breaking his silence on the abduction of his mother. mother.7:07:13 she's still a little shaky and we're all a little shaky. shaky.what cal ripken is saying about the earch for the suspected kidnapper. kidnapper. an serious crash in dundalk sends eight people to the hospital.how a tow truck ended up right in the middle of it. it.hot and humid for the weekend with a chance of showers.how high temperatures could go and when the storms could get severe in my skywatch forecast.. forecast..and a terrifying mome. moment.((talking...scream)) ((talking...scream)) how a deadly sinkhole almost claimed another victim. 3 hello... i'm... jeff barnd. barnd. and i'm karen parks. parks. baseball... hall of famer... cal ripken... broke ...his silence... this morning .../ and... for... the first time.../ spoke candidly.../ about... the... abduction...

of... his mother.../ and... what he feared. crime and justice reporter joy lepola was with ripken ... as he opened up about his mother's abduction. 3 3 ((pkg)) 6:57:19 mom by in large is a tough strong woman. but, that strength was put to the test the morning of vi pipken was abducted. 7:07:13 she's still a little shaky and we're all a little shaky. a week and a half ago, ripken walked into her garage and expected to drive off for her morning coffee as she routinely did. instead, she came face to face with this man who was armed with a handgun. by the time family members found out about the abduction... ripken had been missing for almost 14 hours. 7:08:23 it was ah the worst feeling you could imagine. it was about 9 o'clock at night my sister called me and said there had been a report that the car with my mom's tags on it was reported and that a woman was tied up in the back seat of the car and they wanned to know where mom was. ripken himself searched. at times fearing, if

he did find his mother.... she'd be dead.7:09:35 it was a horrible night. with ripken's safe return the following morning... attention has now shifted to finding the person responsible. stand up 7:41:37 besides billboards like this one that profile the man police say abducted vi ripken her son hopes by bringing natonal attention to this case is will ultimatly lead to an arrest. 6:57:44 if you know anything about the caseeif you know anyhting about the iientity of the person in the photo or sketch i would encourage all of your to call in and report what you know :55 this guy was out in public the night of the abduction. surveillance cameras at a walmart in glen burnie recorded this footage.

sources tell me, ripken's abductor used one of her credit cards here. 7:01:30 it's bizarre on many levels and it's unsettling on many levels..it's strange to say the least. a bizarre case... that cal believes was planned out.... what baffles him as well as police ii why. joy lepola fox 45 news at ten. police say... ripken's... abductor ... never,... demanded a ransom. you can see the entire news conference online... go to fox baltimore dot com slash raw news. 3 breaking news... from... dundalk .../ an... 8---car crash ... still... causing problems ... at... baltimore... and... north point...///. you... can... see the ...twisted metal ... and... crunched cars .../ scattered... like toys... on... the... road....////. 9--people... were ... hospitalized... including... one person... with... serious injuries.../ at... shock trauma...///. police... are... investigating.../ how... this massive... collision happened. new tonight.../ a... suspect's... arrested ... in.. .a... triple shooting... that left... one man dead... in... north baltimore. baltimore.police... say... maurice... lon-on.... is... one of two men ... who... entered a home... on...

lothian road.../ and... began shooting ... july 16th..../35-year-old... quinton winter... was killed.../ two... other people... were shot ... in... the head.../.lon-on's... charged with... first degree murder. the search is on for the killer of a transgendered person shot in his home. home.lance johnson lived in this rowhome on north eutaw place near whitelock street.... a 40-year-old man.. known to his neighbors as traceysomeone shot and killed johnson at about 1-30 in the morning july 5. bullets missed two other people in the home. police have a sketch of the suspect.. (lt. col. green) "the police department and the community must work together in order to bring this individual off the street. he's killed someone, he's a threat, he's a danger." danger." police believe the suspect met johnson outside his home that morning.. and may have been involved in a sexual transaction.anyone with information should call police stay ahead of the criminals stalking your neighborhood. sign up for our exclusive spotcrime webiste, only through fox45. it's the nation's most

