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a case of identity theft in baltimore city.the sussect... a city housing puthhrity employee.how she allegedly stole personal information. googling... bad for your health?what yyu're doing wrong on the search engine that could lead to acttal physical symptoms. and... o-m-g.you'd plan.the unbelievable number - of ttmes the average teen texts every day. 3- - inner harbor 3
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maps-fiber-back to maps 3 an employee for the city's housing authority... now faces charges of identity theft. she's accused of stealiig a resident's social security number and personal information.megan gilliland is here with a story you saw first f fox. good morning patrice,officials with baltimore's housing authority tell us they're taking the charges seriously. as result... the sholanda lowe has resigned... and is peaded to court. court.but the ictims is stuck with a bii bill to pay. tarshia tanner used to live at the muccullough apartments... a public housing complex.
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when she moved out, she tried ssttiig up a b-g-e account at her nee apartment and was told she already had an account in her name... ith an outstanding bill of more than 15-hundred bucks. she didn't recognize the address... so she went knocking onnthe ddor. she ffund out thattthe tenant who created the utility account... was an employee at mccullough.that employee... sholandd lowe... had access to all of tanner's residential and personal information. 22:28:28"i feel like i've been raped, that's how i feel, and "the case is currently in the iispector generalls office and she is reviewing tte casee once the facts of that case appropriaaeeaction."l take action."again owe has since resigned and is now facing charges of fraud and identity theft.tanner says she also opened two credit caads under her name. housing officials say they've referred tanner to legaa aid... and offered to write a
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letter to b-gge. but for now... she's still tuck with that big bill... a bill she thinks the housing athority shoulddpay.i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning news. police are still on the hunt for a iller in southeast baltimore.this was the scene... on east pratt street ... near paaterson high schhol. police arrived around 8:30 in the streeet.. shot in the chest. right now... there are no suspects or motive. 3 the weekend proved to be the city's most violent so far this year. yeer.there were 8 shootings.... two fatal. fatal. the first happened on street in east baltimore. the victim... a 54 year old man. police say as a result hey've increased atrols in the area. but that's done little to get people to talk. police are shhotings are related.f the - 11:43:17 were tryyng tt go through each individual
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case... some may be related. some may not. it's just touuh rihg now to putteverything collectively together. detectives are looking to see if there'' commonality. we did &phave two homicides over the weekend a total of 8 shootings and were really trying hard to figure out what the motives in these cases are 43:35 police are also looking at people wwo were recentll be getting back into the city's drug game as possible suspects. are yyu fighting back against crime?how are you doing it?we &pwant to know.tell us what &pyou're doing in your community... to clean up the streets.call 410-662-1456. another baltimore city police a result of a massive invovled kick -backs and bribes. former city officer jerry diggs, jr. was sentenced to 30 mmnths in prison and ordered restitution... for referring drivers involved in accidents to a ocal ttwing company... in exchange for cash. he also admitted to filing false
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accident reports to collect insurance money..iggs is the second officer to be sentencee in the cass. at least dozen other officers are currentlyy awaiting sentencing oo have pled guilty. 3 maryland's sales ttx on items you buy "on-line" has been rejected by a house committee. committee.last week, the senate approvee the new tax as delegates in the house argued tte so-called "amazon" tx would be difficult to collect. dellgates also seem to be lissening to how voters feel about more taxes. "we know that 96% of marylanders according to a they are taxee enoogh , so at what point does that state government says they're taxes enough, maybe we needdto re-think how we do this, maybe we really do need tt so ssme of those cuts." cuts."the house is expected to take a final vote oo the tell lawmakers what you think about the things áyouá finn in
