ANNAPOLIS (AP) — The Maryland Insurance Administration has approved an average rate decrease of about 10% for individual health insurance plans in the state’s health care exchange.
NEWARK, Del. (AP) — Christiana Care Health System, Delaware’s largest private employer, will begin offering paid parental leave to its employees for the first time.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — T. Boone Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday. He was 91.
NEW YORK (AP) — Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians who grew up to cover the family business in Washington for ABC News and NPR over several decades, died Tuesday in Washington of complications from breast cancer. She was 75.
Hunters Can Apply Until Oct. 18
BAGHDAD (AP) — A walkway collapsed and set off a stampede in the holy city of Karbala on Tuesday as thousands of Shiite Muslims marked one of the most solemn holy days of the year. At least 31 people were killed and about 100 were injured, officials said.
WASHINGTON — Washington's daily free commuter newspaper, Express, always prided itself on wit. The paper is published by The Washington Post and when Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the Post in 2013, Express ran the headline: "Bezos Buys Express! (oh ... and the Washington Post too)."
ODESSA, Texas (AP) — A Texas state trooper was the first to be shot. He pulled over Seth Aaron Ator for failing to signal a left turn, not knowing that Ator had just lost his job or that he was carrying an AR-style rifle.
Foam container ban takes effect in Maryland's capital city
BALTIMORE — The Maryland Department of Health and the Maryland Poison Center at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, launched an investigation into e-cigarette-related illnesses.
