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'Flight' starring Denzel Washington movie review
11/1/12 5:56 PM
“Flight” begins with one of the most harrowing, palm-sweating grip-your-chair special effects recreations of an airplane in trouble you'll ever want to watch.
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Superstorm Sandy may cause $50 billion in damages
11/1/12 5:32 PM
Sandy may have caused between $30 billion and $50 billion in total economic losses, including property damage, lost business and extra living expenses.
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Letitia Baldrige, former White House social secretary, dies
11/1/12 2:33 PM
Letitia Baldrige, the White House social secretary during the Kennedy administration who came to be regarded as an authority on etiquette, has died.
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Disney buys Lucasfilm, unlikely to change 'Star Wars' brand
11/1/12 12:44 PM
With Disney's purchase of Lucasfilm, will Bambi and Mickey Mouse appear in future "Star Wars" movies taking up lightsabers against the dark side of the Force?
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D.C. may regulate businesses on air conditioning
11/1/12 10:06 AM
The D.C. Council is considering legislation that would prohibit businesses from propping their doors open if their air conditioning is running.
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Waldorf fatal shooting: Suspect description released
11/1/12 5:59 AM
The Charles County sheriff's office is asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect in the fatal shooting of a woman.
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Sandy 2012: Tidal flooding new threat in Old Town
10/31/12 11:29 PM
The area may have escaped relatively unharmed during the height of Sandy Monday, but for areas that experience tidal flooding, the trouble may not be over.
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Pink Slime lawsuit: ABC News asks judge to toss 'pink slime' lawsuit
10/31/12 11:14 PM
The term "pink slime," a memorandum attached to the motion said, "while unflattering, does not convey false facts ... and is precisely the kind of 'imaginative expression' and 'rhetorical hyperbole' that is constitutionally protected."
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Carolyn Macy, California escapee, arrested in Fairfax
10/31/12 10:02 PM
Special agents with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation say Carolyn Macy was arrested in Fairfax on Friday by the Fairfax and Loudoun counties sheriff's departments.
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Cathy Lanier: Eastern Market attack suspects linked to other robberies
11/1/12 5:47 PM
The three men charged with violently assaulting and robbing a 29-year-old man near Eastern Market in August were part of a group who have been linked to nine other robberies in the District, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Thursday.
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Andreas Aquiler murder: Three charged with killing Salisbury man
11/1/12 3:06 PM
Nineteen-year-old Deyamah Fisher, 20-year-old Tevin D. Blake and 17-year-old Gerard Williams Jr., all of Salisbury, were arrested early Thursday. Williams was charged as an adult.
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Audit: MWAA executives accepted expensive gifts from contractors
11/1/12 12:59 PM
An audit finds that executives accepted gifts like Super Bowl tickets from contractors and that the authority routinely awards no-bid contracts, even on work exceeding $200,000.
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Bob McDonnell's beach houses burglarized
11/1/12 12:38 PM
The governor's office on Thursday confirmed the thefts at the two Virginia Beach properties owned by Governor McDonnell but declined further comment.
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Meningitis outbreak: 89 Maryland hospitals linked to tainted drug pharmacy
11/1/12 8:02 AM
The Food and Drug Administration has released a new list that names 89 hospitals in Maryland that bought drugs from a pharmacy linked to a deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak.
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Jerry Sandusky moved to prison housing death row inmates
11/1/12 5:46 AM
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky on Wednesday was sent to serve his child molestation prison sentence at an institution in far southwestern Pennsylvania that includes most of the state's death row inmates.
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Contractor killed when tree falls on him in Annapolis
10/31/12 11:28 PM
Fire officials say a contractor working at a home to remove trees after superstorm Sandy in Annapolis was killed when a tree fell on him.
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Teen shot in Southeast
10/31/12 10:53 PM
Police in D.C. say a teenage boy was shot in Southeast Wednesday night.

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Glen Burnie man stabbed during robbery
10/31/12 9:55 PM
Anne Arundel County police say a man was repeatedly stabbed during a robbery in Glen Burnie.
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