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A Maryland judge says a forensic psychiatrist for the state health department believes the man accused of killing five staffers at the Capital Gazette is legally sane.

A national needle exchange program that applied to the state to expand into Santa Cruz County abruptly withdrew its application with the state health department after a lot of community pushback.

A forensic examination on Ruby Andersen, whose body was found at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital campus Wednesday afternoon, concluded that no foul play was involved in her death, according to the city’s Department of Public Health.

The number of measles cases in California continues to escalate, as the state health department confirms there are at least 91 cases reported, with 58 linked to the Disneyland outbreak first reported in mid-December.

A Navy contractor in charge of cleaning up radiological contamination at Hunters Point in San Francisco admits in an internal April 2014 report that it submitted false soil sample data, claiming areas of the shipyard were free of radiation when they may not have been.

State auditors have found Medi-Cal, the nation’s largest Medicaid program, was hit with more than $93 million in potentially fraudulent bills by substance abuse clinics across California.