. >> barry simms is live in bel- air. this deal is about teacher pensions? >> yes. in the past it has been the state's responsibility but governor o'malley is proposing that the state and local governments should have a share. >> growing concerns about handling emergencies, worrying about his deputies, their duties, and teacher pensions. >> i have cut all i can in my operating expenses. i have nothing left to cut. but personnel. >> this is looming in the background as they continue to focus on his proposal to shift the cost of teacher pensions from the state to county governments. exclaiming you're balancing a budget by shifting the cost to someone else is disingenuous. "sharing the teacher retirement costs is among the tough choices in the budget. state lawmakers do not approve the plan, harford county officials say they will have to pay $9.80 million. from the county perspective, this is because of economic development in natural resources. school superintendent and other officials are also in opposition worrying about losing educational gains and having to cut te

barry simms will have details on the apology tonight on 11 news at 6:00 and 11:00. testimony started again this morning in the murder trial of george huguely, but it ended

barry simms is live with the latest. >> according to police, the mother told them that she could the fetus in the dumpster. she said it was stillborn. the memorial is small. the message, may god hold you in his arms, little one. someone placed this sympathetic tribute near this dumpster were summoned -- where a fetus was found. >> is pretty horrible. i don't understand it. >> those in the 900 block of sablewood word say that word spread -- of sablewood road said the word spread quickly on facebook. an adult female contacted baltimore county police claiming she had put the fetus there. baltimore county police, harford county sheriff's deputies, and bellaire police were directed by woman who said she had given birth earlier that day to an infant that was stillborn, to check the trash bin. they found a package, a plastic bag containing the fetus. >> police will not say much more about the unidentified female. they said the birth happened at the home of a relative of the woman. they are not releasing where. they took the woman to upper chesapeake medical center for treatment. know, it is

barry simms has the latest on the investigation and the suspect the police have in custody. >> maryland state police say the trooper was trying to make a traffic stop. the suspect took off and became a chase. the windshield of this unmarked state police car shows how close a wooden fence posts came to seriously injuring senior trooper jon sawa. >> it was aimed at his head. our information initially is that his hand may have helped deflect it. it may have struck the radar unit in the vehicle. in some providential way, that fence post just missed his head. obviously, if it had not, the situation would be more different today. he was very fortunate. >> now, 22-year-old john nussle v is charged with assault and destruction of property. what is left of his vehicle sits in the police impound. just after midnight friday morning, the trooper was on patrol near stockton road in shot up. the state police say that nussle's vehicle came behind him flashing his lights. the trooper pulled to the side and a car pulled beside him. >> the driver looked at the trooper, revved his engine, and proceeded do

i'm barry simms with the details had. >> maryland homeowners in danger of foreclosure are wasting no time when about a foreclosure settlement between the maryland attorney general and five of the biggest mortgage servicers. hundreds of distressed homeowners are calling the hot wind see how they can benefit. barry simms as live in baltimore with more. >> we are on the 3400 blocked of the street in northwest baltimore. this home is for sale and is a foreclosure. the state hopes this settlement means the were signs like this and more retention of homes. the phones, computers, the people, none of this existed one week ago. now the state of the maryland attorney general's office as this as the location of a hot line to help maryland homeowners. >> we have there will be fewer people foreclosed upon, at your house is in the pool and the economy can start a turnaround. >> and announced this multistate settlement with wells fargo, bank of america, citigroup, and ally, maryland is receiving $690 million. >> most of it will go to help but printable reductions, refinancing, helping people stay i

i'm barry simms. >> interesting story. the 35 degrees on tv hill. what one woman gave the lead to a conviction. >> baltimore police are investigating a complaint about a new policy. i will explain. >> there are a few sprinkles out there this morning. >> we will take a look to your morning commute. morning commute. there's an accident in bel denny's new sizzlin' skillets are here for a limited time. so strike while the iron's hot. starting at $4.99. only at denny's. america's diner is always open. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. >> good morning, everybody. welcome back to 11 news today. i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thank you for joining us this morning. it is valentine's day so folks may have some plans. >> i think it will be fine. there could be some sprinkles out there. 34 and dry at the airport. there's a chance for some rain showers. here it is by popular demand. i will keep showing it over and over again. 30% chance for a rain shower today. >> i think you have out-cheesed yourself. >> if you're not lis

i'm barry simms. >> 36 degrees on tv hill. still ahead, your answers to our water cooler question of the day. >> major delays at the key bridge. >> if you sprinkles out there today. we have a better chance for rain and maybe some snow in the seven-day forecast. mostly cloudy skies but dry. mostly cloudy skies but dry. working in public relations is not for the faint of heart. i love what i do, i enjoy the work, but it's a very hectic pace. strayer university met my needs in terms of my family, my work-life balance. the fact that leading companies are hiring strayer graduates is impressive, but it's not surprising. these companies want us so badly. i'm felicia blow, and i earned my mba from strayer university. >> welcome back to 11 news today. a woman who gave a pregnant 16- year-old the abortion pill has been sentenced to home detention. pled guilty to reckless endangerment by giving the teenager a dose of ru-486 that she got on line. teenager was 20 weeks along at the time. a deadly shooting in north baltimore. investigators

