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Do's and don'ts of growing from seeds 03/09/2018 06:47am • Meet Mike in Fredericksburg next weekend! Mike McGrath will appear Saturday, March 17 and Sunday, March 18 at the Fredericksburg Home & Flower Show at the Expo Center in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Saturday's times are at noon and 3 p.m., Sunday's are at noon and 2 p.m. This is his only springtim How to watch March Madness without cable 03/08/2018 07:00pm • For basketball fans, no time of year is more exciting than March Madness. Over the course of three weeks, nearly 70 teams will compete to be the coveted last team standing and crowned national champions of college basketball. If you've cut the cable cord, it may seem like you're fighting a tourna McDonald's flips Golden Arches to a 'W' for Women's Day 03/08/2018 12:16pm • NEW YORK (AP) — McDonald's has temporarily flipped its famous Golden Arches to look like a "W'' — a move it says it made to recognize International Women's Day. The upside-down logo appeared Thursday on the fast-food giant's website and social media accounts. It also flipped the arches at Maryland leaders keep mum on Amazon negotiations 03/07/2018 02:19pm • GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said he and Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett have made a great team in their efforts to get Amazon to choose Montgomery County over D.C. or Virginia for its second headquarters — but he didn’t give up any details when asked about those effor Broadway musical 'The Wiz' eases on down the road to Ford's Theater 03/07/2018 12:59am • WASHINGTON — Long before Diana Ross and Michael Jackson starred in the 1978 movie, "The Wiz" opened in Baltimore in 1974 and won seven Tonys on Broadway, including Best Musical. This weekend, "The Wiz" makes its triumphant return to our area as the beloved remix of "The Wizard of Oz" ease WATCH: Gov. Hogan praises 'excellent' Md. Public Safety Training Academy 03/06/2018 09:52pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: 'f2061181-a401-4434-8367-2dca89f4b8c3' }).render("55261536c0aaacb7");}); GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Maryland Gov. Lar How to Create a Freelancer Benefits Package 03/06/2018 07:00pm • The perks of working as a freelancer are self-evident: You can set your own hours, work wherever you like and be your own boss. Among the complications, however, is the fact that contract laborers rarely have access to the benefits many employees take for granted. That means freelancers have to fin Metro's M Shop merchandise store opens at Metro Center Wednesday 03/06/2018 10:52am • WASHINGTON — Metro riders looking for some Metro bling now have a store where they can buy it. Metro soft-opened its M Shop retail store at the Metro Center stop, near the 12th Street and F Street NW exit, last week, and plans the store's grand opening from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, complet How long will food last in fridge, freezer without power? 03/05/2018 08:01am • WASHINGTON - Power outages that last days mean you will probably need to throw out a lot of food in your refrigerator and freezer. Foods will stay safely cold 4 to 6 hours in your refrigerator. Here's the rule of thumb: If the temperature reaches above 40 degrees, throw out what's in your refr 2018 Lexus LC 500h: A stylish sports coupe with fuel-saving hybrid 03/05/2018 12:10am • WASHINGTON — We recently looked at the LC 500 with a loud and proud V-8 that was racy-looking and moved quickly. But having the V-8 didn’t do much for fuel economy, as I managed just over 15 mpg of high-grade fuel. Luckily, Lexus also has an alternative — its hybrid version of the stylish LC 5 Maryland Senate passes revised cyberbullying law 03/02/2018 04:58pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland lawmakers in 2013 passed "Grace's Law," a bipartisan bill that made it a misdemeanor to repeatedly and maliciously bully someone through use of a computer or cellphone. Five years later some of the same legislators are back to update the law to reflect the new media lands Decide Whether to Reapply to a Business School That Rejected You 03/01/2018 07:00pm • If the admissions decisions from your target business schools have come and gone and you didn't get the news you were hoping for, it's only natural to feel devastated. After months of working hard on your application and then a few more months of anxiety-ridden waiting, finding out that you weren't How to get around during the 2018 National Cherry Blossom Festival 03/01/2018 09:29am • WASHINGTON — As the temperatures warm up, cherry blossom lovers are warming up for their big moment. Blooming blossoms will lure locals and out-of-towners to the National Mall and Tidal Basin during this year's National Cherry Blossom Festival (March 20–April 15). The crowd size could be a Amazon would bring $17 billion to Md. economy, if it picks Montgomery Co. for HQ 03/01/2018 06:21am • WASHINGTON — If Amazon chooses Montgomery County for its second headquarters, it would add more than $17 billion to Maryland's economy, bring in $7.7 billion in wages and deliver more than $750 million in new tax revenues, a new report from the Maryland Department of Commerce finds. The repor What Is CBD Oil -- and Should You Use It? 02/28/2018 07:00pm • Isa Herrera heard it from her patients first. "I have less pain." "I'm having less anxiety." "My menstrual cramps are less intense," they told the New York City physical therapist about taking CBD oil, a product containing cannabidiol, one of many chemicals found in the cannabis plant. "I was like,