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(Undated) — From state highways to the “information super-highway,” police are spreading the word about the East Coast Rapist. Billboards in seven states are flashing a composite sketch and a toll-free number. It’s the latest in an effort to catch the suspect linked to more than a dozen cases, including Halloween night attacks on two northern […]
VIA NOAA National Weather Service HE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MARYLAND WESTERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA COASTAL WATERS EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON FROM 900 AM UNTIL 400 PM EST. TORNADOES…HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER…THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH…AND […]
(Washington, DC) — Metro may track some teen riders through special passes to curb youth violence and save money for the transit system. Metro Board member Tommy Wells says the passes would identify students by name and school. He says right now students use magnetic strip cards that give them unlimited service, but with a […]
(Sterling, VA) — It will be a rainy and windy today in the DC area. We’ll be under a Wind Advisory from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., and a High Wind Warning until 7 p.m. Winds are expected to come out of the west-northwest at 30-miles-an-hour with gusts of 45-to-50-miles-per-hour possible. That could mean power […]
On Tuesday February 22nd from 10am-7pm, our Radio One stations in conjunction with Prince George’s County Police participated in a “Stop the Violence” day. The purpose of the “Stop the Violence” day is our response to the alarming number of homicides in Prince George’s County this year. We view the “Stop the Violence” day as […]
Despite the economic climate giving in the United Methodist Church continues to rise. United Methodist News Service says fifteen of the denomination’s 59 U.S. regional and missionary conferences paid 100 percent of the money asked of them to support the denomination’s ministries around the world. The total collected was just over $157-million which was almost […]
(Manassas, VA) — A four-month-old baby is recovering after a family friend reportedly beat the child. Police were called to Portsmouth Road in Manassas on Saturday to check out a report of an assault. They found the infant with injuries, and sent the boy to the hospital. Police arrested 21-year-old Christopher Araya and charged him with […]
(Washington, DC) –Here are the latest closings and delays in the Washington DC area for Tuesday, February 22nd. SCHOOLS: DC: DC Public Schools — Two Hour Delay Ideal Academy Public Charter School — Two Hour Delay Kendall Demonstration Elementary — Closed MARYLAND: Montgomery County Schools — Two Hour Delay, No A.M. half-day classes Prince George’s […]
Southern California’s USC University Hospital shut down its organ transplant program last month after a patient received the wrong kidney. The patient survived, possibly because the organ came from a donor with the universal blood type O, reports the “L.A. Times.” An incompatible organ can kill a patient. There was no public notice that USC […]
Shop Maryland Energy takes place this coming weekend, and purchases of certain Energy Star products will be tax free. Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot is reminding residents that the six-percent sales tax will be waived tomorrow through Washington’s Birthday on Monday on such items as energy efficient appliances, heat pumps, CFL bulbs and programmable thermostats. The […]