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  • Harford crews clean up chlorine tank leak

    Crews were called around 8:45 a.m. to the 2300 block of Willoughby Beach Road in Edgewood after getting reports of a 55-gallon tank leaking chlorine into a storm drain. Officials said the tank is in the area of a pool and Edgewood Middle School; however, the school was not affected. No injuries were ...

  • Firefighters swarm Wegmans to put out kitchen fire

    Forty firefighters from Bel Air, Aberdeen and the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company were called to the store on Wegmans Boulevard around 6:45 p.m. Crews said they found the fire in the Asian Wokery section of the kitchen area and were able to extinguish it in seconds. The county Health Department was also called in due to the fire being near food preparation. Officials said one JMVFC ...

  • Elderly couple hit by car in Parkville

    The death toll now stands at two after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Sunday, the state medical examiner's office said Monday. Both victims were elderly men from ...

  • Tornadoes wallop several states 2 killed

    The death toll now stands at two after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Sunday, the state medical examiner's office said Monday. Both victims were elderly men from ...

  • Fish Lift At Conowingo Dam To Help Restore American Shad

    HARFORD COUNTY, Md. (WJZ)--Giving fish a lift. At Conowingo Dam in Harford County, it is literally the only way to get migrating fish upstream in the Susquehanna River. Alex DeMetrick reports. Using trick currents and big hoppers, biologists move fish up several stories to clear the top of the dam, allowing the fish to swim to spawning grounds. While all fish are welcome to the ride, the ...


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Movie Review

Cul-de-sac [Blu-Ray]

Cul-de-sac [Blu-Ray]

Although Cul-de-sac was Roman Polanskis third film, it was the one he had most wanted to make since leaving Poland after his first feature Knife in the Water (1962) and it remains to this day one of his favorites. Again co-written with Gerard Brach, with whom Polanski had worke ... ...

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  • Firefighter Injured In Wegman’s Bel Air Blaze

    ABINGDON, Md. (WJZ)-- A firefighter was injured in a Sunday night fire at Wegman's in Bel Air. Fourteen pieces of fire apparatus with 40 volunteer firefighters and paramedics and four career firefighters responded to the scene at 21 Wegmans Boulevard in Abingdon. Around 6:45 pm, the fire was located in the kitchen area. Firefighters brought hoses into the storeto extinguish the fire. ...

  • Baltimore City Sergeant Sentenced For Misconduct In Office

    BALTIMORE (WJZ)-- A Baltimore City police sergeant has been sentenced for misconduct in office. Sergeant Dennis Workley was sentenced to one year in prison, all suspended, and three years of supervised probation for his use of false information to secure a search and seizure warrant for a house. On March 29, Judge John Addison Howard found Workley guilty of perjury and malfeasance for the ...

  • Woman shot in Cherry Hill on May 10 dies of injuries

    A woman shot on May 10 succumbed to her injuries late last week as detectives continue to look for a shooting suspect. On Monday, Baltimore police said Yolonda Johnson, 24, who lived in the Cherry Hill neighborhood, was pronounced dead Friday afternoon at Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where she had been hospitalized since the shooting. Police responding to a shooting on her block of 600 Cherry ...

  • Ten objects that sum up Gary Vikans life

    Some of Gary Vikan's favorite things include a pair of tickets to Woodstock, a piece of the gate guarding Graceland and a miniature replica of the Shroud of ...

  • An encore for Macklemores pro-gay Preakness Infield performance

    Consider this our encore applause for Macklemore's performance at Preakness. This weekend, the self-made Seattle rapper took the stage at the Triple Crown's second jewel and delivered a set that included his two most recognizable songs -- "Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us" -- but also the song "Same Love," in which he stands up for same-sex marriage ...

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