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April 1, 2018

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Guns, taxes, Obamacare fix: Maryland General Assembly has much to resolve in final week

Sunday, Apr 1

Maryland state lawmakers have just a week left to resolve some of the costliest and most controversial problems of the year: shoring up Obamacare, alleviating an expected rise in income taxes, expanding the medical marijuana industry and bolstering school safety.

Orioles narrowly avoid no-hitter in 6-2 loss to Twins

Minnesota Twins pitcher Kyle Gibson pitched six hitless innings on a chilly Saturday night at Oriole Park, but had to leave the game after reaching his pitch limit and the O's broke up the shutout in the ninth.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s death changed lives — and Baltimore's civil rights movement

Martin Luther King was assassinated 50 years ago April 4, changing the course of the civil rights movement. Some Baltimoreans recall how it altered their directions.

'It means everything': Former Maryland coach Lefty Driesell elected to Naismith Hall of Fame

Former Maryland coach Lefty Driesell was one of the 13 new members introduced Saturday to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame for the Class of 2018.

In Ellicott City, a once abandoned cemetery now blooms

Nearly 150 people admired the setting of spring flowering bulbs along wooded trails for an annual event called Daffodil Day, which includes a plant sale that serves as a fundraiser for the cemetery.

Volunteers take time out from Muslim convention to distribute food to needy

About 60 Muslim volunteers took time out from attending the annual ICNA-MAS convention in Baltimore to distribute food and personal items to those in need.

Hundreds rally in Sacramento after Stephon Clark autopsy raises new questions in police shooting

Former Sacramento Kings player Matt Barnes led hundreds of demonstrators in a peaceful rally in downtown Sacramento on Saturday to protest the police killing of Stephon Clark, one day after an independent autopsy concluded that the unarmed black man was shot six times in the back.

Schmuck: Orioles' Gausman looking to trend in new direction with a little help from his friends

Kevin Gausman has struggled in the first half of his two full seasons in the Orioles rotation. He's been working to reverse that trend and Buck Showalter is trying to help.

Baltimore firefighter suffers minor injuries in vacant house fire

A Baltimore firefighter was injured Saturday helping tackle a fire are a vacant house in the Northeastern part of the city.

Laura Ingraham takes vacation as advertisers revolt over her comments about Parkland survivor

The Fox News host is taking a vacation amid advertiser backlash to her comments about David Hogg, a survivior of the Parkland school shooting.