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Downtown Holiday Market brings season's greetings to quiet DC 11/21/2020 08:28pm • A long row of white-canopied tents glittering with Christmas lights offers some holiday cheer in downtown Washington, despite the gloom of the pandemic. The 16th annual Downtown Holiday Market opened Friday on F Street NW, between 7th and 9th Streets, in front of the recently-shuttered National P Presto's Picks: Maryland and Navy sit again, while Hoosiers are red-hot 11/20/2020 05:20am • With Maryland sitting out two straight Saturdays due to eight players testing positive for COVID-19 last week, and 15 players plus seven staff members, including head coach Mike Locksley, testing positive this week, Terrapin fans have had a chance to check out the rest of the Big Ten. Depending o Mom accuses DC of lack of empathy, transparency after ambulance sent to wrong quadrant 11/20/2020 02:30am • Nearly six months after Billie Shepperd's daughter, Sheila Shepperd, passed away, the mother has some answers to her question of what took so long. (Courtesy Billie Shepperd) A D.C. ambulance took more than 20 minutes to arrive at a Northeast home, where a woman was suffering from a fatal he Tips for people grieving over pandemic-related losses 11/19/2020 09:52pm • Pandemic-related losses, large and small, may be causing people to grieve, and a D.C. counselor has some advice that may be able to help. "I think we're all experiencing grief on a variety of different levels," said Cheryl Hughes, a clinical social worker for the palliative care team at MedStar G Police looking to ID man accused of abduction, sexual battery in Arlington 11/18/2020 06:02pm • Police in Arlington County, Virginia, are asking for help in identifying a person connected to an attack on a woman in the Ballston area. It happened Tuesday after 9:45 a.m. in the 4200 block of Wilson Boulevard. A woman was cleaning the bathroom inside a business when a man approached her and as 5 reasons to outsource your accounting 11/18/2020 10:29am • This content is sponsored by Cordia Partners and Cordia Resources. Outsourcing the accounting function can be beneficial for many companies, but it is not the right choice for everyone. For most businesses and nonprofit organizations, accounting is not a core competency, so business owners nee Easiest passwords to crack: How to get hacked in 1, 2, 3 … 11/18/2020 07:01am • It doesn’t take a cryptologist to figure out that “123” isn’t exactly the hardest password to crack. Yet millions of people still use countless variations of it to lock up their digital-dependent lives, potentially exposing themselves to hackers. In fact, more than 2.5 million people this Pandemic gun buyers more likely to be suicidal, study finds 11/17/2020 02:22pm • Suicidal thoughts are more likely among Americans who have bought guns during the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent study found. The Rutgers University study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, reported that 70% of pandemic gun buyers thought of ending their life, compared to 37% Leonid meteor shower: When's the predicted peak? 11/16/2020 07:33pm • This Nov. 18, 1999, photo shows a Leonid meteor storm over the Azrak desert, 90 km east of Amman, Jordan. (Jamal Nasrallah/AFP via Getty Images) Are you a night owl and/or an early riser and like to look at the night sky? At midnight into the hours before dawn Tuesday is just the thing for you a 4 guards the Wizards could target in 2020 NBA free agency including Joe Harris and Avery Bradley 11/16/2020 05:42pm • 4 guards the Wizards could target in free agency originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe Wizards will not be big spenders in free agency, as they don't have a ton of cap room and it is their hope to spend it on re-signing Davis Bertans. That said, whether they ink Bertans or not, they will h As cases rise, DC will 'look to the metrics' before making reopening changes 11/16/2020 04:02pm • D.C. will not issue any rollbacks on its Phase Two reopening guidelines at this time, and will allow the science of the coronavirus to guide any decisions going forward, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday afternoon. As its neighboring jurisdictions in Maryland and Virginia announced their decisions Flying with a Thanksgiving turkey in your carry-on? TSA says that’s OK 11/16/2020 11:55am • Flying to visit family for Thanksgiving? Don’t forget to pack the turkey. It can even be already cooked and accompanied with all the trimmings. Some people might be surprised to learn that there are lots of foods they can transport through U.S. airports during the holidays, but there are certai Cost analysis: Premade Thanksgiving dinner vs. home cooked 11/16/2020 08:00am • The cost of Thanksgiving dinner varies depending on the size of your household, the recipes you use and whether you cook it at home or buy it premade. But whether you're thinking of ordering out this year or are committed to cooking every dish from scratch, there are ways to save money on your Th Boost your immune system for winter with food 11/16/2020 05:07am • You are what you eat, experts say, and that includes foods that will help your body fight off infectious diseases this winter. (Think colds, flu and Covid-19.) "What we eat is very important in terms of how our immune system responds to pathogens and how well it can defend itself against a pathog Pandemic prompts tweaks to how a Virginia nonprofit fulfills its mission 11/14/2020 03:30pm • The 25th Project, like other area nonprofits, is not abandoning its mission due to the coronavirus pandemic; instead, it's adapting in order to fulfill it. “We’re still serving … we’ve got our mission and that’s to help the homeless close to home,” Jay Herriott, founder of The 25t