. >>> the first criminal charges have been filed in a scream that cheated local schools and pta's out of hundreds or thousands of dollars. joseph gill promised but couldn't deliver. we have the latest story. >> reporter: there's a lot of open space between the hustle and bustle of baltimore and the quiet country roads of cutlersville in queen anne's county. this rural town doesn't entertain a lot of celebrity guests. >> a small community. it's a big deal to have a ravens player here. >> reporter: a ravens player ladarous west to talk to kids as part of an antibullying program. the pta president jumped at the chance to make this happen. >> the week before we took a t shirt and had it signed by all the teachers and children. >> reporter: but the thrill for the children quickly turned to heartbreak when gill called the day before the assembly saying the star player was out of town. suspicious, she made a call to other schools. >> he told the same story. i sent a letter it was a scam. >> reporter: a scam by gill. the groups have learned that the hard way, including cutlersville elementary

the pta president jumped at the chance to make it happen. >> a week before, we took her a t-shirt and we had it signed by all the children and the teachers. >> reporter: but the thrill quicklily turned to heart break when gil called the day before the assembly saying the star cornerback was out of town and couldn't make it. suspicious, she made a round of calls to other schools. >> they were telling the same story, that all of a sudden he wasn't going to be there. that following monday i sent a letter home from the pta stating that it had all been a scam. >> a so-called scam run by gil who the ravens have said has no ties to their players. more than two dozen schools and groups from across maryland have learned that the hard way including settlersville elementary unnearby centreville middle. >> was devastating. >> reporter: joseph gil's game may have caught up with him here in queen anne's county. an arrest warrant has been issued charging him with theft. >> this guy is a scam artist and this guy needs to be brought in. >> reporter: the 62-year-old from annapolis is now considered one

those schools and pta groups said gill promised them athletes but couldn't deliver. >> reporter: abc2 news was the first to tell you about criminal charges filed against joe gill. he has another charge after the sheriff heard from another school group. an additional theft charge has been filed against gill that comes after the sheriff's office heard from another pta group that claims it paid gilmore than $300 for an antibull plying group. gill has been charged with two other theft cases involving queen anne's county schools and was picked up after someone spotted his picture on tv. he was wanted by not only queen anne's' authority but the task force. groups from around the baltimore area made similar claims against joseph gill. so far, queen anne's is the only one to file criminal charges. joce sterman, abc2 news. >>> a warn has been issued for a suspect but the police are waiting to release his name until he gets out of the hospital. he was the suspect in an armed robbery on wednesday. someone spotted the car and police followed him. when police finally got the man out of the car, he

many of those schools or their ptas paid up front, but the big stars never showed upful one of the ptas on the eastern shore filed a complaint, and now the first

this is the first time ever that the california school district association and the california pta come from the same school district. we were there and made the point that san francisco was well- represented in the capital today. i do not want anybody listening or anybody in our school district to think that we are not advocating. this is a good deal for us. this is an unacceptable deal for k-12 schools. we will be working hard and mobilizing the community. now, since my guests are in the room, if i may have a point of personal privilege, i want to introduce my son, evan, who is here as a chauffeur for his grandmother. my mother came to visit us. happily, she was here during the conference. [applause] in the 19 years i've served on the school board, this is the first time she has been at a meeting here it she lives in north carolina, but she has not happened to be here when we have a regular meeting, which is why i asked her to come. thank you all for your warm reception. president mendoza: welcome to our board meeting and welcome to california and happy holidays. we have the recogniti

with many entities in the neighborhood and community members of the mission neighborhood including the pta, the health center, and various other charities and organizations. i hope that you will perceive me as the ideal candidate. >> are there any questions? thank you. we did here marquis ausby a few weeks ago however, you can come up and say a few words. >> hello, i am a patient advocate. i am also a member of students for medical cannabis protections. i have been working with the medical cannabis taskforce since i became a patient earlier this year. i started learning about the laws and regulations of medical cannabis and cannabis in general. i cannot put down a book or a sheet of paper or anything of that sort. so, i decided to start advocating for patience and getting to know all that i can and to better help the youth, the elders, the low income, the disabled, the veterans, the students. i would do anything to help them. thank you. >> i saw this in your resmae. -- resume. >> i am on the patient advocacy committee. this is the task force. i was given a death sentence due to my severity

