Williams, 22, of Pompano Beach was arrested shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a news release sent Thursday morning. Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy, 20, who went by the stage name pronounced “Ex Ex Ex ten-ta-see-YAWN,” was gunned down Monday as he left an upscale motorcycle dealershi
  • Maryland OKs $375K In Seafood Marketing Amid Labor Crisis

    BALTIMORE (AP) — The Maryland Board of Public Works has granted $375,000 to a state seafood marketing campaign to help promote its labor-short crab industry.
    The Baltimore Sun quotes Department of Agriculture spokesman Jason Schellhardt as saying the industry specifically request the funding. Schellhardt says the department hopes the extra funding will help mitigate some of the losses due to the seasonal worker shortage.
    RELATED: Md. Crab Houses Spread Thin After Again Losing Visa Lot
  • NASCAR Driver’s Father Rushed Onto Track To Pull Him From Burning Car

    Ryan Mayer
    One of the inherent risks that race-car drivers take when getting behind the wheel is the possibility of a crash that can be life-threatening. In a NASCAR Late Model 100 series event at South Boston track this past weekend, driver Mike Jones learned that first hand when his No. 39 car got spun into the wall and caught on fire. Luckily for Jones, his dad Dean was there to save the day.That’s Dean in the shorts hopping the wall at about the :20 mark of the video. He serves as the
  • Road Rage Believed To Be Motive In Shooting Of 2 Children, 2 Adults

    WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4) — The shooting in Westminster on Thursday that killed one child and left another child and a woman in critical condition appears to related to road rage, police said Friday.
    “Through our investigation we have been able to determine the suspect did not know any of the victims and did not have a relationship with any of them,” the Westminster Police Department said in a statement. “It appears as if this incident stemmed from a r
  • Weather Blog: First Day Of Summer

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Yes indeed, it’s now officially Summer in the cities. Time to totally go, mentally, into 3/4 time. Slow down life, and enjoy the season. I’m gonna. Go online and look up “Summer celebrations worldwide.”  It is a party! Could you imagine Stonehenge this morning, their afternoon? I bet it rivals Punxsutawney on Ground Hog Day. I wonder if they have their version of like, Bill Murray? “If the Druid sees his shadow…….
  • Phillies Fan Injured By Flying Hot Dog Launched By Phanatic

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia Phillies fan says a hot dog launched by the baseball team’s mascot hit her straight in the face and left her with a black eye. Kathy McVay says she was at the game in Philadelphia Monday night when the Phillie Phanatic rolled out his hot dog launcher.
    McVay was sitting near home plate, and she says all of a sudden a hot dog wrapped in duct tape flew toward her and struck her in the face.
    McVay says she is suffering from a shoulder injury, so she was
  • Koko, The Gorilla Who Knew Sign Language, Dies At 46

    WOODSIDE, Calif. (AP) — Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, has died.
    The Gorilla Foundation says the 46-year-old western lowland gorilla died in its sleep at the foundation’s preserve in California’s Sana Cruz mountains on Tuesday.
    Koko was born at the San Francisco Zoo, and Dr. Francine Patterson began teaching the gorilla sign language that became part of a Stanford University project in 1974.
    The foundation says Koko’s capacity for language and empathy open
  • Orioles Weather Long Rain Delay In 3-0 Win Over Nationals

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The rain was heavy and relentless. As the puddles grew deeper on the tarp at Nationals Park, the Baltimore Orioles were left to wonder if their bid for a rare road victory would be thwarted by, of all things, the weather.
    During a season in which very little has worked in their favor, the Orioles withstood a long rain delay to beat the Washington Nationals 3-0 Wednesday night.
    Baltimore led 2-0 after four innings when play was stopped. After a wait of 2 hours, 43 minutes,
  • Peter Fonda Apologizes For ‘Vulgar’ Barron Trump Tweet

    NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Fonda apologized Wednesday for a late-night Twitter rant in which he suggested 12-year-old Barron Trump should be ripped from “his mother’s arms and put in a cage with pedophiles.”
    The all-capitals tweet in the wee hours went on to call President Donald Trump an expletive. The actor later deleted the tweet and drew sharp rebukes from first lady Melania Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
    The two-time Oscar nominee, brother of Jane Fonda and son of Hollywood l
  • Person Jumps From 2nd Story After Building Fire In Montgomery County

    GAITHERSBURG, MD. (WJZ) — Montgomery County officials report a 2 alarm fire in Gaithersburg caused one person to jump from the second floor to escape. The fire was reported Thursday morning at a townhouse on the 9200 block of Oriole Place.
    They report the fire was going through the roof of the building and approximately 90 firefighters arrived to help. The fire is now under control and all occupants did manage to get out. Part of the building did collapse.
    Update – 2nd Alarm, Or
  • Weather Blog: Rainy Wednesday

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A light rain developed over the region Wednesday night followed by another batch that will impact the overnight into the early morning hours.
    A less humid and mainly dry outlook is on tap for Thursday as we officially welcome summer 2018!
    It should reach the mid or low 80’s, which is close to normal for the date. Happy summer!
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  • Demonstrators Converge On Downtown Baltimore To Protest Border Policies

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Under mounting political pressure, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to end family separations at the border.
    “We’re going to have strong, very strong borders. We’re going to keep the families together. I didn’t like the sight or the feeling of families being separated,” Trump said.
    The action, however, does not end the administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy that led to more than 2,000 children bei
  • Unarmed Teen Fatally Shot By Police While Fleeing Traffic Stop

    EAST PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A police officer fatally shot an unarmed 17-year-old boy just seconds after he fled from a traffic stop in a confrontation partly captured on video from a nearby home. The teen has been identified as Antwon Rose, reports CBS Pittsburgh.
    Police say the car stopped Tuesday night in the town of East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, matched the description of a vehicle being sought in a nonfatal shooting in a nearby town. Police had been searching for a car that fled
  • Md. Crab Houses Spread Thin After Again Losing Visa Lottery For Immigrant Workers

    BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Many Maryland crab processors are still struggling from a Trump administration policy that has left them without immigrant workers to pick crab meat.
    “We don’t have nobody to pick the crabs for us this summer,” waterman Sean Riley said.
    The state’s spending board just approved $375,000 in funding for a seafood marketing program that the governor’s office said “will help offset losses” caused by the lack of workers.
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  • Baltimore Co. Executive Republican Candidates Vie For Open Seat

    TOWSON, Md. (WJZ)– Baltimore County voters have an open field in their choice for a new county executive.
    There are three Democrats and two Republicans in the county primary races.
    This is an opportunity for Baltimore County voters to choose between two very different candidates. Some have called it a referendum on Larry Hogan and Donald Trump.
    State Delegate Pat McDonough (R) is known for a style he calls independent. He’s seen by some as the candidate for Donald Trump.
    “I sup

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