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Maryland's consumer advocates push for new debt collection laws 05/30/2019 10:45am • ANNAPOLIS, Maryland — Jailing a person for an unpaid debt has been illegal for almost two centuries in the United States. But in Maryland, through a roundabout court procedure, hundreds of people every year are jailed for essentially just that: Owing money. In debt collection cases, a credit Sen. Tim Kaine discusses school gun violence with Springfield students 05/28/2019 06:02pm • As shootings continue to happen in classrooms across the country, concerned students are taking a more active role in seeing what can be done to stop gun violence. At Key Middle School in Springfield, Virginia, students invited Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., to talk about gun violence on Tuesday. They al When the offer is fake: How scammers target job seekers 05/28/2019 12:47am • Job hunters, beware: Scammers are out impersonating would-be employers to get at your sensitive data and even your checking account. Here's how it works: A fake job ad is posted, either on social media or on a job-hunting site. The scammer might use a known organization's name and logo to lure Cannes 2019: All the winners and losers at this year's festival 05/25/2019 05:39pm • Bong Joon-ho of South Korea won the Palme d'Or, the Cannes Film Festival's top prize, on Saturday for his seventh feature film, "Parasite." It's the first time the director has won what is considered by many the highest honor in world cinema. French-Senegalese director Mati Diop, in her first tim Attack of the clones: Minor League Baseball's Star Wars success replicated around sports 05/24/2019 03:02am • Back in 1977, when Comic-Con was just a few thousand obsessives, rather than the 130,000 it is today, George Lucas unleashed Star Wars into the world. While the film was an instant phenomenon, its hardcore fans hardly crossed over into the professional sports fan demographic. It would have been h Movie Review: Fresh Prince meets Prince Ali in live-action 'Aladdin' 05/24/2019 01:02am • In 1992, Disney's animated classic "Aladdin" won two Oscars, including Best Original Score (Alan Menken) and Best Original Song for "A Whole New World" (Menken and Tim Rice), while earning Robin Williams an honorary Golden Globe for his iconic, zany voice work as Genie. This weekend, Disney r Tornado touches down in Howard Co. during DC-area storms 05/23/2019 11:30pm • The National Weather Service confirmed Thursday that a tornado touched down in Howard County, Maryland, at 3:34 p.m. It happened in Columbia, along state Route 32. The EF-1 tornado took the roof off an office building on the 9700 block of Broken Land Parkway. An EF-1 level tornado has a wind spee 15 best new-car deals for Memorial Day weekend 05/23/2019 05:20am • After years of through-the-roof numbers, new car sales have slowed down of late — and it's putting shoppers in the driver's seat this Memorial Day. U.S. News & World Report has singled out some of the better deals available this holiday weekend, with a list of its 15 best Memorial Day car Virginia airline founder charged with fraud, tax evasion 05/22/2019 06:54am • NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who founded the defunct airline People Express has been indicted on fraud and tax evasion charges. The Daily Press reports Michael D. Morisi was arrested Tuesday. He's accused of defrauding creditors of nearly $448,000, using most of the money to pay hims Wilton Gregory installed as new archbishop of Washington 05/21/2019 05:00pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Rev. Wilton D. Gregory was installed Tuesday as the seventh archbishop of Washington following a pair of high-profile sexual abuse cases that ensnared his two predecessors. The 71-year-old Gregory, previously the archbishop of Atlanta, becomes the first African American to WATCH: Ben Carson mistakes question about foreclosure properties for Oreos 05/21/2019 04:09pm • Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Tuesday appeared to think that a freshman Democrat was questioning him about Oreo cookies during his congressional testimony, when she was in fact asking him about foreclosure properties. Rep. Katie Porter, a Californ 'Game of Thrones' finale review from someone who’s never watched the show 05/20/2019 07:48am • Sometime in 2013, I wandered in while some friends were watching a show with a lot of snow, some medieval armor and no small measure of yelling and death. I stood for about 90 seconds, trying to figure out what was happening, and bailed. I haven’t seen anything more than an internet GIF’s worth Md. consumer advocates push for new debt collection laws 05/17/2019 02:49pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Jailing a person for an unpaid debt has been illegal for almost two centuries in the United States. But in Maryland, a roundabout court procedure has seen hundreds of people every year jailed for essentially just that: owing money. In debt collection cases, a creditor can fi Top-rated Howard Co. sells $200M in bonds, including some for schools 05/17/2019 01:50pm • Howard County, Maryland, has taken advantage of its recently affirmed AAA credit ratings from all three ratings agencies, selling just over $200 million in consolidated public improvement, metropolitan district and refunding bonds. The county's top credit rating earned the bond sale an interest r Tim Tebow struggling in Triple-A; still a work in progress 05/17/2019 02:21am • SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Six weeks into his latest baseball adventure, Tim Tebow is still struggling to find his stroke with the Syracuse Mets at the top rung of minor league ball. He remains unflappable in spite of the numbers. "I think I'm improving. I'm working, developing," Tebow said Thurs