a new charge has been filed after hearing from a pta group. they paid hundreds for gill to bring in an athlete but he couldn't deliver. dozens of local schools have made similar claims. >>> weather byes, clouds have thickened up. take a look. first, out to the west, you see a few showers towards garrett county and quite a bit of rain. it looks like a lot of this will stay to our south but as we check the radar, you can see decent weather to the south. it's down to the southern areas where you do see a little more in the way of precipitation. so we'll keep an eye on this. temperature unless the 30s and low 40s. we're going to fall through the 30s. getting colder. will the skies clear at all? will we see the sunshine as we go shopping? we'll answer that. >> thanks. >>> bradley manning, the u.s. soldier charged with releasing classified documents appeared in military court. roosevelt leftwich joins us with more of the hearing that happened in fort m.d. private first class bradley manning is accused of using unauthorized software to download infor

another pta group gave him money but did not get anything in return. the school said gill did not deliver on his promises. >>> the question today, will we see any rain tonight. wyatt is in the storm center with a look at the forecast. >>> i think we're going to stay generally dry but we are tracking some precipitation west and south of us. it's close. take a look at our satellite radar view. you can see two different areas of precipitation. if we look at where they are, one is to the west. you see wintry weather moving towards the oakland area. south of washington bringing line in places like fredericsberg, virginia. it will be a chilly one. we'll talk about how the rest of the weekend shapes up. >>> in the race to the top, maryland wins it. was announced today that maryland was one of nine states to receive early child hood funding. it will get $12 1/2 million each of the next four years to close the readiness gap. it will go towards improving early cold hood development. the state is focusing in lower income areas. the goal is to better prepare kids

at the top of our list the man accused of stealing money from dozens of local schools and ptas this fall. queen ann counties deputies joseph gill promised ravens players for anti-bullying assemblies kept the funds when he couldn't deliver. after we reported his theft charges and showed you his picture gill was arrested in aberdeen and will spends the holidays behind bars. >> did you take advantage of these people. >> reporter: tommy clack takes the number 2 spot. deserves coal in his stocking for multi-state multi-county paving operation we than covered. after rolling seniors that cost soft them tens of thousands of dollars in driveway work. a slew of criminal charges for acting as a contractor without a license. >> thank god justice finally. >> reporter: justice for those wronged by the man number 3. joseph horton. the locksmith had to face the music in 2011 he lost a civil case filed by the attorney general after overcharging customers and was ordered to pay $400,000 in damages. horton was also found guilty of criminal theft and fraud and is still waiting to hear if he'll spend part of

secondly, talk to administrators, the pta. we've all got to get involved.t something that's just going to pass by and it escalat escalates. and the worst possibility and the worst scenario is bullying that turns into suicide which is the new term bullycide. >> i used to teach high school. whenever i would call a parent to their child, i got the uniform from everybody, not my child, my child is the best. we've spent all the time talking about children who are bullied. how about those that are bullies? >> first we need to spot it. we need to confront it. we all have a responsibility to ensure that bullies aren't empowered, that we don't feed that kind of anger that then breeds violence or in the case of tragic suicides. calling a spade a spade. saying that it's wrong and having the adults and community members come around to stop it. >> and step in to find out what is that bullying ability? yes, it can be your child because we found out that kids who are bullying later on become bullied themselves. so it's interchangeable. but there is an emotional component

our labor partners and all of our parent organizations, especially parents for public schools, the pta, and new to our process this year was city partners from rec and park who participated in the discussion. there was a lot of discussion. pros and cons, back and forth, many different versions of the calendar. this seems to have been the one that most of the faults could live with. i will frame it in that perspective. i am ready to answer any questions that the commissioners may have on the calendar. president mendoza: we have won public comment. mr. kelly. >> good evening and congratulations, commissioner wynns, on your new election. i have been waiting a long time to come up and say that. this is the calendar and that came out as a consensus of all of those groups. calendar negotiations, as we know, are a mandatory subject of negotiations with the union. in the spirit of making sure that this works for everybody, both the district and the union had invited in all of the other partners in that mr. ruiz mentioned. it is significant that it is a consensus of all of those parties that ca

