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As streamers cut costs, TV shows ��� and residuals ��� vanish 04/07/2023 08:32am • Actor Diana-Maria Riva is all too familiar with a show being canceled. For a performer, it���s painful, unfortunate part of show business. But this was different. In December, Riva was floored when she found out that ���Gordita Chronicles��� would be removed entirely from HBO Max's vast streaming li Player of the Week: Frederick Douglass High's Cordell Cozay Brown 04/07/2023 08:23am • Each week, WTOP is picking one student athlete to be featured on-air and online as our Player of the Week. This week's WTOP Player of the Week is senior Cordell Cozay Brown of Frederick Douglass High School in Maryland. Brown loves football and has been playing since he was 4 years old. A team What's making some DC-area puppies sick? Increase in deadly parvovirus spotted in region 04/07/2023 01:30am • An increase in the number of a highly contagious canine parvovirus is being reported by veterinarian offices in the D.C. region. Veterinarian Ashly Smith, D.C.-area regional medical director for Bond Vet, said over the last month, her organization has seen more animals coming in with the illness. Kansas OKs bill on opting kids out of LGBTQ-themed lessons 04/07/2023 12:44am • TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) ��� Kansas lawmakers approved a bill Thursday aimed at helping parents opt their children out of public school lessons with LGBTQ-themed materials, as a Democratic lawmaker whose vote was crucial to banning transgender female athletes from girls' and women's sports faced calls to r How to Turn Your Spare Room Into a Gaming Room 04/06/2023 08:00pm • Whether you're loyal to Xbox or PlayStation or your PC is your favorite gaming system, there's no better way to level up than by creating a specialty game room inside your home. And with a growing interest in gaming rooms, you'll likely boost your home's value at the same time. Ready to get your gam Treatment for Anxiety: Medications and Options 04/06/2023 08:00pm • Anxiety disorders are prevalent yet treatable.An occasional bout of anxiety is normal, but usually those feelings are short-lived. Those who feel chronically anxious may be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, and some people may choose to use anxiety medications to help.Anxiety disorders are the No. GOP's DeSantis visits Whitmer's Michigan, the 'anti-Florida' 04/06/2023 07:42pm • LANSING, Mich. (AP) ��� Ahead of a highly anticipated presidential announcement, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Michigan for his first appearance this year in the battleground state transformed by Democratic majorities under high-profile Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The visit put the contrasting leader Grief wracks parents after Brazilian ax attack kills 4 kids 04/06/2023 05:48pm • BLUMENAU, Brazil (AP) ��� They sent their seven-year-old to day care Wednesday and plunged into the deepest nightmare of any parent's life. A man with a hatchet jumped over a wall and burst into the Cantinho do Bom Pastor children's center in southern Brazil, killing Larissa Maia Toldo and three oth Harris promotes huge community solar deal in Georgia visit 04/06/2023 05:39pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Continuing its efforts to promote renewable energy, the Biden administration on Thursday announced what it says will be the largest community solar effort in U.S. history, enough to power 140,000 homes and businesses in three states. Vice President Kamala Harris announced the dea At 20, Harvey emerging as young US women's hockey star 04/06/2023 04:24pm • Some six years later, Caroline Harvey finds it much easier reflecting back to when the sting of homesickness began to sink in after her parents dropped her off to attend the Selects Hockey Academy in Rochester, New York, at 14. The decision to move some 400 miles from her New Hampshire home and purs Newly veto-proof North Carolina GOP files transgender bans 04/06/2023 04:14pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) ��� On the heels of a Democratic state lawmaker's seismic shift to the Republican Party, North Carolina Republicans have filed a flurry of bills aimed at transgender youth as they look to capitalize on their newly attained supermajority. Five Senate bills filed this week before th Maine Mom: School wrong to help, hide gender transition 04/06/2023 04:12pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) ��� A Maine woman is suing a school district whose counselor encouraged her teen's social gender transition, providing a chest binder and using a new name and pronouns, without consulting parents. It���s the latest lawsuit to pit a parent���s right to supervise their children��� Loudoun Co. community members share different priorities for school district's next superintendent 04/06/2023 12:57pm • As the search for a new superintendent in Loudoun County, Virginia, continues, a new survey is revealing differing priorities among school leaders and community members when it comes to critical issues across the district. The Loudoun County school district brought on GR Recruiting Associates to Idaho governor signs 'abortion trafficking' bill into law 04/06/2023 12:48pm • BOISE, Idaho (AP) ��� Legal limits on abortion-related travel are the focus of a new law and a new lawsuit in Idaho, with Gov. Brad Little signing a bill Wednesday that makes it illegal for an adult to help a minor get an abortion without parental consent. Meanwhile, two doctors and a regional Plann Bottle battle: Boston talks of banning tiny bottles of booze 04/06/2023 09:36am • BOSTON (AP) ��� The little bottles of booze at Huntington Wine and Liquor are displayed prominently at the front counter of the Boston store, some stacked neatly in display cases, others tossed haphazardly in trays. Steven Rubin, whose family has owned the store since 1970, estimates that they accou