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Despite losses, Chicago relishes its hot dogs 05/11/2014 11:42am • DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) -- In a city known for its love of both eating and bragging about its hot dogs, this was news nobody relished: Gourmet stand Hot Doug's, known for serving up options made of rattlesnake and yak, is closing. And the owner of another local hot dog institution, 3 arrested after fans scammed for Wizards tickets 05/09/2014 01:11pm • WASHINGTON - Three men are under arrest in Fairfax County, charged with selling fake playoff tickets to Wizards fans. After examining his Wizards tickets purchased for $650 off Craigslist, police say a Fairfax buyer noticed spelling errors and inconsistencies in the printing. The typos drew en Westbrook, Durant help Thunder beat Clippers 05/08/2014 04:14pm • CLIFF BRUNT AP Sports Writer OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Kevin Durant stood before his adoring home crowd, proudly holding his MVP trophy above his head during a pregame ceremony.He spent the next few hours showing how he earned it.Durant had 32 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists, and the Oklahoma City Ecuador council rejects oil-drilling referendum 05/06/2014 08:50pm • GONZALO SOLANO Associated Press QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuador's electoral council on Tuesday rejected as insufficient a petition drive calling for voters to decide whether to proceed with oil drilling in a pristine Amazon nature reserve as planned by President Rafael Correa.The council's announceme Bolts boss Telesco will try to match his 1st draft 05/06/2014 07:49pm • BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Tom Telesco set the bar high during his first draft as general manager of the San Diego Chargers.He took right tackle D.J. Fluker in the first round, traded up in the second round to take linebacker Manti Te'o, and then landed a gem in the third round Programming vet guiding changes at MTV 05/06/2014 05:46pm • DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- When the creative minds at MTV get together, Susanne Daniels must seem like the adult in the room.It's not like she's chaperoning spring break. But MTV has always seemed as much a state of mind as a television network, a place known best for Osbourn How will Manziel fare in the NFL draft? 05/06/2014 04:50pm • KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) -- And now comes the great leap to the NFL for Johnny Football.Johnny Manziel, a Heisman Trophy winner and one of college football's most entertaining players, looks to translate his improvisational game to the next level. But questions abound about the q Man poses as police officer to rob Va. home 05/02/2014 01:43pm • WASHINGTON - Police are looking for an armed man they say impersonated a police officer with the intent to rob a home in Stafford County, Va. Tuesday night, the uniformed man knocked on the door of a Riggs Road home in the Leland Station subdivision and said he had to deliver some news. He aski Column: 10 things I learned at M3 Rock Festival 04/28/2014 10:38am • WASHINGTON -- It may be 2014, but we partied like it was 1989 this weekend at the sixth annual M3 Rock Festival. Big hair and spandex were in style again as bands like Winger, Extreme, Kix, Stryper, Queensryche and Great White played back-to-back sets to adoring crowds. This wasn't my first M3 Kentucky inmate starves to death, exposes lapses in prison medical treatment 04/21/2014 05:27pm • By BRETT BARROUQUERE Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A prison doctor has been fired and two other staffers are in the midst of being dismissed after an inmate at the Kentucky State Penitentiary starved himself to death, a case that has exposed lapses in medical treatment and in how hunger s Harry Potter fans open Hogwarts online university 04/17/2014 04:47pm • WASHINGTON -- There's an exciting new website for Harry Potter lovers who just can't get enough of the young wizard's world. It has been three years since the final Harry Potter movie was released, seven years since the final book. Eager for more, fans of the series have set up online classes Still using XP? 5 things you need to do 04/09/2014 07:55am • Ken Colburn, Data Doctors PHOENIX, Ariz. - Rich asks, "Now that Windows XP is officially retired, what exactly is going to happen if I keep using it?" The retiring of Windows XP is by no means anything like a Y2K scenario where your computer will suddenly stop functioning properly. No one really Arlington Pet of the Week: Cali 04/02/2014 12:00pm • This week’s Arlington Pet of the Week is Cali, a “bouncing ball of fluff” who needs a few minutes before she’s ready to play, unless a laser pointer is involved. Here’s what Cali’s owner had to say about her: Cali is a 3-year-old brightly colored Calico ca Homeland security expert: Passport security too vulnerable 03/11/2014 10:29am • WASHINGTON -- The news of two men traveling with stolen passport on the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner is shedding new light on the vulnerability with passport security, says a homeland security expert. Michael Greenberger, director of the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homelan D.C. firefighter charged with filling fake prescriptions 03/07/2014 03:26pm • WASHINGTON - A D.C. firefighter was arrested for filling fake prescriptions at a Maryland grocery while wearing his uniform Friday. He was the second D.C. firefighter arrested in uniform this week. The arrests come on the heels of a scathing report reviewing the department's response to Cecil Mi