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Disabled veteran claims she was kicked out of Md. store over her service dog 01/04/2019 08:50pm • GAITHERSBURG, Md. —  A Montgomery County, Maryland, woman, who is a disabled veteran, said she was told to leave a Dollar Tree store in Germantown because she brought in her service dog. Katherine Mera has PTSD after experiencing trauma during her time in the U.S. Army Military Police Corps. T Ways to Build Credit as a Student 01/03/2019 07:00pm • Establishing credit while you're in school can help make the transition into post-graduation life much easier. Good credit can help you qualify for lower interest rates on a student loan refinance, pass an employment background check or get approved for an apartment lease. But when it comes to buil Living Well With a Feeding Tube 01/03/2019 07:00pm • Nearly 450,000 Americans with swallowing or digestive problems manage tube feedings -- also called home enteral nutrition -- on their own. Some have temporary feeding tubes, while others leave the hospital with feeding tubes surgically placed for the foreseeable future. Veteran users or "tubies" acc What Is a Student Loan Servicer? 01/03/2019 07:00pm • Student loans account for a large and increasing share of consumer debt, especially for younger borrowers. According to third-quarter 2018 Federal Reserve data, borrowers in the U.S. owed more than $1.5 trillion in student loan debt. That mountain of debt is handled by student loan servicers -- the How to sell gift cards 01/03/2019 07:00pm • It's always tempting to ask friends and family members for gift cards around the holidays. After all, gift cards offer the opportunity to pick out the products and services you value most. But here's the catch: It's all too easy to receive a gift card and then forget about it. What's more, you may r Make 'Overqualified' an Advantage 01/03/2019 07:00pm • Older job seekers become familiar with feedback that they are "overqualified" for a given position. True, this response from an employer may be nothing more than a lazy euphemism for age discrimination. Hiring managers and recruiters may label as overqualified someone who simply seems older than who Will 2019 be the year of the millennial homebuyer? 01/03/2019 07:00pm • Only 32 percent of millennials owned a home in 2015, according to a 2018 Millennial Homeownership Report from the Urban Institute. However, that might change in 2019. While interest rates are rising, housing prices are expected to stabilize, offering additional affordable options to first-time ho 60 women unknowingly recorded in Va. malls' dressing rooms: police 01/03/2019 03:54pm • WASHINGTON — Calling it a "shocking" case, Fairfax County major crimes detectives said they need to identify more than 60 women and teenagers who were unknowingly recorded in more than 100 mall dressing rooms during the weeks leading up to Christmas. Investigators are now asking the public to c Mediterranean diet: How to start (and stay on) one of the healthiest diets 01/03/2019 07:35am • A diet that's good for healthy weight loss? Check. One that reduces the risk for diabetes, high cholesterol, heart disease, stroke and some cancers? Check. A diet that strengthens bones, improves brain health and wards off dementia and depression? Check. 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The graduates are usually college students, working or in the military, and they tell the students what life is like on the other side of the graduation curtain. Retirement is a grad Pros and Cons to Buying Apple (AAPL) Stock 01/02/2019 07:00pm • Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) stock started 2019 on a bad note, falling as much as 10 percent to a 52-week low after CEO Tim Cook shocked Wall Street with a troublesome update: the iPhone-maker's holiday quarter was bad. Really bad. Previously, Apple itself had guided for between $89 billion and $93 billion Visitors caught off guard by Smithsonian Museum closures 01/02/2019 11:18am • WASHINGTON — Walking along the National Mall, Bryan Alcaraz and Jacqueline Laurente-Alcaraz had big plans for Wednesday, including a stop at the Museum of African American History and Culture. 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