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Loudoun Co. leaders, Va. Senator discuss uses of American Rescue Plan funding 03/25/2021 06:23pm • Loudoun County, Virginia, is laying out the ways in which it plans to use funding from President Joe Biden's COVID-19 relief package that Congress recently passed. Virginia is expecting to receive $4 billion from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan. Loudoun County will get $80 million in tw Data Doctors: Understanding Windows 10 search indexing 03/25/2021 05:12am • Q: I was told that if I turn off search indexing in Windows 10, my computer would run faster. Is this true, and what do I give up if I turn it off? A: Windows 10 search indexing is designed to make finding things on your computer faster by creating an index of your files. It’s like the index How to prepare kids for social media use 03/23/2021 04:22am • When Alexi McCammond, the newly appointed editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, stepped down after the resurfacing of several racist and homophobic tweets from her teen years, parents had a host of reactions. Some were aghast that someone who'd uttered such things would, even 1 Is melatonin safe for kids? Here's what the experts say 03/22/2021 05:07am • Melatonin is a popular over-the-counter sleeping aid, touted as a natural way for adults to fall asleep and used by millions around the world. So why wouldn't it be good for children, too? "There is a view that if it's natural, then it can't hurt," said Rebecca Robbins, an associate scientist at Some Charles Co. public school students to return to in-person learning 03/21/2021 07:09pm • Some students in Charles County, Maryland, will be returning to in-person instruction on Monday. March 22 marks the first day of Phase 2 return to school buildings. The schools returned after winter break to continue Phase 1 virtual learning. Teachers returned to Charles County classrooms on F Frederick Co. substitute teacher arrested on child pornography charges 03/19/2021 03:35pm • A 27-year-old Frederick County, Maryland, man who worked as a substitute teacher was arrested Thursday morning on charges related to possessing and distributing child pornography. Maryland State Police said Daniel Elieze Valentin-Morales, of Frederick, was charged with six counts of distribution Indiana man arrested in DC child porn case 03/18/2021 10:10am • An Indiana man has been arrested over child pornography-related offenses alleged to have occurred in D.C. over the span of a year. Local, state and federal law enforcement officials announced the arrest of 35-year-old Indianapolis resident Chancellor Karla on charges of transportation and possess Northern Virginia remains king of data centers 03/18/2021 08:53am • There is a good chance that much of what you do on the internet flows through data centers in Northern Virginia, and the region once again led for delivery of new data center capacity in 2020. CBRE reports Northern Virginia had 217.2 megawatts of net data center absorption in 2020, more than five Survey results capture DC teachers' pandemic struggles, successes 03/18/2021 01:31am • More than 1,000 D.C. teachers took an online survey in late January and early February asking how they and their students have handled the pandemic, and the results are in. Teachers from 185 schools shared their thoughts, including teachers from every D.C. public school and most of the city's pub What are best cars for families? US News offers insight 03/16/2021 04:19am • For car shoppers, parenthood means changing up that wish list. Safety becomes an even more important factor, as does convenience, and it's through that lens that U.S. News & World Report evaluated 86 different vehicles for its list of the 2021 Best Cars for Families, released on Tuesday. " White supremacist's fake bomb threats nets him 3 years in prison 03/15/2021 05:30pm • FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A former Old Dominion University student has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for teaming up with white supremacists in a swatting conspiracy that targeted a Black church, his own university and a Cabinet officer, among others. The 33-month sentence for 20 SpaceX rocket plume soars through DC region's night sky, surprising residents 03/14/2021 12:47pm • An unexpected bullet of light set against the dark morning skies Sunday morning prompted people along the U.S. east coast to post images of the unknown phenomenon on social media, wondering if they just saw a meteor, a possible alien sighting or a satellite of sorts. The answer? Elon Musk’s Sp Maryland House approves sports betting implementation bill 03/11/2021 02:14pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Sports betting would be allowed online, at Maryland's six casinos and the stadiums where the state's three major professional sports teams play, as well as horse racing tracks, under a measure approved Thursday by the House of Delegates. The bill, which now goes to the Sen Where do Va., Md. rank on US News’ rankings of top states? 03/09/2021 01:15am • For the second time in a row, Washington state came out on top on U.S. News & World Report's rankings of Best States. The state won by virtue of top-10 placings in five of the eight weighted categories, and top-half finishes in the other three. Virginia ranked seventh, buoyed by top-10 ran DC-area leaders praise local aid included in COVID-19 relief bill 03/06/2021 08:50pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser thanked President Joe Biden and congressional leaders for including local aid in the latest COVID-19 relief package. In a tweet, Bowser thanked President Biden, congressional leaders and D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton. We thank President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, Leader