a local man fights for safer driving laws that could change as a result of his trip to d-c today. (beverly) "but the thing is, nobody wanted to come forth, it was like people ere afraid of him.." him.."it's a murder investigation that's been cold for 13 yyars.the mistaae police made trying to solve the murderrof a teen... and how you can help crack this cold case. "us old peoole forgettthings. and... he didn't mman to make that big of a donationn how an elderly man accidentally gave 13-grand to goodwill... and what he was trying to give them instead. 3 3 -inner harbor today is ay, november 30th.

177 map 3 a baltimore county man fights for new trucking is killed and his son nearly

&pparalyzed.ed slattery is goin to washington d.c..today to testify before a congressional committee. megan gilliland is here with the driving laws that could change as a result. good morninggpatrice,you're taking a live look at u-s 29 at md - 108.a smooth ride jolted by some startling statistics...accordinn to the u-s department of transportation about 3-to-4 thousand people are killed every year in trucking accidents.slatteryyis fightinn to channg that. that.his family was on an ohio interstate in ugust of last year... hen a tired trucker barreled into the family's car. the accident killed slattery's wife susan.... and left his 14-year-old son matthew with a traumatic brain injury.ii was discovered that the driver haa been behind the wheee of that semi or more &pthan 11 hours... without a preak.now, slattery and other truck safety advocates... are

trying to change that froo everrhappening again. (slattery) "the experts in faaigue managment would really prefer to see it go down to 8 hours. would really prefer to see t go down tt 8 hours.. but you know in the real world of politics and regulatton.. you take what you can get." get."slattery planssto testify to reduce the number of consecutive hours truckers are allowee to drive... to 10 hours.currently, it's 11 hours that regulatton change woold also increase restttime between driving hifts. wwile... timm is money for many busineeses...for slattery, the question is... at what cost?the truckerrin the accident his family was involved in now faces up to 7 years in prison aater pleading guilty to vehicular homicide. &pmegan gilliland, fox45 mornin news. the prime suspect in the disappearance case involving a maryland woman in aruba... is free this morning.

mmrning.gary giordano was released from jail tuesday... four months after eing detained in robyn gardner's disappearance.police weren't able to find aay evidence o forrally ccarge the gaithersburg businessman. giordano and gardner .. who is from federick ...traveled to aruba back in july... missing.he claims she was her - pulled out to sea while snorkling.prosecctors still consider him suspect in gardner's prrsumed death. if giordano is released that doesn't mean he's out of the wo. woods... some egals analysts beeieve the investigation will continue in aruba....and a new one could begin in the u-ss 3&a police tip leads to the discovery of a loaded gun on a baltimore city hhgh school high school was arrested forr baatimore city police officers - tipped the school off... that the student may be carrying a searched the student... and found the gunnin his clothes. the student is faciig serious

chargee... and possible expulsion. a man continues to fight for his life... after he was involved in a craah with a school bus.the crash happeeed about 4 o' clock tuessay afternoon on reisterstown road. the man was in this car....and ps you can see by the broken glass and he twisted metal... the car took most of the damage in this crash ith the buu.three ssudents were also taken to the hospital...no morning.. but the bus driver wasn'ttseriously hurt. there are two mysteries right now surrounding the "soldiers aad sailors" monument in wyman park in north baltimore.who defaced it... and wwo cleened it off? painted the word "occupied" on phe monument.but this gone.occupyyprotesters denied any responsibility in the vaadalism.but experts say defacing public monumeets is happening more often. (7:21:15) (dennis rude) ""eople at this memorial have made a sacrifice. they weree't

watching football on sunday, they put their lives on thee lines. his is really -signif" dennis rude ... who owns .. "cathedral stone products", in hanover...offered to help clean the graffiti...but it's still unknown who actually reeoveddit. ((pause for nats)) colorado's governor got an earful from oocuuy ppotesters tuusday. the governor was ceremooy in colorado springs for a community solar began chanting.at one point... the governor asked for a show pf hands offthose who wanted to hear the ggrup insttad of finishing the event... no one raised tteir hands. occupy protesters are on the streets of philadelphia this morning..ooice told everyooe to get out of the camp set up near city hall.....because the site needs to be cleared for construction work.the deadline was monday....but tents still remain.no word of any arrests so far. will he stay or will he go?

herman cain has some thinning to do after annatlanta woman alleged she had an affair with him.and as tommy andres explains... despite reports that he's "reasseesing" his camppign.... the republican presidential candidate hasn't exactly said he's bowing out of the race. race. "thank you."hhrman cain isn't lettinggallegations of an exttamarital affair kick him off the campaign trail.the &prepublican presidential candidaae pressed on with a foreign policy speech in michigan last niggt.he made no mention of an atlanta woman's claim that she had a 13-yeaa-llng affair with him. but a longtime friend took up hissddfense."a woman kkows a skirt chaser when a woman seess cainndoesn't chase skirts." caii denies the affair.ginger white -- the woman who made the llegation -- showed w-a-g-a in atlanta ppone records of late night calls and cain.her lawyer told c-n-n 3 she may go a step urther. "would sheeconsider releasing them? would there be anything in those text messages that