. >> reporter: well, joseph gill told dozens of schools and pta groups he could supply ravens players for their assemblies. they say he couldn't make it happen but kept their money. now gill is facing charges of theft. tonight at 11:00, we go to the eastern shore to hear from a small town's school that lost money in the scheme reportedly run by gill who promised to bring ladarrius webb to speak to kids at that school. she's fileded a complaint with police -- filed a complaint with police, saying he seems more like a bully himself. >> scum. scum. for anybody to take little children and take advantage, i -- scum probably isn't even a strong enough word for him. >> reporter: tonight we'll tell you which other schools were hit in this scheme, how much money they lost, and where joseph gill is now on the most wanted list. >>> in tonight's consumer list, days after reports saying gm was investigating the possibility of fire problems with the chevy volt, the ceo says the company will voluntarily buy back the vehicles from any worried customers. gm insists the cars are safe, but three fires h

meeting unlike any other pta meeting you've ever heard of. and it wasn't like big sale cookie talk. the subject was legalization and citizenship. and parents were invited to ask any questions that they had in that area. and the principal at the time, alexander, you know, gave an introduction in english and in spanish, and there were other translators there who were able to translate the conversation in many different languages. into immigration lawyers came into talk. one of them handed out a packet of cartoon drawings for the parents didn't speak english. it was called what to do in the event of an immigration raid. >> not your big sale topic? >> no. at shows like graphic novel drawings of i.c.e. agents, you know, like with dark shades and chiseled jaws shackling immigrants in their own home, and carting them away to detention centers. you saw this story in every frame. bin and another friend you saw what happened to the cartoon wise. they had -- it was really intense. part of the story grew out of that chapter. is natural to talk about it.

according to "the washington examiner," in an article there, 80% of high school ptas also support the move. >>> a fight is brewing between arlington county lawmakers and residents. the arlington county board has unanimously agreed to purchase a building near the courthouse metro and turn it into a homeless shelter. but residents say the shelter will hurt property values and introduce safety concerns into the community. "the washington examiner" quotes board members as saying the shelter is needed to get the homeless off the streets and into permanent housing. >>> police across the river in rockville, maryland will return to a homeless camp site to help the nearly dozen people who had been living there. the small community must find a new place for shelter after police raided the campsite earlier this week. for nearly seven years, the camp was under the radar of law enforcement until police came and arrested the man accused of beating his girlfriend. >> i don't feel it is correct to have us suffer because one person did something wrong. >> the homeless village is located on the hill be

i'm surrounded today by my parents in my community, my school site council, by pta, teachers, and my family. what makes a great school as people who believe in the same values and principles, and i wanted my community for pushing everything that is different in and allowing us to be celebrating here today, so thank you. [applause] >> thank you, sarah. she did not get the ipad, honey, but she did get the dinner getxc --dinner at xyz and hotel accommodation. our middle school sensible of the year is judy slump francisco middle school -- our middle school principal of the year is judy from francisco middle school. she brought have her school with her. she has inspired by her staff and students every day. if she more recently was inspired by one of our chinese citizen after being at the school for a week created a beautiful movie with beautifully drawn visuals, a perfect english with a strong and confident voice. judy, congratulations. >> thank you all for being here. it is with deep appreciation that i look out and see members of my school community, my school family, really, my own fam

transform one of the bay area's busiest roadways into an effecient traffic co >>> the pta has a grand plan to transform one of the area's busiest roadways into an efficient traffic corridor. >> the proposal includes eliminating two lanes. mark sayer explains how the lanes would supposedly speed up the commute. anna rides the bus along eel camino40 minutes each way. so she says any way to speed up the trip is good news. >> it's going to save a lot of my time. usually it would give me a chance to reach my class earlier and make more productive use of the time. >> valley transportation planners have a project in the works to improve bus, bike, and pedestrian access over a 20- mile stretch from san jose to palo alto. it's being called the grand boulevard initiative. >> the idea out there has been that this street will change over time. not what it is today, but the 1950s era cars, but more of a grand boulevard that has shopping, it has residents, it has walk walkability. >> it will cut the travel lanes from three in each direction to two. this animation provided by the vta shows the lanes

police say more than 2 dozen schools and pta groups have been scamed by gill including suddenlersville school and centerville middle. schools lost as much as 12 or $500 in this -- $1500 in the scam. >> scum. for anybody to take little children and take advantage. scum is probably not a strong enough word for him. >> reporter: now gill didn't respond to our request for a comment on this case and an attorney representing him said in a leter to the impacted schools that he felt in goodfaith cooffer the service but the relationship to agents with the players fell apart. >>> a julio the man who slashed his wife and two daughters with box cutter. a judge found the engineer not crim fallly responsible. the croft op father is ordered to a psychiatric hospital. doctors say he was working long hours at prince george's ice plant and struggling with psychiatric problems. from there he snapped. >>> a year later in a west baltimore family says they need your help finding links to an unsolved murder. they gathered remembering 15- year-old laquan campbell. his mother says someone in her neighborhood m

