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How many credit card miles do I need to book a free flight? 01/08/2020 07:00pm • Whether you have an airline credit card or a general travel card, you can use your hard-earned points or miles to book award tickets. How many miles for a free flight, however, depends on the type of credit card you have and whether your card offers bonus value on travel redemptions. How to Get Fre Discrimination, affordable housing efforts proposed in Richmond 01/07/2020 03:45pm • Discrimination and affordable housing will be among issues getting attention in Richmond over the next two months with the newly Democratic-led Virginia General Assembly set to start Wednesday. The Democratic majority sees ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as one key w Minimum wage hike, bag tax among Va. lawmakers’ work, environment and health proposals 01/06/2020 05:12pm • Raising the minimum wage, implementing new environmental rules such as a fee for plastic grocery bags and taking steps to address health care costs are among items on the agenda as Virginia lawmakers return to Richmond this week. Bills introduced ahead of the start of the 60-day session Wednesday Surge protector blamed for devastating Northeast DC fire; 4 injured 01/05/2020 09:20am • A surge protector is being blamed for a fire that destroyed a two-story Northeast D.C. duplex before dawn on Sunday, injuring three residents and a firefighter. D.C. Fire and EMS were dispatched to a residential building fire at 445 Madison St., NE, near the Riggs LaSalle Recreation Center on Rig Avoid tax refund surprises by filling out this new form 01/05/2020 06:05am • There's a new federal income tax withholding form, and a good reason to fill it out fresh this year. It's the first major update to the form since Congress made sweeping changes to the federal tax system in 2017, backed by President Donald Trump. While a majority of filers owed less in federal New details emerge in October 2019 killing of teen near Nats Park 01/04/2020 06:06pm • More details have been released in regards to the fatal Oct. 2019 shooting of a 15-year-old near Nats Park. A teenager has been arrested in connection to the incident, according to D.C. police, and an affidavit from D.C.'s Superior court suggests that the victim may have been involved in a robbery j Gym class without the gym? In Fairfax County schools, it's catching on 01/04/2020 10:00am • Grace Brown, 14, poses for a portrait while jogging at the park where she does her jogging workouts for her "online PE" class, in Alexandria, Va., Friday, Nov. 1, 2019. Brown chose to take "online PE," utilizing a fitness tracker, so that she could take a piano lab as an extra elective. (AP Photo/J Don't abbreviate 2020 on checks and forms — it's for your own good 01/04/2020 05:20am • 2020 is finally here, and it's coming with its own set of challenges. Not only do we have to break the habit of writing 2019, when we really mean 2020, but the dawn of a new decade also creates a unique opportunity for scammers, says Ira Rheingold, executive director for the National Association Former U.Va. football player sentenced to 40 years in prison 01/03/2020 06:22pm • A University of Virginia player, who played for the Philadelphia Eagles, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted of using his football connections in an investment scam. Shortly after his professional career ended, prosecutors said 39-year-old Merrill Robertson Jr. and his Plastic bag ban, green agriculture and zero waste: Maryland lawmakers' climate plans for 2020 session 01/03/2020 02:13pm • By Ian Round and Elliott Davis Capital News Service/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism When the Maryland legislature reconvenes Jan. 8, legislators of both parties say they will continue the battle against climate change. Some of their plans are much more aggressive than others. De Former Maryland lawmaker sentenced to 6 months for misusing campaign funds 01/03/2020 01:52pm • Tawanna Gaines, center, a former Maryland delegate, walks with her lawyer William Brennan, right, and an associate as they arrive at the U.S. District Court in Greenbelt, Md., for a hearing, Friday, Jan. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) Last October, Tawanna Gaines was a powerful member of the M The world's most punctual airports and airlines for 2020 revealed 01/03/2020 07:01am • Aviation punctuality reports are a bit like buses; you wait all year for one then two appear at once. On Thursday, travel data analyst Cirium released its annual On-Time Performance Review, naming Russian flag carrier Aeroflot the world's most on-time global mainline airline and Moscow's Sheremet Movie Review: 'Cats' is a cat-astrophe 01/03/2020 02:47am • This image by Universal Pictures shows Taylor Swift as Bombalurina in a scene from "Cats." (Universal Pictures via AP) Cats may have nine lives, but the new movie "Cats" uses every last one of them. Tom Hooper's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 Broadway musical simply does not tra Happy 2020: Server at Michigan restaurant gets $2,020 tip 12/31/2019 12:24pm • ALPENA, Mich. (AP) — The restaurant bill was $23. But the tip at a small-town restaurant in Michigan was much larger: $2,020. “Things like this don’t happen to people like me,” server Danielle Franzoni told The Alpena News. Franzoni, 31, got the tip while work Top reason a refinance is not approved (it's not credit score) 12/24/2019 09:07am • Not as many refinancing applications get approved as you might think. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/doble-d) Refinancing is a smart move for many mortgaged homeowners right now, but it's not a slam dunk. More than 90% of home purchase mortgages get approved, but just 75% of refinance applications