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Last minute questions for Santa from WTOP’s youngest listeners

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DC-area forecast is merry and bright Wednesday before rainy Christmas morning

Marylander among 64 sickened by multi-state outbreak of Salmonella from raw oysters

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1 killed in early morning crash in Prince William County that closed portions of I-66

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