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How Maryland crab fans could win airline tickets 07/08/2014 07:54am • WASHINGTON -- Crabs are a summer staple, and your love of the iconic crustacean could win you airline tickets -- if you can come up a winning name for Maryland's blue crab that's on the state's Treasure the Chesapeake license plates. The Chesapeake Bay Trust is taking entries for its "Name the C Column: Neymar a victim of the World Cup show 07/06/2014 10:20am • JOHN LEICESTER AP Sports Columnist RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) -- "I kept getting tripped up and kicked to pieces ...," said Brazil's superstar player, "and the referee did nothing to protect me or my teammates from these rough-house tactics."Neymar, describing how he was battered at this World Cup and is n Nonprofits help the dying make farewell videos 07/06/2014 03:28am • JIM FITZGERALD Associated Press SCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP) -- Carolyn Ngbokoli doesn't remember the sound of her mother's voice. She was just 19 when her mom died, and no recordings were left.Now Ngbokoli, 37, faces the possibility of her own early death, from breast cancer. But she has made sure that her Groom chases thief who grabbed wedding gifts 07/02/2014 12:08pm • JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas couple who had just renewed their wedding vows got a rude shock when a man tried to steal wedding gifts from the reception and the groom ran after him shouting "Stop! Thief! Stop!"Jared Lightle, of Galena, Kansas, was outside during the reception Saturday after renewing Man gets 4 years for gift card conspiracy 07/01/2014 09:31pm • BALTIMORE (AP) -- A store owner has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for running a scheme in which he directed others to steal items from large retailers and then return them for gift cards.Forty-five-year-old John Tadros of Baltimore was also ordered to pay $400,000 in restitution a South Korea staring at early World Cup exit 06/24/2014 12:52pm • RAF CASERT AP Sports Writer MOGI DAS CRUZES, Brazil (AP) -- For South Korea, 2002 is starting to feel like more than just a dozen years ago.The team that reached the semifinals at his home World Cup in its heyday has been struggling mightily in Brazil, where even a lucky break hasn't managed to brin 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