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California's Kite Pharma will create more than 400 jobs in Md. 04/24/2019 11:10am • Los Angeles-based Kite Pharma, which develops personalized T-cell cancer therapies, will build a biologics manufacturing facility on a 20-acre site in Urbana, Maryland, and will create hundreds of jobs in exchange for state incentives. Kite Pharma was acquired by Foster City, California-based Gil Today in History: April 23 04/23/2019 12:20am • Today is Tuesday, April 23, the 113th day of 2019. There are 252 days left in the year. Today’s Highlights in History: On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit the first of his 755 major-league home runs in a game against the St. Louis Cardinals. (The Braves won, 7-5.) On Mortgage before marriage for many young buyers 04/22/2019 08:59am • Nearly 25% of millennial homebuyers want to buy a home before they get married. LendingTree, which conducted the survey, says times have changed. "Many people used to get married, and then buy a home or have a baby, and then buy a home. Often times buying a home was triggered by these life eve Capitals beat Hurricanes 6-0 to take 3-2 series lead 04/20/2019 11:08pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '0451d5df-b3d7-4fc0-bede-3e2f90f1a5dc' }).render("91761535e27194c3");}); WASHINGTON (AP) — Nicklas Backstrom nee Movie Review: Vague ‘Mary Magdalene’ quietly hopes to redefine a Biblical icon 04/19/2019 12:10am • Film history is paved with tales of the Christ, ranging from epic (“Ben-Hur”) to personal (“The Gospel According to St. Matthew”), faithful (“The Greatest Story Ever Told”) to controversial (“The Last Temptation of Christ”), glossy ("King of Kings") to gory (“The Passion of the With Olympic dreams, 15-year-old Bethesda fencer takes bronze in Poland 04/18/2019 03:50pm • A Bethesda, Maryland, teen who dreams of competing in the Olympics is showing promise while honing her sabre skills against international competitors. Fifteen-year-old Honor Johnson has returned from the 2019 Junior and Cadet World Fencing Championships in Toruń, Poland, with a bronze medal. Emmy-winning 'Cash Cab' host Ben Bailey cracks up DC Comedy Loft 04/17/2019 01:01am • As you hail a cab this weekend, tell your driver that you're going to see Mr. Cash Cab himself. Emmy-winning "Cash Cab" host Ben Bailey performs two nights of stand-up Friday and Saturday at the DC Comedy Loft, located above the Bier Baron Tavern in Dupont Circle. "There's really no tellin Under pressure: Washington Capitals seek response in Game 4 04/16/2019 03:11pm • Besides the typical bumps and bruises that tend to pile this time of year, the Washington Capitals seemingly avoided any serious injuries Monday night in Raleigh, North Carolina. So, there’s that. Otherwise, the Capitals’ 5-0 Game 3 defeat to the Carolina Hurricanes was about as bad it gets. Flint Hill's Tom Verbanic celebrated for 2-sport success 04/16/2019 01:03am • Before the 7th Annual DC Touchdown Club 3M Awards Dinner, WTOP is taking a closer look at this year’s award recipients. This year’s Washington Metro High School Coach of the Year is Flint Hill’s Tom Verbanic.  Despite nearly 40 years of success coaching both football and baseball, Tom Ve Hundreds pay respects to Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch 04/15/2019 05:45pm • Exactly one week after the Maryland General Assembly session ended, the casket bearing the late state House Speaker Michael Busch was brought into the Maryland State House to lie in state. Busch, who was 72 years old, died after he was hospitalized for pneumonia. He was the longest-serving House 'Game of Thrones' returns! 8 takeaways from Season 8 premiere (spoiler alert) 04/15/2019 04:47am • AUTHOR NOTE: The following report contains spoilers in order to project what might happen. How did you spend the past 20 months? Breathing fire waiting for new episodes of TV's hottest show to drop? Binging the entire series all over again because that's all you could do? Or introducing new GOP states discover a tax hike they have to like: for roads 04/14/2019 09:57am • LANSING, Mich. (AP) — After passing waves of tax cuts in recent years, some lawmakers in several Republican-dominated states have decided it's time to make a big exception and are pushing for tax increases to fix roads that are crumbling from years of neglect. In the past month alone, the Repub Chief: Boy thrown from Mall of America balcony being treated 04/13/2019 07:43pm • BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy who was thrown from a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America near Minneapolis remains hospitalized with serious injuries, authorities said Saturday. Bloomington police Chief Jeffrey Potts said during a news conference that the boy fell nearly 40 fe Movie Review: 'The Highwaymen' a fine companion piece to 'Bonnie and Clyde' 04/12/2019 12:29am • You'll never find more beautiful moviestars than Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the iconic outlaws in Arthur Penn's Hollywood Renaissance masterpiece "Bonnie & Clyde" (1967). In that cultural touchstone, the anti-heroes were painted as beloved bank robbers rebelling against Depression- Winners and losers of the 2019 Maryland General Assembly session 04/11/2019 05:11am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. It’s already been said a thousand times, but it bears repeating: This has been a General Assembly session like no other. It began