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College Football Corner: Fall back … and fall further 11/03/2019 05:57pm • Bryce Perkins threw two touchdown passes and ran for two more scores against North Carolina to make Virginia bowl-eligible for the third straight year. (Robert Willett/The News & Observer via AP) What time is it? Oh yes, we're back from daylight saving time (not to be confused with "daylight Creepy or cute? A close-up look at a Halloween favorite: bats 11/01/2019 01:12am • (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: '868f7a53-5a25-4e89-96c1-3b20f2a1b5b1' }).render("709615365b63e223");}); Every Halloween, fake bats flutter th Warning from FBI: Scammers are posing as law enforcement 10/31/2019 04:38am • The phone rings. A law enforcement officer on the other end of the line tells you about an indiscretion you’ve been involved in and asks you to confirm your identity. The officer then advises you that you’re about to be arrested if you don’t pay a fine. There are three problems with tha Caught stealing: Man charged with selling fake World Series tix at Nats Park 10/28/2019 07:13am • A Washington Nationals fan who bought five World Series tickets from a stranger outside Nats Park for $2,000 got stiffed, when he found out the tickets were fake. Then he got even — and some of his money back — when he pointed out the suspect to police. D.C. Police said an officer was flagged Montgomery Co. tracks sophisticated online scams targeting buyers and sellers 10/28/2019 05:19am • Sophisticated scams intending to fleece buyers and sellers have recently picked up in Montgomery County, Maryland. The Office of Consumer Protection is tracking online scams that are harder to catch than your average phishing scheme. They can revolve around simple transactions, such as real estat Man arrested for selling fake World Series tickets near Nats Park 10/27/2019 04:32pm • If you're hoping to get a last minute ticket to the World Series, you may need to watch out for ticket scams. A West Virginia man was arrested on Friday for allegedly selling fake World Series tickets. Ondre Nelson, 54, of Huntington, sold a man the fake tickets near the entrance to Nationals The smartest guys in the room: How the Astros failed on the biggest stage 10/24/2019 07:43pm • The Houston Astros have what is widely considered to be the smartest front office in baseball. They’ve built a near-perfect team, loaded at every position, with one title already in hand and reason to expect more to come. And they’ve undone all of the credit for that through the bizarre misha Q&A: 'Blair Witch Project' celebrates 20th anniversary in Frederick 10/16/2019 12:01am • EDITOR'S NOTE: The following interview was conducted in 2017. In 1999, filmmakers ventured into the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland, to shoot a low-budget horror flick that became one of the most profitable films of all time. This Friday, "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) celebrates its 2 Problematic fave? Why ‘Fight Club’ endures, 20 years later 10/15/2019 01:21pm • When I first saw “Fight Club,” it instantly became my favorite movie, something I can’t definitively say isn’t true today. I understand what it means to say this. To say so out loud evokes a reaction, especially these days. There is, after all, an entire subgenre of Twitter comedy devoted Movie Review: Will Smith battles himself in Ang Lee's 'Gemini Man' 10/11/2019 03:26am • Ang Lee remains one of our most visionary filmmakers, winning the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for his wire-fu in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" (2000), the Best Director Oscar for his socially progressive "Brokeback Mountain" (2005) and his second Best Director Oscar for his wondrous 3D i 'SNL' has Beck Bennett's Vice President Mike Pence freaking out over impeachment 10/06/2019 01:04am • "Saturday Night Live" usually mocks President Trump in its cold opens, but this week the NBC variety show focused on Vice President Mike Pence. The VP, who was played by Beck Bennett, was meeting with advisers to figure out how to deal with the impeachment news swirling FTC: Millennials more likely to report falling victim to financial scams 10/02/2019 10:11am • The Federal Trade Commission has a new report out on who's more likely to report being victims of financial scams — and it's not who you'd think. "We oftentimes hear about grandma or grandpa getting scammed by clicking on the wrong thing online, but in this case, the FTC is saying that the re The Awesome Burger is Nestlé's answer to the plant-based meat craze 09/24/2019 08:30am • Nestlé's Plant-Based Protein Center of Excellence, the beating heart of the massive food company's recent foray into fake meat. If you turn off Highway 1 at just the right spot in Moss Landing, California, past fruit stands, roadside cafes and artichoke farms, you may catch a sudden whiff of ba After combative House hearing, what's ahead for impeachment? 09/17/2019 09:02pm • The House Judiciary Committee held a highly contentious impeachment hearing Tuesday, which included repeated clashes between congressional Democrats and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. Democrats admonished Lewandowski for often failing to answer their questions. Lewandowski cited College Football Corner: The quarterback whisperer 09/15/2019 06:02pm • Somebody from the NCAA needs to find out exactly what is in the water of Lake Thunderbird in Norman, Oklahoma. Once again the most feared passing attack in the nation wears the crimson and cream of the Oklahoma Sooners. And once again it's a transfer quarterback piloting the attack. OU is getting