powerful crime tracking software and it let's you know the areas criminals are targeting in baltimore. he's... known ...as the man... who... was... locked up... in aruba... for months,.../ suspected... of... killing... maryland native... robyn gardner....///janice... park is live with the story storyof why gary giordano ...will avoid... prosecution... in a totally different case here in maryland. maryland.jeff,it's all outlined in this report from the annapolis police department.where he was allegedly caught having sex in his suv.but tonight, giordano doesn't face any charges. prosecutors drop an indecent exposure charge from a day gary giordano would probably rather forget. on may 18th, annapolis police find giordano completely nude under a blanket in his suv.also in a compromising position... carol ann bock.giordano's black underwear knocked to the ground as police arrest him. but a week before his trial, prosecutors drop the charge...because under

maryland law you have to be naked "willfully" or "intentionally" in public.but of course giordano splashed headlines long before may: may:"it's extremely frustrating, what if this happened, what if that happened, you put different scenarios in your head" on wednesday in frederick, family reflect on a year filled with 3 morr questions than answers. for four months...giordano was locked away in an aruban prision...suspected of killing his gardner...his travellng com: companion:"on august the 4th last year, called me and told me the news robin was missing at sea"gardner's sister says it was the first time she heard the name gary giordano: giordano:"i knew nothing about him"aruban officials found nothing to charge giordano with and he walked free... free..."that's a silly question would i do something different, yea i wouudn't have come!"but he may never be freee of suspicion.

if aruban authorities find more evidence...enough to charge giordano...he could be extradited back to aruba.live in north baltimore, janice park fox45 news at ten. 3 3 it's... a... story... you saw ...first on fox...///. thieves... impersonating taxpayers.../ and... stealing their refunds,.../ but... a... new report.... says.../ it's... getting . worse. all... it... takes is.../ a... stolen... social security number, .../ and... a... thief... posing... as a taxpayer, .../// filing... a... bogus return... on their behalf.../ . and... collecting... the... refund.../// the... report... from the ...inspector general... reveals... the... i-r-s.../ paid... 5-billion dollars... in... phony... refunds..../// and... the... number of victims... nearly ddubled... in... the last... 3--years...////. in... an... earlier... interview.../ ... baltimore... tax expert.../ said... the scheme... was... so easy.../ criminals ... are... switching careers.../ to... take advantage ...of it. 08:28:57"i think it's better than drug dealing,. i think you can make money off of this with less risk than drug dealers"08:29:21"there's no way to match the stuff up, and you just steal all the money

you want" want" the... inspector general ... insists... the i-r-s... must do more... to... investigate fraud ... like this...// baltimore ácatholic charitiesá is warning about a scam on craig's list. the agency says scammers using the charity's name.... name.... have been soliciting donations. catholic charities says it does not contact anyone or request credit card information over the phone. we checked this afternoon and found that the ad has been pulled from craig's list. but if you think you mmy have been a victim you can call the attorney general's office at 410-528-8662. 3 first on fox... tonight./. maryland's... top... book-keeper says... casino's... are ánotá... making the state... money.../. this... comes... just days... before... the... special session.../ kathleen... cairns... has more .../ on... mean... next week. could 3 ((((kc lead in on camera on set))))) while some say casinos are money makers for the state... the man in charge

of maryland's financial books... tells fox 45 news... the pluses and minus are not adding up. governor o'malley wants lawmakers to expand gambling to 'live' table games.. like black jack and poker... as well as consider another casino at natiooal harbor.... that will be the focus of next week's special session: while the governor promises profits... the state's top accountantt.. says so far, gambling has only put maryland in the red. it's become a digit debate: (governor) "this allows us to create jobs and it will allow us to realize almost immediately $100 million in revenue for our public schools."(peter franchot)"so were still 70 million in the hole several years after the program has started!"state comptroller peter franchot sayssgambling revenue is not..adding up.... (peter franchot)"i think you've got to admit its not been a fiscal answer to the states problems.. in fact we still havent even broken even... i've sent checks for 266 million of the taxpayers money to the gambling companies to reimburse them for their slot machines.. we've only gotten back 200 million!"((((kc tag oc on

