Jeff Hager

Baltimore

Reporter at WMAR-TV (Baltimore, MD)

Reporter at ABC2 News in Baltimore happy to be in the big city with a small town atmosphere.

Articles

Arrest in robbery & attempted rape at Howard Street business

6 days ago | wmar2news.com | Jeff Hager

BALTIMORE, Md. - A masked man with a knit hat dressed all in black and looking through the windows of businesses in Baltimore for easy prey. He struck a business on North Howard Street on Monday just as it opened at 10 o'clock in the morning. "It seemed like he was targeting women," a nearby business owner who did not want to be identified told us, "My neighbor informed me that she had been attacked the day prior to me coming in.
9-year-old boy seeks cure for Alzheimer's

1 week ago | wmar2news.com | Jeff Hager

ABERDEEN, Md. - He will hide two dozen Easter eggs a home in Aberdeen and then at a dozen more this week in exchange for 30 dollar donations, as Bradley Snyder works to build up the philanthropy he started when he was just six years old. "Do you ever get tired?" I asked the young boy, "It sounds like it's getting bigger and there are more yards every year.""Yes. I get tired," he replied, "I'm a nine-year-old hiding eggs at a bunch of houses."But Bradley isn't your typical third grader.
Abandoned puppies find new homes

1 week ago | wmar2news.com | Jeff Hager

HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. - To look at them now, you would be hard pressed to find any signs of neglect in the three lab puppies discovered in a wooded area of Havre de Grace where they had been abandoned.
Justice denied in Dunkin' Donuts killing

1 week ago | wmar2news.com | Jeff Hager

HANOVER, Md. - A married couple who shared a night shift at the Dunkin' Donuts on Arundel Mills Boulevard, the night of April 12th, 2015, Palak and Bhadreshkumar Patels' lives collided with deadly consequences. "Every dream, every aspiration Palak envisioned for herself and her family and her future were shattered in that instant," said Anne Arundel County Police Chief Amal Awad.
Pay hike sought for Baltimore's tipped workers

2 weeks ago | wmar2news.com | Jeff Hager

BALTIMORE - He loves his job as a bartender, but Marino Santoro hates the uncertainty of working for tips.
Four-year-old inspires blood donations

2 weeks ago | wmar2news.com | Jeff Hager

NORTH EAST, Md. - A rough and tumble four-year-old, Hunter McCoy defied the odds, beating the cancer that followed him at birth. "He had his first brain surgery at four weeks old, and then after he recovered from the brain surgery, chemo started right away," said Jordyn Yedinak, Hunter's mother, "So the first year of his life, he went through rounds of chemo and then when he was six months old, the tumor was removed."95 percent of it anyway.
New details in ambush on Baltimore County Police officer

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Jeff Hager

Share CATONSIVLLE, Md. — Gunfire outside the Wilkens Precinct in Catonsville, first, from an unidentified gunman, and then from officers returning fire.
Your debt, their gain: Scammer poses as collection agent to bilk Annapolis woman

1 month ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Jeff Hager

Share ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Annapolis Police say a woman on Amberstone Court this week received a telephone call demanding she settle an outstanding credit card debt. “It was over $5600. So, she felt that she needed to handle it immediately. So, she decided to pay over the phone,” said Kortlan Jackson of the Annapolis Police Department. It was only after she made the payment that she asked to speak with a supervisor and she was refused. Her next call would be to police.
Two-alarm fire displaces 27 victims

1 month ago | wmar2news.com | Jeff Hager

WINDSOR MILL, Md. - Those assigned to Engine 3 with the Woodlawn Volunteer Fire Company arrived at the Apartments of Diamond Ridge within a matter of minutes on Tuesday, but the flames were already spreading quickly through a pair of buildings.
Airplane boarding restrictions to tighten

1 month ago | wmar2news.com | Jeff Hager

LINTHICUM, Md. - Air travel changed forever in the U.S. after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and the country is still addressing one of the security weaknesses exposed on that fateful day. "Those terrorists actually used fraudulent IDs for getting onto their flights that day," said TSA Federal Security Director (MD) Christopher Murgia.