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Gold bar scammer pleads guilty to bilking nearly $800,000 from Maryland woman 10/18/2024 06:35pm • A California man has pleaded guilty to a gold bar scam that bilked a Montgomery County, Maryland, woman of nearly $800,000. In court on Friday, Wenhui Sun, 34, of Lake Arbor, California, pleaded guilty to multiple theft charges in a case that tried to swindle more than $1.1 million from the woman Maryland Department of Health warns California enoki mushrooms contaminated with listeria 10/17/2024 04:51pm • Another potential listeria bacteria contamination in the D.C. region has Maryland health officials warning people to not eat enoki mushrooms from the Enoki King Mushroom Farm in Ventura, California. The Maryland Health Department is recalling certain enoki mushrooms. (Courtesy Maryland Departmen As Election Day nears, it's already hard to find Inauguration Day hotels, vacation rentals in DC 10/17/2024 03:25pm • Sign up for WTOP’s Election Desk weekly newsletter to stay up-to-date through Election Day 2024 with the latest developments in this historic presidential election cycle. There are only 19 days until Election Day — and while the presidential outcome is still to be determined, one thing that' Car Review: The BMW X2 xDrive28i is a sporty, coupe-styled SUV — sized and priced right 10/14/2024 04:39am • Many SUVs and crossovers blend into each other with a taller and boxier design. However, the SUV coupé with a swoopy carlike design tends to get noticed in the crowd. BMW has been making its larger SUVs with the coupé styling for nearly 10 years now. The X2, the smallest of the coupelike SU Where to find haunted hotels around DC 10/09/2024 11:05am • Historic Hotels of America, part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has released a list of the top 25 historic haunted hotels, and several are in the D.C. region, or close by. The list includes places where staff and guests have passed along tales of spirits, unexplained noises and Supreme Court lets Anne Arundel County gun safety law stand 10/09/2024 08:49am • The U.S. Supreme Court let stand an Anne Arundel County ordinance that requires gun shops to provide buyers with information on suicide prevention, gun safety and conflict resolution. The court, without comment, declined Monday to hear a challenge to the law from a Maryland gun-rights group and Car Review: Subaru BRZ tS is a shot of fun with just two doors in a crossover crazed world 10/07/2024 05:13am • The small fun-to-drive coupes that dotted the automotive landscape in the 1990s and early 2000s are a wishful thing for many builders and buyers alike. However, all is not lost for buyers seeking that different driving experience today. For Subaru, the BRZ is its daring car in a landscape of SUVs an PHOTOS: Wizards Let the Dogs Out with new theme nights and giveaways 10/03/2024 12:39pm • While the Washington Wizards may not be competing for an NBA title any time soon, they are certainly trying their best to get fans in seats to watch a rebuilding franchise with the release of their unique promotional and theme night schedule. For the first time, the Wizards will hold the very creati A Virginia jeweler's quest to find out if Taylor Swift wore her necklace 10/02/2024 06:39pm • A Falls Church, Virginia, jeweler is sleuthing in hopes of confirming whether Taylor Swift was wearing a necklace she tried to gift her — or simply a look-alike — last month. Paparazzi photos of Swift from Sept. 21 show her wearing a gold necklace that business owner Rachel Harrison belie Car Review: Genesis offers a stylish luxury SUV that blurs the lines with a coupe 09/30/2024 05:22am • The Genesis GV80 Coupe offers impressive styling. (Courtesy Genesis) By Brian Armstead, guest contributor The roads outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, the state with 10,000 lakes, served as the road test bed for the new Genesis GV80 Coupe, the latest addition to the Korean automaker’s impressive l National Symphony Orchestra musicians strike ends on high note with new labor agreement with Kennedy Center 09/27/2024 05:00pm • Musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center have reached a tentative labor agreement, ending a brief strike in D.C. on Friday that threatened the cancellation of some performances. The new 18-month contract, valued at $1.8 million, will increase wages by 4% in the first (Almost) everything you need to prepare for federal retirement 09/27/2024 02:28pm • This content is provided by WAEPA. WAEPA, a nonprofit, has been proudly serving the Federal workforce for more than 80 years, providing Group Term Life Insurance and other financial wellness tools. With eight decades of experience, WAEPA is uniquely equipped to provide peace of mind to Civilian F National Symphony Orchestra musicians have authorized a strike. Will Kennedy Center performances be impacted? 09/24/2024 06:33pm • Musicians with the National Symphony Orchestra voted to authorize a strike, which the union said could impact upcoming performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The vote doesn't mean union members are striking just yet, but the group could strike as early as Tuesday evening, acc Car Review: 2025 Audi SQ8 offers supercar performance and luxury in a five-seat configuration 09/23/2024 04:37am • By Brian Armstead The roads surrounding Park City, Utah, were perfect test bed to evaluate the 2025 Audi SQ8. With such perfect roads in Utah, I had no choice but to utilize as much of the SQ8’s 500-horsepower V8 as my skill set allowed. The SQ8 didn’t disappoint, as the power, coupled with the 1st Latina appointed to a key DC government role says she wants to help others prosper 09/16/2024 06:57am • If Jackie Reyes-Yanes could talk to her younger self, newly arrived in D.C. from El Salvador, she would tell Little Jackie, who didn't speak any English: "This is the best city in the world if you want to become somebody. I wouldn't have these opportunities back home." Now, 34 years later, she's