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• Pools reopen in Baltimore - Fox Baltimore

  13-07-2020 23:53
  Pools reopen in Baltimore  Fox Baltimore
  
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• Maryland joins multistate lawsuit against ICE rule affecting international students - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 23:38
  Maryland joins multistate lawsuit against ICE rule affecting international students  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Anne Arundel police crisis response team named best ‘on the planet’ - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 23:33
  Anne Arundel police crisis response team named best ‘on the planet’  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Deadline Extended For Coronavirus Rent Support Program In Baltimore - CBS Baltimore

  13-07-2020 23:22
  
  Deadline Extended For Coronavirus Rent Support Program In Baltimore  CBS Baltimore
  
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• Deadline Extended For Coronavirus Rent Support Program In Baltimore

  13-07-2020 23:22
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The deadline to apply for a rent support program in Baltimore has been extended.
  The Temporary Rent Support program from the city’s Department of Housing and Community Development was set up to help residents who are struggling to pay rent due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES: Coronavirus Resources: How To Get Help In Maryland
  TIMELINE: Coronavirus In Maryland, Tracking The Spread
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• Five coal ships depart from Baltimore in week ended July 12: cFlow - S&P Global

  13-07-2020 23:20
  Five coal ships depart from Baltimore in week ended July 12: cFlow  S&P Global
  
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• Bicyclist Killed In Crash Near Sparrows Point, Police Say

  13-07-2020 22:59
  
  SPARROWS POINT, Md. (WJZ) — A bicyclist died after being hit by a car in Sparrows Point Monday morning, the Baltimore County Police Department said.
  The crash happened around 4:40 a.m. on Peninsula Expressway near Bethlehem Boulevard just off Interstate 695.
  Police said the driver of a 2018 Chevrolet Equinox hit the cyclist from behind. Both had been heading north on Peninsula Expressway.
  The bicyclist was taken to an area hospital where he later died.
  Police are still investigating the ca
  
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• Person Injured In Domestic-Related Shooting Near Randallstown, Police Say - CBS Baltimore

  13-07-2020 22:49
  
  Person Injured In Domestic-Related Shooting Near Randallstown, Police Say  CBS Baltimore
  
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• Person Injured In Domestic-Related Shooting Near Randallstown, Police Say

  13-07-2020 22:49
  
  RANDALLSTOWN, Md. (WJZ) — One person was injured in a domestic-related shooting in Baltimore County Monday morning, police said.
  The shooting happened around 9:30 a.m. in the 8500 block of Glen Michael Lane near Randallstown. Police said the suspect and the victim left the scene before officers arrived.
  The victim sought treatment at an area hospital. The extent of their injuries is unclear.
  Police are still investigating what led to the shooting.
  
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• Expert Says Constant Exposure To Videos Of Police Brutality Can Lead To Toxic Stress, Psychological Trauma

  13-07-2020 22:40
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Adults aren’t just working to deal with the stress from COVID-19, but also the stress of racial inequality. Mental health experts say it’s important you learn how to cope with it all.
  For generations, racism has plagued society, but the death of George Floyd in May has once again brought racism into the national conversation and triggered worldwide protests.
  It’s putting a mental strain on those watching closely.
  “Exposure to traumatic content can
  
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• Maryland reports 418 newly confirmed coronavirus cases, six more deaths - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 22:36
  Maryland reports 418 newly confirmed coronavirus cases, six more deaths  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Several Baltimore Swimming Pools Reopen With Limited Capacity Due To Coronavirus - CBS Baltimore

  13-07-2020 22:21
  
  Several Baltimore Swimming Pools Reopen With Limited Capacity Due To Coronavirus  CBS Baltimore
  
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• Several Baltimore Swimming Pools Reopen With Limited Capacity Due To Coronavirus

  13-07-2020 22:21
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Five of Baltimore’s city pools reopened Monday with a number of changes in place due to the coronavirus pandemic.
  The pools, as well as basketball courts, playgrounds, exercise equipment and bocce courts, were the latest attractions to reopen in Baltimore months after the coronavirus led to a stay-at-home order.
  Before even entering the pool, visitors need to make a 90-minute reservation and have a ticket for a specific time. Once inside, people will need to wear a
  
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• Baltimore Pools Reopen With Limited Capacity - CBS DC

  13-07-2020 22:19
  
  Baltimore Pools Reopen With Limited Capacity  CBS DC
  
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• MDOT MTA Wouldn’t Get Funding Under Second Coronavirus Stimulus Plan As Proposed

