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Want a lower mortgage rate? Borrow bigger (or gamble on an ARM) 10/03/2022 10:30am • Mortgage rates across the board are at a 15-year high, with a traditional 30-year fix hitting an average of 6.7% last week, according to Freddie Mac's weekly rate report. But some unusual dynamics are playing out in the current mortgage lending environment. One of them is rates being offered on Emerging from primary, John King urges end school-to-prison pipeline, student debt 10/03/2022 01:00am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Former U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr. calmly walked on stage at a national conference in Washington, D.C., Friday to offer recomme Odd crime scene leads to conflicting theories about shooting deaths 10/01/2022 11:08pm • When investigators entered the McLean, Virginia home of millionaire mother Pam Hargan, they discovered the bodies of Pam and her youngest daughter Helen, who was found with a rifle. Hours later, police told the family her wound looked self-inflicted. Did Helen shoot her mom and then take her own lif Access to some college savings funds will be curtailed until at least Oct., Md. official says 09/30/2022 10:56am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Families enrolled in a popular college savings plan will face additional delays in accessing their funds, the official in charge of Maryla Guilty plea in $4 million Fairfax Co. embezzlement case 09/28/2022 05:24pm • A Fairfax County, Virginia, man has pleaded guilty to embezzling $4 million in what authorities described as one of the largest white-collar fraud cases in the county's history. Carlos Camacho, 59, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one felony count each of embezzlement and forgery, according to Fairfax C Stratford Univ. students in Alexandria demand answers and a plan as school prepares to close 09/26/2022 08:37pm • About 800 students are in limbo as Stratford University prepares to close all Northern Virginia campuses by the end of the week. (InsideNova/Jared Foretek) This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email Dozens indicted in COVID-19 nutrition program fraud scheme 09/22/2022 11:22am • Dozens of people have been arrested for defrauding a federal child nutrition program and taking $250 million. Newly released court documents obtained by WCCO confirming a 48th suspect charged in what officials call the largest pandemic fraud in the United States. According to investigators, agents a What rising interest rates mean for you 09/21/2022 03:35pm • In its continued bid to quash high inflation, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised the overnight bank lending rate to a range of 3% to 3.25%. It is the fifth increase by the US central bank in six months and its third consecutive 75- basis-point hike, which will put upward pressure on other in Former Va. state employee sentenced for stealing $1.8 million in COVID relief 09/20/2022 10:37am • A former Virginia state employee has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison in connection with a scam that involved ripping off financial programs that were created to help people during the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Sadie Mitchell, 30, of Midlothian, was given t Deadline approaching for longtime public service workers to see student debt waived 09/20/2022 04:51am • A career in public service could pay off for some federal student loan borrowers — a program with an upcoming deadline could help some D.C.-area workers apply to have their debt waived. Borrowers who have worked in public service for a decade could have their entire student loan debt waived, ac A massive sewer tunnel in Alexandria is part of a plan to clean up the Potomac 09/17/2022 02:56pm • Officials in Alexandria, Virginia, will ramp up a tunneling project well below the city's surface next month in an effort to divert sewage from spilling into the Potomac River. The 380-ton tunnel boring machine named "Hazel" was lowered 138 feet — or about 12 stories — into a pumping shaft near DOJ establishes COVID-19 Strike Force teams to combat fraud 09/15/2022 12:28am • The Justice Department has created three Strike Force teams to improve its efforts to fight and prevent COVID-19 fraud. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said in a statement Wednesday that the department confiscated over $1.2 billion in relief funds that people were trying to steal and charged 18 tuition-free colleges 09/12/2022 08:22am • Some schools don't charge tuition. Want to go to college but wish you could avoid paying tuition? It's possible. Schools scattered across the country offer free tuition to admitted students. But read the fine print. You may have to hail from a certain state or region, or come from a low-income ba County executives in competitive races report latest fundraising totals 09/01/2022 01:31pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. With 68 days left until the Nov. 8 general election, the heat is on in competitive races for county executive in Anne Arundel, Frederick and Moore, unsurprisingly, opens up wide fundraising lead over Cox 08/31/2022 09:54am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Wes Moore-Aruna Miller fundraising machine appears to have picked up momentum since the general election began last month. After winn