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16 best apps for buying and selling used stuff 03/21/2022 08:00am • Turn unwanted items into cash and buy used. When you're living paycheck to paycheck, you are likely feeling burned out and stressed out. And when budgets grow tight, there may seem like there's no financial relief in sight. Even with the best budgeting intentions, cutting back on daily or monthly Beltway Basketball Beat: Bracket Racket XIII — Sweet 16 thoughts 03/21/2022 07:23am • Well, we made it through the first weekend — I think. Survive and advance, right? More Beltway Basketball Beat More College Basketball News The NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments are in full force. Thoughts as we look forward to the second weekend: 1. "Locals" Spring weather brings smelly side effect: Stink bugs on the move 03/20/2022 12:07pm • The warmer temperatures are luring cherry blossoms out of their buds, young twenty-somethings to the nearest outdoor bar and some very stinky pests out of hiding. If you have noticed a scourge of stink bugs crawling around your house, you’re not alone. The particular type of stink bug common in t Addressing the pandemic's mental health fallout 03/20/2022 09:55am • At home with her guinea pigs, Coco and Juliet, Natasha Beltran seems like a happy 12-year-old. But since 2020, she has been struggling with grief beyond her years. "I remember my dad as a very funny guy that has a lot of friends near his neighborhood," she said. "And he likes to go to movie t Fire at Silver Spring senior living center leaves at least 30 displaced 03/19/2022 07:48pm • A fire in the stairwell of a senior living building in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Saturday morning led to the temporary evacuation of the facility and displaced at least 30 residents. There weren't any reports of injuries. According to officials, on Saturday morning around 11 a.m., Montgomery Cargo ship could be stuck in Chesapeake Bay for over a week, officials say 03/19/2022 11:48am • It has been nearly a week since a massive cargo ship with thousands of containers on board got stuck in the Chesapeake Bay. And officials say it could be another 10 days before the ship is able to float again because it is a rare, complex mission. On Friday morning, CBS Baltimore's Ava-Joye B Firefighters hope to gain ground on Texas wildfires Saturday 03/19/2022 09:32am • EASTLAND, Texas (AP) — Fire crews in Texas hope to make progress Saturday against a massive complex of wildfires that have killed one person and burned at least 50 homes, officials said. Winds were expected to diminish on Saturday, raising hopes for the attack on the flames, said Angel Lopez, a Maryland enacts 30-day gas tax suspension 03/18/2022 05:02pm • Maryland became the first state in the nation Friday to enact a temporary suspension of its gas tax, in an effort to curb rising prices at the pump. Gov. Larry Hogan signed emergency legislation declaring a 30-day gas tax holiday following its unanimous approval by the Maryland House and Senate. Woman with knife killed in shooting with Loudoun Co. deputies 03/18/2022 05:00pm • Loudoun County, Virginia, deputies shot and killed a woman they say lunged at them with a knife early Friday. Virginia State Police identified the woman as 36-year-old Faubricia Virtaux Gainer, of Reston. They said she stabbed two people in an apartment, including a teenager, before the deputies DC National Guard opens new storefront recruiting office in bustling DC neighborhood 03/18/2022 02:50pm • The grand opening of the D.C. Army National Guard's new recruiting station in Northwest D.C. on March 18, 2022. (WTOP/Acacia James) The D.C. Army National Guard has opened a new recruiting office on 14th Street NW near the intersection with Florida Avenue NW, a location it hopes will be more acc Washington Gas fined $1M over customer service blunders 03/18/2022 02:20pm • Washington Gas has been ordered to pay a civil penalty of more than $1.1 million by the Maryland Public Service Commission over long-standing customer service problems that have left frustrated Marylanders waiting on the phone. The total fine of $1,147,600 follows a series of hearings by the comm Review: Hitchcock meets Haneke in Netflix's compelling new kidnapping flick 'Windfall' 03/18/2022 01:51pm • It's rare for a film to kidnap our attention from the start and hold us captive until the end. That's exactly what the new thriller "Windfall" does as it premieres on Netflix this Friday, a compelling combination of Alfred Hitchcock and Michael Haneke in all the best ways. The story follow What is Title 42, the COVID border policy Democrats want Biden to end? 03/18/2022 06:00am • ▶ Watch Video: President Biden pushes for immigration reform Despite making some changes to U.S. border policy, the Biden administration has maintained the most sweeping border restriction enacted by former President Donald Trump: a pandemic-era order known as Title 42 that has led to Federal agencies use SXSW as fertile recruiting territory 03/17/2022 09:19pm • The South by Southwest Trade Show is perhaps the least-heralded component of this massive festival, which encompasses film, television, technology, comedy, blockchain, cannabis and music. For the several hundred exhibitors who fill the main hall of the Austin Convention Center, the opportunity to Severity of 'stealth omicron' varies by country's vaccination rate 03/17/2022 08:38pm • As many COVID-19 mitigation measures have been lifted in the D.C. area, a mutant of the virus has been emerging and is now causing a new wave of omicron cases around the world. It's called BA.2, and it's been described as "stealth omicron" because "it lacks a genetic quirk of the original omicron