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3 3 in just a few hours... governor martin o'malley will ttis comes after the maryland .- general assembly passed tte measure early this morning. porning.the bill allows a sixth casino and table games at all casinos.megan gilliland is here with more on why some say it's a bad idea. 3good morning guys,we talked with a lot of lawmakers in the past couple of hours... those who oppose this bill tell us it's unfair... because it calls for tax breaks for casino operators... while marylanders earning more than are paying more as a resulttof the last sppcial session. session.22:14:27year after year we're paying that

pe're giving that break to casino operators it'' adding insult to injury we just raised the people's taxes a month a ago and now we're giving tax breaks to the millios millionairesbut those who generage tax revenue and jobss and they won out.the house of delegatesspassed the bill 71-58 last night...the senate voted early this morning... passing it by a vote of 32-14. the governor is execttd to sign his gambling bill at 10 o'clock this morning.after that... it's up to you... the voter to decide in november if gambling should be expanded. also... last night... the house did give final approval to a revised bill that affects owners of pit bulls.it overturns that court of appeals decisson declaring pit bulls inherently dangerous. while animal advocates worry it could prompt landlords to tell their tenants to get rid pf their dogs or move out. suppprttrs say it's a

the senate still needs to take a final vote on that measure. i'm megan gilliland, fox45 morning neww. a harford county minister is ddad...and his family blames a sheriff's deputy now...., they're suing. mary tompkins and hee children filed a 22-million dollar lawsuit against the harrord county sheriff's office... and one of itts deputies... in what they're calling the wrongful death of reverand bob tompkins. according to the suit, a neighbor found tompkins collapsed on the front yard of his home last novembee....the neighbor, while on the phone with 9-1-1... started performing c-p-r.... but the family says when a deputy arrived, he ordered the neighbor to back off and wait for the ambulance. (mr. ellin) "our experts ho have reviewed the medical certificate have advised ttat, had cpr continued, ttat rev. tompkins would be with us here " today.." a spokesperson from the harford county sheriff's office aaen't commenting.

some cherry hill residents are suing a private security firm... for what they call "illegal policing" in south bal. baltimore.on tuesday... attorney william murphy announced the 25-million dollar lawsuit at a news conference with the plainniffs. ttey claim private security guards were working with baltimore police officers... to illegally arrest residents under the guise of enforcing trespass laws. "i've seen them down the street from my block involved with officers doing house raids, i've seen them harass, i've seen them mace a bunch of school girls- girls."///butt to//"iq: i see why the community dont come out... oq: while i'm in the community helping young men for bbing parked somewhere that i'm not parked illegal." illegal."the guards are employed by a clevelandd sscurity firm called "tenable protective services." the company had no comment.

traffic could soon be the least of worries for d-c commut. pommuters.a high- ranking republican congressman wants a heariig on a commuter tax.the tax could raise 1-point-2 district.it would tax anybody working in the district... and livvng outside washington. nearly a quarter of million marylanders fit that description. eric mitchell, commuter: "you're five minutes into virginia. you're five minutes into maryland. i don't know--it's kind of ridiculous for people who live outside of dc to have to pay money just to come five minutes--a ive minute commute--to where you wook or whatever." whatever."the hearing would not take place until fter the general election.marrland congressman elijah cummings has come out against any &pcommuter tax. in cecil county... a propane tanker loses control.. control..slamming into a condo in port depooit. it happened around 1 o'clock, tuesday afternoon.these pictures show the tanker upsiie down... wedged under the building. when we got to the scene... we saw a truck to pump the propne

off the flipped tanker. officials are saying it could take up to 14 hours to remove all propane. more than 60-thousand-dollars worth of computers and pprsonal items are stolen from the home of the late apple cc- jobs..nd police believe... this is the man responsible... 33-year-old kariem mcfarlin. police say the house where jobs' wife and children &plive... was being renovated a the time.they don't believe family... or even knew who liied there beforehhnd. mcfarlin later wrote an apology letterrto jobs' widoo. youucould be eligible for a refund... if you bbught a popular children's vitamin.the marketer of disney and marvvl hero-themed vitamins for children... is refunding more than two-million dollars... after admitting their product contains only a fraction of theenutritional value printed on on the packaging. the pottles feature characters like disney princesses, winnie &pthe pooh, nemo and spider-man they were sold at a number of major retailers and online for

