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November 8, 2018

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Thousand Oaks shooting leaves 13 people dead, including gunman, and 18 injured

Thursday, Nov 8

A gunman who killed 12 people at a Thousand Oaks bar was a former U.S. Marine who may have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the Ventura County sheriff said.

The California bar shooting victims: A police officer, a Little League umpire, a recent graduate

Here are the stories of some of the dozen people killed in a shooting at a country music bar in Southern California.

Baltimore's civil rights office gets new head amid legal dispute between police oversight panel, city solicitor

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has chosen an administrator from Georgetown University to lead the city's civil rights office, the city solicitor said. Darnell Ingram takes over amid a bitter legal dispute between the solicitor and a police oversight panel the office works with.

Baltimore City Public Schools investigating after high school student hits teacher in viral video

Baltimore school administrators are investigating after a teacher at Frederick Douglass High School was hit by a student Wednesday in an exchange captured on a viral video.

Three Maryland men indicted on charges of trafficking fentanyl provided by Mexican cartel

Starting in fall 2017, officials said, the men regularly purchased drugs in kilograms from a Miami-based drug trafficking organization, which had ties to Sinaloa and Tijuana Mexican drug cartels, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Some Maryland workers turn heavily to opioids when injured, study finds

Close to a third of Maryland workers who filed injury compensation claims in recent years continued to rely on highly addictive opioid painkillers three months after they were hurt, according to a recent study by University of Maryland School of Medicine researchers.

Maryland might not have properly vetted some Medicaid enrollees

Maryland may have allowed residents who did not qualify for Medicaid into the government health program for the poor by failing to consider all of their income, a routine audit of the quasi-governmental agency that oversees the Maryland health exchange found.

Here's how Maryland hospitals fared on latest safety report card

Maryland hospitals were safer for patients this fall than they were six months ago, according to the latest assessment from the Leapfrog Group.

What people are saying about Maryland needing to redraw a congressional map with unconstitutional boundaries

What people are saying about federal judges ordering Maryland to redraw an unconstitutional congressional map. The court ordered Maryland to submit a plan by March 7 to remedy the problem or it will appoint a three-member commission to take care of it.

Rebuild offers Orioles opportunities to sign higher caliber of minor league free agents this winter

As they rebuild and deal with an uneven organizational depth chart, the Orioles should take a deeper and different look at the list of minor league free agents this winter.