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the budget.its linked to our pebsite... foxxbaltimore dot com slash newslinks newslinksand the contact information for the governor... house speaker...and senate president on our website... fox baltimore dot com slash your voice 3 the gloves are definitely off... between rick santorum and mitt rooney. as greg black explains... thhy've been going head to head in the leed-up to today's illinois primary. primaryy theeromney campaign sent an e- mail to reporters with a clip of santorum saying he doesn't care about the unemployment rate.it's part of a comment santorum made earlier monday. santorum later clarified.of course i care about tte unemployment rate, i want the uneeployment rate to go down, but i'm saying my candidacy doesn't hinge on whether the unemployment rate goes uppand down..our candidacy is about something that transcends things, about freeddm.and they butted heaas over business experience.i am someone experienced in tte economy. i am not an economic lightweight. presiddnt obama is. we are not going to be
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successful in replacing an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight. i heard governor romney ere called me an economic lightweight ecause i wasn't a wall street financier like hee &pwas.do you think thattis the kind of experrence we need? someone who is goinn to takee and look after, as he did, his friends on wall street and bail them out at the expense of main street america?"the romney caapaign took another swipe at santorum, posting a web ad showing santoruu endorsing himmfor president in 2008.you must vote fformmtt romney.and romney savored sunddy's win in puerto rico. these pancakes are something else i tell you. (laughter) these pancakes are about as larre as my win in puerto rico last ight i must admit.i'' greg black reporting. the latest oll bbythe ameeican reseaach group shows romnee with a double digit lead over santorum in the sttte.the poll found 44- percenn of likelyyg-o-p primary votersswould choose
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romney... compared to 30- percent for santorum.there are 54 delegates at stake. fox45 is your source for vote 2012. go to our website fox baltimore dot com and click on the vote 2012 tab oo the left of your screee.you'll find compleee coverage... of tte race for the white house. rally nats natsstudents at florida a-and-m university held a rally monday... in support of trayvon martin.the 17-year-old was hot and killed last month... by neighborhood watch captain, georgeezimmerman. martin had gone to the store and was returning to his the shooting happenedd zimmerman called 9---1 to report a sussicious pprson... and was told not to confront him.but heetold police he shot martin... who was not aamed... in self-defense.many in the community are now calling onn police to aarest zimmerman. police have not chargeddhim... saying there are no grounds to
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disprove his story. timessare touuh... for some workers at the prah winfrey network.the cable channel has announced it's layyng off 30 people as part of a restructuring of its operationsswinfrey says it was difficult to make the decision to cut jobs... but it needed to be done for the network's long term success.just last week... the network canceled rosie o'donnell's talk shoo because offlackluster ratings. googling your symptoms when you're sick... is bad for your nnw report... pubbished in "u-s-a today."research shows many ppoole are making health message boards... their first stop forrinformation....before visitingga doctor.doctors say the important thing is not to self-diagnose or use unreliable sites. preparing for end times? right....be paaing this loannba. back.how much it costs to bby
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gains monday.the dow picked up nearly seven points.tte nasdaq slightly higher.apple shareholders will soon get a bigger piece of the company's 97-point-six-billion-dollar pie...that's how much cash apple has from selling its wildly popular ipads, ipods, iphones and computers.apple quarterly dividend of two- dollars and 65 ceets per share, beginning this summer. monday afternoon apple annoonced sales oo its new ipad have now topped three million.the two co-owners of the new york mets have agreed to pay 162-million-dollars as part of aacourt settlement in the berrie madoff ponzi scam. that's just over half of what the trustee in charge of recovering assees stolen wanted.had the case gone to tried tt prove the mets owners ignored clues that madoff was operating ponzi scheme.the mets owners had invested in madoff's wall street irm. e-readers, tablets and some othee gadgets may soon be
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alllwed to power up on planes. &p the federal aviation admiiistration is rrvvewing the ban on some electronics while in flight...but it's unlikely that martphones will win approval.foo business brieff i'm andrew speener. -----enn-----cnn.script coming up... she was born in 19-20...and is showing no signs of slowing doon. down.6]"i came in just fter world war one" one"the áathleticá awards she's winning whhn she's not playing cards... cards...a case of identity theft in baltimore city.the suspect... a city housing authority employee.how shh allegedly stole personal çia÷
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