set))))))next week's special session will be the third time...state lawmakers will meet this year.they also convened a special session back in may...to resolve the budget. kc fox 45 news at 10 maryland... is... the only state... in the nation... that... held... a... special session... in... the past three years.. / for... expanding gambling. it's... a... plan... to borrow... 25... million... from the ...baltimore county ... pension fund .../ to... build... a... new ...recycling center... that... ásomeá say... will... save the county... lots of... money. .../ but... union leaders ... say... it's... too risky. today... county leaders, ... defended... the deal. .../ they... say... the loan... will... not áonlyá bennfit... taxpayers.../// by... helping... the county... to... keep more ... revenue ...from... recycling .../ but... will... also bolster... the county's... pension fund... with... better than average... returns 8:14:47"it's a no brainer, it's going to be a future money cow for county for decades to come"08:23:26"you looking for everythng that you can ion these difficult economic times to avoid raising taxes and continue to deliver services" services"

the plant... will be owned... by a private firm.../ 3 forget a sit in, this is a kiss in. why gay rights supporters were making out for sooial change. amateurs... going for gold.../ and... the ... i.r.s. going for their green.../ why is the irs hounding michael phelps and other u-s olympians? we'll tell you next taking out an entire police force. how one angry driver and a tractor wiped out an entire police parking lot. a fatal shooting overnight in

southwest baltimore marks the 5-th murder in that area in a week! myranda stephens has more on how policc are violence. 3 1305 everybody was outside and everybody just came outside all of a sudden 09ava foster was hanging out with friends early friday morning... when she heard gunshots around the corner from her southwest baltimore home. ava 13:22

sounded about five or six. maybe more. coming from down here 26police say about 1:30 this morning... a 30-year-old man was gunned down near the rosedale rec center on rosedale court. a woman was also shot - in the hand- and taken to the hospital. anthony 00:21 what we know is that these individuals weee at or near the center when a gunman possibly two gunmen came up and opened fire 28the man was pronounced dead on the scene - making this the áfifthá homicide in the southwest district - in just one week! 210 these appear to be separate incidents, but we know that we have to poke that a little harder. they're very close together they're occuring in a very tight knit community, there's got to be more to it 20 myranda 2410 this rec center is one of the few in the city that's actually run by police. but next month, it will permanently close. and some believe that's part of the problem 19diane 10:39 they have nothing for the kids in this area to do. you know if you don't give them something productive to do, they'll do something destructive. that's the bottome line to it 48 police are now reviewing surveillance video in hopes of identifying suspects in this latest shooting... as well as stepping up patrols. but

foster believes it's a short-term solution... to a long-term problem. 1512 people going be shooting anyway. they always do it. you kind of get used to it after a while 18in southwest baltimore, ms, fox45 news at ten. police have not made any arrests in any of the other four shootings in that district. investigators... are...trying to... figure out ... what ... caused a fire... at... a... denny's restaurant... in... harford coun. county. this.... photo... was sent... to us ... from ... andrew doyle....///flames... shot... thru... the roof... around 10-30... this morning,.../ when... firefighters... arrived... at the restaurant ... on... edgewood road....// the... building was evacuated,.../ no... one... was injured. one person is dead and dozens are injured after a bus crashed into an overpass pillar in southern illinois. the double-decker megabus was heading from chicago to saint louii... when it somehow lost control. it took more than 60 rescue crews using ladders to help the passengers on the upper level of the bus. mmre than 30- people were taken to the hospital with varying degrees of injury.officials are still working to determine

the cause of the crash. 3 a controversial boy scouts policy is prompting one life-long member in maryland to make a difficult decision. "if this organization noo llnger represents something that i believe in then i can't be a part of it." it."this was once one of the colella's life. since he was five he wanted to be an eagle scout...but now as a gay man...he has made the difficult decision to give back a mmdal he worked most of boy scouts of america recently reaffirmed its policy to ban openly gay members. "the card that i sent back is something that i carry around in my wallet every day...and it's a symbol and it doesn't have any material value but its a huge part of who i am." am." the boy scouts organization says the 3 majority of their members agree with the policy and they can't accommodate the many diverse views. more than half

