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Movie Review: Unlike ‘A Quiet Place,’ ‘Rampage’ is a lazy creature feature 04/13/2018 12:02am • WASHINGTON — The current box-office champ, "A Quiet Place," showed the right way to make a creature feature, reviving the lost art of visual storytelling with a "less is more" approach. Just a week later, "Rampage" sadly takes the opposite approach with the lazy assumption that "more is mo Sheriff: Impersonator followed woman across 3 states in fake cruiser 04/11/2018 01:06pm • WASHINGTON — A Fredericksburg, Virginia, man is being held without bond after police say he followed a woman through three states in a car which looked like it was a police cruiser. This is not the first time Jerry Saintvil, 28, has been charged with impersonating a police officer. "The th Alex Ovechkin Joins Elite Company with Seventh Rocket Richard Trophy 04/09/2018 12:27pm • WASHINGTON -- With the conclusion of the NHL regular season Sunday, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin officially secured his seventh career Rocket Richard Trophy as the NHL's goal-scoring leader. Ovechkin had 49 goals and 87 points in 82 games, leading the Capitals to a third consecutive Fox News mistakenly posts graphic showing it lags in trust 04/09/2018 07:50am • NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News inadvertently posted a graphic showing it lagged other cable news networks in trustworthiness. It happened during a segment Sunday on "Media Buzz." Host Howard Kurtz was talking about a Monmouth University poll about whether the media regularly or occasionally report fa Q&A: WWE legend Mick Foley brings '20 Years of Hell' tour to DC Improv 04/08/2018 11:38pm • WASHINGTON -- "Good, God Almighty! ... As God as my witness, he is broken in half!" Jim Ross' legendary call cemented the most brutal match in WWE history, as Mick Foley's masked masochist Mankind faced the undead phenom The Undertaker in a "Hell in a Cell" match at the "King of the Ring" pa Maryland gubernatorial candidate announces Sinclair boycott 04/03/2018 09:03pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A Democratic candidate in the Maryland governor's race has vowed not to air ads on stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group until the company stops requiring anchors across the country to recite statements criticizing "fake" news stories. The Baltimore Sun reports that Kr Sinclair's mandated TV promos: A question of journalism ethics 04/02/2018 06:05pm • WASHINGTON — Over the last few days, hundreds of local TV anchors across the country read the exact same script, as required by their employer. Now, the company's encroachment on journalistic ethics has come under fire. Over the weekend, a composite video of TV journalists at Sinclair Broadcast How Medicare Beneficiaries Can Save Money on Prescription Drugs 03/28/2018 08:00pm • Medication costs can make up a large part of peoples' budgets, but a few simple steps can easily save hundreds of dollars a year. The biggest single cost-saver? Picking the right Medicare plan. Whether you're preparing for Medicare fall open enrollment or signing up for Medicare for the first time, Government contractor CSRA warns of job recruiter scam 03/28/2018 01:24pm • WASHINGTON — Cold-call job recruitment scams are a growing problem as the online job listings segment grows, and local contractor CSRA Inc. is warning potential job-seekers that it appears to have been hit with such a scam. CSRA said scammers are posing as company executives, often using names Prince George's Co. substitute teacher, coach pleads guilty to child pornography charges 03/23/2018 01:41pm • WASHINGTON — A former Prince George's County, Maryland, substitute teacher and basketball coach has pleaded guilty to uploading and sharing child pornography online and will be sentenced to 30 to 40 years in prison. Christopher Speights coached basketball at Bradbury Heights Elementary School, 'I fell asleep in the parking lot': Most bizarre excuses for being late to work 03/22/2018 10:11am • WASHINGTON — CareerBuilder is out with its annual list of the most outrageous excuses HR managers have heard from employees who are late to work. As always, there are some doozies, like: "I was here, but I fell asleep in the parking lot." In CareerBuilder's annual survey of both HR managers 5 Signs of an IRS Tax Scam 03/21/2018 08:00pm • The caller ID may say IRS, but you shouldn't assume it's a government agent you're speaking with on the phone. It could be a fraudster hoping to intimidate you into providing sensitive information or making a payment on a tax bill that doesn't exist. Common IRS scams include demanding Social Securit Twitter Inc (TWTR) May Be Next to Ban Cryptocurrency Ads 03/19/2018 08:00pm • Sky News says that Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) is planning on following the lead of Facebook Inc ( FB) and Alphabet ( GOOG, GOOGL) by banning cryptocurrency advertisements on its platform. The move may have little impact on Twitter's bottom line, but it's one more signal that companies are starting to Artificial Intelligence Stocks: The 10 Best AI Companies 03/18/2018 08:00pm • Artificial intelligence is already changing the world.Five years ago, few investors were searching for the best artificial intelligence stocks to buy. Scarce was the Silicon Valley executive who would emphasize AI as a catalyst in analyst calls or quarterly reports -- instead it was bandied about in Md. bill aims to ease process of charging those who threaten schools 03/16/2018 04:33pm • WASHINGTON — Maryland has seen a dramatic spike in threats of mass violence against schools ever since the deadly mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Now, a bill introduced in the state Senate on Thursday seeks to make it easier for prosecutors to go after people behind such threats. The bill w