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Terps beat Syracuse 11-10, advance to NCAA women's lacrosse finals
Brooke Griffin scored the go-ahead goal with 2:51 left to lead top-seeded and undefeated Maryland (22-0), which has won 11 national titles, into its 21st championship game appearance. The Terps will play North Carolina in the final Sunday.
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Rolling Thunder rumbles into D.C. area to honor POWs, MIAs, veterans
Continuing a decades-long tradition, tens of thousands of motorcycle riders are rumbling into the D.C. area for Memorial Day, coming from all across America, bringing the nation’s attention to veterans issues and to the POW/MIA cause.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson dies
Haynes Johnson, 81, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, best-selling author, and historian, died Friday. Johnson had taught at the University of Maryland since 1998. He was a columnist for the Washington Post from 1977 to 1994.
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Ex-Bethesda preschool teacher sentenced in child porn case
A preschool teacher who previously pleaded guilty to producing child pornography using several of his students has been sentenced to 14 years Friday.
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Maryland women's lacrosse takes on Syracuse
The Maryland women's lacrosse team will put their undefeated season on the line Friday night when they battle Syracuse in the NCAA semi-finals.
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Brookland neighbors battle over proposed new restaurant
A small group of D.C. residents is trying to keep a new restaurant and bar from opening in their Brookland neighborhood. But other residents disagree, saying the group doesn't speak for the whole community.
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'Show Out' members sentenced for robbery, assault
Court documents say Show Out members roamed northwest D.C., robbing and assaulting people at will. A security camera last June 5 captured images of them at a Chinatown bus stop at 3:20 a.m., where some members took a man's iPhone and beat him unconscious.
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Metro doors close, separate man from service dog
Knox tweeted that on a Red Line Shady Grove Bound Metro train Thursday night, the doors closed, separating a a family from a service dog.
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Should residential storm shelters be mandatory?
No state requires storm shelters in homes.
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No deficiencies found in abortion death at Germantown clinic
Maryland health officials investigating the death of a woman being treated at a Germantown abortion clinic found "no deficiencies" in her care.
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Gaithersburg murder suspect son of Bush White House official
It started out as a burglary call. But police say when they arrived on the scene they found something different. Investigators believe a hatchet was used by the son of a former aide to George W. Bush to allegedly kill another man.
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I-95 traffic delays grow even worse on Memorial Day weekend
People heading south for the Memorial Day weekend are running into delays that stretch for miles. But for those who drive I-95 in Northern Virginia, the miserable delays aren't something isolated to holiday weekends.
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Obama: Sex assaults threaten "trust and discipline" in military
A day after laying out his counterterrorism vision, President Barack Obama addresses future military leaders who could help carry it out in a speech to U.S. Naval Academy graduates.
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Man accused of showing child porn to child in Arlington
A 19-year-old man was arrested this week in Arlington after he allegedly showed a young child child pornography.
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"Potomac Lice Lady" in high demand these days
Memorial Day officially kicks off summer and that means the start of camp season. Unfortunately, for many children it's also the start of lice season. But did you know about the Potomac Lice Lady?
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Paul Tudor Jones tells UVA audience: Having children a focus 'killer' for women
A billionaire contributor to the University of Virginia is causing controversy over comments he made insinuating that it is difficult for women to work after having children.
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800K D.C. area residents expected to hit roads this weekend
AAA Mid-Atlantic says more than 800,000 people in the D.C. region are driving more than fifty miles to celebrate the unofficial start of summer. That's slightly down from last year.
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Worker killed in parking deck collapse at Montgomery Mall ID'd
One construction worker was killed and another one was critically injured when a parking garage that was closed to the public partially collapsed outside the Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda Thursday afternoon.
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