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Police crack down on ticket scalpers outside Nats stadium 04/28/2013 04:17am • WASHINGTON - It's a whole new tune for fans heading into Nationals Park, as D.C. police crack down on ticket scalpers outside the stadium. Fans exiting the Navy Yard Metro onto Half Street for this week's homestand have been greeted by a D.C. Police vehicle with a loudspeaker on top blaring "A Saturday, April 20, 2013 04/19/2013 07:48pm • Dogs, celebretities help victims of Boston bombings with local ties Download Kate Ryan, WTOP 1:20 p.m. Carrie Budoff Brown, White House Reporter for POLITICO Download 12:20 p.m. Josh Gerstein, White House Reporter for Politico Download More areas consider using fake speed cameras 04/13/2013 03:09am • LAUREL, Md. - In a new twist on speed cameras, the City of Laurel introduced two fake cameras this week. In a story first reported by NBC 4, the two decoy boxes look just like the real cameras with police logos, except there is no actual camera inside. "Is it a camera or is it not a camera?" Fake speed cameras used to slow drivers in Laurel 04/11/2013 05:10pm • WASHINGTON -- As an effort to deter speeding, authorities in Laurel, Md. deployed fake speed cameras on Wednesday, reports NBC 4. The fake cameras have the police logo and camera lenses -- making them look real -- but are empty inside. NBC says Maryland law prohibits law enforcement from operatin Watch out for 'government' e-mail scams, Homeland Security warns 03/28/2013 06:34pm • Computer hackers and identity thieves have taken on a new roll: agents of the Homeland Security Department.At least, that's the claim in a recent round of malicious spam e-mails sent to thousands nation-wide.  The scam purports that Homeland Security (DHS) is starting an investigation into a us 'Hero pig' video turns out to be a fake (VIDEO) 02/27/2013 03:32pm • WASHINGTON - It doesn't happen very often, but every now and then WTOP gets duped by amazing things we see on the Internet. Most recently we wanted to believe that a pig saved a baby goat from drowning at a petting zoo. Unfortunately, the whole thing was staged, the New York Times reports. T Homeland funds new technology to track mobile devices, verify location history 02/18/2013 06:52am • The Homeland Security Department has awarded a University of Alabama-Birmingham researcher $583,000 to develop a system for that could be used to track people through their cell phones and mobile devices.With little fanfare, the university announced the grant to Professor Raghib Hasan from Homeland' Barbershop owner pleads guilty in $20M tax fraud scheme 02/17/2013 10:03pm • Andrew Mollenbeck, wtop.com WASHINGTON - A D.C. barbershop owner has pleaded guilty to charges connected to his role as a ring leader of an elaborate scheme that targeted dead people, drug addicts and people duped into believing they would receive "Obama Stimulus Money." Investigators say Kevin Key issues to watch this week 02/07/2013 02:41pm • J.J. Green, wtop.com AL-NUSRAH - The CIA has expressed skepticism about claims by al-Qaida-linked groups to have weapons of mass destruction. The agency says that al-Nusrah made a point of asserting publicly late last year that any messages not disseminated via its official channels or specif Northern Va. schools used for PBS documentary on gun violence 02/03/2013 04:00pm • ">Hank Silverberg, wtop.com WASHINGTON - A new PBS documentary examining possible warning signs for school shootings has used two Northern Virginia schools for part of the setting. Due to the sensitivity of the topic, the PBS producers signed an agreement with Arlington Public Schools stating th Morning Notes 01/29/2013 08:30am • Roti Mediterranean Grill Opening In March — The fast casual kabob and falafel joint is officially opening in March in Westlake Village Center (10327 Westlake Dr.). The announcement was made a few days after the Chicago-based chain started promoting its free lunch for a year contest. S Couric to WTOP: Manti Te'o was skeptical at first about fake girlfriend 01/24/2013 11:18am • Katie Couric, ABC News Te'o-type hoax targeted Washington Redskins players 01/23/2013 11:11pm • Editor's note: Katie Couric spoke with WTOP this morning about interviewing Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o. Read and listen to what she had to say here. Andrew Mollenbeck, wtop.com WASHINGTON - A flirty fake on social media targeted several Redskins players last season, but the steamy i Websiteslike.org: More of the same in a good way 01/22/2013 05:19am • Lacey Mason, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Change is good. But sometimes, you just want more of the same. Websiteslike.org is a site like no other to give you sites like any other. Just type in a favorite website and it will give you a collection of similar domains. By using its own algorithms, Websit News blooper: Chicago news team reports fake plane crash 01/15/2013 12:05pm • WASHINGTON - You'd think the first clue would have been that no emergency crews were on the scene. But apparently that detail didn't raise concerns for a Chicago news team when they reported a small plane had crashed on a city road and aired footage of the scene. Midway through their report, the