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  • Crews battle Joppa store fire

    Firefighters responded to Anderson's Hardware Store in the 900 block of Pulaski Highway just before 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Firefighters were ordered out of the building by on-scene commanders and were forced to fight the fire from the outside. The fire also disrupted traffic on Pulaski Highway. No one has been hurt. There is no word on a ...

  • Former Baltimore City Cop Builds Full-Size Robot

    From ';Star Wars'; to ';Lost In Space,'; robots have long captured our collective imaginations. A former Baltimore cop loved robots so much as a kid, he’s now built his own to help inspire the next generation of robotics ...

  • Harford County Firefighters Battle Fire At Joppa Hardware Store

    JOPPA, Md. (WJZ) –Harford County firefighters are at the scene of a fire in Joppa. It broke out at Anderson True Value Hardware in the 900 block of Pulaski Highway. Stay ...

  • Retrial Brings Conviction In Md. Officer’s Slaying

    EASTON, Md. (AP) — The retrial of a man convicted of murdering a Hagerstown police officer has produced the same verdict as in 1976: guilty of first-degree felony murder. Talbot County Circuit Judge Broughton Earnest announced his verdict Tuesday in the retrial of 63-year-old Merle Unger Jr. Earnest also found Unger guilty of armed robbery and a handgun offense in the 1975 slaying of ...

  • Baltimore homicide reported on same block as earlier shooting

    Police can't be everywhere, but they're usually laser-focused on a city block in the immediate wake of a shooting.That made the fatal shooting of Kwane Davis, 36, in the 2600 block of Grogan Avenue on Monday night all the more brazen.Davis was shot in the chest at about 11:30 p.m., not long after commanders, patrol officers and crime scene technicians had cleared out following a double ...


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Movie Review

Willard

Willard

First-time director Glen Morgan certainly had Tim Burton on the mind when making Willard, a darkly comedic remake of the 1971 cult classic about a social misfit who befriends an army of rats and teaches them to do his bidding. Right from the gaudy opening credits sequence that features a musical score by Shirley Walker channeling Danny Elfman, Willard is right in the vein of Burtons ... ...

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  • Baltimore police struggle with vacancies increased spending

    The Baltimore Police Department is short almost one-sixth of the officers it should have as it girds for warmer weather and increased violence — prompting top brass to once again exceed their overtime budget to fill patrol cars."At the most problematic time for crime, we have a high vacancy rate," Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts told the City Council at a budget hearing ...

  • Man shot and wounded in Dundalk

    Dundalk on Tuesday afternoon and was expected to survive his injuries, Baltimore County police said. Cpl. John Wachter, a police spokesman, said police were called about 4:10 p.m. for the shooting and found the man in the 7900 block of Eastdale Road. The man was taken to a ...

  • Smaller Chesapeake dead zone forecast

    The "dead zone" that forms every summer in the Chesapeake Bay, stressing and even killing some fish, crabs and shellfish, is projected to be smaller than normal this ...

  • Climate activists launch petition challenging WBAL-TV Tony Pann

    Two climate change advocacy groups are challenging WBAL-TV and Tony Pann, one of the station's meteorologists, for Pann's stance denying that global warming is occurring. Forecast the Facts, a Berkeley, Calif.-based group focused on broadcast meteorologists who deny climate change, has teamed with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network on a petition calling on the station and Pann to ...

  • Annapolis Residents Speak Out About Rape Allegations At Naval Academy

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) –An alleged rape at the Naval Academy has got many people talking. Three football players could soon face charges of assaulting a female ...

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