that following monday i sent a letter home from the pta stating that it had all been a scam. >> reporter: now gill didn't respond to our request for comment. and an attorney representing gill said in a letter to the impacked schools that he felt in good faith he could offer the service but his relationship to agents for the players fell apart. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> 6:03a west baltimore family is hoping you can help them covelet murder of a loved one. in december of 2010 he was killed. the is a-year-old was shot several times at -- 15-year-old was shot several times at pratt and payson streets. his family gathered to remember him and his mother pleaded with those in her neighborhood to please speak up if they knew anything at all. >> somebody knows something. just come forward. you can remane anonymous. just come forward because if it hits your doorstep you will want someone to come forward for your child. >> the police say this is an open and active investigation. if you have any information, call police as quickly as possible. >>> a man pleaded guilty to cutting the throats of

the pta president said she believes the list was just a ploy to get attention. >> this is a cry for helpm this child. >> some parents think that is not enough. >> some of them would like a child removed. >> of this mother hopes this community will come together and offer support. >> our first instinct is to attack. i do not think that is the right thing to do. >> school officials would not go on camera, but they tell us that school counselors and administrators are helping the student and the family. >>> are you ready for some football? the military bull is under way right now. fans have been celebrating all afternoon. we have more on be a big game under way. >> they have been having fun all afternoon. not a huge crowds, but enthusiastic. this game could turn into a big platform for d.c. and the military. it is not only a time for football fans to gather, but it is a time for the military to show what they have to offer. >> in a couple of years, we will see you coming down to pensacola? >> she brought her young cousin out here to see the helicopters and planes on display all decided d.c.

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. >> could be riéd3xmo"áya,2+spÑe pta rhj you see those night prime time games being played on the road's happened they will do whatever they can to stop it from happening again. >> reporter: one fan was unhappy with espn who broadcast the game. >> embarrassing night for the city of san francisco and candlestick. >> espn that was not nice. period. >> reporter: of course this all with news that the 49ers may be getting a new stadium in santa clara as early as 2015. if that happens they would go from playing in one of the oldest stadiums in the nfl to the newest. live in san francisco, ktvu channel 2news. >> there may not befully friday night football games next season and a couple of south bay high schools. will have to relook at its planning for nighttime games in san jose. that after a judge ruled last month that the districts environmental impact report didn't properly analyze and mitigate noise impacts that could come from construction on the tracks and fields at those two schools. >> republican presidential candidate mitt romney took aim at the president today while campaigning in n

the ptas and the general public.hey have not been able to sell this idea and studies of curfews show they don't have that much impact. >> there will be a vote next week officially. >>> just 22 shopping days left until christmas and a big sign of the season is now on display. >> the first family lit the national christmas tree last night on the ellipse. >> three, two, one! [ cheering and applause ] >> there it goes. and it's a new tree this year. the old one blew down in february. besides the national christmas tree, there are more than 50 smaller christmas trees and there will be a national menorah put up this month for hanukkah. >>> whether you have 50 trees or a few candles. we want to see them. starting monday, we're showing off our morning lights. send us a photo or video of your christmas or hanukkah display. the e-mail address is lights@wusa9.com. you can also upload them to our facebook page. be sure to include your name and where you live. 9news now returns after this. [ female announcer ] more people are usi

according to "the washington examiner" article, 80% of lie school ptas support this move. >> time for another "your money" report. jessica is off. we still have the headlines. as you scramble to find that last-minute present, it is pretty tempting to get a gift card. it is easy and convenient. there is a downside though. >> up to 19% of those cards are never redeemed. although new regulations limit some fees, you can still get burned. lesli foster tells us how to pick the gift cards very carefully. >> reporter: sure, a gift card may seem like the perfect present. >> if it is a store i go to, yes. >> i waste them, i lose them. >> "consumer reports" money advisor says it is important to think twice before giving a gift card. >> gift cards are definitely better than they used to be. new regulations have a eliminated some fees so you can't be charged if you don't use it in the first year. and cards can't expire for five years. >> with new protections in place, there are still drawbacks. >> the new rules apply to merchant and bank-issued gift cards so if you have a reloadable card or one t

get your pta together and as a group be solution oriented. math scores, how you can make it a more comfortable environment, fight the powers that want to maintain the status quo within the school. demand that people stay after school with your children even if it is outside the contract. you must be determined to get the best education out of any school that you have to send your child to. [ carrie ] i remember my very first year as a teacher, setting that goal to become a principal. but, i have to support my family, so how do i go back to school? university of phoenix made it doable. a lot of my instructors were principals in my district. i wouldn't be where i am without that degree. my name is dr. carrie buck. i helped turn an at-risk school into an award winning school, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. nice, huh? yeah. you know what else is nice is all the savings you can get on cruze and traverse over there. oh! that's my beard. [ chuckles ] it's amazing. ♪ [ male announcer ] this holiday, chevy's g

