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Businesses offer free food and other deals for Teacher Appreciation Week 05/06/2019 06:46am • Teachers give back to their students so some businesses are looking to give back to them with special deals in time for Teacher Appreciation Week. The week, which runs through May 11, focuses around National Teacher Day, which is celebrated on Tuesday, May 7. Teachers should check with the loc No fix yet for Silver Line concrete ties, test trains expanding 05/06/2019 03:45am • Silver Line test trains are set to start running on larger stretches of the new tracks between Wiehle-Reston East and Ashburn, Virginia, but it is still unclear exactly when those trains will begin carrying paying passengers. In March, Metro rejected a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority c 1 dead, another seriously injured in Columbia apartment complex 05/05/2019 11:06pm • A woman was found dead and a man seriously injured inside an apartment building in Columbia, Maryland, on Sunday. According to Howard County police, concerned family members reached out to police around 5:43 p.m. and asked that they perform a wellness check on people living in an apartment comple As DC debates legality of commercial pot, advocates ask if it's right 05/05/2019 11:20am • On Thursday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser urged the D.C. Council to pass a law allowing marijuana to be sold commercially in the city, promising more tax revenue and more jobs. Since the city broadened the legal boundaries of marijuana a few years ago, it’s also been hampered by pushback from congr Are DC playground materials safe for kids? Council to fund study 05/05/2019 10:13am • Is the recycled rubber padding going in at playgrounds and fields safe? The District is set to fund a study to reassure a small group of concerned parents and determine what should or should not be allowed in the future. The playground material looks like permeable pavement, and is usually made u Baltimore's Kinetic Sculpture Race celebrates mediocrity, shows off wackier side of city 05/04/2019 05:30am • It's been a rough week for Baltimore. After a month of headlines featuring the scandal surrounding now-former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, Baltimore's residents are ready for some distraction. Enter the 21st Annual Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race, an event that requires participants to des How to test whether your employees will fall for a phishing scam 05/03/2019 03:38pm • Q: What can I do to test my employees to see how likely they are to fall for a phishing scam? More than ever, businesses are a primary target of cyber criminals because they know that a business is more likely to pay more in a ransomware scam or wire fraud scam. Not only is there more money to DC set to raise e-scooter speed limit 05/03/2019 01:51pm • Electric scooters will likely be allowed to go faster in the District. The D.C. Council Committee on Transportation and the Environment approved a change requested by dockless scooter companies that will permit electric scooters to go up to 15 mph on flat ground rather than the current limit of Parking tickets may soon be mailed out in DC, increases to street parking proposed 05/03/2019 04:12am • Fleeing a parking ticket could soon become more difficult in the District. Changes to allow parking enforcement officers to mail tickets to drivers who take off before the ticket can be placed on their windshields or handed to them are on track for D.C. Council approval. The changes could part 2019's best new DC area restaurants: Tom Sietsema dishes out recommendations 05/02/2019 09:04pm • Spring is well upon Washington and the time has come to figure out the best new restaurants that D.C. foodies will be digging into this year. To help sift through the ever-growing list of new eat spots in the area, Tom Sietsema, The Washington Post food critic and author of the 2019 Spring Dining 8 ways to use credit cards to stay on budget 05/02/2019 08:00pm • Sticking to a budget can be tough if you don't have a system in place for tracking your purchases. But, your credit card may have features that can help. If you're looking for ways to manage your spending, consider these methods. Keep all your purchases on one credit card. Using one credit ca Fairfax County firefighters skip the hoses to save endangered bees 05/02/2019 04:49pm • Thousands of bees, swarming on a car in a parking lot in the Merrifield section of Fairfax County, Virginia, certainly looked scary — so, a woman called a nearby fire station. Thankfully, fire Capt. David Weand was on duty Tuesday at Station 23, in Annandale. “Normally, bees aren’t our t What should I keep in a safe deposit box? 05/02/2019 04:30am • A safe deposit box is typically a well-secured storage box housed at your banking institution. Consumers lease them to store valuable objects or important paperwork. "The main purpose of safe deposit box is to store confidential or valuable materials or documents that may be needed after your pas ‘A wonderful opportunity’: Dozens of embassies open their doors for Passport DC's embassy walk 05/01/2019 04:32am • One of the great things about D.C. is its status as an international city, with people speaking a panoply of languages, eating various foods and listening to different kinds of music. And this weekend, people will have the chance to sample a lot of cultures in one day. The 12th annual Passport DC Check it out and save energy: Montgomery Co. libraries offer thermal imaging cameras 04/30/2019 10:28pm • Gone are the days when all that you could borrow from the library were books. These days, some libraries offer musical instruments, power tools and board games. And Montgomery County is the latest to offer library cardholders something that is not only unusual but also useful: thermal imaging cam