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4 Places Where You Should Not Be Networking 12/10/2014 07:00pm • Every place is a good place to network, right? After all, people do business with people. A gathering of people is a prime location to network, connect and exchange Twitter handles or even business cards. Yet, this isn't true for every occasion. Networking well, in a way that reflects positively on Holiday season is time to be extra vigilant 12/08/2014 07:30pm • WASHINGTON -- The holiday season is a joyful time, but Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger warns that "the most wonderful time of year is often times the most vulnerable time of year." Manger and Montgomery County Fire Chief Steven Lohr are offering holiday safety tips that could be valua 6 Holiday Networking Tips 12/08/2014 07:00pm • Urban legend has it that corporate budgets for the year have already been expended and the hiring process all but stops in December. Not so! While you may be tempted, do not put your job hunt on ice. Even in those companies where hiring is temporarily frozen, networking and interviewing continues When Should You Choose Active Over Passive Mutual Funds? 12/07/2014 07:00pm • These days, investors hear fewer financial advisors promise they have the stock-picking chops to "beat the market." With memories of 2008 still fresh in people's minds, many advisors, as well as individual investors, approach markets with a more prudent perspective. Increasingly, eking out the last Will healthy tailgating fly with sports fans? 12/05/2014 02:16am • WASHINGTON -- Most sports fans don't associate tailgating with healthy eating. In fact, most probably don't want to. After all, that's not the point of tailgating -- the point is to have delicious food (and drinks) with your friends that you can eat out of the back of your car or truck while you 8 Ways to Screw Up an Email 12/03/2014 07:00pm • With the popularity of emoticons and texting abbreviations, emails have become less formal, just as written letters and cards have gone out of fashion. While you can be informal in your email communications with friends and family, in the office -- no matter where you work -- you need to take your e 5 Alternatives to Holiday Office Parties 12/01/2014 07:00pm • If you've sported one too many cocktail dresses and seen one too many lackluster karaoke performances of "Don't Stop Believin'" by your colleagues in accounting, this post is for you. Yes, it's the season to be jolly and celebrate the end of the year with your co-workers, but that doesn't mean you Undercover officers deployed in Tysons Corner to curtail uptick in crime 11/25/2014 06:11pm • WASHINGTON -- As another holiday shopping season begins, Fairfax County is deploying its undercover team into the malls. This holiday shopping season, police are asking shoppers to be extra-vigilant, saying crime in the area has jumped. They are called the Christmas Anti-Theft Team, or as Fair Safety of hands-free technology questioned 11/25/2014 01:44pm • WASHINGTON -- Everyone knows about the dangers posed by drivers who choose to use a phone or electronic device while behind the wheel. But the general public is just starting to learn about the effectiveness of some of the alternatives, including hands-free technology. According to the Wal NFL player trades playbook for grade books 11/25/2014 01:03pm • WASHINGTON -- "I wish you'd have come yesterday." The end of the day on a Friday is a tough time to judge any operation. It's as true in any corporate office as it is in a math class at Ballou High School, one of the city's most trying learning environments. That's where a 26-year-old from Balt NFL Recap: Week 12 11/18/2014 03:50pm • WASHINGTON -- You know those "You Had One Job..." memes? The ones where something so simple is done so wrong it totally boggles the mind? Well, the Redskins are giving us a host of reasons to give Pic Stitch a workout. The 'Skins just came off a bye week, thus giving them two weeks to prepare Pedestrian struck in Rockville, Md. 11/08/2014 08:05pm • WASHINGTON -- A 45-year-old male pedestrian was struck by a 2014 Nissan Versa as he was crossing Rockville Pike/Route 355 at Halpine Road near the crosswalk on Saturday evening. Montgomery County Fire department spokesman Pete Piringer says the pedestrian was taken to the hospital with serious, l Harvick doesn't regret shoving Keselowski 11/08/2014 02:24am • JENNA FRYER AP Auto Racing Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. (AP) -- Kevin Harvick doesn't regret shoving Brad Keselowski from behind -- a move that escalated a pit road brawl between Keselowski, Jeff Gordon and their teams -- but acknowledged Friday that he could have behaved differently."I never look back on For Americans, Ebola still very much foreign thing 11/07/2014 09:34pm • ALLEN G. BREED AP National Writer Ebola isn't leading American newspapers and newscasts much these days. Dr. Albert Wu thinks that's not necessarily a bad thing.If he was cynical, says the professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, he would suggest that it's becau Michigan, Northwestern trying to hang on 11/07/2014 03:10pm • ANDREW SELIGMAN AP Sports Writer EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Their bowl hopes hanging by a thread and their seasons slipping away, Michigan and Northwestern have little room left for error.That margin is just about gone.The Wolverines and the Wildcats simply can't afford a letdown when they meet Saturday