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Maryland student wins C-SPAN competition with Purple Line documentary 03/19/2024 11:12am • Dermott Foley will receive $3,000 for the First Prize documentary, "The Promise of Langley Park: The Purple Line, climate change and reimagining the future of America's suburbs." (Courtesy C-SPAN) Editor's Note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct residence of the student winner PGA Tour stays in Florida. LPGA and PGA Tour Champions begin a Western swing 03/19/2024 09:46am • PGA TOUR VALSPAR CHAMPIONSHIP Site: Palm Harbor, Florida. Course: Innisbrook Resort (Copperhead). Yardage: 7,340. Par: 71. Prize money: $8.4 million. Winner's share: $1.512 million. Television: Thursday-Friday, 2-6 p.m. (Golf Channel); Saturday-Sunday, 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (NBC). Defend An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow the spread of disease through Dutch bulb fields 03/19/2024 09:24am • NOORDWIJKERHOUT, Netherlands (AP) — Theo works weekdays, weekends and nights and never complains about a sore spine despite performing hour upon hour of what, for a regular farm hand, would be backbreaking labor checking Dutch tulip fields for sick flowers. The boxy robot — named after a retired March Madness as we know it could be on the way out amid seismic changes in college sports 03/19/2024 09:10am • Tracking the changes upending college sports can be as frenetic as flipping between all the games going down over the first week of March Madness. Ultimately, those changes could impact what America’s favorite basketball tournament looks like in the future — or whether it exists at all. News ab Stock market today: Asian shares are mixed after Bank of Japan ups key rate for 1st time in 17 years 03/19/2024 01:25am • BANGKOK (AP) — Shares are mixed in Asia after the Bank of Japan hiked its benchmark interest rate for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding negative rate policy. In a widely anticipated move, the BOJ raised its overnight call rate to a range of 0 to 0.1%, up from minus 0.1%. It said Man pleads guilty to murder in Hawaii after killing lover and encasing his body in tub 03/18/2024 09:05pm • HONOLULU (AP) — A man pleaded guilty to murder Monday, about two years after his lover's decomposing body was found encased in concrete in a bathtub in one of Hawaii's most exclusive gated communities. Juan Tejedor Baron, now 25, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Gary Ruby, 7 AmEx Refer a Friend: How Does It Work? 03/18/2024 08:00pm • Spreading the word about your favorite American Express card and its benefits can earn you extra Membership Rewards, which you can apply toward travel, shopping and other benefits. To use the AmEx Refer a Friend program, all you need to do is share your unique referral link. Each person who applies Summer Red Line work could have 'dramatic impact' on commute times, Montgomery Co. leaders say 03/18/2024 07:44pm • When five stations on Metro's Red Line close this summer, Montgomery County, Maryland, officials say they want to make sure the impact on everyone's commute is minimal. Montgomery County Council President Andrew Friedson was among those who signed a letter asking Metro General Manager Randy Clark Arsonist sets fire to Florida Jewish center, but police do not believe it was a hate crime 03/18/2024 06:26pm • FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida Jewish center suffered severe damage in a weekend arson fire that police believe was set by a mentally ill homeless man who previously confronted the rabbi and others. Rabbi Chaim Slavaticki said Monday that the man accused of setting the fire sat down An Afghan refugee has been convicted of murder in a case that shocked Albuquerque’s Muslim community 03/18/2024 05:48pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Afghan refugee was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque's Muslim community during the summer of 2022. Muhammad Syed faces life in prison for killing 41-year-old Aftab Hussein on July 26, 2022. He also will st Man seeks clemency to avoid what could be Georgia's first execution in more than 4 years 03/18/2024 05:20pm • ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia man should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled and feels remorse for killing his former girlfriend three decades ago, his lawyers wrote in seeking clemency for him. Willie James Pye, 59, is scheduled to be put to death Wednesday using the sedative pentoba Capitol police begin body camera pilot program 03/18/2024 04:50pm • U.S. Capitol Police launched a cautious test of body cameras Monday — about 70 officers have volunteered to wear the cameras during the 180-day pilot program. Only officers posted outside the Capitol and outside House and Senate office buildings will be wearing body cameras. In addition, dashbo Lawsuit accuses NYC Mayor Eric Adams of sexually assaulting a woman in a vacant lot in 1993 03/18/2024 04:18pm • New York City Mayor Eric Adams was accused in a lawsuit Monday of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993 and demanding a sexual favor in exchange for his help advancing her career in the police department. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Manhattan, offered the first public details of a sexual assault clai DP World Tour Schedule 03/18/2024 03:00pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen In Vermont, 'Town Meeting' is democracy embodied. What can the rest of the country learn from it? 03/18/2024 02:24pm • ELMORE, Vt. (AP) — Julie wants more donations to the food pantry. Kipp is busy knitting a sweater. Shorty is ready to ask: Why is so much being spent on a truck? The coffee, fresh-baked bread and donuts have been laid out. Eighty-seven voters have squeezed into the Elmore Town Hall. Town Meeting