tonight. a glen burnie man is behind bars tonight accused of threatening to carry out a mass shooting at the child support enforceeent office in annapolis. annapolii. keith daniels, live where police made the arrest and where we caught up with the suspect's wife... keith. keith. karen... we're live outside the glen mar apartments on glen mar road near crain highway...... police stormed the suspect's apartment in building 450 at about 2-30 this morning..... and tonnght.. he's locked up.. 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3- 3 3 3 anne arundel county police say james armstead made that phone call to the child support office in annapolis tuesday..... a conversation laced with threats to kill employees and himself........a "batman-style shooting," they say, reminiscent of colorado's movie massacre last month. police, armed with a search warrant, arrested armstead at his home at the glen mar apartments in glen burnie, early friday morning.... it's news that's stunned neighbors. (nicole/neighbor) "i'm amazed that anybody would aatually do that especially with what happened in colorado and everything and all of the deaths and everything. it's just ccazy." armstead is charged with telephone misuse and threatening to injure a state official. a ssarch of his home, turned up no weapons, but police saa they found evidence that armstead was trying to buy an ak-47 riflee but krystal aamstead, the armstead is in jail tonight.. on a 60-thousand dollar bond. live in glen burnie, keith daniels, fox 45 news at ten. a man wanted on a warrant in baltimore..... is shot and killed by police in howard coun. county.crime & justice reporter joy lepola is here now, with more on the suspect... suspect.... who police say had threatened his girlfriend at gunpoint just hours earlier police in riverdale park, maryland are accused of firing a police officer......after he blew the whistle... on a speed camera scandal scandalthis ticket has the signature of corporal clay alford on it.thing is, he was on vacation at the time. thousands of tickets have his signature on them... and he says he didn't sign them.he sued the department.days after he filed the suit... alford says he was suspended....and told to keep quiet... or he'd be fired. "he was not comfortable with peopleesigning in under his name and citations being issued under his name that he had not reviewed," the mayor and the police department are not commenting...in 2011... riverdale park made nearly 2-million dollars from speed camera citations...that's a third of the town's budget expanded gambling in maryland...is one stepcloser to reality. that follows a vote in the state senatein day two of the specialsession. john rydell was in annapolis tonight when the votes were cas. cast.... (rydell) "it was a very long day...senators gavae their final approval((nats))for most lawmakers...approvinn live table games like blackjack and poker...was an easy sell.but the propsect of building another casino...in prince george's county...eether at a racetrack...or at the new national harbor. some are still upset that the bill calls for lowering thestate's take on gambling proceeds....which means more money for casino owners. opponents...say that's a tough sell.... to their constituents. (brochin) "how on earth could then come back and give multi-millionaires a tax break. how could you do that.?" but supporttrs say exxanded gambling will envetuaaly generate an extra 200-million dollars a year...and thaa means more jobs.(madaleno) "we have the opportunity....and table games.""28-14"and with several votes tospare...the senate gives its final approval.in the end...some view more gambling... as a better revenue generator...than raising taxes. (jennings) "i'm always against raising taxes, i think this is the better way to beat the taxing, it's if you want to call it a voluntary tax, people can decide whetter or not they're going to pay this." (rydell) "but the battle over expanded gambling is far from over....in annapolis, john rydell, fox 45 news at ten." if the gambling bill isapproved byythe house...it still has to go beforethe voters in november'selection. the senate has also approved a bill that addresses the issue of pit bulls. the measure would overturn a court of appreals decision that declares all pit bulls inherently dangerous. this bill would make all dog owners equally liable for the actions of their pets.but that compromise worries some lawmakers. (pipkin) "i want to make sure that the people that care for animals....not constructive to a lot of pet owners across the " state."the house will take up the bill on monday. and that briigs us to our question of the day... should all dog owners face the same liability for the actions of their pets? pets? a lot of people on our facebook page believe no breed should be singled out. if you'd like to join the debate just go facebook-ddt-com-slash- fox- baltimore. dooens of citizens came together tonight to protest recreation centers slated to