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• Marylanders Worry About Loved Ones Behind Bars Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

  08-04-2020 23:56
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Martina Hazelton and Julie Magers both have husbands who are behind bars.
  “Covid-19 is a death sentence for those that are inside,” Hazelton said.
  Her husband is serving twenty-seven years for felony murder charges in a Maryland correctional facility.
  But Magers says his prison sentence that mean her husband should be at risk for the virus.
  “People were not sentenced to death, they were not sentenced to this virus,” she said during a virtual press
  
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• Jobless claims swamp Maryland, leaving applicants waiting and worrying - Baltimore Brew

  08-04-2020 23:55
  
  Jobless claims swamp Maryland, leaving applicants waiting and worrying  Baltimore Brew
  
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• Chinese-American Volunteers From Maryland Work To Help Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic

  08-04-2020 23:52
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A group of Chinese-American volunteers is giving back to help local health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
  The volunteers managed to get $100,000 in donations in less than three weeks to buy personal protective equipment, or PPE, which has been in very high demand.
  “A surgical mask usually is a one-time thing and then disposed of, but now we’re trying to use it through the day as much as possible,” said Wilbur Chen, associate professor of m
  
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• Baltimore Ravens waive defensive end to clear space in crowded position group - PennLive

  08-04-2020 23:51
  
  Baltimore Ravens waive defensive end to clear space in crowded position group  PennLive
  
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• 20-Year-Old Man Shot In Legs In South Baltimore, Police Say - CBS Baltimore

  08-04-2020 23:43
  
  20-Year-Old Man Shot In Legs In South Baltimore, Police Say  CBS Baltimore
  
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• 20-Year-Old Man Shot In Legs In South Baltimore, Police Say

  08-04-2020 23:25
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore police are investigating after a 20-year-old was shot in the legs Wednesday afternoon.
  Officers responded to the 3600 block of 9th Street for a report of gun discharge, and when they arrived they didn’t find any victims.
  But while they were on the scene, officers got a call for a shooting victim who had been taken to an area hospital.
  The victim, a 20-year-old man, was suffering to gunshot wounds to his legs and is expected to survive.
  Southern District sh
  
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• Coronavirus Latest: State To Show Racial, Ethnic Breakdown Of COVID-19 Cases This Week

  08-04-2020 23:24
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Early information from some metro areas across the U.S. shows COVID-19 is more deadly for African-Americans than other groups.
  Gov. Larry Hogan ordered Tuesday the State Health Department start releasing racial and ethnic data later this week.
  Del. Nick Mosby, D-Baltimore, and dozens of state lawmakers have been asking the state for the data.
  “The data helps you develop your strategy and your plan to engage, to treat and to test,” Mosby said. “It’s
  
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• Coronavirus Latest: Dulles Airport Has Processed Over 14K Evacuees Coming Back To The U.S. Since March 20

  08-04-2020 23:20
  
  STERLING, VA (WJZ) — As the coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, U.S. citizens and permanent residents overseas are returning home to their loved ones.
  Customs and Border Protection at Dulles Airport has processed more than 14,000 evacuees so far as of April 7.
  The flights, coordinated by the U.S. Department of State, are commercial and charter airlines, and have arrived almost every day according to the airport.
  60 flights have landed 14,365 evacuees back into the U.S. over t
  
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• Pregnant Woman Battling COVID-19 Delivers Baby In Medically Induced Coma

  08-04-2020 23:03
  
  VANCOUVER, Wash. (CBS Local) — A pregnant woman battling coronavirus on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma delivered a baby girl in Washington state.
  Angela Primachenko, a respiratory therapist from the Vancouver, Washington area, was 33 weeks pregnant when she fell ill on March 22. She initially thought it was allergies, but decided to get tested COVID-19.
  When she was tested positive, Primachenko was admitted to a hospital, placed in the intensive care unit and hooked up to a v
  
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• Teen Smokers Less Likely To Give Up The Habit As Adults, Study Finds

  08-04-2020 22:50
  
  (CNN) — People who start smoking young are more likely to smoke daily as adults and find it much, much harder to quit.
  The findings of the study, which published Wednesday, said that cigarette smoking, even experimentally, among children of any age should be strongly discouraged.
  “Cigarette smoking is an avoidable health risk, and its seeds are in childhood,” said David Jacobs, Jr., lead study author and Mayo Professor of Public Health in the Division of Epidemiology and Commun
  
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• Baltimore Area Rideshare Driver Creates Plexiglass Shield To Keep Himself, Passengers Safe Amid Coronavirus Pandemic - CBS Baltimore

