3 he was shot more thann20 times by his fellow officers. baltimore city police officer william torbit died that night. now... one year later... city council members are trying to again.megan gilliland is here with more on the change they're calling for. good morning patrice,yeeterday marked one year since officer torbit was fatally shot.on the anniversary... a city council mmmber announced... he wants an investigation into how citt police officers are trained... trained...so that this never happens again.this is pooice surveillance video that captures officer torbit's final momentssit was a chaotic scene... torbit was in plainclothes when hissfellow officers opened fire on him during a disturbance at at the select lounge. councilman brandon scott says legislation has been introduced to make sure police are properly

trained in areas such as crowd control. something he says was a problem the night of torbit's death. "crowd control was not part of the training, obviously when you're talking about ann incident about a club, that should have been included, we want to see if those recommendations were followed up on by the police department" department"while the citt's state's attorney found no wrong doing on the part of the four uniformed officers... an independent review board did find that police had a lack of overall manngemenn thattnight.megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. 3 3 baltimore city police want your help fighting back against crime... they need information to help find the killer of an 84- year-old woman whose body was &pfound in her burned home. home.the murder of retired elementary school principal, mary hines... known affectionally by neighbors as "miss mary"... haasrocked the community... someone stabbee hines multiple times... and then her home went up in flames last thursday. this morning

clues.they're hopeful ásomeoneá saw ásomethingá.. and will come forward witt any information. (mr. mayfield/neighbor) caught. and it's ridiculous that somebody would do this to her.." her.."(maj. russell) "somebody needs to pick up a phone, somebody needs to call us..." fox45 teams up with the most popular crime-mapping website. spotcrime tracks criminal activity in your neighborhood... and will send you emails when crime happens. go to fox baltimore dot come to sign up...click on spotcrime... in the hot topics section near the top of the screen. a laurel man is charged with trying to help a terrorist grou. 24-year-old craig baxam attempted to provide material support to the terrorist militia group al-shabaab.baxam ... a oomer u-s soldier ... served in iraq and korea before leaving the army last

july. he's due in court tomorrow... for a detention hearing. youth violence is drastically lower than it was five years ago.at a news conference at ccty hall, yesteeday... it was announced... juvenile shootings are down 67 percent compared to five years ago.the youuh homicide rate is also down, significantly.the mayor also announced the city's juvenile murder rate has been cut in half. (mayor)"together we have reduced juv crime by nearly 50 percent.. and shootings by 70 percent since 2007. several city wide programs aimed at reducing youth for the change. ng credited - the city's top prosecutor wants to reduce jail time for carrying small amounts of marij. marijuana...the proposal will be on the agenda for the city state's attorney... greg bernstein...during the legislative ssssion in annapolis.berstein says the state should reduce the maximum sentence so law enforrement can focus on more serious crime. < "we found in exploring the

data... that very, very few people are actually incarcerated for these small amounts oo marijuana." > < "it is a bad message to send to children. the only good message is to drug dealers. that wanna have their pot."> pot.">bernstein says he'll push for morr options this year for incarceration... using community resources ... that may prevent offenders from committing repeated crimes. wwnning money from your fantasy football league... could soon be legal...if a lawmaker as his way. way. maryland is one state whhch bans fantasy league players to win cash. but baltimore county delegate.... john olszewski has a bill in annapolis to lift that ban. 3(olszewssi) "this is a quick, easy fix for something that quite frankly thousands if not tens of thousands of marylanders enjoy and we're just giviig them the same oppor" opportunity." olszewski blames outdated and confusing laws.e-s-p-n ... c-b-s sports and other companies hosting