close in baltimore city. protesters call it a symbolic funeral march and prayer vigil to mourn the closing of a number of west baltimore recreation ccnters. today was the last day that many of the centers will be opened. the ásave our recs...save our cityá coalition say they refuse to see the centers close without a fight.and are hoping government officials do something about it. "when you take away the recreation centers there's nothing to fall back on. this is where we develope the culture and the extracurricular talents that have been taken out of schools when your taking this away and the educations not good and she's not doing anything about it than thats just an aweful si" sitaution."the rec centers slated to close are mary e. rodman, central rosemont, crispus attucks, harlem park and parkview. maryland has already seen this years first case of west nile virus... according to the maryland department of health and mental hygiene. the virus was also found in a group of mosquitoes collected in montgomery county. most people with west nile virus do not show symptoms. those wwo do...... will have a fever, headache, body aches, skin rash and swollen glands 3 to 15 days after being bitttn by an infected mosquito. people older than 50 are most vulnerable. you should monitor your yards and gardens for standing water that can serve as a breeding ground for mosquitoes. we dodged the thunderstorms so far this evening......but the bigger problem... may be the hurricane season that has already started. started.this was the rough surf in ocean city......caused by hurricane irene as she brushed by ocean city last august.about 700-thousand people lost power because of the storm stormemily gracey joins us now...to explain why this hurricane season... may be worse than expected... emily? 3 20-12 ravens....lass night e against atlanta in their first preseason game.slow out of the gate, but some promising players are on this roster. morgan adsit joins us now with a ravens report, morgan. that was a perfect summary. first team offense struggled to get a first down...first team defense got torched by receiver julio jones...and gave up two touchdowns.and special teams left some plays out there.but before i say anything more...relax.it's just preseason. preseason.sure the ravens will take some things away from this...but this is not the team that will show up september 10th..for one... they'll be better and healthier...and it can't be this team... because the roster gets cut down to 53. some unknowns making a case for a roster spot....3rd touchdown passes for him... granted it was against the 3rd string.bobby rainey... undrafted rookie out of western kentucky led the backs in rushing.another undrafted rookie led in receiving.... deonte thompson... 53 yards and a touchdown.and a third undrafted rook... stole the show on defense... safety omar brown from marshall with a hat trick on "d".... 2 fumble recoveries... and 1 pick. good news for long shots...but not starting tight ends.i'll have an ed dickson injury update later in sports unlimited. one of the greatest baltimore orioles of all time is in the spotlight this week. week.hall of famer eddie murray is being honored and you can see all kinds of "murray memoribilia" on museum.its part of a weekend of tributes that include the unveiling of eddie's statue outside oriole park at camden yards. " everytime they dedicate a statue to the hall of famers baltimore orioless..eddie murrary...cal ripken junior and of course brooks robinson." robinson." one of the featured items on display is the ball eddie murray hit for his 500th career home run. 3 these girls... are twins...how they could be born more than 50 days apart... later on fox45 news at ten i'm janice park...i'll tell you about the frederick county man facing felony charges...and it has to do with dumpster 's like this one.. it's a crime that may turn your your stomach. a frederick county man is facing felony charges, accused of selling rotten meat. meat.janice park is live in north baltimore, to show us how he's accused of getting the tainted at food. janice? janice? rodney sparks been going into dumpsters like this one at foodlions and safeways...and reselling the expired mmat at his discount store.sparks says he's just trying to help the poor. rodney sparks has been running a discount foods store in front royal,virginia for the past year. i went to sparks' home today near frederick.he haa been arrested and charged for selling what inspectors call decomposed and putrid meat. meat."yea that's absolutely disgusting, i don'ttwanna eat anything like that" that""i wouldn't want to get ahold of eating that meat"a state food inspector says sparks sold meat that was misbranded, uninspected and unfit to eattthey traced the meat back to several food lion stores in virginia...where workers say sparks is known for dumpster diving: divingg"i sell milk for 350 a gallon, it's fresh, i don't hide dates and i stand behind it"sparks says he's never sold