  08-04-2020 22:07
  
  Baltimore Area Rideshare Driver Creates Plexiglass Shield To Keep Himself, Passengers Safe Amid Coronavirus Pandemic  CBS Baltimore
  
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• Officials Recover Body Of 8-Year-Old Gideon McKean, Robert F. Kennedy’s Great-Grandson, In Chesapeake Bay

  08-04-2020 21:54
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — The body of Gideon McKean, Robert F. Kennedy’s great-grandson, has been found after a days-long search of the Chesapeake Bay.
  Maryland Natural Resources Police said teams found the 8-year-old at around 1:40 p.m. Wednesday about 2.3 miles south of his grandmother’s home in Shady Side near Annapolis where the canoe was launched.
  An undated photo of 8-year-old Gideon McKean. A search is underway for the bodies him and his 40-year-old Maeve Kennedy Townsend M
  
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• Ravens should target mid-round OLBs - Baltimore Beatdown

  08-04-2020 21:47
  
  Ravens should target mid-round OLBs  Baltimore Beatdown
  
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• Baltimore Area Rideshare Driver Creates Plexiglass Shield To Keep Himself, Passengers Safe Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

  08-04-2020 21:47
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Uber and Lyft drivers are still on the street round the clock getting essential employees to and from work during the coronavirus pandemic.
  One driver decided to take an extra step to protect himself, and his customers, during this pandemic.
  Bruno Commodari told WJZ it is a simple idea; a frame and plexiglass to keep germs from traveling between the passenger and driver. Commodari said it was his nephew’s idea.
  “I had a few sleepless nights worrying about
  
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• ‘I Was Fighting For My Life’: COVID-19 Survivor Credits God For ‘Giving Me Another Chance’

  08-04-2020 21:45
  
  DOUGLAS, Ga. (CBS Local) — A Georgia woman who received a hero’s escort home after surviving COVID-19 credits God for her recovery.
  Barbara Killiebrew, 60, had been hospitalized at Coffee Regional Medical Center in Douglas since March 18. She was put on a ventilator and appeared to be facing death.
  “I felt in my mind and my heart that I was coming back to them. I was fighting, I was fighting for my life,” she told WALB.
  But she said God had other plans.
  “First and f
  
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• Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Headed To Alabama Women’s Prison, Asking For Delay Again Due To Coronavirus Pandemic

  08-04-2020 21:45
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Former Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh will serve her time in an Alabama women’s prison, according to court records.
  Pugh, who pleaded guilty to tax evasion and fraud in the Healthy Holly children’s book scandal, is asking for a delay so that she can “resolve” her state perjury charge as the coronavirus pandemic has led to the closure of courts.
  She was sentenced on February 27 to three years in prison.
  The 70-year-old pleaded guilty to federal cons
  
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• Coronavirus Resources: Restaurants Around Maryland Are Donating Meals To First Responders, Medical Workers

  08-04-2020 21:42
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Restaurants around Maryland are giving back to frontline workers, donating meals for them as they remain working during the pandemic.
  Ledo Pizza is launching its “Pizzas for the Frontline” initiative to donate meals to medical and first responder facilities.
  Anyone who wishes to make a donation to local workers on the frontlines can do so here.The regional pizza chain says 100 percent of all donations will go to Pizzas for the Frontline to send pizza part
  
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• Anirban Basu: Metro Baltimore economy will shrink 20% in 2Q - Baltimore Business Journal

  08-04-2020 21:42
  Anirban Basu: Metro Baltimore economy will shrink 20% in 2Q  Baltimore Business Journal
  
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• Local chefs are preparing hundreds of free meals for those who need them - Baltimore Business Journal

  08-04-2020 21:41
  Local chefs are preparing hundreds of free meals for those who need them  Baltimore Business Journal
  
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• How To Get A Green Lawn In Maryland: Seeding Or Sodding - Patch.com

  08-04-2020 21:41
  
  How To Get A Green Lawn In Maryland: Seeding Or Sodding  Patch.com
  
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• Central Baltimore Partnership organizes Square Meals initiative - Maryland Daily Record

  08-04-2020 21:39
  
  Central Baltimore Partnership organizes Square Meals initiative  Maryland Daily Record
  
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• Baltimore Orioles: Why the National League Should Adapt the DH - Birds Watcher

  08-04-2020 21:20
  
  Baltimore Orioles: Why the National League Should Adapt the DH  Birds Watcher
  
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• With a small team, The Charmery offers ice cream delivery as far as Howard County - Baltimore Business Journal

  08-04-2020 21:09
  With a small team, The Charmery offers ice cream delivery as far as Howard County  Baltimore Business Journal
  
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• Maryland Weather: Big Drop In Temps Before Warm-Up

  08-04-2020 20:50
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A spring temperature swing is coming. That’s the trend headed to the next five days into Monday.
  A big drop in temperatures can be expected thanks to a very strong front that will bring some storms to the region headed into the overnight on Thursday into Friday, WJZ Meteorologist Chelsea Ingram said.  Then it’ll begin to warm-up by Monday. 
  
