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Maryland Weather: Freeze Warning For Some Of Central Md. Overnight Before Sunny Thursday

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Temps in a single day might be chilly with lows within the 30s for many areas. A FREEZE WARNING stays in impact for areas north and west of Baltimore, for many of Harford, Baltimore, western Howard and all of Carroll Co.
A FREEZE WATCH has been issued for southern Harford, Cecil and jap parts of Howard Co. T
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Temps will rebound into the higher 50s to close 60 for Thursday afternoon with plenty of sunshine. Winds will stay gusty out of the northwest 10-20 mph by way of the day.
Thursday night time will once more be chilly, with mild winds. Lows will once more dip into the 30s and 40s throughout the area. Highs Friday afternoon will attain the low 60s with mild winds and extra sunshine.
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Hotter climate arrives this weekend. Mornings will nonetheless be cool into the 40s with highs within the mid-60s Saturday and round 70 for Sunday. A fast paced storm system will deliver a slight likelihood for some PM Showers on Sunday.
A extra substantial storm system will transfer into the world subsequent Tuesday. This can deliver the potential for thunderstorms to the world.
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Temperatures might be a lot hotter subsequent week with highs within the 70s from Monday by way of Wednesday.

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Convicted felons in Maryland could have a chance at a reduced sentence under proposed bill

A proposed bill aims to give individuals serving lengthy prison sentences an opportunity to reduce their sentence.
Under House Bill 724, the Second Chance Act, those who have served at least 20 years of their sentence would be able to petition for sentence reduction. Petitions would be filed once every three years.
Per the measure, the courts would consider factors including the individual’s age at the time of the offense, behavior during incarceration, participation in educational programs, and public safety risk.
Similar proposed laws
A similar bill, the Maryland Clean Slate Act, would direct the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services to clear marijuana possession records and cases at least three years old. The bill would also allow for expungement of misdemeanor charges after seven years.
However, domestic-related crimes and second-degree assault charges would remain ineligible for expungement under the proposed law.
If passed, the legislation would require all electronic court records of cases eligible for expungement to be removed from public view starting in August 2027. The bill specifies that physical documents and media would not need to be redacted or destroyed.
After recreational cannabis was legalized in Maryland in July 2023, Gov. Wes Moore pardoned more than 175,000 convictions for cannabis or drug paraphernalia possession.
Impact of existing sentence reduction laws
Currently, the Juvenile Restoration Act allows people who served at least 20 years of a sentence for a crime they committed when they were under the age of 18 to request a sentence reduction. The law passed in 2024, also prohibits the courts from sentencing minors to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole or release.
According to a 2024 report by the Second Look Movement, nearly one-third of people serving life sentences are 55 or older, which amounts to more than 60,000 people. The report also says that lengthy sentences do not significantly deter crime and that people tend to desist from crime as they age.
In December 2023, the Maryland Equitable Justice Commission shared recommendations to reduce mass incarceration in the state and reduce racial disparities in the justice system.
The commission said that Maryland has the highest amount of Black individuals in its prisons when compared to the state population. Expanding second look laws, limiting the automatic charging of children in adult criminal court, and increasing the number of people eligible for parole consideration due to serious medical conditions, or reaching an age where they are no longer a threat to public safety.
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Members of cultlike Zizian group to remain jailed in Maryland

The leader and two other members of the extremist Zizian group, which authorities have connected to the killings of a Pennsylvania couple and a border patrol agent in Vermont, will remain jailed in Western Maryland after a judge denied them bond on Tuesday.
Jack “Ziz” LaSota, Michelle Zajko and Daniel Blank are charged with trespassing and obstruction in Allegany County. LaSota and Zajko face gun charges, too. The three were arrested Sunday evening while trying to camp on private property, according to police. They wore dark clothing, gun belts and had two box trucks with multiple firearms, police said.
During a bail hearing Tuesday in Allegany County District Court, Judge Erich Bean said the three could pose a danger to the community if released, and there’s a risk they could take off on the run.
The Zizians are a dangerous, extremist group, Allegany County State’s Attorney James Elliott told the judge.
“This group is believed to be involved in multiple homicides in the United States,” he said.
The group’s leader, LaSota, interrupted the judge to say she was refusing food.
“I might starve to death if you do not intervene. I need the jail to be ordered to have a vegan diet,” she said. “It’s more important than whatever this hearing is.”
LaSota also told the judge that she did not belong in jail.
“I haven’t done anything wrong,” she said.
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A public defender described the three as brilliant, saying LaSota and Blank were computer scientists. Zajko was a biologist who interned at NASA.
Authorities have described the three as persons of interest in the killings of Zajko’s parents west of Philadelphia. The parents’ bodies were found in January 2023. Law enforcement has connected the Zizians to at least six deaths across the country.
An offshoot of a Berkeley, California-area rationalist movement, the Zizians have a fairly complex set of beliefs. They seek to understand human cognition, and are anarchists and radical vegans. LaSota, a former computer programmer, believes that the two hemispheres of the human brain can operate separately from one another, with one side holding different beliefs and existing as a different gender than the other, according to The Associated Press.
As leader of the Zizians, LaSota tended to target “smart, mostly autistic-ish transwomen who were extremely vulnerable and isolated” for recruitment, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.
A widespread search for the trio ended Sunday in rural Western Maryland.
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Not long after 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, the Maryland State Police, Allegany County Sheriff’s Office and Maryland Natural Resources Police responded to a property on Piney Mountain Road off Coon Club Road in Frostburg after a man called and reported that two white box trucks with chains on the tires were trespassing on his property.
The man informed police that he told the three people who were wearing all black that they were not allowed on his property. They asked him if they could camp there for one month.
The property owner told law enforcement that the three people appeared suspicious and he wanted them removed from his property, police reported.
When Master Trooper Brandon Jeffries approached the vehicles, he alleges he saw a man sitting in the passenger seat of one of the trucks and ordered him to show his hands. That’s when Blank stated that he had a learning disability and did not understand, police reported.
Then, Jeffries asserts, he saw someone wipe the window in the other truck because it had fogged up.
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Police reported that they found two people in that truck who were wearing gun belts that contained ammunition.
Next, Jeffries ordered them to get out of the vehicle. Michelle Zajko, he claims, cried and pleaded with him not to kill her.
Jeffries alleges that he told Zajko and Jack LaSota about the complaint that they were trespassing. The two agreed to leave, police reported, but they then refused to show their IDs.
As Jeffries looked through the back door of the truck, he asserts, he spotted a rifle and a handgun.
The three refused to give their names, police reported. Law enforcement arrested Blank and LaSota.
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Police then took Zajko to the ground after they claim she refused to put her hands behind her back. Officers reported that they found a loaded handgun in her waistband.
The FBI identified Blank, LaSota and Zajko after looking at pictures.
Blank, 26, of Sacramento, California, is charged with trespassing and obstructing and hindering.
Zajko, 32, of Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, is charged with trespassing, resisting and interfering with an arrest, obstructing and hindering and a handgun offense.
LaSota, 33, of Berkeley, California, is charged with trespassing, obstructing and hindering and a handgun offense.
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Correction: A previous version of this story misstated when the bodies of Michelle Zajko’s parents were found.
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