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Irv Gotti, music executive who founded Murder, Inc., dies at 54 02/06/2025 07:19am • ��� Watch Video: Irv Gotti, famed hip-hop executive, dead at 54 NEW YORK -- Irv Gotti, the famed hip-hop music executive from New York City, has died at the age of 54. Def Jam Recordings shared a message on social media late Wednesday night confirming his death, saying the label is "deeply DC-area school systems bracing for possible Education Department changes 02/05/2025 07:15pm • As some D.C.-area school systems work to craft and approve budgets for the next fiscal year, they���re also planning for the possibility of changes in Department of Education funding and oversight. 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Before adopting the fiscal 2026 bud Blood donation: Why every drop counts 02/05/2025 04:44pm • ��� This content is sponsored by Inova Health. Every two seconds, someone in the United States needs blood. For 60 years, Inova Blood Donor Services has been the sole supplier of blood products to the Inova Health System, as well as more than a dozen other hospitals and medical centers in t National Zoo mourns death of 33-year-old gray seal Gunther 02/05/2025 02:12pm • The Smithsonian National Zoo has lost one of its beloved gray seals. Gunther, a 33-year-old gray seal who had been with the Zoo since 2012, died Jan. 18. In a release, the Zoo said the average life expectancy for gray seals in human care is roughly 19 years, an age Gunther easily surpassed. How one Bethesda diner is dealing with rising egg prices 02/05/2025 12:33pm • The Waffle House restaurant chain is adding a surcharge of 50 cents per egg due to the shortage caused by a bird flu outbreak. The 24/7 restaurant said that the resulting egg shortage has led to a dramatic increase in its costs. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts egg prices could ris Now that the replacement for Baltimore's Key Bridge has been revealed, the question of its new name resumes 02/05/2025 05:31am • When Maryland's replacement for Baltimore's Key Bridge is completed as expected in 2028, a state lawmaker wants the name to remain (mostly) the same. Maryland State Sen. Johnny Ray Salling of Baltimore County does not want to remove the connection to Francis Scott Key, the author of The Star-Span DraftKings Promo Code: Claim $200 in NBA, Super Bowl Bonus Bets 02/04/2025 07:49pm • This article contains references to products from our advertisers and/or partners, and we may receive compensation when you click on links to products and services Get in on the action with this DraftKings promo code offer and win bonuses for the Super Bowl. Create a new account and start with a $5 Arlington Public Schools tightening security after alleged incident at Washington-Liberty High School pool 02/04/2025 03:40pm • Arlington Public Schools in Virginia is tightening its security protocols months after a sex offender was accused of exposing himself in a girls' locker room at the Washington-Liberty High School pool. Richard Kenneth Cox, a registered sex offender, was arrested in December. At a meeting Thurs Federal workers at Northern Va. town hall say they are angry, scared and fed up 02/04/2025 04:15am • Hundreds of federal workers packed a town hall in Leesburg, Virginia, Monday night, sounding off on the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and their fears about the future. They packed into the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors room; about a hundred more were in the lobby and couldn 'No guarantees': Employment attorney on the decisions facing federal workers offered deferred resignations 02/04/2025 04:00am • As the deadline looms for tens of thousands of federal employees to decide whether to take the deferred resignation offer from the Trump administration, Camilla McKinney, an attorney specializing in employment law, told WTOP there are a number of things they want to consider before making a move. 'GSA cooked the books': Va.'s Gerry Connolly weighs in on federal watchdog's FBI relocation review process 02/03/2025 08:50pm • The U.S. General Services Administration���s Office of the Inspector General finished its report on the selection of Greenbelt, Maryland, for a new FBI headquarters. But, while it expressed some concerns, it stopped short of recommending the brakes be put on. The probe by the federal watchdog was After Hayfield allegations, Fairfax Co. schools work to address ���training gaps��� 02/03/2025 08:02pm • Months after Hayfield Secondary School���s football team withdrew from the playoffs, Fairfax County Public Schools is crafting a plan that it hopes will improve its athletic processes and transparency ahead of the next school year. Last spring, Hayfield was accused of violating recruiting rules, Md. pastor of church pantry: Community members 'are scared to come get the food' due to immigration crackdown 02/03/2025 06:15pm • Immigrants in the D.C. area who rely on local food pantries to get by are apparently not showing up as often these days. ���They are scared to come get the food, so it���s kind of disturbing,��� said Pastor Abdul K. Sesay, of City of Light Church in Silver Spring, Maryland. Sesay is also t