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Presto's Picks: Tying a bow and taking a bow before the bowls 12/12/2024 07:01pm • Dave Preston is an AP Top 25 voter. Read his ballots here. Time to take a breath. The most compelling regular season in sports delivered plenty of excitement and angst as a Clemson kick knocked Alabama out of the expanded playoff field, while the league that was the Pac-12 had a pair of fo 'When God gives you a mission, you follow it': Why Toys for Tots coordinator keeps going 58 years later 12/11/2024 06:03am • The first time Elizabeth Scott heard about Toys for Tots was nearly 60 years ago. Scott and her husband had just separated, and the newly-single mother went to Toys for Tots so her children would have gifts to open under the Christmas tree. Since then, Scott has been a Toys for Tots volunteer eve 'There's nothing left': Community rallies behind Leesburg family devastated by house fire 12/10/2024 03:59am • A Loudoun County, Virginia, family is picking up the pieces and trying to rebuild after losing everything they owned in a house fire on Dec. 1. Janae Wheeler said the Sunday of the fire began like many others. The event planner had just returned to her Leesburg home on Leeland Orchard Road after Why did crime go down in DC? Here's what leaders say 12/09/2024 05:23pm • D.C.'s mayor joined other leaders Monday in crediting public safety initiatives and community outreach with sinking violent and overall crime rates below pre-pandemic levels. Violent crime is down by 35% compared to last year, according to data from D.C. police. 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After spe Man charged with robbing postal workers, stealing huge amounts of mail across DC area 12/05/2024 01:23pm • A D.C. man has been charged with stealing mail in D.C., Arlington, Virginia, and Bowie, Maryland, throughout 2024 after stealing arrow keys from a postal worker in December 2023, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office of D.C. Ibrahim Emmanuel De La Cruz, 25, has also been charged in the armed r Ethanol powers cleaner emissions, boosts U.S. agriculture and fuels innovation 12/04/2024 08:12pm • This content is sponsored by National Corn Growers Association. Millions of Americans fill up their gas tanks every day and may be unaware they are utilizing a renewable fuel that has greatly increased in use in recent decades — ethanol. Today, nearly every gallon of gasoline in the U.S. Maryland school ratings released: 41% get 4 or 5 'star' ratings 12/03/2024 08:15pm • Public schools in the "Old Line State" are seeing some improvements, according to the State Department of Education's annual Maryland School Report Card. The scoring is based on a point system that calculates into a formula were schools earn between one and five stars. Elementary and middle schoo New rule could stop sale of your personal information 12/03/2024 11:30am • It’s not just hackers that can get your data for scams and other nefarious purposes. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is aiming to regulate data brokers that are allowed to sell that personal information. “Data brokers — the outfits that collect and sell — are making this data ava