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Ravens punter Sam Koch set to break franchise record for most games played 10/14/2020 02:13pm • John Harbaugh, Lamar Jackson react to punter Sam Koch's fake-punt passSam Koch set to break Ravens record for most games played originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonRavens punter Sam Koch isn’t just the most efficient passer in NFL history. Sunday, against the Eagles, he’s se Double Exposure: Investigative Film Fest presents MLK, COVID documentaries 10/12/2020 12:45am • What happens when you combine investigative journalism with documentary filmmaking? You get vital double exposure on the important issues of society. Hence the name of the Double Exposure: Investigative Film Festival, which returns for its sixth annual event this Wednesday through Sunday wit How does a haunted attraction scare during a pandemic? Md.-based Markoff’s Haunted Forest brings socially-distanced frights 10/06/2020 04:22am • You find yourself in a dark and eerie wood, surrounded by close friends and family, and that is some comfort. You know you're being watched, but don't know where your tormentor is hiding. Suddenly, in the tree-line, you get a glimpse of a grotesque, shambling thing. Its gray skin, blotched and ra Misinformation spikes as Trump confirms COVID-19 diagnosis 10/02/2020 06:46pm • CHICAGO (AP) — News Friday that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 sparked an explosion of rumors, misinformation and conspiracy theories that in a matter of hours littered the social media feeds of many Americans. Tweets shared thousands of tim Thousands who paid for 'get-rich-quick' training program can have debts wiped out, FTC says 09/16/2020 10:39am • Thousands of people who shelled out big bucks for online training programs that promised to teach them how to make money in the stock market will have their debts wiped out as part of a settlement between the Online Trading Academy and federal authorities. The Federal Trade Commission said the pr Frederick, Md., man charged with plot to sell fake coronavirus disinfectant 08/27/2020 01:57pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland man sold unregistered and misbranded pesticides falsely advertised as a government-approved disinfectant for the coronavirus, investigators said. Marek Majtan, 35, of Frederick, was charged Tuesday in a criminal complaint that accuses him of repackaging pesticides wi Data Doctors: What to know about Facebook lockout protection 08/21/2020 05:16pm • Q: I got locked out of my Facebook account and it says that I have to upload a photo ID to get back in. Is this legit? Facebook is, by far, the most popular social network on the planet, with an estimated 2.7 billion daily users. With that many users, virtually everything Facebook does has to be DC man allegedly stole $2.5M from pandemic relief fund and church, then bought house and yacht 08/12/2020 05:23am • A D.C. man faces charges of fraudulently obtaining $2.1 million in federal coronavirus relief loans and embezzling $472,000 from the Archdioceses of Washington and then using the money to buy a $1.13 million rowhouse, a $300,000 yacht and a $46,000 sports car. The U.S. Attorneys's Office charged Md. state trooper admits to writing fake DUIs 08/07/2020 06:37am • A Maryland state trooper assigned to a law enforcement program focused on reducing alcohol-related crashes pleaded guilty to charges of making up six DUI arrests. Cpl. John Sollon, 36, pleaded guilty to charges of perjury and misconduct in office in Baltimore County on Thursday, according to Mary Britches not burned: Classic Georgetown-based clothing store reborn in Warrenton 08/03/2020 05:01am • If you visited D.C.'s Georgetown neighborhood in the 1980s or 1990s, you probably can visualize a favorite nightclub, restaurant or record store. And while most have faded into memory, a then-popular clothing store — Britches Great Outdoors — has come back to life 45 miles west of Wisconsin A Md. man gets prison time for fake passports in money laundering case 07/31/2020 09:33am • A Bowie, Maryland, man was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal prison for his use of at least two false passports to open eight “drop accounts” for a money laundering conspiracy involving nearly $1 million. Arinze Michael Ozor, 37, a dual citizen of the U.S. and Nigeria, pleaded guilty 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