fantasy leagues an cash payouts to maryland players. in just one week... tim tebow has managed to break not one... but two sports records. the first... for the fasttst scoring overtime... during his game against the steelers sunday.and second... for the most sports tweets per second. twitter is reporting that 9- thoosand 4-hundred and 20 references were made oo the social networking site... per ásecond.á a new york women is out of a job today... accused of faking her daughher's death. and investigators say... it was all part of a scheme to extend her vacation.a phony death certificate she used to excuse her time off... foiled the plan.turns out the foots on the document were all different... and upon further investigation... investigators found out the certificate number actually belonged to aa man who died in 2005. the woman has pleaded guilty tt forgery. 3 3 we're used to hearing

ray lewis deliver inspirational words before games.... but now the ravens are looking for someone younger to do tte same thing. the team is collecting playoff letters of encouragement from children ttday. and joel d. smith is live at one of the rop-off locations in towson with some of the best letters right now. good morning joel d. 3 &p 3

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that took 22 hours of preparing. preparing. song nats 3 natswalt thompson... who orks as a photographer and filmmaker... proposed to his llngtime girllriend... using legos.he spent hours making this film... uuing 26-hundred posed photographs.luckily for him... all his effort paid off. she said yes. coming up on the early edition... smokers potentially face áanotherá new tax... tax... 15:14:07 &p"potentially it could shut us" smokescreen... or where the money's really going going 3 ((break 1)) ((bump in)) 3

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3 as lawmakers gear up for what should be a very taxing for new sources of revenue are being met with skepticism. especially from one group that may face an extra tax on their product of choice.they're urging lawmakers to look at the facts... before you tax. tax. 3 15:14:07"potentially it could shut us down"when state legislators convene in annapolis this weeka&businessee are ppeparinn to fight new taxes.

one new proposal on the table...a pricey new tax on cigars being touted by anti- smoking advocates..40:35:55"we want to make it 66 percent which would be comparable to the $2 tax on cigarettes"a tax that some argue is the key to fighting new trend. kids smoking and buying flavored cigars.04:35:09"kids, while they are smokinggless cigarettes, are smoking more cigars"others however, warn it's simply another misguided attempt to change behavior at the expense of small businesses 15:13:40"i think out of than there really is" impact our business because it would drive customers to other states"but the debate is prompting questions if this new tax...is just another smoke screenconerns that cash collected from smokers and tabacco companies in the past...wasn't spent as initially advertised04:35:09 "what we haven't done is fully funded our tobacco prevention program with that settlement spends very little of the d -

hundreds of millions collected from tobacco companies ...or from new cigarette taxes...on smoking cessation.our state ranked just 34th in the country in 2011 on funding programs designed to help people quit.. a report from the campaign for tobacco free kids shows of the almost half a billion dollars raked in last year.... only a praction - just 4-million dollars - went to programs for smokees.14:47:00"cleary funding"a costly mistake some say in a state where smoking related illness costs taxpayers 2 billion dollars a year.14:43:11"i know for example we've had difficulty paying for the quit line because we haven't had the advertising dollaas"15:09:52 "the smoking cessation programs that are supposed to come from the other tax i voted against were never used for those purposes"state delegate pat mcdonough says its similar to the current &pdilemma facing legislators

seeking a 15 cent innrease in the state gas tax.thht money would be used to refill the transportation trust fund... after lawmakers spent more than a billion transportation dollars on other projects... like fixing oles in the state billion dollars over the 8 year period, and since they stole the money., instead of in courtroom they are going to tell the victims, the tapers, they have to pay it back with a tax increased"yet even with smoking advocates argue the state has been successful helping people break the habit. 14:37:22"we're actually doing some really good work here in the stateaadult smoking depending on which survey is down 17-19 percent"which is why they say more is needed. 14:38:38"we still have a significant amount of smoking in the igh schools"a tab that might end up on the doorsteps of smoke shops... and ultimately... maryland smokers. 13:26:36"i don't see

a reason to raise ti, it's pretty high right now" supporters say the extra tax on cigars will be introduced in the state senate first. coming up todd bozeman suspended at morgan state...the altercation with his own player that led to his ban...next in sports.

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