dozen eagle scouts nationwide have turned in their badges. chick-fil-a... supporters... had... their say... this week...///. now,... gay rights... supporters... are... taking... their message ... to... the... restaurant...// staging... "same-sex"... kiss day... at... chik-fil-a's... nationwide...// including... this one ...in atlanta..../ed... payne ... says... the... event comes... two days.../ after... supporters ...responded to backlash... against the... company's suuport ...of... traditional marriage. 3 3 "chick-fil-a appreciation ddy" -- organized by former arkansas governor mike huckabee -- drew long lines of supporters oo the company and free speech. chick-fil-a, which said it was not involved in creating the event, says it set a sales record that day. organizers of today's event are no doubt hoping for a similar turnout. they're asking same-sex couples to go to chick-fil-a restaurants and kiss in protest, and then post a video or photos on social media. as of early friday morning, about 13-thousand people said they would participate on the event's facebook page. meanwhile, the

chick-fil-a controversy is getting some mentions by politicians. what i tweeted was, i'm a kentucky fried chicken fan. ((aughs) that's where my loyalty lies. the young man or woman who at this very moment is drawing up a business plan on the back of a scrap piece of paper on a chick-fil-a somewhere neerby. (crowddreaction) the controversy started last month, when chick-fil-a president and c-o-o dan cathy told a religious news service they support theebibbical definition of the family unit. the chairman of l-g-b-t rights group "wyoming equality" says the compaay should stick to what it's best at. it would really be nice if chick-fil-a would just get in the business &pof just making great chicken and stay out of the business of equality. i'm ed payne reporting. meantime,.... the... controversy ...leading to vandalism... at... a... chick-fil- a... in california..../// as... you can see,.../ someone ...spray painted... this message... on... the side... of the restaurant... / it... says...

in... big... black letters:... tastes... like hate...///.despite... backlash, ... the company ...says... it... raked in... record sales... wednesday,.../ which... was... national... chick fil a... appreciation day. president... barack obama... &psigns.../ a... "disaster declaration"... to... help... marylann recover... from... last month's.... severe storms. storms.this... was the aftermath ... of... major winds... and rains.../ that... swept the area... late june...//. the... president's... now ordering... federal aid... to... help... recovery efforts...///. this... makes ...federal funding... available... to... baltimore city.../// calvert,... charles, ...kent,... montgomerr... and ... st. mary's counties. 3 we're headinn into the weekend with a chance for some showers. showers. but... is... it going... to completely wash out... our plans? plans? let's... go to ... meteorologist... emily gracey... for... a look at....the skywatch forecast. forecast. 3

michael phelps strikes gold yet again in the london olympics olympicsphelps... won... the... 100 meter butterfly ... today.../ ahead... of... two swimmers ... who... tied for second...///. this ... was... michael's... third gold medal.../ of... the london games .../ with... one... more event to go. meanwhile, there's already talk about how to honor phelps on his return home.on thursday, baltimore county

executive kevin kamenetz announced a committee to plan an event for phelps.but officials are still trying to figure out where to hold the celebration, considering phelps grew up in baltimore county but trained in the city. city."srb: i'm not going to dim the glow of this moment by having a fight over where the parade that's not even planned is going to be. just like my family, we're still on cloud nine" and... as... we... told you... last night../. michael... will... be... paying a price... for... all those... olympic medals...///. that's ... becauue ...the i-r-s... wants ...its share...///.one.... figure... says,,, phelps ...could be taxed ... as... much as... 160--grand... for... all the medals... he's... won... in... his long career..../// now ... several &pmmmbers ...of congress.../ are... calling... for a law...// eliminating... the... tax... on... olympic medals. here's... our question of he day.do you think olympic medals ... should be tax exempt? exempt? go... to... fox-baltimore dot com .../ tell us...

what you think.../. sound... off... thru... facebook.../. send... us... a tweet.. at foxbaltimore.../. text... your answer to ...45-203..../ enter... fox45a for yes.. / fox45b for no. 3 combine a tractor and a man who hates authority and what do you get? the path of destruction he left behind. 3 "if any one thing doesn't just work right, it's game over." over." millions of moving parts and only one shot to get it right. coming up next, we'll show you the seven minutes of terror america's most advanced space probe will find as it tries to land on mars. [ male announcer ] good paying jobs.

