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fatty foods could be bad for more than your diet. for months we veaf been following paver tommy clack. he's accused of overcharging customers. find out what's next for tommy clack. most of us could probably use some extra cash. guess what, could be a scam. we'll explain. thank you for joining us on this monday night here in baltimore this. wasn't too bad. we had to scrape a little bit to get our engines moving. let's check had -- in with wyatt everhart. still some wintry weather south of baltimore. most of this has been through d.c. into the late afternoon and early evening, southern anne arundel county, annapolis and
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the eastern shore towards easton, st. michaels and queen anne's. you see up through graysonville getting the snow, light snow through bowie. air temperatures have been dropping. we're at the freezing mark. we're one above the freezing mark at bwi. we've seenñixdñiñrçó other repos surrounding the county. içó espr 1ñxdxdñi ozsx!gm1ñ açólp lightlp cúislush coating andñii alsow3xe reducedt(88tor&ity açiñiçóc y]ud outi] there tonight south of baltimore. we'll talk more about how things shape up tomorrow and into the weekend coming up. new tonight baltimore county police need your help trying to find his woman, rosemary
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bachmann. she was last seen on new year's eve day. she used her m&t bank card. a utah doctor will be heading back to maryland to face charges on a late term botched aboampleghts dr. nicola s riley is charged. no word on when riley will be brought back to maryland. when he didn't show up for court, a judge issued a bench warrant for an annapolis man accused of running a huge paving scheme. clack was arrested near orlando related to a paving scam there. while in jail clack was served
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with a local warrant. the anne arundel state's attorney is getting the okay to extradite clack back to maryland but florida authorities might want him first. they say clack paveed the driveway of a 92-year-old woman without her permission and went to her bank to try to get $8500. pape meap police raided an apartment building and officers were surprised to find an annapolis all der man. police confiscated marijuana and other drugs but alderman kenny kirby was not charged. in that incident three people were arrested after drugs were found. the raid was carried out because of complaints. q when the áit)qáball team tips off tonightiápá savannahfái state, coach todd bozemanw3 will notçó bexdçó in sight. ciññ onjf saturday
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ñrxde1ñiñi himñiñi s spefntle some -- suspension. some said he punched larry bastfield. >> they said they saw something else. they're not exactly sure what they saw. what we're hearing is it looked like -- and the university, again, wants to make clear -- our president has said he will not tolerate, cannot tolerate any kind of physical abuse, be it minor or major with anyone. >> so a three-person panel will investigate. in his four years at morgan state, bozeman has led the team to the tournament while being
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named the miacc coach. it's been a year since baltimore's state's attorney gregg bernstein took over. he says he started several new initiatives over the last year that have helped the public safety. a major investigations unit targets repeat offenders. and the model assigns people to the areas. bernstein said there's been progress in the number of convictions and longer sentences but there's still plenty left to do. >> there's still much work to be done. i would say we're off to a good start. we're going to build on this great start and there by improve public safety and the quality of
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life of baltimorew3 citizens. they will lobr increasingñrx,çóxdçiçóçów3xd . &ctsq allñr right. we haveñiñr a consumer alert fou to make you safer. some popular over-the-counter medicines are being recalled. they solve excedrin and -- involve excedrin and no doz, gas x and bufferin are also included. novartis said the move follows customer complaints about mislabeled and broken pills. it hasn't caused serious health problems but the company is urging people to destroy or return unused pills. before you know it, tax season will be here. when you file, you may find fewer breaks. that's because lawmakers have lay loud more than 50 business
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and individual tax breaks to expire. among them are the mortgage insurance, higher education tuition and school teacher tax deduction. even though the breaks have expired, lawmakers could choose to extend them when they come back from their winter break. starting today christmas trees will be recycle by baltimore county. they will not be picked new alleys. you have until saturday january 14. they will collect just the tree itself. all right, now to our democracy 2012 coverage. in hopes of boosting voter turnout, some groups are calling on the city to change its election cycle. the coalition wants the election to be in line with the statewide cycle. right now the city holds local
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>> reporter: she was a well liked, well loved person. on january 5th someone stabbed her to death and may have set the house on fire. they were going door to don't to find out what was going on. they want to find out if people saw any little thing or something they thought was ordinary to give them a call. i'll show you the flyer they were putting out. they have a picture of mrs. hines on the cover. they passed out hundreds of these flyers, trying to get information about the case. if you have information about the case, to find out who killed
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an 84-year-old woman a person who has lived in this community for many, many years, they want answers. you can call metro crime stoppers. to. . jf quarterbackñe flaccoxdok teamingñrxdxd up wite /uán society gettingñ)i youxd to a;eyq animn need. it shows flack co-- flacco holding an adorable puppy. also part of this campaign, the humane society is giving away a football jer circumstance a ravens dog t shirt. stop by the shelter or their facebook page and you can find a link on our website. we want to see you showing off
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your purple pride. just upload them to the wmar facebook page. we want you to join abc2 for our special on the ravens playoff push before the game at m&t bank stadium. i will be there with scott and wyatt. it all starts at 9:00, game day, on sunday. the bells rang for miss mary who turns 100 today. she grew up in halethorpe surrounded by her niece and great grandniece. look how emotional she got. it wasn't until the ceo of st.