  13-07-2020 22:12
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Maryland Transit Administration will not get federal funding under the second coronavirus stimulus plan passed in the House of Representatives, the state’s transportation department said Monday.
  The House passed the HEROES Act 208-199 in mid-May. The bill includes financial payments for local and state governments and direct payments of up to $1,200 per individual.
  CORONAVIRUS RESOURCES: Coronavirus Resources: How To Get Help In Maryland
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• Utility pole down in east Baltimore - Fox Baltimore

  13-07-2020 22:09
  Utility pole down in east Baltimore  Fox Baltimore
  
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• Philip David Fields, former director of the Baltimore County Office of Planning and world traveler, dies - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 22:07
  Philip David Fields, former director of the Baltimore County Office of Planning and world traveler, dies  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Newly born eaglets can now be observed at Masonville Cove in Baltimore - wmar2news.com

  13-07-2020 21:36
  
  Newly born eaglets can now be observed at Masonville Cove in Baltimore  wmar2news.com
  
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• WNBA Season Opens July 25 With Weekend Dedicated To Black Lives Matter Movement

  13-07-2020 21:31
  
  (CBS Local/CBSNewYork)- The WNBA announced Monday the official schedule for its 2020 season that’s set to be played at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. The WNBA Tip-Off ’20 gets underway July 25 with a tripleheader of games on ESPN, ABC and CBS Sports Network.
  During the league’s opening weekend, all aspects of the games featuring the league’s 12 teams will be designed to affirm the Black Lives Matter movement and honor the victims of police brutality and racial violenc
  
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• After withdrawing from their Baltimore project, West 8 tells its side of the story - The Architect's Newspaper

  13-07-2020 21:18
  
  After withdrawing from their Baltimore project, West 8 tells its side of the story  The Architect's Newspaper
  
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• Fox Spotted On Beach In Ocean City

  13-07-2020 21:11
  
  OCEAN CITY, Md. (WJZ) — Even foxes want some time at the beach this summer.
  Lisa Webb spotted this fox on the beach in Ocean City and posted the video in the Ocean City Cool group Monday.What wildlife have you seen at the beach?
  Send us your photos or videos to [email protected] or use #BeOnWJZ on Twitter and Instagram.
  
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• NFL Debuts New Oakley Mouth Shield, Designed To Mitigate Coronavirus Spread On Field

  13-07-2020 20:55
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The National Football League unveiled its design for a new mouth shield that can be attached to players’ helmets in order to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus during games this fall.
  The shield was designed in collaboration with doctors and engineers from the NFL and NFLPA and will be distributed to all 32 teams during the course of the next week. Players will then have a chance to “test drive” the new shield to get a feel for it. In the reveal, the
  
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• Ex-city cops: Baltimore needs a new protocol for handling mental health crises | READER COMMENTARY - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 20:49
  Ex-city cops: Baltimore needs a new protocol for handling mental health crises | READER COMMENTARY  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Baltimore needs an organization to consider the future of statues like the Columbus monument | READER COMMENTA - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 20:48
  Baltimore needs an organization to consider the future of statues like the Columbus monument | READER COMMENTA  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Atlas Restaurant Group DC Location Wont Have Dress Code: Report - Baltimore, MD Patch

  13-07-2020 20:48
  
  Atlas Restaurant Group DC Location Wont Have Dress Code: Report  Baltimore, MD Patch
  
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• 35-year-old woman fatally stabbed in Southeast Baltimore, police say - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 20:46
  35-year-old woman fatally stabbed in Southeast Baltimore, police say  Baltimore Sun
  
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• Johns Hopkins Bayview To Host Blood Drive On July 29-31

  13-07-2020 20:37
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center will host a blood drive from July 29-31 from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Johns Hopkins Asthma & Allergy Center.
  The American Red Cross will test all blood donations for COVID-19 antibodies as an additional health service to donors. This testing may provide insight as to whether donors may have possibly been exposed to the coronavirus. Results will be available within 7-10 days.
  The blood drive will be held at 5501 Hopkins Bayview
  
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• Ravens’ QB Lamar Jackson 3rd-Highest Rated QB In Madden NFL 21

  13-07-2020 20:28
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — With training camps nearing at the end of the month, the talk surrounding the NFL has started to ramp up. For fans of the Madden NFL video game, that means the release of the top rated players at various positions. To no one’s surprise, reigning MVP and cover athlete Lamar Jackson ranks near the top of the quarterback list.
  Jackson was given a 94 overall rating by the Madden NFL ratings adjusters trailing just Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson (97 overall) and reig
  