schools all across the country and ptas are reaching out to our military children. serving their neighbors and their communities all over this country in your honor. so i want you to know that this nation's support doesn't end as this war ends. not by a long shot. we're going to keep on doing this. we have so much more work to do. we're going to keep finding new ways to serve all of you as well as you have served us. and the man leading the way is standing right here. [ cheers ] [ applause ] >> he is fighting for you and your families every single day. he's helped more than half million veterans and military family members go to college through the post-9/11 g.i. bill. he's taken unprecedented steps to improve mental health care. he's cut taxes for businesses that hire a veteran or a wounded warrior. and he has kept his promise to responsibly bring you home from iraq. so please join me in welcoming someone who is your strongest advocate, someone who shows his support for our military not only in words but in deeds, my husband, our president, and your commander-in-ch

she became miss pta. the suv-driving, baseball-toting supermom. >> her sister, heather, marveled at jennifer's ability to connect with people in ways others could not. >> she was very going, a great listener. she was an amazing listener. >> jennifer connected so well with people of all ages, she was hired as a part-time preschool teacher at her church. her family took bart in as one of their own. >> we loved bart corbin. he came into the family very quickly. he did a lot of traveling with us. vacations. he spent most of his weekends with us. >> bart was very bright and could be a lot of fun. >> bart is a very funny person. he's got a very quick wit, and people, i think, are drawn to that. if you, you know, crack on him, he has a crack that's five times better than yours immediately. he thinks very fast, and he's very funny. >> but now all that was a distant memory. jennifer's family felt unimaginable grief because the way jennifer died was almost as painful as the loss itself. her older son was the one to

with the pta is not interested in the truth.hey're interested in what can be verified with reliable sources. >> as creator and editor william deeply explains the ins and outs of libya. >> the idea is that a newspaper is -- you know, has not counter editorial layers. even use that phrase. that is a phrase that bloggers

these aren't pta moms making a few extra bucks.en it all. armed robberies, drug deals and violent crimes. on this day driving his normal route, he witnesses another scary scene. >> i notice there's this group of black males surrounding this black female prostitute, and they're trying to force her into a car. >> a kidnapping. and unbelievably, it's happening right in front of him. >> and so i'm literally driving, 911 in one hand, camera in the other, and i'm steering with my knees, trying to get the evidence i need. and really, all that i can remember is them pushing the girl in, shutting the door, and then another guy diving in the back window to try to keep her down inside the car. >> bates knows he needs to do something. so he tries to get their attention. >> and so i bumped their vehicle with mine, bumped it rather forcefully with my vehicle. and they opened up the door and threw the girl out and took off. >> battered, bruised and bleeding. the woman staggers to brian's car, with a message. >> thank you, thank you, thank you. an

one night they hosted a pta meeting unlike any other you ever heard of. it was -- the subject was legalization and citizenship. parents were invited to ask any question they had in that area. the principal at the time, alexander, gave an introduction in english and spanish and other translators who were able to translate the conversation in many different languages. one hand out a package of cartoons, it was called what to do in the event of an immigration raid. and it showed graphic novel drawings with dark shades and chiseled jaws shackling immigrants in their own homes and carting them away to detention centers. you saw this in every frame and then another we saw what happened and was cartoon tears off their -- it was really intends. definitely something grew out of that chapter. it was natural to talk about it. >> so you were able to -- >> the dream -- talked a little bit about the piece of legislation that wasn't passed -- citizenship for undocumented students before the age of 16. we allow them to get federal financial agents and college. 15% of sen

schools all across the country and ptas are reaching out to our military children, and individuals areving their neighbors in their communities all over this country in your honor. so i want you to know that this nation's support doesn't end as this war ends, not by a longshot. we're going to keep on doing this. we have so much more work to do. we're going to keep finding new ways to serve all of you as well as you have served us. and the man leading the way is standing right here. [cheers and applause] he is fighting for you and your families every single day. he helps more than half a million veterans and military family members go to college through the post 9/11 g.i. bill. he has taken unprecedented steps to improve mental health care. he has cut taxes for businesses that higher a veteran or wounded warrior. and he has kept his promise to responsibly bring you home from iraq. so police join me in welcoming someone who is your strongest advocate, someone who shows his support for our military not only in words but in deeds, my husband, our president, and your commander-in-chief, bar