Good morning, Baltimore! Here's what you need to know for your Thursday.
WEATHER
Showers and foggy throughout the day with temperatures rising to 48, and falling to low of 44 overnight. Winds will be out of the east at 6 to 12 mph today. Opening Day Friday looks as though it will be a wet one, so rain gear will be the order of the day.
FROM TODAY'S FRONT PAGE
As medical care for veterans continues to raise concerns across the nation, new data show that thousands of former service members still face significant delays when they seek treatment at Veterans Affairs medical centers in Maryland.
A detective revealed in court Wednesday that the Baltimore Police Department has used an invasive and controversial cellphone tracking device thousands of times in recent years while following instructions from the FBI to withhold information about it from prosecutors and judges.
Teachers and students who work and attend Somerset County public schools are mourning the deaths of seven students and their father Rodney Todd from carbon monoxide poisoning.
The plot to kill President Abraham Lincoln was hatched in Baltimore, according to Michael W. Kauffman, author of "American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies."
FROM LAST NIGHT
The city-owned Hilton Hotel Baltimore convention center hotel lost $5.6 million last year --- a worse performance than 2013 despite its close location to Camden Yards and the Orioles' playoff run, according to an audit that was presented to the city's Board of Estimates Wednesday.
Doreen Bolger, who has headed the Baltimore Museum of Art for 17 years, announced her retirement Wednesday.
Transgender people will be able to permanently change the names and genders on their birth certificates under a bill given final approval by the Maryland General Assembly.
The General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to legislation that would reward whistle-blowers who help the state recover money from those who have cheated it.