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agnes came. she wheeled her own wheelchair up to tell the story. >> i quit. >> she was a nurse for over 40 years. you can see how she managed to make it to 100 -- she laughs. happy birthday, miss mary. somebody you don't know is out spending your money. find out txqñi scammers are doing, living offñi y$m%xdñr mi se]bez tellxd youxd what itñi ig topp[$÷e1çó out atçó 30ñiçó deg. our forecast is 33. no two-degree weather. we had the wintry weather, d.c.,
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you may be all shopped out but what if you have someone else's money top -- to spend. joce sterman has the details in this woke's scam alert. >> reporter: the holiday shopping blitz has come and gone. the idea of hitting stores doesn't sound as appealing, but spending someone else's dough is something someone else would consider. >> this is a modification.
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they have been chosen to receive a $100 coupon to be used. >> reporter: english ji barnett with the better business bureau said it's an offer that comes by postcard. it claims you can use the $100 at stores you can trust. just call the toll free number and collect. >> the catch is you will pay $3.99 for shipping. >> reporter: it's a recurring charge that could go on months after months. mjdti u9 w3jf credit card numbers& the÷dñi scammersxd becausexd itó postcards comeñiñr from. another. >> reporter: joce sterman, abc2 news. >> so when the bbb called the
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toll-free number, the person offered additional difficulty cards with additional shipping frees. although free shopping does sound like had dream, this one will cost you in the long run. let's start off with maryland's most powerful radar. we're tracking this. it came through at all the wrong time. that's where most of the headaches were, reduced visibility, schushy coat -- slushy coating. d.c. cleared out. we have wintry weather south of severna park but day from sonville, see it tensville -- stephensville, the elevated road
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surfaces, you need to drive with extra care. you can see nothing behind this. current temperature now at bwi 34 degrees. we're two above freezing. winds are calm and visibility has been reduced in the last hour or so. i wanted to show you this. our air temperatures around the freezing mark or just below. at freezing in easton. 34 in mt. airy. we're one to two degrees above freezing. as skies clear we can see icy ip &c% çó thisñi evening. p &c getting a real good round of snows here and thank goodness the road temps in alexandria were above freezing but enough
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to gift slushy coat. as you look from winchester to ocean city, we're all in the low to mid-30s but some spots are just below as we saw locally. the good news we were at 40 earlier today. that made the snow showers have a tougher time sticking to the roads in particular. as we go in the overnight visibility will improve. right now it's tough to see in spots, especiallien the eastern -- especially on the eastern shore and kent island. we'll be left with cloudy sky. cloud also sky. temps will drop. wet areas could ice up. then once tomorrow gets here no trouble at all. we'll see temperatures rocket as warm air is poised to the south. temperatures will shoot up above
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50. blue skies. we clear out, maybe an icy spot and into the day on wednesday we'll look for a new system. that's going to be a rain maker. tonight watching for light snow ending, icy spots. tomorrow 52, mostly sunny. tomorrow night clear and mid-30s. i want to show you the seven-day forecast. you're finding temperatures running above average and cooler as we go into the weekend. game day sunday looks seasonable. parents know children will try anything when this comes to eating. others are picky eaters. children are parings to plate -- partial to plates that include vrt and color. kids liked it when their kids looked like a picture and they also preferred plates that had the most colors and a variety of foods. you may want to skip the
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french fries. a new scud di out of clinical investigation shows highy1 fat foodsçó can damage areas inxd tm brain. afterxdñrñrçó three days of eath m1p'imals beganjf toçów3n< damage. still, they aren't sure if the results would be the same for us humans. coming up at 11:00, the holiday shopping season may be over threw there's still some incredible deals. abc2 is working with you. a major break in a cold case from six years ago. police made an arrest. what comes next. we'll have those stories and more coming up tonight at 11:00.
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