a bottle of soda could soon cost you more.how much the mayor wwnts tt raise the bottle tax and why? pi looked straighh ahead and i saw a gun pointing at a group offfour guys sstting at a table. a teen.. guns down his fellow studenns in ohio.the act of heroism that may have prevented ore deaths. 15:53 "you''e in the middle of something. the phone rings. you pick it up. hello....!" hello....!" andd.. phones ringing off the hook. the loopholes in the law allowing telemarketers... to keep alling. 3 3 3

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3 bbltimore's city council will consider big increase to the bootle tax.mayor stephanii rawlings blake wants to raise with more on why she says it's - necessary. good morning patrice,this was a big issue last year... whhn

the city approved a 2 ceet tax... and that wws a compromise from the orrinal 4 cent proposal.but now, the mayor wants more. more.she says raising the bottle tax -- by 150-percent - ps the onlyyway to secure funding for improvements to city schools.but everage distributors and supermarket owners feel it's unfair... they say he 2-cent tax has already hit their profits hard. they believe the mayor is targeting them... a retaliation against them for fighting the tax so hard last year. "personnlly i feel it is... depend on." "at the end of the day, we need evenue on the table so we can leverage those fundd... improve out schooo system." pchools... is a concern.most cooncil members agree they are in bad shape... but some &ppooned out part of the reaso

is becaase students keep trashing them. 3for now... the bottle tax bill was refered to a committee.it will likely comm up for vote next month.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. lawmakers in annapolis are coming up with ideas... for how to reddce the one billion dollar budggt deficit. but one of the optionss.. could result some homeownerr.tax deductions would be capped at 90-percent for inidividuall earning 100- thousand dollars a year. and deductions would be capped at 80-perccnt for those earning 200--houuand. those deductions pnclude mortgage interest and charitable dooations. (homeowner) "i think the state is looking for money and thhs particular avenue would and i think the state has o elsewhere."a spokeswoman for &pgovernor o'malley says anyone earning under 100-thousand wwuld notbb affected.and those earning more than 100-thousand

would still get back 90- you can now get . more out of your tax return.a new law makes it easier for families to manage money. money. by using áform 5--8á ...taxpayers can now directly deposit portions of their refunds inno ank accounts.staae comptroller peter franchot atttnded the pcommunity assistance networká to encourage families to use it to help them savv. "its an effort on behalf of all of s to splittthat refund and put 2000 or more on a safe account for a raiiy day" day"the goal of the program is to help marylanders to stabilizz their finances. towson... now faces... in attempted murder charges. charges.a shattered window &premiidssneighbors of what hhppened here sunday mmrning. police say local actor george stover....came home to find a man in his home.the 65 year old was shottbuttstill managed

to get out of the house and call pplice. hours later bradford holup... a career criminal who haa bben arrested charges bbrglary theft and n assault wwth intent to murddr. the whole ordeal weighs homeowwers here. 11:18:34 i walk my dog every day and since the burglarres in the neighborhood especially the one most recently the out really trying to look at - my neighbors homes and ook at be out of the ordinary. ight pince 1982.... holup has spent lees than three years outside prison walls.. 3 yoo helped fight back...with suspects we featured on "fugitiie files" files"on friday, we featured 4 sex offenders who ffiled to register.one of them was 25 year old christopher horak

police had been looking for him for a month....but an about 11 that night...led fox45 has teamed up with the most popular crime maaping website on the inttrnet. "spotcrime" tracks criminal activityyin your neighborhood. you can also get emails when crime happens.sign up bb going to our website... fox- baltimore dot com...and click on "spotcrime" in the ""ot topics" sectton at the top of the ssreen classes are cancellld across chardon, ohio this morniig... just a day after a student opened fire in a high school ccfeteria.rrports say the suspect in hat shooting will bback haa more on how the community is coping with thh traggdy. 3 "we got there. everyone's thinking it's a normallmmnday and there's a uyywith a gun. i mean monday's don't get any worse than this."a small oio town is trying to come to grips with the bloodshed that left ooe student dead and four

identify the student as ttj lane.they say, without speaking a word, lane shot at table of students in the chardon high school cafeteria. "i looked straight ahead and i saw a gun pointing at a group of four guys shooting at a table. he was about two feet awwy frommhim...//butt to//...he was aiming right down at ttem. he wasn't shooting around the cafeteria at all."nate mueller says he was one of the students hit by a bullet.it grazed him on the ear."his first shot made me look. his second shot, i watched him take, which hit somebody behind me. his third shot hit me as i was turning away."soon afterwards, the suspect was arrested.students say it was a teacher who chased him out of the school.i saw coach hall, like right when i was going under the table, he was runnnng towards him, and then there was-- there was silence. there & asn't any shots fir

got up and i just ran as fast as i couud outside to the soccer field across the street." prayer vigils were held last night or the victims of the shooting.as for the uspect, an attorney for his family told wkyc t-v in and asked for privacy as they, "try to understand how such a and while they mourn this d terrible loss for their community."i'm greg black, reporting. plags thrrughout the county ann at the ohio statehouse will be flown half-staff today... in honor of the daniel parmertor.the suspect is scheduled to appear in court this afternoon. 3 all eyes are on arizona and michigan today... as cast their primary votes. votersswill have to decideewho should be nominated... to take on presidenttobama in the presidential election. election.the average of recent polls shows the race is essentially tied between mitt