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• How This Baltimore Hotel Is Helping Small Businesses, First Responders During the Coronavirus Pandemic - KCTV Kansas City

  08-04-2020 20:45
  How This Baltimore Hotel Is Helping Small Businesses, First Responders During the Coronavirus Pandemic  KCTV Kansas City
  
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• 'It’s like nothing else’: Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her husband, a Baltimore law professor, discuss his coro - Baltimore Sun

  08-04-2020 20:44
  'It’s like nothing else’: Sen. Amy Klobuchar and her husband, a Baltimore law professor, discuss his coro  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Baltimore County expecting multimillion-dollar drop in revenue and rise in expenses due to coronavirus pandemi - Baltimore Sun

  08-04-2020 20:44
  Baltimore County expecting multimillion-dollar drop in revenue and rise in expenses due to coronavirus pandemi  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Coronavirus Latest: Baltimore Office Of Promotion & The Arts Announces Artists Relief Fund

  08-04-2020 20:42
  
  (WJZ)- The Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts has created the Baltimore Artists Emergency Relief Fund to help individual artists who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
  The fund, which is a joint partnership effort of 20 artists and arts organizers, is designed to provide direct assistance to Baltimore-based artists and entrepreneurs who have lost income due to the coronavirus outbreak.
  Applications for the fund are open and available here.
  The fund will distribute one-time $500
  
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• Baltimore Police officer appears to cough on purpose at public housing complex residents, video shows - Baltimore Sun

  08-04-2020 20:42
  Baltimore Police officer appears to cough on purpose at public housing complex residents, video shows  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Baltimore Council President Scott calls for $25M in rainy day funds to be used on coronavirus response - Baltimore Sun

  08-04-2020 20:42
  Baltimore Council President Scott calls for $25M in rainy day funds to be used on coronavirus response  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Baltimore officer investigated after video shows him coughing near public housing residents amid virus outb... - Fox News

  08-04-2020 20:34
  
  Baltimore officer investigated after video shows him coughing near public housing residents amid virus outb...  Fox News
  
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• The fever ‘next door’: In 1906, typhoid spread through Baltimore’s Woodberry neighborhood - Baltimore Sun

  08-04-2020 20:04
  The fever ‘next door’: In 1906, typhoid spread through Baltimore’s Woodberry neighborhood  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Maryland Department Of Natural Resources Proposes Changes To Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Season

  08-04-2020 20:04
  
  ANNAPOLIS (WJZ)- The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced Wednesday that it is proposing changes to the summer-fall Chesapeake Bay striped bass season.
  The changes, which will be made by public notice, are in an effort to make sure of the state’s compliance with the directive of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission to meet a coast-wide conservation target.
  The changes would make the 2020 summer-fall season in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries open from M
  
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• BARCS: Dog Named Sophie Found 'Lifeless' In West Baltimore, Fighting For Her Life - CBS Baltimore

  08-04-2020 19:54
  
  BARCS: Dog Named Sophie Found 'Lifeless' In West Baltimore, Fighting For Her Life  CBS Baltimore
  
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• Hotel Revival Distributing Bagged Lunches And Produce To Those In Need This Friday

  08-04-2020 19:47
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The coronavirus pandemic has left many in the Baltimore area concerned about where their next meal may be coming from. For those struggling with such food insecurity, Hotel Revival, located in downtown Baltimore is looking to help.
  The Hotel announced Wednesday that they will be distributing bagged lunches from the hotel’s restaurant, Topside, and produce to those in need this Friday, April 10th. The produce has been donated by Coastal Sunbelt Produce and Hungry Har
  
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• 3 top options for budget-friendly Middle Eastern eats in Baltimore - Hoodline

  08-04-2020 19:35
  3 top options for budget-friendly Middle Eastern eats in Baltimore  Hoodline
  
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• OIG: Baltimore City employee stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment - Fox Baltimore

  08-04-2020 19:23
  OIG: Baltimore City employee stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment  Fox Baltimore
  
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• More Marylanders Filed For Unemployment In March 2020, Than In All Of 2019, Gov. Hogan’s Office Says

  08-04-2020 19:16
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Gov. Larry Hogan’s office addressed the frustration coming from Marylanders trying to file for unemployment as thousands have been left temporarily or permanently without jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic and social distancing measures.
  Mike Ricci, Hogan’s communications director, said the state took more claims in March than in all of 2019. To alleviate some of the frustrations, Ricci tweeted out some information for those filing for unemployment to note.
  