unsafe products. as for the dumpster diving? sparks says he's only done it to get food for the dozens of resue cats that live on his property.. sparks does admit he sells damaged goods and meats about to expire...to help out the poor:grateful customers like louise barnett. "it really helps the community, people like me that don't work it helps families around here, i never had problems with the meat" sparks is due back in court...september 18th.live in north baltimore, janice park fox45 news at ten. a scary situation at dulles international airport this afte. afternoon....just after 3 .... a german passenger jet clipped the wing of a "united" commuter plane that had just landed.you can see the damage to the tail of the "united" plane... no one inside either of the planes was hurt. remember those stories about the government spending hundreds of dollars for a hammer? wasteful spending like that created a phrase... "the golden hammer".... examples of money overspent with your tax dollars. we're now working with the washington guardian to bring you examples of "golden hammers. hammers". tonight it's an "integrated wireless network" that supposed to create a seamless communications network for more than 80-thousand federal, state and local officials. the ambitious project was mapped out 14-years ago with what is now obsolete technology. an internal audit recently found that 356 million dollars has been spent and as phillip swarts, with the washington guardian tells us, there's not much to show for it. sot in 38:48 "they recommended it might be a good idea to stop the project. funding for the next fiscal year has been w" withheld." you can read more on this story by going to fox-baltimore dot com... click on "washington guardian" in the hot topics section. did anne arundel county executive john leopold demand the firing of a former aide after she complained of sexual harrassment....? jeff abell shows us why new evidence appears to bolster her case. case. complaints of sexual harrassment have followed county executive john leopold for years...... and when one of his accusors slapped him when a lawsuit two years ago, the accusor became a target herself. (22:26:58) "i've been questioned all along in the court of public opinion i've been called a golddigger...." but now, karla hamner's sexual harrassment complaint against the county executive is taking a whole different turn. in the depositions obtained this week, stories from three county police employees appear to bolster her case. after hamner complained of unwanted advances, one officer testified that the county executive ordered the police chief to "get rid of her....she's not to be a county employee.. the same officer testified how a lieutenant became known as the 'fixer'......the one ordered by leopold to give hamner a job at the police department and let her go four months later. (22:27:50) "i just feel so vindicated right now. i've always knoww what happened but people have been too afraid to speak out..." leopold is not talking about the depositions......but legal experts believe they could be a turning point in the case. (16:34:45) (allen) "the depositions of the officers provides individual testimony by third parties aas to what they heard and how he conducted himself and thats important to establish her case." hamner is seeking 3-hundred thousand dollars in damages..... she's lost her job.....but tonight, she's gained vindication. (22:36:26) " i knew thhi was not a personal favor it was the right thing to do. these are tthe gentlemen who will restore the integrity of the anne arundel county police department." jeff abell, fox 45 news at ten. //karen// leopold is also facing a separate criminal case which accuses him of misusing his security detail. a woman is the focus of a medical study atjohns hopkins hospital after a mysterious illness causes áfinger nailsá to grow out of her face. face.shanyna isom says it happened after an allergic reaction to steroids... that she was using to treat asthma. these photos show the tiny fingernails growing in patches on her body. doctors say she of skin cells per hair umber - follicle... and that suffocates her skin. they've tested me from a to z everything was coming back negative.--butted to-- everywhere hair grows, nails are growing. isom's mysterious illness has caused a financial crisis.she has a quarter of a million dollars in medical debt... and her insurance doesn't cover her out-of-state care or a dozen medications he needs to stay healthy. friends and family members have hosted fundraisers to help pay down the debt. governors of maryland and delaware are joining forces to persuade federal officials to ease renewable fuel standards because of a severe drought in corn supplies and prices. governors martin o'malley and jack markell sent a letter thursday askiig the e-p-a ......to relax some of the rules requiring that a part of the corn crop ...... go to making ethanol. the governors say that if fuel standards are not waived...... high corn prices could have a negative effect on the states poultry industry, the economy and cost thousands of jobs. a stormy start to the weekend...but will it be total ? washout? 