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Parents, students protest school boundary change in Montgomery County 11/26/2019 10:35pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: 'f89fa6c4-b055-4fea-8a70-577f43c27811' }).render("6061536ca7aab69");}); Parents and children, many from Clarksburg Best restaurant deals for Thanksgiving 11/25/2019 07:00pm • Thanksgiving is a nice respite from the relentless pace of Americans' normal daily lives. It is a time to reflect, connect and feast. Many Americans host and cook for Thanksgiving, but some would be even more thankful this season if they could outsource some of the hosting and cooking duties. If Why Amazon HQ2 employees may be more inclined to buy, not rent 11/25/2019 10:04am • Amazon workers will likely buy homes rather than rent. Pictured here is Crystal City, where employees are being hired. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) It has been just over a year since Amazon announced its HQ2 plans for Northern Virginia, and the news has helped drive home prices in Arlington County noti 5 tips to prepare for Small Business Saturday 11/24/2019 07:00pm • If you're looking to take advantage of discounts and promotions around Black Friday and Cyber Monday, you may want to consider shopping on Small Business Saturday, a shopping holiday created to inspire consumers to shop locally at mom and pop stores. Invented by American Express 10 years ago, Sma As DC area schools deal with racist behavior, Anne Arundel Co. moves for written apologies 11/24/2019 06:31am • A bathroom at Wilson High School in D.C. was found vandalized with hate symbols and speech scrawled on the walls on Wednesday afternoon in a pattern of behavior that has grown all too familiar at schools in the D.C. region. In a note sent home by the principal, the incident is described as the la Woman calls 911 to report domestic violence allegation under the guise of pizza order 11/23/2019 10:55pm • Tim TenEyck, a 911 dispatcher in Oregon, Ohio, has answered a lot of 911 calls in his 14 years on the job. When he first got a call on the evening of November 13 asking to order a pizza, he figured someone dialed the wrong number. But he soon realized the woman on the phone Stretch your winter travel budget by waiting for Cyber Monday deals 11/23/2019 05:55pm • Hold off booking your winter vacation for just a few more days. A number of travel sites like Orbitz, CheapTickets and Travelocity will soon be rolling out Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, according to travel experts. Jason Heidemann, a senior writer at Travelocity, said Cyber Monday can prod Florida man's dog locks him out of car, does donuts 11/23/2019 11:50am • Most dogs know a few tricks, like sit, stay or roll over — but one Florida dog may have the rest beat after he locked his owner out of a car and proceeded to drive reverse donuts in a cul-de-sac. According to a Facebook post from Port St. Lucie police, the dog's owner made a wrong turn into the Baltimore Museum of Art will only buy women's art in 2020 11/22/2019 10:23pm • The Baltimore Museum of Art unveiled plans that it will only buy art by women next year. Right now, only four percent of the museum's collection is by female artists. As part of the BMA's 2020 Vision initiative, the museum will also showcase at least 20 exhibitions featuring work from a diverse r Recall: 86 tons of chicken fried rice for plastic bits; Maryland impacted 11/22/2019 06:07pm • OAKLAND, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi company is recalling more than 86 tons of chicken fried rice that may contain bits of plastic. A recall notice says Ajinomoto Foods North America Inc. of Oakland, Mississippi, reported the problem after customers complained. The U.S. Department of Agricult Should you open a store card for holiday shopping? 11/20/2019 07:00pm • With the holiday shopping season heating up, retailers may try to sell you on the idea of opening a retail store credit card. While store credit cards can potentially yield savings and rewards, first consider what one could really be worth to you, compared with a traditional rewards card. Store c FCC looks at making 988 a nationwide suicide prevention number 11/20/2019 12:59pm • Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has proposed a new three-digit national hotline for emergency suicide prevention. (Courtesy AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The Federal Communications Commission could make 988 a new nationwide number for a suicide prevention and mental health hotli DC Council questions lawyers who investigated Councilman Jack Evans, reported ethics violations 11/19/2019 09:11pm • Two outside lawyers hired by the D.C. Council to conduct an investigation of council member Jack Evans went before the ad hoc committee Tuesday to take questions about their report, which found numerous violations of ethics rules. Attorneys Steve Bunnell and David Leviss, with the law firm O'Melv How Charles Co. is securing schools after threats 11/19/2019 11:16am • Threats at one Maryland school have led the district to take a number of steps to keep kids safer. This spring, loaded guns were brought to school by two students just a few weeks apart at La Plata High School. The Charles County School District responded by holding public safety meetings, taking DC lawmakers examine agencies' 'complete failure' after fatal house fire 11/18/2019 07:19pm • D.C. Council members want to know why a father and son who were living in a Northwest house that the District knew was unsafe died, and why the fire response to help them was delayed. The Aug. 18 fire claimed the lives of 9-year-old Yafet Solomon and his father, 40-year-old Fitsum Kebede. D.C.'s