As Howard County ice cream business grows, so does its charitable acts
A Howard County ice cream business has become so popular that it regularly sells out within minutes.
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He grew up in the Chicagoland area and graduated from Columbia College Chicago. He experienced his first taste of the TV news world interning at Chicago's WBBM-TV, WJZ's sister station.
Dennis has told stories all over the country, reporting for CBS affiliates in Idaho, California and Connecticut. He most recently worked as the Waterbury Bureau Chief for WFSB-TV, covering the Brass City and surrounding towns. Some of his strongest reporting involved covering Alex Jones's second defamation trial, in which a judge and jury awarded families of Sandy Hook shooting victims more than $1 billion in damages.
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