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'Small Business Saturday' in Old Town highlights big box store alternatives 11/28/2015 01:00pm • WASHINGTON --��It���s that special shopping day that sits right between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It���s called ���Small Business Saturday,��� and businesses in Old Town Alexandria and across the county are hoping to highlight local independent businesses that normally might have trouble compet Police seek suspect in Alexandria rape, abduction 11/25/2015 04:04pm • WASHINGTON ��� Police are searching for a man who raped and abducted a woman last week in Alexandria. Alexandria police say a 23-year-old woman let a man she met through the Internet into her hotel room in the 2700 block of Eisenhower Avenue on Nov. 16. The armed suspect raped the victim and then A foodie retirement in Medellin, Colombia 11/25/2015 10:00am • Medell��n, Colombia, is a pretty, tidy city with a near perfect climate. It's also culturally and recreationally rich and diverse in a sophisticated, developed-world kind of way. On any given day, you could visit a museum or see a tango show. There's opera in season, shopping year-round, and dance c Running Through Holiday Travel 11/24/2015 07:00pm • Between social engagements, shopping and cooking -- in addition to year-round daily activities -- runners and other athletes have to work hard during the holidays to keep exercise from falling off the calendar. Add holiday travel to the list and many runners miss their workouts. As a life-long runn Explore a Medical Career in Health Care Information Technology 11/23/2015 07:00pm • Technology at its best makes people's lives easier. Health care information technology is a multibillion dollar industry employing clinicians, software engineers, marketers and business developers with the goal of creating streamlined, evidence-based technology that facilitates safe, high quality p 5 red flags to look for on Airbnb and other vacation rental sites 11/20/2015 07:15am • With the proliferation of vacation rental sites like Airbnb, HomeAway and TripAdvisor Vacation Rentals, you've probably tried, or at least toyed with the idea of, staying in someone else's home. After all, with competitive pricing and more space and amenities than you would expect at a standard hote Patient Engaged: Preventing and Managing Disease With Mobile Technology 11/19/2015 07:00pm • According to a Pew Research Center report released last month, Americans are engaged and connected like never before. Nearly 70 percent own a smartphone, and 45 percent have a tablet-like device. It's clear that almost all of us interact with mobile devices on a daily basis. Wearable sensor technol Incoming, outgoing Jesse Matthew prosecutors prepare for transition 11/19/2015 12:49pm • WASHINGTON ��� The Albemarle County prosecutor who secured murder indictments against Jesse Matthew in the deaths of two Virginia college students has detailed the cases to the former federal prosecutor who beat her on Election Day. Denise Lunsford tells WTOP she and Robert Tracci, who staged a b Target These 5 Best Places to Find College Scholarships, Grants 11/18/2015 07:00pm • It is much faster and easier to search for college scholarships and grants than it was 20 years ago, before the Internet changed the process for finding information forever. Now you just need an I nternet connection and a phone, tablet or computer to find multiple resources for free money for colle 7 Retirement Money Wasters to Avoid 11/18/2015 07:00pm • Investors are rightfully concerned with saving and investing enough money to provide a comfortable retirement. But just as important is keeping a close eye on the spending side. Here are seven retirement money wasters that can quickly drain even a well-stocked retirement portfolio. 1. Not shopping 5 unique ways to save on your holiday shopping 11/17/2015 11:00am • Whether we like it or not, the holiday season is here. That means one thing: spending money and potentially a lot of it. In a survey by the American Research Group, Americans plan on spending nearly $900 on their holiday shopping. Such an amount can put a significant stress on a budget, leaving fami Is your Facebook use at work hurting your career? 11/17/2015 07:00am • Do you have a case of " FOMO" that keeps you checking Facebook throughout the day during work hours? According to Suzana E. Flores, author of "Facehooked: How Facebook Affects Our Emotions, Relationships, and Lives," this fear of missing out is increasingly common in social media culture. "t's hard Anonymous hackers' group declares war on ISIS 11/16/2015 09:40pm • By Paula Cohen, CBS News WASHINGTON ��� As warplanes pound ISIS targets and U.S. special forces ramp up operations in Syria, the war against the terrorist group may be unfolding on another far more unconventional front as well. The hackers' collective known as Anonymous says it, too, is at war Should You Use a Third Party to Negotiate Your Cable Bill? 11/16/2015 07:00pm • Despite many consumers' interest in streaming content online, TV subscription prices continue to rise. In fact, consumer research from Leichtman Research Group Inc. found in a survey of 1,222 American households earlier this year that the mean reported monthly spending on TV cable, satellite or oth Nontraditional Ways to Find Funding When Banks Won't Help 11/16/2015 07:00pm • A woman approached me a few weeks ago with a question about how to get approved for a credit card with a subprime credit score. This woman, we'll call her Allie, had a short-term cash flow problem. She'd soon earn income working for a volunteer organization, but she needed $1,500 to relocate for her