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through the icy cold of space, curiosity is finally ready to land on mars. mars. spacecraft... "curiosity"... is expected... to touch down... on... the red planet... very early ...monday morning...///. nasa... is... calling the landing ... "seven minutes of terror."...///john zarrella... explains why. why. eight months in space. 354 million miles traveled. two and half billion dollars spent. nearly a decade of work. after all that, it will take only minutes, just minutes to determine elation or disaster."full nights of sleep have eluded me for a couple of years now.""we think about failure every day. we thing about how to avoid

failure." after nasa's curiosity rover breaches the top of the martian atmosphere a series of precision, choreographed events will begin to unfold; events never before attempted; events so dramatic and defining, the space agency put together a short movie calling it: seven minutes of terror, that's the amount of time it will take curiosity to come through the atmosphere and either crash or land safely. "it heats up and it glows like the surface of the sun. 16 hundred degrees.""if any one thing doesn't just work right, it's game over."curiosity is huge. the size of a small car. its size meant nasa couldn't use the tried and true landing methods... airbags or shock absorbing legs. on top of that, the rover has to hit a specific spot - one place nasa thinks could have hints of past or present life. that requires a precision landing: on one side, a mountain. on

the other a crater wall. "to get there safely though we need to be able to land on the one big flat spot that sits right at the foot of that mountain inside the walls of the crater."out of necessity was born the sevennminutes of terror. curiosity hits the atmosphere at 13 thousand miles an hour, steering her way toward the landing site. next. the parachute deploys slowing curiosity. then rockets fire aligning curiosity with the landing zone below. finally...the skycrane:"the rover is lowered below the jet backpack and the two together descend their way to the martian suuface." engineers say at the end of the day this is the safest way to get a rover this size on the ground in one piece. every component was tested again and again. 3, 2, 1. (nats) but from the point curiosity hits the atmosphere, all the scientists

and engineers can do is hold their breaths and wait. "in the end she'll be on her own." (nats)seven minutes of terror. john zarrella cnn pasadena, california. curiosity is scheduled to land at 1-31 a-m eastern on monday. monday. even... while ...cruising thru... space,.... the... mars science... laboratory... has... been monitoring... the... radiation environment,.../ which... is... useful ...to know... if... you're... going to send... humans... to... mars someday. 3 an unscheduled monster truck show crushes eight police cruisers. how one man and a tough tractor took out an entire squad.

bring plenty of old bay. we'll take you inside the world's largest crab feast and find out what it takes to be number one.

new... jobs numbers ... for july... provide... ammunition... for... both campaigns...///. wendell... goler... explains... the numbers .../ and... how... they'll...

impact... our economy. economy. politically there was something in july's employment report for both the president and his republican challenger. the 163-thousand jobs created was 60-thousand more than analysts expected, and after ttree-straight months in which less than 100 thousand jobs were gained... mister obama took the long view. sot - obama says: "...that means that we've now created 4.5 million new jobs over the last 29 months -- and 1.1 million new jobs so far this year." ut the jobless rate rose a tenth of a point, even though fewer people were looking for jobs.... and at a rally in las vegas, that was the number mitt romney seized on. sot - romney says: "...it's another hammer blow to the struggling middle class families of america because the president has not had policies that put american families back to work. i do." in fact no one at the white house was celebrating. average unemployment is still far too high and for hispanics it's ten point three percent, while for blacks it's fourteen point one percent. the latest underemployment rate which includes people who've stopped looking, is fifteen point

ttree percent. mister obama says there is more to do than just reclaim the jobs that were lost during the recession. sot - obama says: "... but also to reclaim the kind of financial security that too many americans have felt was slipping away from them for too long." at a news conference, romney promised he'd create 12 million jobs in his first term, and recalled the 2009 billion stimulus package was supposed to keep the country out of the fix it's in. sot - romney says: "... this is the president's administration said if they got the stimulus bill it would hold unemployment below 8% and we have not had a rate below 8% since." romney said the president's policies are to blame and he called the jobless rate a... "moral failure' for a country as prosperous as our own." he outlined a plan that includes tax reform and deficit reduction expanded domestic energy production and...overturning the affordable care act, which he says would turn theeeconomy around. mister obama says romney's tax and regulatory reforms would reward the rich and take the country backwards. sot - obama

