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Rightsizing Vs. Downsizing Your Home 02/19/2024 07:00pm • Empty nesters and retirees downsize to smaller homes to reduce expenses and simplify their lifestyles. When a homeowner "rightsizes," they're looking to balance space and functionality in a way that better fits their current lifestyle and needs. Maybe it's changing the home's layout because of healt Concerning substance use trends among Loudoun Co. students go beyond fentanyl 02/19/2024 06:25pm • The majority of Loudoun County Public School students aren't using drugs, school leaders said at a recent meeting, but those who are tend to misuse alcohol, marijuana and electronic cigarettes, among other substances, and have developed new ways to hide them. At last week's school board meeting, Taylor Tomlinson cracks up Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia in new Netflix standup special 'Have It All' 02/19/2024 01:43pm • "How are we doing, D. C.? Thank you so much for coming! I have to be honest, my career is going very well right now. This is the last night of the biggest tour I've ever done and I'm filming my third Netflix special tonight!" That's how Taylor Tomlinson opens her new Netflix standup special "Have With few other options, football is hope for families in rural Mississippi 02/19/2024 10:25am • LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) ��� A winter sun is setting over the brown, patchy field where Ronald Redmond���s kids have been playing football since they were 5. The goalposts are rusting and the fence is ripped. But Redmond knows what kids who played on this field have gone on to achieve: high school star Why children are still playing tackle football, despite brain risks 02/19/2024 10:22am • Tackle football offers children as young as 5 the chance to make friends, learn teamwork, maybe attract a college scholarship. Growing research shows it also can cause injuries that damage developing brains. That leaves families to balance the risks against the opportunities. Many are opting o Poll: Race a factor in how parents view youth tackle football 02/19/2024 10:18am • Most parents understand the health risks of tackle football for children, but a new poll found significant differences in how Black, Hispanic and white parents of children under 18 view the benefits of the game. Black and Hispanic parents are nearly twice as likely to see youth football as a path In an Atlanta suburb, youth tackle football is a way of life 02/19/2024 10:16am • BUFORD, Ga. (AP) ��� Four days before the biggest game of their lives, dozens of 6- and 7-year-olds wearing full pads and Kelly-green jerseys bounded onto a practice field in suburban Atlanta. Under bright lights last fall, the Buford Webb football team performed tackling drills and ran sprints. Students and parents are frustrated by delays in hearing about federal financial aid for college 02/19/2024 07:39am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� For many students, the excitement of being accepted into their first-choice college is being tempered this year by a troublesome uncertainty over whether they���ll get the financial aid they need to attend. The financial aid decisions that usually go out with acceptance letters are What scams should you be looking out for this tax season? A local financial planner weighs in 02/18/2024 11:49pm • With the deadline for filing taxes fast approaching on April 15, a financial planner in Prince George's County, Maryland, is warning people about scams to look out for during tax season. For some, filing for taxes is a challenging and arduous process. One of the big issues is fraud. Around tax Solemn monument to Japanese American WWII detainees lists more than 125,000 names 02/18/2024 11:38pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Samantha Sumiko Pinedo and her grandparents file into a dimly lit enclosure at the Japanese American National Museum and approach a massive book splayed open to reveal columns of names. Pinedo is hoping the list includes her great-grandparents, who were detained in Japanese Amer Illegally adopted during Chile's dictatorship, they're now reuniting with biological families 02/18/2024 07:06pm • SANTIAGO (AP) ��� Romina Cort��s couldn't pronounce her sister���s last name. She didn���t know what she smells like, what her favorite food is, or what she likes to do in her free time. Cort��s, 43, waited impatiently Sunday at the airport in Santiago, Chile, where she would soon meet her sister, M U. Md. researchers examine how naptime impacts brain development in preschoolers 02/18/2024 03:15pm • When should young children drop their afternoon nap? University of Maryland researchers are looking to better understand why the transition happens.�� "We know sleep is very good for the brain, and it's very good for our memories," said University of Maryland professor Tracy Riggins. "Preschooler Students in Anne Arundel Co. soon won't be able to keep free laptops at home anymore 02/18/2024 02:41pm • Students in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, who previously were able to keep their free laptops at home will have to return the tech to the school system as it shifts away from a pandemic-era policy.�� Citing expiring grant funding and mounting repair costs, the school system said it would no long Southern Illinois home of Paul Powell, the 'Shoebox Scandal' politician, could soon be sold 02/18/2024 12:03am • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) ��� Paul Powell, the southern Illinois political powerhouse who died and left behind $800,000 in cash in the notorious ���Shoebox Scandal,��� used to say, ���The only thing worse than a defeated politician is a broke one.��� For more than half a century, a Powell-established Saving democracy is central to Biden's campaign messaging. Will it resonate with swing state voters? 02/17/2024 12:11pm • BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) ��� Just blocks from the shuttered Bethlehem Steel plant, the Hispanic Center Lehigh Valley was bustling on a recent day with scores of older people eating lunch. Downstairs, out of sight, a constant stream of visitors was shopping in its massive food pantry. Over the past seven