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• Police Investigating After Woman Killed In SE Baltimore Stabbing - CBS Baltimore

  13-07-2020 20:26
  
  Police Investigating After Woman Killed In SE Baltimore Stabbing  CBS Baltimore
  
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• Police Investigating After Woman Killed In SE Baltimore Stabbing

  13-07-2020 20:26
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Police are investigating after a woman was killed in a possible stabbing in southeast Baltimore.
  Police were called to the 1100 block of Comet Street in Pleasant View Gardens just north of E. Fayette Street around 12:30 p.m. to investigate a shooting.
  When they arrived, they found a 35-year-old woman suffering from what appeared to be stab wounds. She was pronounced dead on scene. Police are investigating how she died.
  So far this year there have been 174 homicides in Bal
  
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• Giant Food Donates Over $1.2 Million to USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore - PRNewswire

  13-07-2020 19:46
  
  Giant Food Donates Over $1.2 Million to USO of Metropolitan Washington-Baltimore  PRNewswire
  
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• Ocean City Police investigating man’s fatal fall off balcony - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 19:40
  Ocean City Police investigating man’s fatal fall off balcony  Baltimore Sun
  
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• McDonogh School must change its name | COMMENTARY - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 19:28
  McDonogh School must change its name | COMMENTARY  Baltimore Sun
  
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• What did Baltimore cops learn from the Gun Trace Task Force? Seems like nothing. | COMMENTARY - Baltimore Sun

  13-07-2020 19:23
  What did Baltimore cops learn from the Gun Trace Task Force? Seems like nothing. | COMMENTARY  Baltimore Sun
  
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• 22-Year-Old Dies After Falling From Ocean City, Maryland Hotel Balcony

  13-07-2020 19:21
  
  OCEAN CITY, Md. (WJZ) — Ocean City, Maryland police are investigating a fatal fall from a balcony at a hotel.
  The fall happened around 2:55 a.m. on Sunday, July 12 from the third-floor balcony at a 29th Street hotel.
  Caleb McCurdy, 22, of Ocean City was flown to Shock Trauma where he was pronounced dead.
  Police believe the fall was accidental, McCurdy’s body was taken to the medical examiner’s office for an official cause and manner or death.
  
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• ‘Some People Are Just So Ungrateful’: Former WR Derrick Mason Reacts To Results Of Fan Vote For Ravens All-Time Team

  13-07-2020 19:00
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Baltimore Ravens revealed the results of the fan’s voting for the franchise’s “All-Time Team” on Friday. Former receiver Derrick Mason was not pleased about being left off the list.
  Mason took to Twitter Sunday night to express his displeasure saying that “some people are just so ungrateful.” some people are just so ungrateful. It's crazy how you can clearly be the best wr in two franchise's history,but still get no respect. I feel
  
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• Officer Helps Free Raccoon After Its Head Gets Stuck In A Metal Can

  13-07-2020 18:55
  
  BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) — A Maryland Natural Resources Police officers helped a raccoon who was found with a metal can stuck on its head in Baltimore County.
  Residents reported spotting the raccoon wandering around their neighborhood.
  The officer located the tired raccoon and used gardening tools to free the animal.Yesterday, Officer First Class Brayman responded to a neighborhood in Baltimore Co. after residents reported that a raccoon had been wandering with a metal can stuck on its
  
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• Will You See A Second Stimulus Payment?

  13-07-2020 18:37
  
  (CBSNewYork) — Will Americans be receiving a second stimulus payment in the near future? The answer remains uncertain. But what seemed unlikely in late March, after the first stimulus passed, seems much more likely three months later. And developing economic (and political) conditions add to the likelihood with each passing day.
  According to Murillo Campello, professor of Finance at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, the likelihood of a second stimulus paymen
  
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• 22-Month-Old Baby Girl Injured During Windsor Mill Domestic Shooting

  13-07-2020 18:37
  
  WINDSOR MILL, Md. (WJZ) — Baltimore County police detectives are investigating how a 22-month-old girl was injured Sunday night during a domestic shooting.
  According to police, the domestic shooting happened on Derby Shire Circle Sunday night around 7 p.m. Police said the shooting stemmed from an argument between the child’s mother and an ex-boyfriend. The man allegedly assaulted the mother.
  Child Injured In Possible Domestic-Related Shooting In Windsor Mill, Police Say
  Another man,
  
