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Zero Dark Thirty starring Jessica Chastain movie preview
12/10/12 6:07 PM
The Washington film critics name Zero Dark Thirty best movie of the year --- one of several other groups including the Boston film critics, New York online critics and the National Board of Review.
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Warm winter weather hurts ski resort business
12/10/12 6:01 PM
This warm December weather is tough on ski resort businesses. Instead of white slopes, there's only green grass, mud and fog at Liberty Mountain.
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Ivy City: Judge grants motion for preliminary injunction against parking lot
12/10/12 5:53 PM
Ivy City residents oppose a plan to build the parking lot, saying more buses would have a bad effect on air quality in the area.
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David Hamilton charged for allegedly striking man with shovel
12/10/12 5:34 PM
David Hamilton was arrested Saturday for allegedly striking a man several times with a shovel. Now a homicide detective is being praised for possibly preventing a death.
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Tasheik Ashanti Champean pleads guilty in 2010 homicide
12/10/12 3:46 PM
Forty-six-year-old Tasheik Ashanti Champean pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Alexandria to conspiring with two others to try and rob a Centreville man at his home because they expected him to be carrying large sums of cash.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn settles sex assault suit with maid
12/10/12 2:28 PM
Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the NYC hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault have inked a settlement in her lawsuit claiming sexual assault.
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Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro ruled incomeptent to stand trial
12/10/12 1:47 PM
InsideNova.com reports that Prince William Circuit Court Judge Richard Potter ruled that Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro is incompetent after hearing testimony from a court-appointed psychiatrist Nov. 29.
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D.C. lottery investigation: Lottery contract is subject of federal probe
12/10/12 11:53 AM
Federal authorities are looking for evidence of crimes including bribery and illegal steering of contracts, and numerous officials are under scrutiny connected to the D.C. lottery.
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Metro ridership down 5 percent in first quarter
12/10/12 10:59 AM
Metro says train ridership was nearly 5 percent below the agency's expectations in the first quarter of the fiscal year.
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Kevin Nguyen pleads guilty to shooting two at Rockville Metro station
12/10/12 6:02 PM
Kevin Nguyen faces up to 50 years in prison on attempted second-degree murder and use of a handgun in the commission of a crime charges.
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Jenni Rivera's plane crashes in Mexico
12/10/12 5:57 PM
Mexico's music world mourned Jenni Rivera, the U.S.-born singer killed in a plane crash whose soulful voice and openness about her personal troubles had made her a Mexican-American superstar.
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Maryland approved to operate health exchange
12/10/12 5:52 PM
Maryland has received conditional approval by the federal government to operate a state-based health insurance exchange in 2014, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced Monday.
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Kevin Clash faces fourth sex abuse allegation
12/10/12 3:57 PM
The alleged victim is now the fourth to accuse Kevin Clash, who resigned from "Sesame Street" last month after 28 years. The three legal actions filed so far have been civil cases.
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Bike deaths jumped 8.7 percent last year
12/10/12 3:07 PM
Bicyclist deaths jumped 8.7 percent and deaths of occupants of large trucks increased 20 percent, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in an analysis of 2011 traffic deaths.
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Staci Marie Watkins found dead in Laurel
12/10/12 2:20 PM
Police say the body of 49-year-old Staci Marie Watkins of no fixed address was found Sunday in Laurel.
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Hate crimes down in 2011, FBI says
12/10/12 1:22 PM
Nearly 60 percent of the people who allegedly committed hate crimes were white. Some 20 percent were black.
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Fannie, Freddie managers earn more than $200,000, report says
12/10/12 11:36 AM
The inspector general for the Federal Housing Finance Agency issued the report Monday saying 333 of the 2,000 senior managers are vice presidents who had median pay of $388,000.
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Santa visits NewsChannel 8
12/10/12 8:51 AM
Santa Claus left the North Pole this morning to visit his friends at NewsChannel 8. He also made time to do weather an interview with the morning crew about a very special event tonight at Montgomery Mall.

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