betwwen 4 and 8-dollars. if you think you may have bought a box between may of 2008 and september of 2010... you can file a claim on the f-t-c's website unnil october 12th. baltimore's gearing up for another school year. year.city school c-e-o andras alonso met with principals and administrators at morgan state university tuesday. he laid out goals for the upcoming school year... including for a fifth straight year. but alonso says the main focus for teachers and parents will be preparing seniors to graduate. "the most important thing always is to graduate the kids and graduate them reedy to succeed, so for us the most important measure is, are we improving in the number of kids graduating, are we improving in the number of kids we're retaining in schools" schools"another big push for city schools is cutting down on he number of suspensions and students who are chronically absent. hail, wind, rain... and

powerful lightning...that's what parts of area saw, last n. &pwith those stormm.. or if mor are on the way. way. 3 ((break 1)) sight... out of nashville.two

planes collide on the runway... after one of thee breaks loose from the tug while being towed on a ramp. ramp.luckily... no passengers wereeonboard either plane at the time.the federal aviation administration is now investigating the incident. ((2-shot toss to weather))

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ethical... or not? baltimore's top officials... getting free tickets... to the biggest concerts.we examine that in our wastewatch... cover story... next. ((bump out)) why don't we play a game of hide and seek? right now? yeah go hide. one, two... [ son ] come and find me! three! [ male announcer ] bite-sized chicken's grown up. new kfc bites. freshly hand-breaded in the colonel's original recipe. try 10 bites with an 8 piece meal for $19.99. today tastes so good. we need to look for a new van. yeah. i just don't know where to start.

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ggven to top city officials, like the mayor.but little is known about the body that decides if it's okay for elected officials to get free jay-z tickets.jeff barnd takes a closer look at the process and found some glitches. in a small back room on the 6th floor of city hall12:22:45 - 50"the fact is tthat these totally went to people, it might be a list"big decisions are made about what city officals and employees,...can and can't doit's where the body known as the ethics ethics code. laws meant to keep conlficts of interest from affecting how the city does business. and prevent nd abuse of tax dollars.12:05:41 "so i think that there are other issues on ethics that once they hit the mayor's office, how these tickets are allocated." today the debate is over tickets. free passes to jay z and beyonce concerts,.given to

the mayor and council members by a contractor running the city owned 1st maainer arena the questiin today...is okay for top city officials to accept free tickets to sold out concerts.and not let anyone know about..a debate that goes to the heart of what "it's not a miiues of city :37 property"in the case of the tickets... the board debates if the freebies consitutute a gift from a firm doing business with the cityeven though the mayor says are simply a perk that comes with the office.14:11:54 i think when your outlet and other are focusing on practice that's been going on since 88 it tells me one thing.. that crime is gone down,but the ethics board has doubtsaand finally decidesato investigatea&over some misues of city property" not a 12:28:18"i think the ticket is an issue enough peoplehave questions about that it ought to be looked at"it's the

process of enforcing the city ethics code that receives little scrutiny until a big ticket issue like this, but is the ethics board doing it's &pjob? is the process that is supposed to weed out conflicts of interest...workinglu peirson, head of ethics board, says it is...in partone problem.. is the 1900 city employees who fill out these forms...make lots of mistakes 12:30:36"this summer we undertook a review of every board during a comprehesive reviewhundreds of mistakes, including over half the forms...which didn't even have the correct date. and that's not the only issue. vital information city employees need to disclose conflcits.. like an official list of comapnies doing business with the city....is hard to come by. 12:29:09"we have had a very diffcult time and have be unable to this date to obtain a complete and accurate lsit of who does business with the clarity as to who is in fact

required to fill out the form in the first place.12:29:27we have had diffuclty finding out from the mmyor's office findinggout who is suppsoed to filllout the forms"issues that don't suprise some city officials who have tried to too cumbersome12:30:22 say is "apparently we don't beliebve in transparecny"councilman carl stokes wanted to put all this information...online...nn get id of paper.a measure that failed to gain support at city hall.12:28:18:"we don't want to put online what we've already filled on a public form. i don't know why?"but streamling the process, and making the ethics code work says pierson, will take time. &p"it's a problem we inherited. it hhs been an ongoing problem" a process she says, the board intenns to fix.12:28:18 "we take it very seriousloy" joylepola fox 45 news at ten. the birds' bats were booming at camden yards... &pyards...the highlights next

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