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map fiber map 3 a student is caught with a taser at a southwest baltimore school. as a result, all of his classmates are met with police and metal detectors at the front door. joel d. smith is live at the school now, where parents are relieved no one was hurt... but still far from satisfied with how the whole thing is being handled.

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a distuubing ccse of animal cruelty out of baltimore county... where a man faces charges for tossing a pet balcony. doctors say "louie" is doing remarkably well now.he's walking... after suffering serious, life-threatening head and spinal injuries. baltimore county police say gary wallace junior... threw the ddg about 50-feet from a 23-foot balcony. it

happened at an owings mills townhouse sunday. investigators say... a woman saw wallace throw something from the balcony... she investigated and discoveree the yorkie... then called police. neighbors say they're horrified by what happened. 3 "he's a horrible person. if he could do that to a little dog, god only knows what he could do to a perron if he really, you know, was upset eno" enough." wallace is in jail .... on a 250-thousand dollars bond. a harford ccunty teen is denied bail in the shooting deeth of his father. 16 year old robert richardson the third appeared wednesday on closed circuit television in a bel air courtroom.richardson's half sister and her mother ... laura dunivant... were also in court.dunivant was involved in a 16 year long relationship with the victim. she described the relationship as verbally and physically abusive.the judge denied bail citing a flight risk and danger to the community.a preliminary

hearing is set for the 17th of this month.... and the family says they hope richardson's defense involves an insanity plea. a disabled man is listed in critical condition... at shock trauma this mmrning... after his wheelchair is put in the path of a speeding train. train.it happened last night in downtown baatimore... at the saratoga street subway station. rescue crews pulled a man and his wheelchair out from under the train.the man was awake as emergency crews rushed him to the hospital. .there were dozens of witnesses to the "a man in a wheel chair actually fell on the train tracks and went under the train.... i am hoping he lives" lives"investigators are working to figure out how the wheelchair ended up on the tracks. two people face assault charges after police say pointing a toy gun at a woman in westminster.maryland state troopers say a woman was driving on route 97 wednesday when a passenger ii the car in

front of her leaned out the window and pointed what appeared to be a rifle in her direction.the womaa called police... nd troopers stopped theecar.inside... they found an áairsoftá gun that resembled an assault rifle. twenty-three-year-old todd 17-year-old are now charged with assault and reckless endangerment. 3 3 the president of penn state university gets an earful from a crowd of alumni... during a townhall meeting in pittsburgh. pittsburgh.on wednesday... roughly 6-hundred people gathered... to express their anger over how the school handled the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal.many people also expressed their outrage... over the firing of head coach joe paterno. what you did to joe peterno was unconciosable.and i feel that as a university we turned our back on joe paternoit seems to me the board of trustees should step down and a new created. created. other meetings are planned in suburban philadelphia nd new york.

a mississippi judge is forbiding the release of any more prisoners... pardoned by outgoing governor haley barbour.the former governor approved full pardons... for 199 people.14 of them... are convicted murderers.the state's attorney general argues the move violates mississippi's constitution.a court hearing on the matter is scheduled for later this month. michelle obama is fighting back... over a new book that criticizes the firrt family. family.the book... titled "the obamas"... hit store shelves last tuesday.it portrays the first lady as a loving mom, a private confidante of president obama... and an occasional thorn in the side of the president's staff. on wednesday....she sat down with c-b-s... to set the record straight. "we have never had a cross wwrd. i mean, i don't have conversations with my husband's staff. i don't go to the meetings. our staffs work together really well, if there's communication that needs to happen it happens

staffs."mrs. obama also spoke out about an alleged incident... with former press secretary robert gibbs. it was reported that mrs. obama told the áfrenchá first laay that living in the white house was "hell." mrs. obama denied that conversation ever happened... and was upset with gibbs for not pushing harder to correct the record... saying she felt neglected by him.gibbs later reached his boiling point... cursing about the incident in public.since the book's release... gibbs has issued an apology. the new batman movie... titled "the dark knight rises"... doesn't open until late july. but already... ticcets are going on sale.and in some places... they're sold out!the tickets are on sale through the online retailer "fandango"... which admits it's unusual for them to go on sale this far in advance. coming up on the early edition... quota questions... at one police department in mar. maryland...6:28::3"they really erode the public trust" trust"find out where the

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is a follow up to a story you saw first on fox.should police officers be required to write a certain number of tickets perrhour?is that even legal? an internal memo rom the howard county police department seemed to suggest officers are subject to quotas. jeff abell shows us where those orders came from... from......and the grant money that caused them to think about it in the first place. place. 6:28::3"they really erode the

public trust"if you get pulled over in howard coonty and end up in here.is it because you commited a crime?or were just &pin the wrong place at the wrong time?22:42:52"it's not what police are upposed to be abbut"that's the question at the heart of a controversy over allegations howard county police were being ordered to write a set number of tickets per hour.theyre called quotas. in this memo circulated to howard county officers participating in a federally funded drunk drinking initiative a troubling directive.write 2-4 ddi citations per hour..or else 04:23:41"they told the officers you no longer have discretion, you have to write 2 to 4 citations an hour"a precisely worded memo that some say is forcing officers to pull over people who have done nothing wronga&.it's also a tactic that prompted a howard county judge to toss all charges against a motorist facing dui chargesa1:00:05

"what these types of quotas do is encourage officers to fabricarte certain charges, and it's the innocent perosn found had she twice the legal - limit of alcohol in her blood. 06:42:20'we don't have quotas" william mcmahon, is clear, there are william mcmahon, polcie chief howard county polcie chief william mcmahon, is clear, there are no quotas, he says the memo was 3 misinterpretedthe numbers mentioned in the document simply guidelines to insure the county complies with the requirements of a federal grant.06:45:00"the grant was dependent upon being successful to keep that grant funding"06:44:53"the directive was to go out and look for enforcement opportunities so we asked for a copy grant to see for ourselvesturns out there is nothing in writing...just conversation. howard county officials now telling us the quotas were based on discussion between county employees who manage the grant. so we even dug deeper aad askkd the national highway traffic safety

administration which manages the grant if they indeed required quotas.]there answer? no way. in this email they say "there is no federal or state mandate that requires the howard county police department to issue a certain "police are a limited resources"and that's with good reason says david rocah of the maryland aclu.taking away officer descretion often leads to waste."59:43"if an officer is spending his or her time for trivial offenses, it means they're not time spenjt looking for serious offenses." it's an argument that union officials say resonates with the officers too.06:29:30"the officers on the street are opposed to quotas"still for now, howard county police say if they pull you over.... 06:47:26"we generally don't have problems in this details achieving those numbers.just trust us.06:45:26"they don't reflect the policy or the disposition of this agency of setting quotas for traffic

enforcement of any other type department" in this police coming up the ravens are heading into this weekends game in great shape...but find out why the texans... can't say the same thing. ((break 3)) 3 bruce cunningham

3 coming up in our 6 o'clock hour... casey anthony's mental health doctors are speaking out... find out the informmtion she reveals about her daughter... caylee's father... who has never