&promney nd rick santorum. romney holds a one-and-a- half while ron paul and newt gingrich trail the leaders by more than 15 points. of the most socially nning one conservative campaigns in decades... but romney is using a line of attack on him... that he normally reserves for president bama. romney says: "senator santorum is a nice guy but he's never had a job in the private sector. sector.santorum says: "all reportees in the back they say, ohhthere's santorum talking about social issues again. no, i'm talking about freedom. " time is running out... for maryland residents to register tt vote... or to change party affiliation ahead of the 2012 until march 133h at 9 o'clock p-m... to do so.that's also the deadline to request a polling place change. to be residents must commlete a voter registration application and hand deliver or mail it to a local board of elections. the primary electioo will e held on tuesday, april third. to see all of our stories

house... go to fox-baltimore &pdot com... and click on the vote 2012 icon in the news features section.all of thh stories on our website aae free. of black history month, e end - thousands of baltimmreans have a chance to secure their place in history. joel d. smith is live at the maryland phstoriial society to show us how challenging it can be to chronicle the past....... even good morning joel d. 3

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3 still to come... the do not call list.... ignored. you are bye...."'t know who bye...." the holes in the law that allow those telemarketers to keep dialing your house. houseeand... from business man... to hero.how this man is changing lives... thousands of miles from baltimore. ((bump out)) ((break 2)) [ male announcer ] for some reason those five food groups sound a whole lot better

when you put them in a taco shell instead of a pyramid. old el paso. when you gotta have mexican. fantastic! pro-gresso ] they fit! okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans...fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. can i have the definition? swapportunity: the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a yoplait light. can you use it in a sentence? mmm. swapping a 300 calorie donut for this 110 calorie strawberry shortcake is a good swapportunity. that's not a real word. oh haha it's real. [ female announcer ] delicious, creamy, yoplait light. over 30 flavors each around 100 calories. do the swap today. a baltimore businessman is

hanging up his suit and heading to a remote jungle.as kathleen cairns tells us ..... he's a man on a mission. mission. "some of this stuff..." (keep shot up to cover next track) preparations are underway.. "forr20 years iive been a finnessy is going from from balancing books.. to following.. just one book. "you kkow we are called too serve and so i'm serving" and so he's heading ssuth:"i'm going to nicaragua for the next ten days. going to the deee parts of a third world country and going to serve people." and this is not his first trip...(nats flipping through album) says : "yesssss" finnessy has aatually bben on his one man crusade there.. "their biggest neee is food" &phis goal is to help the childree, so he seeks out those in need. "victor had

a hernia he needed repaired. " the priietag to save victors lifee "and the boy was able to have the operation he needed its pretty amazing.. " heartbreaking stories... of those in need,. "and the children live in this trash every day..."on his first trip two years agoohe mmet three young sisters... only ne.. is still alive. "didnt have medicine thats what they needed."he is fueled by his own spiritual drive.. but needs funds for supplies. "i'm willing to go...will you help""ann money raised this week eveey single dollar will go to feeding ro helping kids who need some sort of medical care.. while i am there., he see's it as an opportunity ministrr. proving essentials and sometimes.. smiles.. "these are toys... laugh......."("this is just handing thingssout for kids) in howard co kc fox 45 newssat 10 learn more about fiinessy and his mission work ii baltiiore and around the world.

log onto fox baltimore dot com slash newslinks. straight ahead... a cow.. on the loose!what it took to finally wrangle her ... and get her back in her pen. pen.and next... just how much nickel- and- diming customers... cost some of the nation'' biggest banks. ((break 3)) 3 oh will you grab us some yoplait?

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you keep your receipts in plastic baggies? what are your monthly seriously? [ announcer ] get it done and get it off your mind with quickbooks. organize your small business finances all in one place. quickbooks, guaranteed easy or your money back. learn more at quickbooks.com. rising oil prices continue to big bankssfind that nickel and diming their customers doesn't pay off. edgar treiguts has more in today's usiness brief. - stocks gave up modest gains in the final few minutes of trading on monday. the dow slippeddone point, once again failing to close above the 13- thousand level.the nasdaq and s and p 500 both both edged slightly higher. the number of americans signing contracts to buy previousll-owned homes jumped last month.a national

association of realtor's index shows pending sales jumped by two-percent... reachinggitss highest level since april 2010. the trade group says atest numbers signal the housing market is headed toward a recovery.the national average for a gallon of gas rose another penny-per-gallon, monday. this marks the twentieth straight day gas prices have climbed.triple-a reports the national average is now three--seventy a gallon. all the penny pinching at big banks is costing them.. &paccording to a j-d power and associate survey, large banks lost around 10 percent of their customers last year, &pwhile small banks and credit unions only losttonn percent of their clients...and piikedd up many who left those big baaks. customers reeooted switchiig because of higher bank ffes and poor customer serviceefor businees brief, i'm edgar treiguts. coming up... go to jail.. get aa i-pod?the reason behind a new rogram... that gives m-p-3 players to inm. &pinmates.a bottle of soda coul

soon cost you more.i'm megan gilliland, how mucc the mayor wants to raise the bottle tax and why? why? wow,

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