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Thursday, May 13, 2010

Teen Saves Teacher

The following stories have been hand-selected by the Assignment Desk at News4:

TEEN SAVES TEACHER
It took 20 seconds and six hard Heimlich maneuvers for Storm Rundman to save his teacher's life. Moments earlier, as Rundman and his fellow students took a test, Stafford Senior High School Spanish teacher Myriam Lorenzo sat at her desk to eat lunch. She took a bite of a chicken sandwich and something stuck in her throat. "It was a hard moment to describe," she said. "I knew I was in trouble. I thought I had to get out of the classroom." Rundman, a 17-year-old junior, noticed something was wrong. (Fredericksburg.com)

POLICE UNDERSTAFFED Understaffing in the Prince George's County Police Department is preventing the department from providing improved service, according to Police Chief Roberto Hylton. Despite hiring more than 1,000 new recruits over the past eight years, the county police department remains more than 300 officers below what staff levels should be, Hylton reported at a County Council hearing May 3. (Gazette)

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