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Maryland COVID-19 survivor now considers herself a 'mask ambassador' 07/30/2020 08:56pm • After surviving a bout with COVID-19, a Maryland woman is urging the public not to get complacent in the middle of the pandemic. “Don’t think it can’t happen to you,” Sandy Oxx of New Market, Maryland, told WTOP. “I appreciate the opportunity to be a mask ambassador – I guess that’s 3 former Washington NFL players hit with charges in health care fraud case 07/28/2020 01:19pm • Three former Washington NFL players have been hit with charges for their alleged roles in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud the NFL's health care benefit program by submitting false claims for medical equipment. The fresh charges are part of a new Justice Department indictment released Frid Frederick County warns of possibly fake heroin causing gangrene 07/24/2020 12:55pm • The Frederick County, Maryland, Health Department has issued a warning about a substance that’s causing deep tissue injuries, and even gangrene, in people who are injecting it. The street name of the substance is “no shorts,” the health department said in a statement Friday. It comes in a g Cole, Stanton lead Yanks past Nats 4-1 in stormy MLB opener 07/24/2020 12:27am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The coronavirus-shortened Major League Baseball season finally started amid the pandemic Thursday night with plenty of unusual elements — zero fans, umpires wearing masks, Washington star Juan Soto sidelined by COVID-19, all Nationals and Yankees kneeling together before the na Duolingo English Test and U.S. College Admissions 07/21/2020 12:00am • Most college admissions tests, like the SAT, ACT and TOEFL, were not administered in person in North Macedonia this spring because of the coronavirus pandemic, so recent high school graduate Mila Bileska took the online Duolingo English Test. Since then, she's been busy researching specific admissi Mom gets 5 weeks in prison for Georgetown son's online class cheating 07/15/2020 10:41am • A California woman who paid $9,000 to have someone secretly take online college courses for her son and then demanded a discount when he received a C was sentenced Wednesday to five weeks in prison. Karen Littlefair, 57, said she's “truly sorry” for her actions and asked the judge for lenienc Mystery packages from the same source baffle recipients 07/15/2020 05:03am • The mysterious "Panama" badge received in a shipment from a sender identified only as Jon. (Courtesy Judy Taub) Often, an unexpected package on your doorstep turns out to be a birthday present or a forgotten order on Amazon. But a former WTOP team member in D.C. got a strange shipment with no expl 7 of the Biggest Corporate Frauds in History 07/14/2020 12:00am • Investors can learn something from these fraud cases.Perhaps your company can't cover the loans you took out in order to get things up and running. Maybe a competitor is undercutting you, or customers just aren't as interested as they once were. You're running out of options, but there's still one o Former Redskins player pleads guilty to defrauding Metro 07/10/2020 01:37pm • A former NFL player who played in Washington during the early 1980s has pleaded guilty to defrauding Metro of more than $300,000. Brian Carpenter, 59, of Centreville, Virginia, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud Friday, the office of Virginia U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger sa Spotting fake home appraisal pictures 06/22/2020 09:01am • Some unscrupulous home sellers may be tempted to substitute online photos that are not actually their kitchen, living room or bath in order to boost appraisal value, but it is pretty hard to fake it. (Getty/Stockphoto/Andrey Popov) In-home inspections by appraisers for home sellers or refinancin Protests in the DC area continue for an 11th day 06/09/2020 02:42am • Protests over the death of George Floyd continued for an 11th day in the D.C. area. Demonstrators gathered in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, as they have been for nearly two weeks. Among them were Cherise Mattheson and her 12-year-old son, Maurice Rorie. Mattheson Maryland's abbreviated road tests keep drivers on closed course 06/08/2020 04:15pm • Maryland's Motor Vehicle Administration has resumed road tests for new drivers, only they don't have to leave the parking lot. In mid-March, Maryland, like Virginia, suspended the administration of road tests out of concern that having a testing agent in the car with a new driver could spread the Having a good laugh might do more than improve your mood 05/04/2020 06:42pm • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NANvH-ceAYI Feeling down in the dumps? Maybe you just need a good laugh. "Even if you fake the laughter, I know it sounds really strange, right? But when you fake it, you get the same benefits," D.C.-area motivational speaker and happiness coach Nira Berry said. Garden Plot: Less roadkill means more mammalian garden pests 04/24/2020 06:39am • Doug in Adamstown writes: Since almost everyone is under stay-at-home orders, we're not driving as much. That means fewer road kills, which could mean that the populations of garden munching vermin is going to explode — with a lot more deer, groundhogs, rabbits, and evil squirrels this year. Do y Data Doctors: For now, avoid COVID-19 contact tracing apps 04/17/2020 06:30pm • Ukrainians wearing face masks look at the latest news on a phone in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Q: Do you think any of the COVID-19 contact tracing apps will be effective and worth using? If you look to see how other countries have been tracing the interactio