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Teen charged in death of man found near Bethesda bus stop; mother-son duo still sought 05/06/2019 04:58pm • Three people are charged with first-degree murder in connection with a man found dead behind a bus stop in Bethesda, Maryland, but only one suspect is in custody. Police are still looking for Jenny Jaimes, 37, and her 17-year-old son, Jose Perdomo-Jaimes, both of College Park. (Courtesy Prince G Fairfax County firefighters skip the hoses to save endangered bees 05/02/2019 04:49pm • Thousands of bees, swarming on a car in a parking lot in the Merrifield section of Fairfax County, Virginia, certainly looked scary ��� so, a woman called a nearby fire station. Thankfully, fire Capt. David Weand was on duty Tuesday at Station 23, in Annandale. ���Normally, bees aren���t our t Construction work to close part of Church Street in Vienna next week 04/29/2019 02:15pm • A portion of Church Street in Vienna will be closed for four weeks starting next Monday for construction work. The town of Vienna hired Ashburn Construction to install a new sidewalk, storm sewer, curb and gutter and driveway aprons on Church Street NE from the intersection of Glyndon Street to 3 Seattle college says student was among those killed by crane 04/29/2019 12:18am • SEATTLE (AP) ��� Officials in Washington state on Monday are expected to release the identities of the four people killed when a construction crane fell from a Seattle building. The King County Medical Examiner's office has said it would release the names of the female and three males who died Data Doctors: Privacy tips for using your smart speaker 04/26/2019 02:30pm • Q: I like using Alexa, but I���m concerned about some of the privacy and accidental purchase stories I���ve heard about. Smart speakers such as Amazon���s Echo, Google Home and Apple���s HomePod have exploded in popularity. Last year saw a nearly doubling of the percentage (41%) of households ProPublica: TurboTax deliberately hides its Free File page from search engines 04/26/2019 11:41am • ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning nonprofit investigative newsroom based in New York. This week, we reported on how TurboTax uses deceptive design and misleading advertising to trick lower-income Americans into paying to file their taxes, even though they are eligible to do it for free. T Wake up, people: You're fooling yourself about sleep, study says 04/16/2019 03:54am • Hey, sleepyheads. What you believe about sleep may be nothing but a pipe dream.Many of us have notions about sleep that have little basis in fact and may even be harmful to our health, according to researchers at NYU Langone Health's School of Medicine, who conducted a study published Tuesday i When strep triggers attack on brain, kids see ���terrifying��� symptoms 04/10/2019 12:17am • About two years ago, Laura Murdock noticed a sudden change in her son Lucas��� behavior. The 8-year-old was ���always happy,��� but then stopped wanting to play baseball ��� a sport he loved ��� and would ���get upset over the littlest things.��� Almost overnight he became anxious, obsessive- Facebook and Google go to Washington to talk white nationalism 04/09/2019 10:22am • Representatives from Facebook and Google are on Capitol Hill Tuesday morning, appearing alongside civil rights activists and a prominent right-wing activist for a hearing about how social media platforms are used by white supremacists as lawmakers explore possible legislati Amid Netflix vs. Spielberg, DC Web Fest keeps 'fighting the good fight' 04/09/2019 01:23am • Hollywood is just now waking up to the��Netflix vs. Spielberg debate on streaming vs. theatrical movies, but��D.C. native Otessa Ghadar has been ahead of the curve for over a decade. Her digital brainchild, the D.C. Web Fest,��returns for its seventh year this Friday and Saturday. "We're v Data Doctors: Which web browser is the best? 04/05/2019 04:55pm • Q: Which browser for my computer is the best to use? A: Your choice in browsers can be one of the most important decisions you���ll make on all your internet connected devices. It���s common for users to simply use whatever comes preloaded on the computer, but there can be significant differen Walmart partners with Google for voice-assisted grocery shopping 04/02/2019 08:13am • Walmart's grocery strategy has a missing piece: voice shopping. It is turning to Google to fill the gap. Amazon customers can shop groceries from Whole Foods by calling out orders in their homes to their Echo devices, but Walmart customers have lacked that option. Walmart doesn't make its own Some of the greatest April Fools' pranks of all time 04/01/2019 02:38am • April Fools' Day ain't what it used to be. Companies will come up with gags. Everybody will have a good laugh, but nobody will be fooled. Oh, for the days when April Fools' Day hoaxes and pranks could cause lines outside liquor stores or prompt people to smell their T Scope it Out 5K run brings road closures in DC 03/31/2019 08:00am • The Scope it Out 5K brings road closures on Sunday, March 31 in D.C. The Scope it Out 5K is a charity run designed to spread awareness and raise research money for colorectal cancer. It is hosted by the Colorectal Cancer Alliance. The D.C. police have released a list of roads and parking locat Column: Samsung Galaxy S10 vs. Google Pixel 3 03/29/2019 12:51am • Q: I���m trying to decide between upgrading to the Pixel 3 or the Galaxy S10 ��� any thoughts? A: Anyone looking for the best in class in the Android world will likely land on this same question, and, frankly, you can���t go wrong with either of these handsets. The Pixel 3 was released six mon