says: "...we're not going to get to where we need to be if we go back to the policies that helped to create this mess in the first place." it's been clear for some time democrats and republicans were counting on voters to decide what path we take out of the recession. with every month before the november election, we're learning how much the wait is costing us. at the white house, wendell goler, fox news. want... a raise...? you... could... soon be ...in luck...///.a... new survey shows... many employers... are planning to increase salaries... next year...///.the... consulting firm mercer... questioned... more than... 15- thousand... employers.../ 98... percent ... plan... to.. boost pay... in 20-13...///.raises... on't be... across the board...//.mercer... says... executives.../ and... top performers ... will... benefit the most... a family learns its house was burglarized... after reading the thief's apology note. the family's window screen was damaged when they came home... had been inside until they e found their belongings in front of their house. the

thief left behind a note... ái made the worst mistake of my life. i can't put into words how sorry i am."neighbors have mixed opinions on the thief. 44-59"judge and jury is he? well i think obviously, we all have a troubles in our lives but it doesn't excuse someone to break into your house and to do that maybe somehow he's making restitution." the robber even left fifty dollars to help pay for the broken screen. a... vermont ...police parking lot... looks... like the aftermath... of... a... monster truck rally./.. after... a... man's... accused of using a huge tractor... to... crush police cars..../// the... sheriff... says... it was no accident.../ the... man... lined up patrol cars.../ then... drove ...over them....//the... suspect was arrested... after.. .a... short chase..../ 8... cruisers were damaged, .../ no... &p one was hurt. a terrifying moment for a reporter in taiwan.the woman was reporting on the typhoon that's hitting the area... when the ground opens up. up.((talking...scream))

((talking...scream))sinkholes are opening up around the area due to the heavy rains washing the soil away under walkways. just yesterday we saw a man being swallowed by a sinkhole in the same region.so far 23 people ... have died as a result of the weather. 3//karen// //karen//another sinkhole opens up in new york... nearly swallowing a car.you can see a car teetering on the edge. the driver says she and her daughter were in the car just á5 minutesá before the sinkhole opened. city officials say a sewer main break underground caused the damage... and that it will likely take crews a few days to repair. with... the... worst drought ...to hit the u.s..../ in... more than ...50 years,.../ the... cost... of... filling the dinner table... is... going up.../ mike... tobin... breaks down ...the numbers for us.../ from... a... scorched field...//, in... america's heartland. heartland. if you drive past a cornfield, you may not notice a problem, but this corn should be way up over my head... it's all about half as tall as it should be, and the individual ears are not filling in.

about half of the corn yield in america right now is rated as poor to very poor. and midwest farmer rob sharkey says it's too late to even hope for rain.sot - sharkey says: "... it looked great and then the water just completely shut off. and we just completely lost our crop at this point." possibly the hardest hit are livestock ranchers - as the price of feed goes up. many are sending their animals to slaughter early - causing a short term decrease in the price of meat - but you'll pay for that in the long term when the supply runs low. quiikly before recess - the house of representatives passed a 383-million dollar drought relief bill which would open some conservation land for grazing... but the senate had its own bill and congress went home -- leaving the farmers and ranchers high and dry. meantime - about 40-percent of the corn harvested this year is ssated to produce ethanol as required by the epa.... causing many to demand the epa ease the mandate and leave the corn supply in the market place. sharkey says drought corn develops a toxin that makes it unfit for people or livestock - so it's only good for

ethanol, and he doesn't want any help from the government. sot - sharkey says: "...we're pretty self reliant. we know we're going to have some bad years. we try to prepare for that. all in all, we're the american farmer and if you leave us alone, we're going to feed the world." the price of corn has spiked from five-dollars a bushel a week ago to eight dollars a bushel today. and since corn is in just about everything you eat including corn fed beef, that means it's going to cost you about four-percent more to put food on the table this year. in bradford, illinois, mike tobin, fox news. plenty of food as many people put their ámalletsá to use tonight. its... was... all... for the world's... largest ...crab feast in annapolis. the... á47-th ...annual ...rotary crab feastá... was held today... at... the navy... marine corps... memorial stadium...///. the... feast... was ... all... you can eat and drink.../ and... included... male crabs...// , maryland... crab soup,.../ corn... on the cob... and more...///. the... feast... was also ... a... major... fund raiser... benefitting... local... areas.

