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Carlson hits RBI single in 12th and Rays outlast Diamondbacks 8-7 after blowing 6-run lead 08/18/2024 06:38pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Dylan Carlson hit an RBI single in the 12th inning and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-7 to complete a three-game sweep Sunday after blowing a six-run lead. Jonny DeLuca led off with a sacrifice bunt against Justin Martinez (5-4) that moved automatic Alexandria Restaurant Week is underway 08/18/2024 05:16pm • Municipalities seem to respect other area restaurant weeks — not overlapping, so they don't have to share diners. This restaurant week belongs to Alexandria in Virginia. More than 90 restaurants across Alexandria's neighborhoods are offering special menus now through Sunday, Aug. 25. In-p Perdue recalls 167,000 pounds of chicken nuggets after consumers find metal wire in some packages 08/18/2024 04:12pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Check your freezer. Perdue Foods is recalling more than 167,000 pounds of frozen chicken nuggets and tenders after some customers reported finding metal wire embedded in the products. According to Perdue and the U.S. Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, th A hunter’s graveyard shift: grabbing pythons in the Everglades 08/18/2024 12:28am • HOLEY LAND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, Fla. (AP) — It's after midnight when the windshield fogs up on Thomas Aycock's F-250 pickup truck. He flashes a low smile as he slowly maneuvers through the sawgrass, down dirt roads deep in the Florida Everglades. His windshield just confirmed it: When the dew Metro police host back-to-school bash at Fort Totten station 08/17/2024 08:00pm • From vaping, the cost of school supplies to cellphone policies, the WTOP team is studying up on hot-button topics in education across the D.C. region. Follow on air and online in our series “WTOP Goes Back to School” this August and September. A colorful back-to-school fair greeted chil Less than one week after the Olympics, the WNBA playoff chase is on as rivalries have resumed 08/17/2024 07:46pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Back to your regularly scheduled programming in the WNBA. Less than one week after 12 of the world’s greatest players came together to win the gold medal for the U.S. Olympic team, it’s back to being “frenemies.” With a little more than one month left in the season, all 12 Heart disease is rampant in parts of the rural South. Researchers are hitting the road to learn why 08/17/2024 10:18am • Darrell Dixon’s father was just 25 when he had a major heart attack in the rural Mississippi Delta. By his early 40s, a series of additional attacks had left his heart muscle too weak to pump enough blood to his body. He died in 2013 at the age of 49. “It was a big jolt for our family,” Dixon, Immigrants prepare for new Biden protections with excitement and concern 08/17/2024 09:01am • MIAMI (AP) — Roberto Garcia crossed the border from Mexico in 2009 looking for a better life. For the past eight years, he has been married to an American woman, and they have three kids who are all American citizens. The only one in the family who is not is Garcia. Seven years ago, he applied to Second round of electric buses delayed for Manassas schools; concerns raised about vendor reliability 08/17/2024 08:43am • The second round of electric buses that was set to join Manassas City Public Schools’ fleet is delayed until November, school division officials told the School Board Tuesday. The school system phased in three electric buses in the 2023-24 school year and planned to add three more this year, whic Make eye exams part of the back-to-school checklist. Your kids and their teachers will thank you 08/17/2024 12:11am • When a little boy burst into tears in her third-grade classroom last fall, Audrey Jost pulled him aside while the other kids were at recess. He said he was getting headaches and falling behind the other students, so Jost spoke with his parents about getting his eyes tested. A few days later the boy Schools have made slow progress on record absenteeism, with millions of kids still skipping class 08/16/2024 08:09pm • MEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Flerentin “Flex” Jean-Baptiste missed so much school he had to repeat his freshman year at Medford High outside Boston. At school, “you do the same thing every day,” said Jean-Baptiste, who was absent 30 days his first year. “That gets very frustrating.” Then h What is 'price gouging' and why is VP Harris proposing to ban it? 08/16/2024 06:49pm • With inflation and high grocery prices still frustrating many voters, Vice President Kamala Harris on Friday proposed a ban on “price gouging” by food suppliers and grocery stores, as part of a broader agenda aimed at lowering the cost of housing, medicine, and food. It's an attempt to tackle a FACT FOCUS: A look at Harris' economic agenda 08/16/2024 05:08pm • Vice President Kamala Harris unveiled her economic agenda in a speech Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Democratic presidential nominee laid out plans including a proposal for a federal ban on what she called price gouging on groceries, as well as $25,000 in down payment help for certain first- How to protect yourself from the latest hack of Social Security numbers 08/16/2024 04:15pm • A recent hack of a company called National Public Data, which does background checks, exposed the personal information of nearly 3 billion people. So should you be checking websites that claim to be able to tell you if your data, including your Social Security number, was part of the breach? Initial public offerings scheduled to debut next week 08/16/2024 03:02pm • NEW YORK (AP) — The following is a list of initial public offerings planned for the coming week. Sources include IPO ETF manager Renaissance Capital, and SEC filings. Week of Aug. 19 WeRide - Guangzhou, China, 6.5 million shares, priced at $15.50-$18.50, managed by Morgan Stanley JP Morgan. Propos