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Streetsense getting millennial feedback on downtown Bethesda 06/20/2014 11:10am • There are some reinforcments coming in the effort to get millennials more involved with the planning process for downtown Bethesda. Streetsense, the brokerage, design and development company with a sprawling office at Bethesda Metro Center, will host an event on July 16 focused on drawing out th Top D.C. students share their keys to success 06/16/2014 05:59pm • WASHINGTON - Some of the District's sharpest students were honored Monday for their drive to succeed in school. For Rickay Thompson, graduating at the top of her class was no easy task. Thompson became pregnant while she was a sophomore at W.D. Woodson High School. But with the help of her fa IRS Scam Threatens Immigrants With Deportation 06/13/2014 01:30pm • An Internal Revenue Service impersonation scam has victimized some Arlington-based immigrants, threatening them with deportation unless they drive to Home Depot and add money to pre-paid gift cards. “So many people already got in trouble,” Shamim Naseer, who received one o Gearheads, gawkers drawn to 'Vette museum sinkhole 06/13/2014 12:18pm • BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) -- For years, just enough hardcore classic car lovers and curious travelers wandered through the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky to keep the doors open. Now, after a massive sinkhole swallowed eight pristine models of vintage muscle, atte Wal-Mart to expand online savings tool nationwide 06/05/2014 03:10pm • ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP RETAIL WRITER FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is upping the ante on price matching.The world's largest retailer said Wednesday that it's expanding its online tool that compares prices on thousands of products with those of some of its competitors to cities nation Man sentenced in shoplifting-gift card conspiracy 06/04/2014 08:00pm • BALTIMORE (AP) -- A Baltimore man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for his role in a shoplifting scam in which stolen goods were returned to stores for gift cards.Forty-seven-year-old Mark Brunelle was also ordered to pay more than $210,000 in restitution at sentencing Wednesday 10 World Cup greats 06/04/2014 05:00pm • The Associated Press With the World Cup in Brazil looming, The Associated Press takes a look at 10 great players in the tournament's history:PELE:Considered by many the greatest player in football history, Pele won three World Cups with Brazil. He was a teenager when he helped the "Selecao" lift th Postal worker charged with stealing mail in Md. 06/03/2014 07:40am • BALTIMORE (AP) -- Federal authorities have charged a Baltimore-area postal worker with stealing more than 20,000 pieces of mail, including magazines, videos, passports and gift cards.Authorities say Jeffrey Shipley was a U.S. Postal Service mail carrier from 1993 to March 2014. Now he's accused of s New digital music store to cater to theater fans 06/03/2014 03:22am • MARK KENNEDY AP Drama Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- The digital age virtually wiped out specialty theater record stores, where show-tune lovers could happily browse aisles bursting with cast albums and sheet music. Now some entrepreneurs are hoping to bring back such an experience -- online, of course.Mon 10 Things to Remember about Author Maya Angelou 05/29/2014 03:40am • The Associated Press Ten things to remember about poet and writer Maya Angelou, who died Wednesday at age 86:1. HOW SHE GOT HER NAME"Maya" was a childhood nickname bestowed upon her by her brother. "Angelou" was inspired by the last name of her Greek-American first husband, Tosh Angelos.2. SHE WAS Today's divorces can mean cake and eating it, too 05/28/2014 04:48pm • LEANNE ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) -- Divorce, it seems, has turned into a party -- special cakes and all.Event planners, bakers, lawyers and academics note the rise of "divorce parties" over the last several years, many with cakes featuring weapon-wielding brides or gloomy black frosting Iran cleric condemns 'satanic' divorce parties 05/23/2014 12:10pm • ALI AKBAR DAREINI Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- A senior Iranian cleric on Friday called divorce parties a "satanic" Western import and a "poison" for Islamic society.Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani, Tehran's Friday prayer leader, was referring to the Western phenomenon of holding parties t Fears linger for students who faced deadly tornado 05/21/2014 07:34am • SEAN MURPHY Associated Press MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Ten-year-old Kai Heuangpraseuth will return to a new Plaza Towers Elementary in the fall, built on the same spot where seven of the boy's schoolmates died last year after a top-scale tornado reduced it to a pile of rubble.Christopher Legg will not be Rental Report: Rent It Faster With Perks 05/20/2014 11:10am • Editor’s Note: This biweekly sponsored column is written by Rick Gersten, founder and CEO of Urban Igloo, a rental real estate firm that matches up renters with their ideal apartments, condos or houses. Please submit any questions in the comments section or via email. Not so lo Slope failure evacuees get monetary assistance 05/18/2014 05:43pm • WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, several homes were evacuated in Fort Washington after a few of them began to slide off their foundations. Now, Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III has announced ways for you to help those displaced by the slope failure. The Peterson Family Fo