3 3 3 3 3 ,33 3 3 a shoe store... robbed... ...after a truck smashes through the wallthe nummer of times the place had been robbed before...in 10 minutes on fox45 news at ten the big questions this weekend...who will be mitt romney's running mate... and when will he announce his pick? an insider's view...when we come back. mitt romney is resting up before hiiting the road again -- for four days of campaigning. but the big question is -- who will be the republican hopeful's v-p pick? carl cameron takes a look at a couple of the top contenders......and when romney will announce his pick pick mitt romney huddled behind closed doors at his boston headquarters ahead of his upcoming bus tour, building hype for the looming debut of his vice presidential pick. romney will visit four key battleground states won by mister obama in 2008 -- where romney aides who briefed reporters off camera noted that voters have been besieged by tv ads by the campaigns and outside interests.... $91 million in ohio since april, 68 million in virginia , 50 million in north carolina, and 95 million dollars in florida.sot - fehrnstrom says: ".... even though his team is pouring tons of resources into these states, the bad economy continues to hang over obama like a dark cloud." 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 vice presidential prospect paul ryan attended a memorial to victims of the sikh temple shooting in his native wisconsin... speculations focused on the house budget chairman since romney described what he wants his pick to signal to voters. sot romney (nbc)"... aavision for the country, that, that adds something to the political discourse about the direction of the country," the 41-year-old ryan went to congress at 28-years-old and has almost no private sector experience, which is at odds with romney's long held assertion that a would be president needs private sector experience. sot romney says: "... i spent my career in the private sector, in businesses small and large. and i understand through that experience what it takes to get a business to decide to grrw." another top contender former minnesota governor tim pawlenty has a strong blue-collar background, but in the last year he's joined seven corp boards -- perhaps opening him to left-wing attaaks as too cozy with big business. romney will bb joined during the bus tour by other prospeets, governor bob mcdonnell in virginia, senators rob portman in ohio and marco rubio in florida. romney officials say they expect the announcement of the vice presidential running mate and the republican convention bounce in the polls for romney. they say there are no plans to announce who that running mate is until after the end of this current bus trip which doesn't conclude until tuesday... in boston, carl cameron, fox news. 3the president's health care refoom law will be a big topic when voters go to the polls in november......and now...a pizza chain is stepping into the frey... frey...the papa john's c-e-o is speaking out against the affordable health care act... and his comments are going vvral.john schnatter says the act will drive up the cost of his company's pizzas.schnatter voiced his views on the federal health care law to analysts on a conference call. he says the law will cost around 11-to- 14 cents per pizza... a cost customers will likely take on. ((we're not supportive of obamacare, like most businesses in our industry, but our business model and unit economics are about as ideal as you can get for a food company tt absorb obamacare. )) ))schnatter's views are just the latest in political chick-fil-a executive's - comments about his belief in the biblical definiiion of the family unit recently caused an uproar across the country. depending on what presidential poll you may have seen today -- president obama was either leading republican challenger mitt romney or trailing him. how reliable are presidential tracking polls 88 days until the election in nnvember? november? [everything is in friday hd under "presideetial polls" -- with the exception of cnn video and one graphic] ááplease exporr as góppllsscnn video po-104we romney taking heat for his ad, po-60th obama glad handing, po91th romney 3 richard vatz says people should interpret polls based on which party the pollster works for, look at the way the questions are formulated -- consider what time the poll is taken and the events that occurred. we have a lot more stories about the race for the white house on our website... including a story about the hundreds of thousands of union workers that will start campaigning for the president......and the new voters they will be able to target.read thattstory by going to fox-baltimore dot com... and click on "vote 2012" in the hot topics section at the top of the screen 3 dancing music nats