"what the crab feast is is we donate to local non profits in the area so all the money we donate here in preferred dining goes to local non profit" profits." crab lovers ... finished... off... more than ...4-hundred bushels of crabs../.3-thousand... ears... of corn.../. 130-gallons ... of... crab soup..../and... 18-thousand hot dogs. 3 3 3 3 a quiet ball

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citys computer system... is... now back to normal .../ after spiking... 20 percent. two pakistani immigrants are sentenced to life in prison for the death of their teenage daughter. 17-year-old shafilea ahmed was suffocated by her mother and father back in 20-03 during an argument over a v- neck shirt the parents thought was too revealing. months later ahmed's body was found dismembered in a river. police say the parents had been torturing their child for years. "in the case of shafilea, the abuse she suffered was motivated by her parent's desire to control her, to make her conform to their interpretation of pakistani cul" culture." ahmed also refused to obey her parents when they arranged for her to marry an older man. police in california arrest two males caught with weapons and drugs...but what they found in one of the men's cell phones was even more disturbing. disturbing.take a look... at.. this... screensaver photo ... of... a... six-year-old child... pointing a gun... while riding in the back of a car...///.

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michael phelps stamped his individual success with gold. phelps in his final individual olympic event today...and won gold in the 100 meter butterfly. butterfly. it's phelps 17th gold medal... that's a world record.and 21st overall... another record. phelps has just 2 silver... both from london.and 2 bronze.... everything else... golden..phelps in his 4th olympic games... won gold in london in the 100 meter fly, 200 meter medley, and the 4 by 200 meter free.his final event is tomorrow in a relay with team u-s-a. it's never great to be down two starters at the beginning of traininggcamp.ravens defensive tackle haloti ngata reported on time...but hurt his hamstringgbefore the first practice.left tackle bryant mckinnie reported a week late... after hurting his back before heading to baltimore. baltimore.water under the bridge in week two of

practice...both ngata and mckinnie passed physcials and their conditioning test this morning....clearing them both for practice..ngata and mmkinnie on the field for the first time this season.both will be limited until next week. 3 orioles begin a three game series with the rays...and a 15-year-old bethesda native takes home gold...coming up at 11-30 on the late edition... &p3 3 3 in tonight's lowdown... michael jackson's mother is now being reinstated... as guardian of his 3 children. at a hearing thursday... a los angeles court judge said it's clear the children are well-cared-for by their

grandmother, katherine jackson. the judge also approved a plan to add their cousin t-j jackson as co- guardian. just recently... t-j was awarded temporary guardianship after katherine jackson had been out of communication with the children for several days. steven tyler is speaking out on his experience judging "american idol" .. and he's not saying the nicest things. in a new interview with rolling stone he said he loved the paycheck he earned, and sitting next to jennifer lopez -- but that ultimately idol was not his "cup of tea." he was on the show for two years.. and says he was just doing it to pass the time while his band aerosmith went through a feud.tyler made the announcement last month that he would not return to idol this fall. jennifer replacement is mariah carey. from gangster rap to idol judge. judge.snoop dogg has shown interest in being the next judge for american idol.snoop says he got the idol bug after hearing about the millions of dollars judges like paula abdul made off the show.a

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told... to take... their vehicle... to... a dealer ... for repairs. booted before the end of the first verse. how a funnyysong choice got the organ player tossed from the ballpark. ...and coming up in just 5 minutes on the late edition... cats as far as the eye can see.the other thing this park in peru is attracting. 3 and who needs to watch the outcome of the olympics... when you can just ask the ápsychic raccooná... find out who she says will win the most medals. not... uncommon ...

to... see... an umpire ... eject... a... baseball player...//. or... a manager. ...// but... stadium d-j? that's what happened in daytona beach, when the umpire apparently didn't like the song selection. selection.((music: three blind mice... oq: just got tossed)) tossed))the dj was tossed out of the game for playing áthree blind miceá when the umpire began arguing with one derek dye is an intern who ....- rotates positions at jackie robinson ball park. he says he played the song because it was listed in the system for ábad callsá. 56-1:02