VIA WTOP: WASHINGTON – Metro riders can expect minor delays on the Green and Yellow lines after a woman was struck by a train Wednesday afternoon. Metro says a woman was struck by a Green Line train shortly after 1 p.m. at the Mount Vernon Square/7th Street Convention Center station. Regular service has resumed on […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Tens of thousands of kids from across the country descended on the White House’s South Lawn on Monday to play football, basketball and golf and watch performances from the likes of Sara Bareilles, Justin Bieber and the cast of the hit TV show “Glee.” Oh, and they also got to roll […]
VIA MSNBC: GRANDVIEW, Mo. – Don Carroll, a former financial analyst with a master’s degree in business administration from a top university, was clearly overqualified for the job running the claims department for Cartwright International, a small, family-owned moving company here south of Kansas City. But he had been out of work for six months, […]
Tune into The Mo’Nique Show on BET tonight to see Sunday Best winner and the DMV’s own Y’anna Crawley! Also coming through to chat with Mo’Nique will be Mary Mary’s Tina Campbell and comedian Jonathan Slocumb. The Mo’Nique Show airs weeknights at 11 pm.
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: As part of the proposed budget that D.C Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is unveiling this morning, the city would increase parking meter rates and residential parking permit fees, City Administrator Neil O. Albert said. Applications for residential parking permits would increase from $15 to $25. Parking meter rates in some areas […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Prosecutors recommended on Tuesday that Wizards star guard Gilbert Arenas spend three months in jail for bringing guns into the Verizon Center locker room. Prosecutors also proposed that Arenas serve three years probation and perform 300 hours of community service. The recommendations came in a sentencing memo to the court that […]
VIA BLACK VOICES: Gospel singer Deitrick Haddon makes his feature film debut in the movie, ‘Blessed & Cursed,’ a motion picture written by the Stellar Award-winning artist. Described as a “gripping, Biblical account of Saul and David” that is “brought to life with a modern retelling of the classic story,” Haddon stars as Dwight Hawkins, […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The guy behind the meat counter is looking at Reed Sandridge kind of strangely. Giving away $10 every day to a stranger — an idea Sandridge had soon after he was laid off from his job at a Washington nonprofit group last fall — isn’t as easy as it sounds. Carlos […]
VIA THE MIAMI HERALD: The Archdiocese of Miami says it will spend $1.57 million for ongoing relief in the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, including medical support, church rebuilding and assistance to new Haitian immigrants in South Florida. “We have seen what the needs are in Haiti, not just Port-au-Prince but all of Haiti, […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: In “The Paradox of Choice,” author Barry Schwartz makes the case that more can be less. Sometimes, he writes, we have too many options for our own good. Rather than being thrilled with the range of possibilities before us, we become anxious about sorting through them all and making the right […]