closing to pass along this morning.. rising star academy in the city is closed because of water damage from a burst pipe in the building.staff reports to lake clifton campus. 3 3 3 he awarded a multi-million dollar contract to a former employye.now some are critizing baltimore county s school superintendent for not accepting more offers.joe hairston is speaking out about the, now, controversial contract. something he rarely does.megan gilliland is live with a story you saw first on fox. good morning patrice,hairston is paid more than 300-thousand dollars a year to oversee the baltimore county school system.it has more than a 1-point-three billion dollar budget.but this morning, critics are questioning how he spent some of that money. money.hairston awarded a 4-million dollar contract to a georgia software company. for a student data tracking system in 2000.the company is owned by one of hairston s former employees. that he knew when he lived and worked in georgia.but, critic
is behind bars after police say he sexually abused a mentally disabled man in his ca. care. myranda stephens is live downtown where the alleged abuse occured. occured. a first grade teacher is charged with choking.. kicking.. and punching her students. students. 35-year old susan burke teaches at greencastle elementary school in silver spring. last month a boy told police he had been assaulted by burke. a total of nine children say the same thing happened to them. 3 3 he s like six years old why would you want tt choke a 6 year old child. you don t expect this to happen to your kids while you are at work. this is ridiculous. burke is on leave. she s charged with nine counts of assault. a teenager acccsed in the was fishing at fort armistead park pleadssguilty. guilty. 77-year-old james privott was beaten with a bat, robbed and carjacked back in august of 2009. today, 18-year-old zachary watson was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the hate crime. two other peo
finding phylicia, the people police are looking into. it s been nine days and still no word from a 16-year-old high school student who vanished while visiting her sister in baltimore but the search is growing more intense hour by hour. she was last seen at the reisterstown apartments. reporter: in the past 24 hours, half the homicide squad, a number of concerned people, an academy class, have all been out here searching for phylicia, but they have found nothing and it is that lack of evidence that concerns police. 16-year-old honor student phylicia barnes vanished, it seems without a trace. from the air you can see them looking near the reisterstown shopping plaza and at the reisterstown square apartments where she was last seen. we have a map of the apartments. reporter: detectives went door to door. barnes disappeared december 28th while staying at her half sister s apartment. investigators suspect foul play. there are no smoking guns. there are people of interest b
baltimore has residents on alert tonight. myranda stephens standing by live with why some of the victims are very angry with police. it is a story you are seeing first on fox tonight. myranda? well, jennifer and jeff, burglaries started to happen the week before christmas. right here in this block. along east 22nd street. neighbors say it has been one after another. and they blame police for not doing more. been a series of one right after the other. melody snow cone was the first one hit. made the discovery last month when she came home from work. so they took laptops, wii gaming system. all the remotes. snow called police but said the officer that came out was not much help. he did not do anything beyond look at the door. you know, i told him other people had keys to my house, and he assumed, oh, inside job. but two days later, burglars struck the house two doors down. they took 40-inch tv out of my front room. my son s tv. his wii. tried to break into th
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