Maryland bill would provide weight loss medications to Medicaid patients
A proposed bill would make the drugs available to Medicaid patients statewide.
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WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren came to WJZ in the spring of 2004 from KARK-TV, an NBC affiliate station in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he worked as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor. Solid reporting credentials and a reputation for breaking important news stories characterized Mike's work both there and at KTAL-TV, another NBC station in Shreveport, La. where he also was a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor.
He also worked as a reporter/producer/photographer for KLAX-TV, an ABC station in Alexandria, Louisiana, and started his career in broadcast journalism with a cable news program called First Edition News in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Mike holds a B.S. degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and grew up partly in both Chicago and Louisiana.
A proposed bill would make the drugs available to Medicaid patients statewide.
Maryland's prisons have seen a rise in contraband weapons, which have increased 375% in one year, according to a legislative report.
Squatters took over a Baltimore County home in a "cash for keys" scam that left a homeowner frustrated. A proposed law in Maryland could make it easier to remove squatters.
A problem in the city's payroll system allowed some Baltimore sheriff's deputies to be overpaid by three times their hourly wages to the tune of more than $2 million.
Promyss Marcelle keeps her son Jacobi close to her heart—a necklace with a "J" initial around her neck and a picture of him on her shirt.
Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman told WJZ Investigates that her office will no longer include Social Security numbers on mailed 1099-G tax forms after a printing error exposed the personal information of thousands of Marylanders.
The Maryland Comptroller's office blamed a printing malfunction after tax forms with sensitive personal information on thousands of Marylanders were accidentally mailed to the wrong people.
A professor, members of the tight-knit figure skating community, and friends on a hunting trip are among the victims of the deadly midair plane collision near Reagan National Airport, the deadliest aviation incident in the United States in more than 20 years.
Bill Pearce, a commercial pilot from Maryland who has worked for several major airlines, says flying in and out of Ronald Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C. is tough for pilots and air traffic control.
A 10-year-old died Tuesday after suffering from a self-inflicted, accidental gunshot wound on Saturday, Jan. 25, leading to the arrest of her grandmother, according to Baltimore police.
A grandmother was arrested Monday after a 9-year-old in Northwest Baltimore shot and injured herself in an accidental shooting, according to police.
The Maryland Department of the Environment issued an air quality alert after a fire at a Baltimore County recycling plant began rekindling.
Marylanders with ties to Israel and Gaza expressed cautious optimism after Hamas and Israel reached a ceasefire agreement Wednesday that calls for the phased release of hostages.
Jamal Davis, a security officer, was shot and killed at a Baltimore McDonald's a week after his 38th birthday.
A mother said farewell Friday to her four-year-old son Jacobi Marcelle—a little more than two weeks after police say the child's father shot and killed him inside their apartment in Rosedale, Baltimore County.