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Ravens take LB Mosley with 17th overall pick 05/08/2014 11:53pm • DAVID GINSBURG AP Sports Writer OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) -- The last time the Baltimore Ravens picked an inside linebacker in the first round of the NFL draft, a fellow by the name of Ray Lewis developed into one heck of a football player.C.J. Mosley was a 3-year-old when the Ravens selected Lewis out 1,000 ounces of gold recovered from sunken ship 05/05/2014 08:34pm • BRUCE SMITH Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- An expedition to bring back the remaining gold from a steamship that sank in 1857 off South Carolina in one of the nation's worst maritime disasters has recovered almost 1,000 ounces of gold - the first gold recovered from the wreck in almost a q Former pinball museum owner selling off collection 04/21/2014 02:21pm • WASHINGTON -- If you love pinball, you'll flip for this. The man who founded D.C.'s now-closed National Pinball Museum is selling his collection of hundreds of machines, and the second in a series of auctions is set for 9 a.m. Sunday, April 27. David Silverman, of Silver Spring, Md., first op Crime Report: Airbags Stolen in Fairlington 04/10/2014 05:30pm • Thieves stole the airbags from a number of cars parked in Fairlington early Tuesday morning. Victims told NBC 4 that they woke up to find their car hoods open and their airbags missing. From this week’s Arlington County crime report: GRAND LARCENY FROM AUTO (series), 140408013, 3000 block Ask Andrew: The Truth Behind A Buyer’s Agent 04/01/2014 10:10am • This sponsored, biweekly Q&A column is written by Andrew Goodman, broker/owner of Goodman, Realtors. Based in Bethesda, Andrew serves clients in Maryland, D.C., and Northern Virginia. Please submit comments, questions, and opinions in the comments section or via email. Question: Why Crime Report: Clarendon Apple Store Robbed, Perp Flees in BMW 03/27/2014 11:50am • On Monday afternoon, an alleged thief stole two items from the Clarendon Apple Store and fled the scene in a customized BMW coupe. From this week’s Arlington County crime report: ROBBERY, 140324046, 2700 block of N. Clarendon Boulevard. On March 24 at 4:10pm, an unknown suspect fled the Apple 'Noah' builds master-craftsman ark with giant hole in hull 03/27/2014 10:52am • WASHINGTON - Darren Aronofsky is the most shockingly provocative filmmaker we have going today, melding a Bergman-style existentialism with a Hitchcockian dark side, Kubrick-level ambitions and a Howard Hawks versatility of genre. In just five films, he's delivered a sci-fi thriller ("Pi"), an an Wes Anderson checks into 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' 03/13/2014 02:32pm • WASHINGTON - Very few filmmakers qualify as modern-day auteurs, a.k.a. authors whose signature style drips from every frame. Many of today's filmmakers are either invisible (merely servicing the script with no discernible visual icons) or overly flashy (with a lot of flair but not much to say). 10 things to know for Wednesday 02/26/2014 03:23am • The Associated Press Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1. FEW WOMEN IN THE ARMY WANT COMBAT JOBS Pentagon survey shows that soldiers of both genders are nervous about females entering combat jobs. 2. OBAMA ISSUES WA Calif. couple find a 'pot of gold' 02/26/2014 03:19am • By JOHN ROGERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree. Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 18 Bethesda to install credit card parking meters 02/24/2014 04:40pm • Jamie Slater, special to WTOP.com WASHINGTON -- Rustling around to find change or the hassle of setting up a smartphone account can make downtown parking a bigger headache than it's worth. Starting this week, though, Bethesda, Md. will replace all 840 of its on-street parking meters with "smart Oscar nominated doc 'Act of Killing' has local roots 02/20/2014 01:00pm • WASHINGTON -- I first saw a clip from "The Act of Killing" during last summer's AFI Docs tribute to Errol Morris ("The Thin Blue Line"), who executive-produced the film alongside Werner Herzog ("Grizzly Man"). It was one of the most unusual pieces of filmmaking I'd ever witnessed, blending standar Sedate Super Bowl ads upstaged by a coat 02/03/2014 11:15am • Click here to see some of the ads on WTOP.com. BY CANDICE CHOI AP FOOD INDUSTRY WRITER NEW YORK (AP) -- The Seattle Seahawks had a blowout victory Sunday night, but there was no big winner in the Super Bowl ad contest. Many advertisers went for a more serious, toned-down feel than in previo Column: What is an Alberta Clipper? 01/16/2014 12:30pm • WASHINGTON -- Have you heard of a Manitoba Mauler? How about a Saskatchewan Screamer? And no, these aren't Vince McMahon's best attempts to incorporate Canada into the WWE. And what about an "Alberta Clipper?" You might have heard the phrase several times over the last week. That is because our Weather causing meter malfunctions, parking enforcement suspended 01/07/2014 02:30pm • For one day only, drivers parking in Arlington are getting a reprieve. Because the frigid temperatures are a danger to enforcement workers and because the weather is causing an increase in meter malfunctions, meters will not be enforced. The Department of Environmental Services maintains the coun