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Q&A: Montgomery Co. Fire official gives safety tips for the holiday season 12/23/2025 12:16pm • With Christmas just two days away, the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service wants to help DMV residents avoid creating accidental fires during the holiday season. "Cooking is always the number one cause of fire year-round," Pete Piringer, spokesperson for the MCFRS, told WTOP. He said to be Should you worry about overfunding your 529 plan? 12/23/2025 06:00am • 529 education savings plans are powerful tools to help pay for the mounting costs of an education. Yet some people hesitate to use them. One common concern is oversaving. You can only use 529 funds can only cover qualified education expenses without incurring a tax penalty, but it can be hard to pin Who do you celebrate Christmas with? Marriage counselor's advice to new couples making holiday plans 12/22/2025 10:05pm • Many new couples face a challenge in the holiday season ��� figuring out how to split time between their own family and their partner's. Rachel Dack, a licensed clinical professional relationship counselor based in Bethesda, Maryland, said it starts with communication with your partner about what Former nonbeliever helps Santa answer letters in Maryland 12/22/2025 09:43pm • This is nearly crunch time for Kriss Kringle, so you can imagine there are a lot of things he needs help with, especially answering the letters he receives from boys and girls from all over the world. Recently, WTOP became aware of a local man the North Pole commissioned to answer some of those l Takeaways from AP's report on a beef plant closure that threatens to unravel a small Nebraska town 12/22/2025 09:19pm • LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) ��� A small town in rural Nebraska is losing its biggest employer, a Tyson Foods' beef plant, which will be laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of around 11,000 people. Lexington, Nebraska, is expected to lose hundreds of families who will be forced to move away in sea An American Dream at risk: What happens to a small Nebraska town when 3,200 workers lose their jobs 12/22/2025 09:17pm • LEXINGTON, Neb. (AP) ��� On a frigid day after Mass at St. Ann���s Catholic Church in rural Nebraska, worshippers shuffled into the basement and sat on folding chairs, their faces barely masking the fear gripping their town. A pall hung over the room just as it hung over the holiday season in Lexing Brown University police chief placed on leave after fatal shooting, feds launch investigation 12/22/2025 08:53pm • PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) ��� Brown University's president on Monday placed its campus police chief on leave as the Rhode Island university reviews its security policies after a gunman killed two students and injured nine others earlier this month. Questions surrounding Brown's security policies have on Chiefs' move to Kansas leaves Missouri fans heartbroken over another NFL franchise leaving 12/22/2025 07:21pm • KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ��� The state of Missouri is losing its third NFL franchise and the second in the past decade, and the decision by the Chiefs on Monday to depart their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium for a new domed facility in Kansas may hurt the most. The Chiefs announced their intention 8 Top Nancy Pelosi Stocks to Buy 12/22/2025 07:00pm • Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said back in 2022 the Senate would soon vote on a bill banning members of Congress from trading individual stocks. Three years later, Pelosi is no longer House speaker, and Congressional representatives are still allowed to buy and sell individual stocks as long as Montgomery Co. church teacher sentenced to 20 years for sexual abuse of minors 12/22/2025 06:29pm • A teacher at a church in Derwood, Maryland, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for sexually abusing four minors who were under his care at the church, the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office announced Monday. Ervin Alfaro-Lopez, 34, of Germantown, pleaded guilty in February to one c Mercedes-Benz agrees to pay $149.6 million to settle multistate emissions allegations 12/22/2025 05:58pm • MADISON, Wis. (AP) ��� Mercedes-Benz USA and parent company Daimer AG have agreed to pay $149.6 million to settle allegations that the automaker secretly installed devices in hundreds of thousands of vehicles to pass emission tests, a coalition of attorneys general announced Monday. According to the Hawaii's YouTube kicker dubbed the 'Tokyo Toe' used grit to become an AP All-American with NFL hopes 12/22/2025 04:10pm • HONOLULU (AP) ��� Kansei Matsuzawa became an instant star this year, with game-tying and game-winning field goals in a 23-20 victory win over Stanford and a singular backstory about teaching himself to kick on YouTube. The Japan-born Matsuzawa���s near-perfect performance during the rest of Hawaii� '60 Minutes' pulls story about Trump deportations from its lineup 12/22/2025 01:13pm • An internal CBS News battle over a ���60 Minutes��� story critical of the Trump administration has exploded publicly, with a correspondent charging it was kept off the air for political reasons and news chief Bari Weiss saying Monday the story did not ���advance the ball.��� Two hours before airtime Google's parent buys data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion to help power AI 12/22/2025 01:12pm • MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) ��� Google's corporate parent on Monday announced an agreement to buy data center energy specialist Intersect for $4.75 billion as part of its effort to secure the vast amounts of electricity needed to power artificial intelligence technology. Alphabet, which depends on Go College student deported during Thanksgiving travel describes ICE officer's intimidation 12/22/2025 11:56am • CONCORD, N.H. (AP) ��� A Massachusetts college student who was deported while trying to visit family for Thanksgiving said an immigration officer told her it wouldn���t matter if she spoke to a lawyer, she was going to be removed from the country anyway. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old freshm