barry simms has been in bel air all day. what is the birth mother telling police? >> police here tell us the woman told them that she actually did put the fetus in the dumpster. she claims that it was stillborn. out of sympathy and concern, someone leaves a bouquet of flowers along with this message, "may god hold you in his arms, little one." police found a fetus in this dumpster tuesday evening. >> we are all trying to figure out what is going on. >> minutes after police arrived, word of the investigation spread on facebook. detectives went to the dumpster after an adult female contacted baltimore county police, claiming she had put the fee is there. baltimore county police and harford county sheriff's deputies were directed by a woman that said she had given birth earlier that day to an infant that was stillborn and that we should check trash bin. we found a plastic bag containing the fetus. >> is so weird, why you would put it in a dumpster. >> police think an autopsy will result other questions progress the woman is very cooperative and indicated the baby was

barry simms will have details on the apology tonight on 11 news at 6:00 and 11:00. testimony started again this morning in the murder trial of george huguely, but it ended fairly quickly. yesterday's proceedings were postponed because a defense attorney called out sick. the trial continues today despite the defense's objections. when the defense attorney was too sick to interview a witness, the judge let the jury go until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. the trial might continue through the weekend. lowell melser is in charlottesville for the trial and tweeting to the proceedings. you can keep up with the trial on an extended coverage section on wbaltv.com. >> now, you're 11 insta-weather- plus forecast with john collins. >> a developing storm in south texas is not put together yet. here is the water vapor satellite imagery. this jet controls for the cold air goes. the southern jet is the one that is developing storm is going to get caught up in. it will drag out storm and help it develop to the atlantic coast line somewhere in the carolinas. that is where the questions develop.

our reporter barry simms and joins us with the details. >> investigators believe that she said of the murder to hide another crime. the former dental assistant made a horrible choice and is now seeing the impact of that choice. just before a judge in anne arundel county circuit court found her guilty of murder, chante hickman said she could not change would happen. she accepted a plea agreement that gave her a life prison sentence. >> she did that with the expectation that the sentence would allow her one day to return to her family. it was a sad case for all. >> she wept and her voice quivered as she apologize to the family of the doctor. the dentist was her boss. he became a victim. he was killed at his glen burnie office in september 2006. " she realized beyond the penalties she has to pay their maybe a spiritual one that we before as well. she felt bad about her involvement. >> she said the family, "i am sorry for my choices, i did not think about a lot of things. i have district law, his family and mine. i made a terrible choice." that choice included steely and cashing 28 kasia

barry simms reporting live from annapolis for wbal-tv 11 news. >> 813-year-old --a 13-year-old who was struck by a vehicle, his parents tell us he was drinking alcoholic drink before he was picked up by his stepfather. >> you can see a lot of people had gathered at the location where michael lost his life. they have made immemorial to michael. -- they have made a memorial to michael. >> i have lost the only son and i am ever going to have because they wanted to party. it is really sad. i do not want to see another family go through this. >> she is talking about her 13- year-old son, michael true law, who died in a tragic accident on saturday night. he was riding in a car driven by his step fire. -- he was riding in a car driven by his stepfather. he fell out of the car and was struck by another vehicle. >> he drank one of the energy drinks with alcohol. the kids seem to think it is ok. he needed to vomit. he opened the door and fell out. he was run over. it could have been any one of these children out here. >> a substance-abuse experts says this one can of four loco is equivalent to f

barry simms explains. >> picture early returns to the place that held her captive more than five decades ago -- shirley returns. she was indicted and arrested. her crime? getting pregnant by a black man. now at age 75, shirley and her 76-year-old husband john visit the women's jail and reflect on how their relationship has endured. >> i know it has been a long time. >> pictures help tell the story of their 53-year marriage. back in 1956, hair and clothing styles were a lot different, and so were social attitudes about interracial couples. the indictment claims shirley and howard, who was a white woman, unlawfully suffered and permitted herself to be begot with child by a negro. the penalties for it -- the penalty she faced, 18 months of five years in prison. >> i was not about to deny that i was the father of the baby. >> john was a 25-year-old musician performing with the ban call the honey boys. today, shirley still ask questions. >> how this all came about, and why they pursued me and not other people, and things like that. i just could never get answers. >> shirley spent one night be

barry simms joins us live with more. i found the story so fascinating, a lot of our viewers did as well? >> they did, the reaction has been tremendous, and some of that surprising. an antiquated and on just what impact it them. asked for an apology from the state. back in 1956, surely was indicted and tossed into jail for getting pregnant by a black man. the baby was placed in an orphanage for nearly two years. now the organization that ran the orphanage, contacted them sing or touched by the store. >> they invited us over for dinner. we took a tour of the building. >> for them to go through what they went through is phenomenal. it is off the charts, how they were able to preserve their love for one another. >> they have been married more than 50 years and have three children. tonight, why the sisters want to reconnect and what they're doing to help the family learn more about their son's early years at the orphanage. >>> closing arguments could begin as early as tomorrow in the murder trial of former uva across player y

