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Welcome to Fresno: How the Nats Triple-A team ended up in California���s farmland 04/10/2019 01:01am • Wait, Fresno? Really? What are we ��� and what is the Washington Nationals��� Triple-A team ��� doing in Fresno, California? Understanding the bizarre twists and turns that forged an unlikely marriage between the Nats and the Fresno Grizzlies requires some historical background on the decisions b When strep triggers attack on brain, kids see ���terrifying��� symptoms 04/10/2019 12:17am • About two years ago, Laura Murdock noticed a sudden change in her son Lucas��� behavior. The 8-year-old was ���always happy,��� but then stopped wanting to play baseball ��� a sport he loved ��� and would ���get upset over the littlest things.��� Almost overnight he became anxious, obsessive- Parents of murdered teacher 'proud' of Md. as bill to protect pregnant women set to become law 04/09/2019 07:59am • "They meant what they said." That's according to Gwen Wallen, the mother of Laura Wallen ��� a 31-year-old high school teacher who was 14 weeks pregnant when she was shot and killed by her boyfriend in 2017 ��� who, along with Laura's father Mark Wallen, got good news in a late-night text Monday. Proud pop: Dick Bennett beams as son leads Virginia to title 04/09/2019 03:37am • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ��� Dick Bennett has difficult time watching his son, Tony, coach Virginia. He rarely attends games. "I'm not a model of decorum or poise," said Dick Bennett, the former longtime high school and college basketball coach. "But I needed to be here." The Cavaliers didn't make it Loudoun United will play some 'home' games at Audi Field 04/08/2019 12:58pm • With its inaugural soccer season already underway, Loudoun United has announced where it will play three of its scheduled home games, while construction continues on its permanent home stadium, in Leesburg, Virginia. Loudoun United's first "home-away-from-home" game will be Friday, May 3, at Audi Long-serving Maryland House Speaker Michael Busch dead at 72 04/07/2019 08:06pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ��� Michael Busch, the longest-serving Maryland House speaker in the state's history, died Sunday. He was 72. Busch, a Democrat who became speaker in 2003, had developed pneumonia after a follow-up procedure to a 2017 liver transplant after being diagnosed with nonalcoholic st Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 7-13 04/07/2019 12:49am • Here are some celebrities having a birthday this week. April 7: Country singer Bobby Bare is 84. Singer Charlie Thomas of The Drifters is 82. Movie director Francis Ford Coppola is 80. Actress Roberta Shore (''The Virginian'') is 76. Singer Patricia Bennett of The Chiffons is 72. Singer-guita As clock ticks, plea to Md. lawmakers from parents of murdered teacher Laura Wallen 04/05/2019 08:25pm • When pregnant schoolteacher Laura Wallen was murdered by her boyfriend in 2017, her parents set out to pass a law that would make it easier to prosecute someone for two murders. Now Mark and Gwen Wallen have changed their goal ��� not from lack of determination, but judicial and political pragmat Not just for snobs: DC club wants to bring squash to the masses 04/05/2019 01:19am • To play squash, first you have to warm up the ball. When this is explained by Ronny Vlassaks, the highly-decorated, Belgian, Rod Stewart look-alike coach who serves as the head instructor at Squash on Fire in West End, it���s hard to tell if it���s intended to be a metaphor, some kind of wa Movie Review: Holy Moly, 'Shazam!' is a fun movie 04/05/2019 01:05am • DC Comics is due for a feel-good win in the box office ��� and they may just have it in the form of a man-child in tights. The��DCEU (DC Extended Universe) has indisputably been playing catch-up to the rival Marvel Cinematic Universe, and though "Shazam!" feels a bit like an answer to Marvel's "G Child care demand grows during nontraditional hours 04/05/2019 12:52am • Finding child care in the D.C. area is a struggle for many working parents ��� there are waitlists that stretch months and costs that exceed college tuition. But for parents who work nontraditional hours ��� be it pre-dawn prep in a bakery, overnight shifts in a hospital, or dinner service at one Bruce Reese, radio 'pioneer' and former leader of WTOP's parent company, dies 04/04/2019 06:10pm • Bruce Reese, the former CEO of WTOP's parent company, Hubbard Radio, died on April 4. He was 70 years old. Reese was at the helm of WTOP's former owner, Bonneville International, when the station was purchased by Hubbard Radio in early 2011 in a deal that included 16 other radio stations. Reese t From roads to furloughed feds, Va. makes big changes in veto session 04/03/2019 07:35pm • Virginia will raise truck fees and diesel taxes statewide and add gas taxes along Interstate 81 to pay for major interstate upgrades across the state and to fill a hole in Northern Virginia left by last year's Metro funding deal. The changes include more funding for the Northern Virginia Transpor Fairfax pet store had 14 dead rabbits in its freezer, investigation finds 04/03/2019 10:10am • An investigation by the Humane Society of the United States into a Fairfax County, Virginia, pet store uncovered 14 dead rabbits in the store's freezer. On Monday, animal control officers and detectives with the Fairfax City Police Department executed a search warrant of Petland, Inc., a retail p Big changes for Virginians possible in ���veto session��� still shadowed by scandal 04/03/2019 04:30am • Virginia lawmakers return to Richmond on Wednesday for a series of key votes on Gov. Ralph Northam���s vetoes and amendments to bills, ranging from road safety and interstate upgrades, to the budget and elections. At the one-day reconvened session, often called a ���veto session," the General Ass