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When your elderly parents move in with you 09/02/2019 10:25am • Moving elderly parents into your home can bring daunting challenges and unexpected closeness. Over the past 20 years, parents living with their adult children has become increasingly common. Among adults living in someone else's household, 14% were the parent of the household head in 2017, up fro After tragic year, skier Bode Miller heads to Montana's mountains 09/02/2019 01:03am • HELENA, Mont. (AP) ��� Retired U.S. downhill skier Bode Miller decided a change of scenery was needed after a tumultuous year in which he experienced the tragic death of his toddler daughter, the birth of a son and now the expected arrival of twin boys this fall. So the 41-year-old six-medal Olym Once teen prospects, Townsend and Ahn flourishing years later at US Open 08/31/2019 05:56pm • In tennis, it's beyond difficult to transition from teen prospect to grand slam winner. Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova are the high-profile exceptions rather than the rule. You don't need to tell that to Americans Taylor Townsend or Kristie Ahn, either, but here Maryland woman charged for abandoning newborn girl in Silver Spring woods 08/30/2019 10:55am • An hours-old girl was found abandoned 10 feet from a Silver Spring sidewalk on Aug. 16. (Courtesy Montgomery County police) A Maryland woman has been arrested and charged with abandoning a newborn girl in a Silver Spring forest in mid-August. Leticia Guzman, 25, is charged with criminal child Fall movie guide 2019 08/30/2019 12:43am • Summer blockbuster season is winding down and fall movie season is almost upon us, bringing everything from Halloween chillers to Oscar contenders. Which releases should you circle on your calendar? Time for your Fall Movie Guide: Sept. 6:�����It: Chapter 2��� Based on Stephen K Back-to-school bites: How to make sure kids eat healthy during the school year 08/29/2019 04:37am • As children get in the groove of being back in school, it's a good time to get them in the habit of eating well in school and at home. A nutrition expert has the following tips. Sally Squires, who writes the Lean Plate Club™ blog, said that a simple way to get kids to eat breakfast is for Tipping etiquette: The ultimate guide to tipping 08/29/2019 12:00am • With a rising number of tech-savvy tipping tools and calculators in recent years, there's been growing complexity and confusion associated with tipping. How much should you leave? When do you have to provide gratuity and when should you skip tipping? "There is no true norm for tipping," says P Hundreds show up for backpack drive-thru in Prince George's Co. 08/28/2019 11:17am • About two weeks ago, Prince George's County Public Schools hosted its ninth annual Back to School Block Party at the Sports and Learning Complex and served more than 6,000 students, but there was still a need in the community. (WTOP/Melissa Howell) Hundreds of cars lined up along Lottsford Road Amazon HQ2 making it 'really difficult' for first-time local homebuyers 08/27/2019 03:02pm • It won't surprise anyone that the real estate market continues to heat up in Northern Virginia, thanks to Amazon's decision to build its second headquarters there. Sellers are waiting to list and investors are pouncing on available properties, and that means local buyers are losing out. "Yeah, th 3 people were injured after a large piece of rock broke off a mountain and fell in Utah's Zion National Park 08/27/2019 05:12am • Three people were injured after a "substantial" piece of rock fell in Utah's Zion National Park Saturday, according to a news release from the National Park Service. The park service said the rockfall occurred near the Weeping Rock Shuttle Stop just before 6 p.m., injuri Tractor-trailer collides with school bus in Va.'s Caroline Co. 08/26/2019 11:20am • The school bus went off Va. 207/Rogers Clark Boulevard. (Courtesy Twitter/KSeastead) Two Caroline County, Virginia elementary school students were taken to Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center with minor injuries after a collision with a tractor-trailer on Monday morning sent their bus careening Fans saying goodbye to Potomac Nationals as team heads south 08/26/2019 11:16am • This article was written by WTOP���s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com���s free email subscription today. The Potomac Nationals look for another great year in potentially their final season in Woodbridge. Here a hat and glove are on display dur Montgomery Co. explains its new 'third gender' option for students 08/26/2019 09:52am • Montgomery County, Maryland, officials are explaining their reasoning behind a new policy that gives students a third option when declaring their gender on school records. Under the policy, students of Maryland's largest school system can mark their gender as either "M" for male, "F" for female, Students back to class in some of Virginia's largest counties and DC 08/26/2019 06:45am • Students at James Madison High School in Fairfax County are ready for school. (WTOP/Melissa Howell) The wheels on the bus are set to go round and round again as students in Northern Virginia's two largest school systems ��� Fairfax County and Prince William County ����� as well as D.C. head back Secondhand vaping: What risks do kids face from being around e-cigarettes? 08/26/2019 05:00am • The aerosol produced by e-cigarette use tends to garner little notice, if any at all. And even when it is noticeable, the airborne evidence of vaping, which typically involves inhaling and exhaling the aerosol from a battery-powered e-cigarette, tends to dissipate quickly. By contrast, smoke from a