would be further documentation.""i thhnk that's something she's conssdered and neither ruled in or ruled out at this point in time."caan'' support has fallen ssnce &pallegationssof sexual harassment, involvvng four women, came o light last ponth.he told staffers yesterday he's now reassessing his campaign.but a enior advisor says cain has no intention of takinn his name &poff the ballot..'m tommy &pandres, reporting a top campaign source says he expects cain to make a decision n whether he will drop out within a few days. thaa decision could all comee &pdown to wwether his fundraising dries up. closing statements aae scheduled for friday... in the case of joshua komisarjevssy ... the second maa convicted in a deadly home invasion in connncticut.he was convicted last month... on 17 charges... including three countt of murder... for the 2007 deaths of a woman and her two daaghters.jurors will begin deliberations nexttweek... to

decide if he will get life in prrson... or the eath penalty. doctor conrad murray is waking begin servinn his 4-year senten. sentence.this is his booking photo...murray was sentenced tuesday... to involuntary manslaughtee in michael jackkon's death.a judge gave murray the tooghest sentence jjckson's family called for justice. "he has absolutely no sense of remorse, no sense of faalt, and is and remains dangerous.. dangerous..murray has also been ordereddto pay aa 800-dollar restitution fine. prosecuuors wanted murrry to pay jackson's children more than 100 million-dollars in restitution. 3&phe man who shot president reagan in 1981... wants to eventually live outside a mental facility full ime. attorneys or john hinckley that priviledge.a jury found -

&phinckleyy insane when he shot and wounded reagan ... 30 years ago.today a judge will allowed additional visits to federal lawyers... oppose the plan. the n-b-a is opening up its doors for voluntary the move comes after last week's announcement that the players nd owners had reached patentative deal... to end the league's 149-day lockout. training caaps will ooen next weekkthe season will officially start christmas day. one man in columbi believes.... for those serving overseas right now, just a taste of home, can change he believe this? he used to be one of those serving our country. joel d. smith is live at the home oo don downer, as he continues tt prepare care packages for troops, nearly every day. good morning joel d. 3 he knows what those servvng our country overseas want too

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three teenage boys are being hailed heroes ttis morning... for a savinn a toddler from dro. drowning.on mooday... a 3-year old boy wandered into the home... and fell into a canal. the teenn... who were fishing

nearby... noticed what was &prescue... pulling the toddler to ssfety. "i waa just happy thaa we helped him out aad that we saved his life, that was pretty mmch about it. the v prews none of his nneded to ha" happen."the three-year-old is expecced to be o-k.police aree now investigating why his parents didn't look after him better. commng up on the early edition... an honest mistaae dollars!(reporter): "13- thousand?""mmm hmm." &phmm."yyu heard right...13- thoussnd dollars!find out how the man lost his thousands... and the unlikely place he kept the stash. stash. ((break 1))

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some clothes to goodwill makes a costlyymiitake.he accidentally gave away a suit that had 13-thousand dollars in the pockets.now, as chris minor tells us... the store is scouring through its donationn in hopes of finding &pthe money for he man. --reporter pkg-as follows -- (nats) tis the season for giving.and the 80-year-old man donattd several of his old suits aad dress pants here to the goodwill store in moline, but pater realized he haa made a terrible mistake."a gentleman

unintentionally donated a suit, a jacket and pants, that dollars in it.""reporter): "13- thhusand?""mmm hmm.""the elderly man didn't realize his pistake ntil at least a week later. when he did, he and his daughter seaached the inventory here, coat by coat, without any luck.""us old people forget things. sure, he yeah."goodwill says it oesn't know if the coat has bben old to anybody or not, but right now is combing through piles of clothes here at its warehouse in iowa city, trying to find its coat and its 13- thousand dollars in its pocket. "i hope thhy find it. i hope someone findssit and turns t in.""it's sad. his life-savings probably." goodwill says it has no reason not to believe this story and &pwill keep looking through all of its donations to try nd right the poor man's p3-thousand-dollar wrong. "we're hoping that it's ssill

there and we finddit for them." in cass the suit was already sood... the man's daughter is offering a thousand-dollar reward... if the ew owner comes forwaad with the money. straight ahead... facebook and it's issues with privacy!hhw the federal trade commission ssys... the website misled users. users.and later... don'' just visst the empire state &pbuilding... own itt find out how the iconic big apple skyscraper could soon be part of your stock portfolio! ((break 3))

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stocks edged higher tuesday on hopessthat european leaders are making prooress in getting control. the dow... ended up 32 to close at 11-thousand 555. the s and pp550... also closed nearly 12 points.it looks like americans thinn the economy is getting better. consumer

confiddnce rose sharply heading into the holiday shopping season.it's now at the highest level since since july.eecnomists haddbeen expectiig only a modest increase.home prices contiiued to fall in the third quarrer -- sinking to levels we haven't seen since 2003. s&p/case-shiller reports they declines are slowing down. - there was a nearly six percent drop in the second quarter.the facebook a slap on the wrist over privacy.the social media site hhssto submmt to 20 years of privacyyaudits..he f-t-cc says facebook mislee users into thinking private information wasn't being made public.meanwhile, tth wall facebook could be laying the groundwork to go public with a 10 billion dollars initiall public offeriig. it could take placeesometime in the pprrng.for business brief, i'm edgar treiguts. coming upp.. fake coos.. teerooizing &pbaltimore citizens...the brash way the crooks are crimes.a baltimore county man

fights for safter truck regulations after his wife was killed and his son seriously injured ii an accident.i'm megan gilliland the driving laws thattcouud ccange as a today. of hii trip to d-c today-