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Survivors of newspaper shooting, victims’ relatives sue

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The families of five Maryland newspaper employees killed in a mass shooting in 2018 and most of the surviving employees who were in the Capital Gazette newsroom during the attack have filed two lawsuits alleging a parent company did not do enough to prevent the attack.

The Baltimore Sun, also named as a defendant, reports the lawsuits were unsealed Thursday.  They were filed last month along with a request to keep them sealed while the gunman’s trial played out.

A jury on Thursday found Jarrod Ramos criminally responsible. Ramos had a long-running grudge against the Annapolis newspaper.

Montgomery Co. waiting for virus transmission levels to drop before ending indoor mask mandate

Montgomery County, Maryland, has long led the state in terms of the percentage of its population that has been vaccinated, but a county official said the transmission rate of the virus still has to fall a little more before the indoor mask mandate will be reconsidered. The county is currently reporting a "substantial" rate of virus transmission by Centers of Disease Control and Prevention metrics, with a seven-day average of 66 new cases reported per day. Sean O'Donnell, with Montgomery County Health and Human Services, said the county needs to reach "moderate" levels of transmission — which would be a seven-day average of 49 news cases per day.
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