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Someone tried to steal those shoes, and there was a fight, there was gunfire, and 17yearold James Anthony smith ended up dead. Today i talked to his mom. She said she last saw her son alive yesterday afternoon. He said, ill be back, ma, i love you. Reporter thats the last you saw him there . Thats the last time i saw him. Reporter here at your job 4 00 yesterday afternoon . 4 00 yesterday afternoon. Reporter now hes gone. Hes gone. Reporter it has to be tearing you apart. It tares tears me apart...

Teachers did not follow grading policies. There was also poor recordkeeping and irregularities with grade changing. School ceo dr. Kevin maxwell responded to the audit in a meeting held tuesday. He says intense training Going Forward should be able to solve these problems. We believe by providing more targeted training we can improve staffs adherence to policies and procedures. Upgrading technology through the auto makes of archaic processes will minimize potential areas for fraud. Yesterdays me...

50 degrees in leesburg. Bus stop forecast looking good. Kids will want a jacket because it is a little bit chilly in some spots. Through the afternoon cooler than yesterday. Well be around 50 degrees. More clouds. Nice and dry. The wet weather is down to the south. If youre doing your Holiday Travel anywhere from louisiana to tennessee to the carolinas, thats going to be wet. Where im heading, melissa, all the way down to florida, thats nice and dry. Bring back sand and shells and all of that. I...

The woods. Reporter a 17yearold girl in these woods crying for help from a perfect stranger. She said can you help me . Reporter michael was outside of his home across the street. He thought it was a joke at first and then he saw the child inside of this brush and yelled for his mother to call 911. She had a stab wound on her sh it was unimaginable. Reporter according to the sheriffs office, all of this was done at the hands of these two adults. Chris pieters and melissa peters. Their home is 1 ...

Behind at least three others. He could strike again. Joining us live in clear water where cameras captured him in the act. Reporter this appears to be his first target yesterday around 3 20 in the morning. He walked in with a tight hooded shirt around his around 2 00 this morning. This time he wore a red hooded sweatshirt doing a good job of concealing his face and same deal, not showing a gun but implying he had one and demanding money. This shows the suspect in a blue hoody going through the s...

And grab early this morning. We just got some Surveillance Video moments ago. Watch this video. It shows a vehicle ramming the front of a store creating a gaping hole. Hang on, were still trying to get that video. I can tell you that after that okay, we dont have the video. Well try to get it reracked so that you can see it. It shows nearly a dozen people get out of that vehicle. They rush inside and then all of them snatch several times of guns abc action News Reporter Rodney Dunigan is live ou...

Paul. And that is on the Violent Crime side, we tend to have a lower crime rate than a lot of other states while at the same time keeping our incarceration rate lower by using more probation and using more treatment options. So thats why im a fan of the work thats been done here. And my first question is really along those lines of drug courts. Ive led some. Efforts here on drug courts and getting funding for drug courts carrying on the work of many that came before me, including ted kennedy and...

Federal prison serving mandatory minimum sentences for a drug crime, 55,000. Thats more than 50 of all federal drug offenders and more than one quarter of all federal prisoners. Many of those serving are lowlevel offenders and its true that some lowlevel offenders like couriers dont receive mandatory minimum but others are frequently sentenced to so what is your response to the claim that this is much ado about something to that were not going address or potentially address a large sector of the...

Forward, but also to people who were convicted and sentenced under old laws. Inmate sentences under the old mandatory minimums can ask a judge to sentence them in accordance with the new mandatory minimums. But a prosecutor gets to weigh in also. And the inmate will only get a lower sentence if the judge agrees it is appropriate after the judge has considered factors like the inmates danger to the community. But others have raised concerns about the department of justice going to stand idly by a...

Tree headquarters but tonight the Salvation Army has a message for the crooks. And a big break tonight in the torching of a california mosque. The Annapolis Yacht Club has been attracting boaters for nearly 130 years, but it only took hours for flames to nearly gut the building. News 4s Darcy Spencer spoke to people who are searching for answers tonight. Reporter the Annapolis Yacht Club with a history dating back to the 1800s and a popular destination for the regions Sailing Community was virtu...