as barry simms explains, the situation could have been much worse. >> the picture shows how close a wooden fence post came at injurying the trooper. >> it was aimed at the trooper's head. our investigation is that his hand may have helped deflect that. it may have struck the radar unit in the vehicle. but in some providential way it just missed his head. obviously, if it did not, the situation would have been very, very different. >> now john noppa is charged with first-degree assault. he could have other charges. what's left of his chevy sits in the police compound. after midnight the trooper was on patrol on mountain road near stockton road in jo trooper, refed his engine. the route ended when the police cruiser hit a wooden fence at old joppa road. sheriff's deputies found the car and pursued it. court records in 2010 he plead guilty for driving under the influence. in 2008, he pled guilty for driving with a suspended investigation. trooper sala joined the force in 1988. his father was killed in the line of duty in 1987. he was hit in a car accident. from that, this young man decided to

barry simms has more. >> the phones, the computers, the people. none of this existed here a week ago, but now the space in the maryland attorney attorney's office is the hotline to help maryland home owners. >> we hope there will be fewer people foreclosed upon, and the economy can start to turn around. >> doug gansler is part of a multieye state settlement with j.p.morgan and citibank and bank of america. >> most money will go to help people with principle reduction to help keep people in their homes. >> since the announcement, the phone bank has been buzzing. >> this new settlement went into play. the caller was asking how it reached this agreement. it was reached following robo signing when bank employees signed off on millions of documents without investigating. now they are noticing a rise in foreclosures. >> things have gotten worse. one of the things that happened is the banks have been holding off on some foreclosures, so there has been an uptick recently in the number of notices and intent to foreclose. >> the people calling in now are in

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barry simms has the latest. >> two candidates are vying for the vacant position open on the anne arundelouncil. we're hearing the council could make a decision tomorrow. some residents want a particular councilman to note they do not like what he said during the process. civil-rights and community activists are calling on anne arundel county citizens to turn out for the tuesday council meeting. >> for the purpose of watching democracy in action. >> they want to determine the board is to force -- diverse and show opposition to slurs. what they do understand there is a reason. >> when will it end. >> you think we would be

barry simms, wbal tv 11 news. >>> it spurred three days of fierce controversy, the susan g. komen foundation cutting funding to the planned parenthood breast cancer screening. >> that decision has been reversed. there was a political firestorm that has everybody talking. >> the face of pink turned bright red after the decision. now the leader in breast cancer awareness, the susan g. komen foundation has changed course. babbitt just goes to show you when women speak out, women win. >> the founder apologize, that the organization had been distressed that changes made to funding criteria were done for political reasons. they were not. the executive director of the susan g. komen denver affiliate. it >> i hope to get past the craziness of the past few days. it took the focus away from our mission. >> a congressional committee is investigating planned parenthood to find out if it is using federal money to pay for abortions. komen said it was the investigation that prompted it to terminate funding. that sparked protests and donations are pouring in. new york city mayor michael blo

barry simms is live at city police headquarters with the latest on that investigation. >> witnesses tell baltimore city police that the suspect wore a dark cap and jeans. police say he approached the victim and fired multiple times. police and paramedics rushed to the waverly shopping center in east baltimore, but the injuries were too severe. 22-year-old jerry isaac died. >> the victim collapsed but the door of the dollar store. >> it was just before 6:00 monday evening when another man approached is it outside the family dollar stores and fired. -- another man approached store andide the fired. >> police say prior to the gunfire, a fight broke out and move to the parking lot of the waverly shopping center. some witnesses claim isaac was involved in a brawl. james hall says isaac was trying to end the dispute. >> five minutes ago, we were just down there talking. he said i am breaking up a fight because one of the brothers got into law altercation. >> a short time later, the shots rang out. police were back on the scene tuesday as the investigation continues. there was broken glass for

>> barry simms altered understand that this is a -- very simple. intrusion. there is no great value gained in forcing a provider to pay for something that is a rather small expenditure when it comes to healthcare, but to force them to pay for it just because they can. [unintelligible] >> forcing insurance companies to begin with -- [unintelligible] >> a lot people say this is a war on religion. what would you do to fight the war on religion? >> this is the government trying to use its power. [unintelligible] >> we are getting everyone out. [unintelligible] [unintelligible] >> one final question, what is it like to be twitter-bombed? did you know you're being twitter-bob? -- twitter-bombed? [unintelligible] >> thank you, senator. >> we have to get to the back of the room. all the way to the back. [unintelligible] >> guys, everybody has to move back. [unintelligible] >> who was the photographer? >> there you go. all right. >> you have to move over. >> people have their own cameras? is this your camera? >> these are some of your people? >> i am from v