One year later: Loved ones grieve, lawmakers push for safety changes after 6 killed in Maryland's deadliest work zone crash
In just seconds, six lives were lost along the Baltimore Beltway one year ago—workers who were supposed to be protected.
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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.
In just seconds, six lives were lost along the Baltimore Beltway one year ago—workers who were supposed to be protected.
For the first time, a top University of Maryland administrator is speaking out about how the school handled dangerous hazing allegations against fraternities and sororities.
There have been several recent assaults and carjackings in Baltimore City involving children as young as 12.
Former head swimming and diving coach Chad Cradock is accused of abusing students for years.
Those allegations include people being burned and assaulted, and several taken to hospitals for alcohol poisoning, which led to a suspension of most social activities.
Court documents reveal allegations of students being burned, paddled, and forced to drink bodily fluids at University of Maryland fraternities.
Several fraternities claim their freedom of speech is being violated at the University of Maryland College Park.
Thousands of state employees will be getting checks for money Maryland failed to pay them in one of the nation's largest cases of wage theft.
The studio is less than a mile from the Laurel racetrack and sits next to a residential area near the Route 198 overpass.
Baltimore's mayor and police commissioner say speeding and reckless driving are out of control in the city.
A former sorority member at the University of Maryland is pulling back the curtain on abuses in Greek life as fraternities and sororities remain suspended on the College Park campus.
Most coverage provides one prosthetic leg for walking alone, but not one needed for running, swimming or other physical activity.
Fraternities are pushing back against the University of Maryland's suspension of 35 Greek organizations on the College Park campus.
Thousands of vacant properties are crumbling and posing major safety risks.
Several students told WJZ they have heard allegations of hazing.