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• Baltimore's Duck Duck Goose closing temporarily, citing Covid-19 pandemic - Baltimore Business Journal

  13-07-2020 18:35
  Baltimore's Duck Duck Goose closing temporarily, citing Covid-19 pandemic  Baltimore Business Journal
  
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• Patriot League Cancels Fall Sports, Will Allow Navy To Make Its Own Decision

  13-07-2020 18:30
  
  Annapolis, MD (WJZ)- The Patriot League Council of Presidents announced Monday that it has decided to cancel the fall sports season for its teams due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In a press release, the league stated that the pandemic “continues to present significant challenges to our campuses and communities” which is why the decision was made to cut the fall season.
  However, the Patriot League did say that both the United States Military Academy (Army) and United States Naval
  
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• Maryland Joins Nationwide Lawsuit Seeking Injunction On New Visa Rules For International Students

  13-07-2020 18:19
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) — Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh joined a coalition of states filing a lawsuit to stop a new federal rule that could threaten hundreds of international students from remaining in the U.S.
  The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), challenges the Trump administration’s cruel, abrupt, and unlawful action to expel international students a
  
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• Nothing Bundt Cakes to open a new location in Columbia - Baltimore Business Journal

  13-07-2020 18:16
  Nothing Bundt Cakes to open a new location in Columbia  Baltimore Business Journal
  
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• Vinces Crab House Owners Sue Baltimore County Exec For $400,000 - Perry Hall, MD Patch

  13-07-2020 18:11
  
  Vinces Crab House Owners Sue Baltimore County Exec For $400,000  Perry Hall, MD Patch
  
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• BTR Acquires European Steel Manufacturer's East Baltimore Distribution Center - CoStar Group

  13-07-2020 18:11
  BTR Acquires European Steel Manufacturer's East Baltimore Distribution Center  CoStar Group
  
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• ‘Shorter Races, More Exciting Formats, Bring To Life Driver Personalities’: CBS To Air Superstar Racing Experience In 2021

  13-07-2020 18:04
  
  (CBS Local)- CBS Sports announced a new partnership on Monday with Superstar Racing Experience, a new sports property that will combine with CBS Sports to produce a six-race, short-track series that will air Saturday nights on CBS Television Network and CBS All Access beginning in the summer of 2021.
  Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) is the brainchild of The Montag Group, NASCAR Hall of Famers Ray Evernham and Tony Stewart and investor George Pyne. It will feature sprint races with no pit stops
  
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• ‘Environmental Illness Will Be The Defining Disease Of The 21st Century’: Oliver Broudy On ‘The Sensitives: The Rise Of Environmental Illness And The Search For America’s Last Pure Place’

  13-07-2020 17:38
  
  (CBS Local)– There are over 50 million people in the United States living with environmental illness.
  As Oliver Broudy discovered in his Simon & Schuster book “The Sensitives: The Rise Of Environmental Illness And The Search For America’s Last Pure Place,” chemicals can impact people who suffer from EI in many different ways. Some people with this illness are smell sensitive to things like perfume and bleach, while others need to live in the woods in order to avo
  
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• Giant Food to Beef Up Kosher Offering in Baltimore - Progressive Grocer

  13-07-2020 17:21
  
  Giant Food to Beef Up Kosher Offering in Baltimore  Progressive Grocer
  
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• Weather Blog: Waking Up Early

  13-07-2020 17:04
  
  Hi Everyone!
  Back in the studio this week and back on the morning shift. I point this out for a reason. For close to four decades, I have been coming to work in the dark. Getting up now, every other week in the daylight, takes some getting used to. And a part of that is not seeing the stars I am used to keeping company with every start to a work day. Look, I know after dark the stars are out but the overnight sky has its own personality.
  For example, when I walk out the door I face West and ther
  
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• Baltimore CBP Discovers Argentine Moth And Asian Gypsy Moth Egg Masses On Merchant Ship

  13-07-2020 16:52
  
  BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed Friday that nine egg masses that Customs and Border Protection found on a merchant ship on June 2 was the first reported discoveries of two kinds of moths in Maryland.
  With DNA analysis, USDA entomologists determined that the egg masses found on the M/V Star Kinn were Paracles azollae, which is an Argentinian moth species. The M/V Star Kinn is a cargo vessel that arrived from Brazil in June. The discovery of Paracles
  
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