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WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 21: Rain falls on the White House March 21, 2019 in Washington, DC. The second day of spring brought showers to the United States capital region. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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The Jonathan Hager House Museum (Courtesy the City of Hagerstown)

Woman found dead at historic Hagerstown City Park in suspected homicide

A tableful of farmed Chesapeake Bay oysters freshly harvested from Tangier Sound in Virginia.

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Three boats caught on fire at Columbia Island Marina on May 28, 2023.

3 boats catch on fire at Columbia Island Marina overnight

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Shenandoah adds 1,000-acre Tanners Ridge woodlands, Naked Creek to its park land

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Thousands of poppies honor fallen service members on the National Mall

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ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA - MAY 25: (EDITOR'S NOTE: Alternate crop) Members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment place flags at the headstones of U.S. military personnel buried at Arlington National Cemetery, in preparation for Memorial Day, on May 25, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia. More than 1000 service members entered the cemetery at pre-dawn hours to begin the process of placing a flag in front of more than 270,000 headstones. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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A crash on Rock Creek Parkway on March 15 left three people dead and two more injured. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper)

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A tribal drum circle was held during a celebration of the new Southern Maryland National Heritage Area federal designation in Piscataway Park on Thursday. Photo by Josh Kurtz.

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For the first time in 16 years, three meerkat pups were born at the Small Mammal House. (Courtesy Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)

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Maryland State Board of Elections administrator Linda H. Lamone takes a quesion during an interview in her office Monday, Oct. 11, 2004 in Annapolis, Md. (AP Photo/Matthew S. Gunby)

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Rehan Staton, a former sanitation worker who went on to become a Harvard Law School student, started a nonprofit to guarantee that the support staff at Harvard Law will not only be seen, but celebrated. Steve Hartman has his story in "On the Road."

Former Prince George's Co. sanitation worker graduates from Harvard Law

Nearly 60 years ago, reporter Bill Mercer broke the news to Lee Harvey Oswald on camera that he had been charged with murdering President John F. Kennedy. That camera is now in a Dallas museum. Omar Villafranca has the story.

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Linda Harlee Harper, who was appointed by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to be the city's first gun violence prevention director in January 2021, died Friday at age 58.

Linda Harllee Harper, DC's first gun violence prevention director, dies at 58

Sculptures of Transformers Bumblebee, left, and Optimus Prime, right, flank the entrance of Georgetown University biochemistry professor Newton Howard's home in the Georgetown neighborhood Washington, Friday, March 5, 2021. The Transformers have delighted and also caused a controversy in the historic neighborhood of Georgetown. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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