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Massive crowds expected for inaugural DC Freedom 250 Grand Prix

The inaugural Freedom 250 Grand Prix is expected to draw massive crowds to D.C. when racing takes place around the National Mall in August.
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Student Safety is threatened by jam-packed school buses

With the end of the school day comes a familiar scene: students pressed shoulder-to-shoulder, backpacks and instruments wedged between knees, a single lurch of the bus threatening to jostle them together. Every day, many students have no choice but to ride these MCPS-provided public school buses. However, when many...
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The Blackened Salmon At This Down-Home Restaurant In Maryland Is Out-Of-This-World Delicious

I’ve eaten salmon in twenty-seven countries, but nothing prepared me for the blackened masterpiece that’s quietly changing lives in Bowie, Maryland. Ruby’s Southern Comfort Kitchen serves a blackened salmon so perfectly executed it might make you question everything you thought you knew about fish. Let’s talk about...
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DC Region Braces for Prolonged Arctic Chill Before Midweek Thaw

Early Morning Wind Chills Plunge Below Zero (Image Credits: Unsplash) D.C. region – Bitter Arctic air tightened its hold Sunday, delivering subzero wind chills and temperatures stuck in the low 20s across the Washington area.[1] Early Morning Wind Chills Plunge Below Zero Residents faced dangerously low wind chills...
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Buddhist Walk for Peace Pilgrimage to Pass Through Alexandria February 9

ALEXANDRIA, VA — A group of Buddhist monks undertaking a cross-country “Walk for Peace” pilgrimage will pass through Alexandria on Monday, February 9, bringing a message of reflection, compassion, and unity to the community. The monks are walking from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., stopping in...
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DC weather: Chance for a weekend wintry mix

Temperatures hit the 40s across the Washington, D.C. region this week, with a chance for a wintry mix developing over the weekend.
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20-Foot High Snowcrete Towers Over RFK Site in DC After Last Week’s Snowstorm

A Monumental Pile Takes Shape (Image Credits: Wtop.com) Washington D.C. – Crews transformed a vast parking lot at the former RFK Stadium into a makeshift mountain of hardened snow and ice following a brutal winter storm. A Monumental Pile Takes Shape At Lot 6 of the old RFK site, a 20-foot-high mound of “snowcrete”...
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The Toy Nest in Falls Church is a Never-Ending Playroom for Kids and a...

Many parents are familiar with the sight of a home overflowing with toys, yet their children claim to have ‘nothing to play with’. It might feel like the only solution is to throw everything in the garbage, but The Toy Nest in Falls Church has a better approach: it’s a toy library. Patrons can come by and play with...
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1 hurt after DC fire at 2-story row house

DC Fire and EMS Department responded to a two-story row dwelling for reports of a fire on Monday morning.
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Cedar Hill hospital staffing crisis linked to GW-UHS negotiations over MFA, DC leaders say

D.C. leaders say severe staffing shortages at Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center GW Health are tied to ongoing negotiations between the University and Universal Health Services over the debt-ridden Medical Faculty Associates. Less than a year after the city opened Cedar Hill hospital — a $434 million facility in...

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