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Most inmates lose access to medication-assisted treatment for addiction once they're incarcerated. Among prisons and jails that do offer such treatment, it's often restricted to pregnant women.

At least two people died Monday in a series of severe storms. Oklahoma was particularly hard-hit.

A San Diego police officer who fatally shot a homeless mentally ill man in the Midway District last year is now facing a federal civil rights lawsuit after allegedly firing his duty weapon into a crib in February, though the crib was empty at the time.

Three shootings from 2014 and 2015 were justified and the officers involved will not face criminal charges, San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said Friday.

The governor of California has raised the legal age to buy tobacco for smoking, dipping, chewing and vaping from 18 to 21.

The City Council has begun four days of public hearings on San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer's $3.3 billion proposed budget.

If not for flawed classification of deaths, medical mistakes would be the third leading cause of U.S. deaths, Johns Hopkins researchers say. They're calling on the CDC to track deaths from errors.

Police Commissioner Kevin Davis says detectives mistook the replica for a real gun and describes the boy's injuries as non-fatal. The shooting happened on the anniversary of Freddie Gray's funeral.

At least three doctors — including a pediatrician — are among the 14 bodies recovered at the hospital, according to the aid group.

One person was killed early Friday morning in a two-vehicle collision on state Route 67 in Santee.