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Doomsday: Area restaurants offer deals
12/19/12 6:48 PM
Some predict human existence will come to a halt on 12/21/12 because that’s when the Mayan ancient calendar ends. Opinion polls suggest one in 10 Americans worries about surviving beyond this Friday.
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Body scans used to help fit men's clothing
12/19/12 6:39 PM
UVA grad Colin Hunter never wanted to be in fashion, but he left his job in finance after he and his business partner--both Virginians--decided to make a run at changing how men shop.
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President Obama's second inauguration audience to lag behind 2009 numbers
12/19/12 6:17 PM
The audience for President Barack Obama's second inauguration will be a fraction of the crowd that witnessed the 2009 swearing in. Hotels that were booked by this time four years ago are only at 60 percent occupancy for the inauguration weekend.
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Sticky Rice owner Joey Belcher dies
12/19/12 5:59 PM
Joey Belcher, owner of the D.C. restaurant Sticky Rice, was found dead in his northeast home Monday. The medical examiner has yet to release a cause of death. But the loss has hit H Street hard.
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Funeral services continue for Sandy Hook shooting victims
12/19/12 5:38 PM
A 7-year-old boy who had dreamed of being a firefighter and a heroic first-grade teacher who died while trying to shield students from the carnage were among the victims laid to rest in what has become an unrelenting cycle of sorrow and loss.
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President Obama launches effort to prevent mass school shootings
12/19/12 5:28 PM
Just days after promising the people of Newtown and America that mass shootings couldn't become a part of life, President Barack Obama launches a major effort to curb gun violence.
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Army daycare centers under investigation
12/19/12 5:10 PM
A White House official said the president relayed his concern about reports of abuse at the Fort Myer, Va., day care center and made clear that there must be a zero tolerance policy when it comes to protecting the children of service members.

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Deanna Lusko sentenced in cat hoarding case
12/19/12 2:55 PM
A Severna Park woman has been fined $2,000 for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to cats. Fifty-year-old Deanna Lusko was sentenced Tuesday in Annapolis.
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Medicare warns doctors about potential cuts
12/19/12 2:09 PM
Medicare is warning doctors - and millions of elderly patients - that payments will be slashed next year unless Congress acts soon.
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New D.C. law gives bicyclists stronger legal protection
12/19/12 6:43 PM
The District passed a new law proponents say will give cyclists a better chance of filing a lawsuit against motorists who purposely try to harm them.

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Newtown massacre: New school to replicate Sandy Hook Elem.
12/19/12 6:34 PM
When the Sandy Hook Elementary children return to school in a different building, they'll find things just as they left them Friday, down to the water bottles and boxes of crayons sitting on their desks.
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Capital One robbed in SE D.C.
12/19/12 6:08 PM
Police say the man walked into the bank in the 300 block of Pennsylvania Ave. SE shortly before 11 a.m. He passed a note to the teller saying he had a weapon and got away with cash.
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Johnny Pimentel extradited to Fairfax County
12/19/12 5:56 PM
Investigators say 41-year-old Johnny Pimentel is responsible for slashing several women's buttocks in Fairfax shopping centers from February through July 2011. He was arrested in Lima, Peru last January.
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Newtown massacre: Amid tragedy, scam artists creep in
12/19/12 5:36 PM
The family of Noah Pozner was grieving for the 6-year-old when they learned that someone was soliciting donations in the boy's memory. It was a scam.
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Business Machinery World Wide staff indicted
12/19/12 5:26 PM
Prosecutors say that Tehran-based Business Machinery World Wide engaged in a four-year conspiracy to export more than $30 million in laptop computers, digital media equipment and other technology from the U.S. into Iran. Often the goods were routed through a subsidiary in Dubai.
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Rob Parker apologizes for RG3 'cornball brother' comments
12/19/12 4:06 PM
The ESPN talk show host who made incendiary comments about Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III last week has apologized for his words, saying on Twitter that he "blew it."
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Staff Sgt. Robert Bales faces death penalty in 16 slayings
12/19/12 2:32 PM
Prosecutors said Robert Bales left his remote base in southern Afghanistan early on March 11, attacked one village, returned to the base, and then slipped away again to attack another nearby compound.
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Time Person of the Year 2012: Barack Obama
12/19/12 1:57 PM
President Barack Obama has been honored as Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 2012.
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