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• Baltimore Institutions Get Creative to Provide More Testing Sites - Baltimore magazine

  08-04-2020 19:13
  
  Baltimore Institutions Get Creative to Provide More Testing Sites  Baltimore magazine
  
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• Intense ‘Pandemic Dreams’ Disrupt Nation’s Sleep During Coronavirus Outbreak

  08-04-2020 19:08
  
  (CBS Local) — Americans stressed out by the coronavirus outbreak are finding out that sleep is not necessarily a time for relaxation or peace of mind.
  Many people are taking to social media to comment on the phenomenon known as “pandemic dreams,” sharing examples via hashtag #pandemicdreams.In my dream, I called an Uber, but a hearse showed up instead. Not liking these #pandemicdreams
  — Sarah Schachner (@SarahSchachner) March 23, 2020They are reporting vivid, often strang
  
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• With Christ the King closing, Buffalo Diocese to send students to Baltimore seminary - Buffalo News

  08-04-2020 18:56
  
  With Christ the King closing, Buffalo Diocese to send students to Baltimore seminary  Buffalo News
  
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• Police Charge 18-Year-Old Baltimore Man In Parkville Armed Carjacking, Looking For 2 More Suspects - CBS Baltimore

  08-04-2020 18:53
  
  Police Charge 18-Year-Old Baltimore Man In Parkville Armed Carjacking, Looking For 2 More Suspects  CBS Baltimore
  
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• 500,000 diapers to be distributed in Baltimore City - WBAL TV Baltimore

  08-04-2020 18:41
  500,000 diapers to be distributed in Baltimore City  WBAL TV Baltimore
  
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• ‘S.W.A.T.’ Star Alex Russell On Mental Health Ahead Of Poignant New Episode: ‘You Have Support And Connection Is Available’

  08-04-2020 18:33
  
   S.W.A.T. returns with an all-new episode titled “Stigma” tonight at 10:00 PM ET/PT, only on CBS and streaming on CBS All Access. In this very special episode, the team tackles mental health, particularly within law enforcement.
  CBS Local’s Matt Weiss spoke to series star Alex Russell about tonight’s episode and the importance of breaking the stigma surrounding mental health.
  MW: Hi Alex, nice to speak to you, we’re here today to talk about a very poignant epis
  
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• Police Charge 18-Year-Old Baltimore Man In Parkville Armed Carjacking, Looking For 2 More Suspects

  08-04-2020 18:33
  
  PARKVILLE, Md. (WJZ) — An 18-year-old was charged in an armed carjacking in Parkville Monday evening.
  Baltimore County Police were called to the 8400 block of Greenway Road around 8:36 p.m. on April 6 for an armed robbery. Police learned three armed suspects demanded money from the victim and robbed him. The suspects also tried to steal the vehicle, but couldn’t operate it.
  Elijah Crichlow of Baltimore was charged with armed robbery, armed carjacking, and various other charges. He is
  
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• Baltimore-Area Industrial Properties Command $90M - Commercial Observer

  08-04-2020 18:24
  
  Baltimore-Area Industrial Properties Command $90M  Commercial Observer
  
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• Top Baltimore news: Cops investigate fatal shooting; homeless to move to motels; more - Hoodline

  08-04-2020 18:03
  
  Top Baltimore news: Cops investigate fatal shooting; homeless to move to motels; more  Hoodline
  
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• Baltimore launches emergency relief fund for artists - Baltimore Business Journal

  08-04-2020 17:54
  Baltimore launches emergency relief fund for artists  Baltimore Business Journal
  
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• Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Campaign

  08-04-2020 17:37
  
  Senator Bernie Sanders is suspending his campaign for president, after falling behind former Vice President Joe Biden in recent primary contests. He announced his decision to campaign staff Wednesday morning.
  
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• Coronavirus Resources: City To Distribute 500K Diapers Partnered With Baltimore-Based Nonprofit

  08-04-2020 17:35
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The city announced Wednesday a partnership with ShareBaby, a non-profit based in Baltimore, provides diapers, clothing and gear to community organizations.
  The diaper bank will be distributing over 500,000 diapers to 10,000 vulnerable children and families across Baltimore City.
  “We know that children and families with limited access to clean diapers and basic necessities are disproportionately impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and that prior to the ” &rd
  
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