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Amid career year, Bradley Beal leaves bigger legacy with DC students 03/10/2019 11:58pm • Bradley Beal has become the Wizards’ lone star this spring, with John Wall out for the year and Otto Porter traded to help free up payroll for the future. Beal’s on pace to set career highs in nearly every major statistical category, and in the 31 games since Wall’s injury, he’s averaged 28. Q&A: Martina McBride headlines Rock & Roll for Children benefit at Fillmore 03/10/2019 11:49pm • Just when you thought Rock & Roll for Children couldn't top last year's headliner, rocker Ann Wilson of Heart, this year brings 14-time Grammy-nominated country star Martina McBride. The annual charity concert and auction returns to The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Saturday, M Hatch watch: An eaglet has landed in Charles County 03/10/2019 09:05pm • One of three bald eagle eggs has hatched in Charles County, Maryland. Eggs-pecting eagle watchers, such as WTOP's Michelle Basch, captured the eaglet emerging from its shell on Sunday. Here’s another quick screenshot before it gets too dark... @WTOP 🦅 @CharlesParksRec pic.twitter.com PHOTOS: Annapolis celebrates Irish heritage with St. Patrick’s parade 03/10/2019 03:45pm • It’s billed as the largest parade in Annapolis, and plenty of folks lined the streets of historic Naptown to celebrate Irish heritage. There was a sea of festive, sometimes glimmering green everywhere; Shamrocks, too. From T-shirts and hats to headbands, beads and more. There was everything Celebrity birthdays for the week of March 10-16 03/09/2019 10:14pm • Here are some celebrities having a birthday this week. March 10: Bluegrass musician Norman Blake is 81. Actor Chuck Norris is 79. Singer Dean Torrence of Jan and Dean is 79. Actress Katharine Houghton (''Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?'') is 77. Actor Richard Gant is 75. Guitarist Tom Scholz of B Hatch watch underway on new Charles Co. bald eagle cam 03/08/2019 09:55pm • Three eggs inside a bald eagle nest in Southern Maryland are expected to hatch over the coming days, and you can watch it all on a new live webcam. The nest is located in the Port Tobacco River Park in Charles County. A contest was recently held to name the parent birds, which are estimated to Famed Mexico City chef partners with two new restaurants in Clarendon 03/08/2019 09:24am • Two new Mexican restaurants opening later this month in the same Clarendon, Virginia, building will feature a menu from celebrity Mexico City chef Gerardo Vazquez Lugo. Vazquez Lugo has partnered with Street Guys Hospitality on TTT Mexican Diner and Buena Vida, set to open at 2900 Wilson Blvd. o 'The Simpsons' is pulling its Michael Jackson episode 03/08/2019 08:14am • In light of the controversial "Leaving Neverland" documentary, "The Simpsons" is yanking one of its classic episodes featuring Michael Jackson. According to the Wall Street Journal, the show is removing the 1991 episode titled "Stark Raving Dad" which featured Jackson's Holocaust survivor says teens in swastika photo apologized 03/08/2019 01:06am • NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The high school party took an ugly turn. Drink cups were used to form a crude swastika. Nazi salutes flashed. Cameras clicked. What appears to have been a woefully misguided attempt at humor turned into a national embarrassment for the Southern California city of Women-owned design team builds a business by solving a problem 03/08/2019 12:13am • Hand washing is one of the most effective ways to stop the spread of diarrheal and respiratory illnesses. In fact, researchers say a routine scrub with soap and water could prevent 1 million deaths each year. But according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, few follow through with Racist names, swastikas displayed during Sidwell Friends assembly 03/07/2019 09:23pm • An investigation is underway after racist names and swastikas were displayed on big screens during a Thursday assembly at the private Sidwell Friends School in Northwest D.C. It happened when Upper School students gathered for a presentation about OnSide, a student-founded project which uses socc Montgomery Co. plans to make child care, early education more accessible, affordable 03/07/2019 09:06pm • Montgomery County has announced a plan which it hopes will help more low -income families have access to child care. The aim of the $7 million plan is get the county's youngest residents more prepared for kindergarten by receiving the early education benefits of preschool. "Starting early with ki Swastika reported in Montgomery Co. elementary school bathroom 03/07/2019 11:42am • A swastika and a curse word were found scrawled inside a Montgomery County elementary school bathroom this week. It happened in a restroom near fourth and fifth grade classrooms at Bannockburn Elementary School in Bethesda, Maryland. In a letter sent home to parents this week, Principal Kate Brad Donors needed: Metro DC area blood supplies are critically low 03/07/2019 04:05am • Blood supplies in the metro D.C. region are critically low, according to Inova Blood Donor Services, which supports 90 percent of the area's hospitals. "Seven out of the eight blood types are critically needed right now," said Inova Blood Donor Services Marketing Manager Julia Ward. "We need you Start now to help kids cope with time change when clocks spring forward 03/06/2019 04:05am • The "spring forward" time change happens Sunday, March 10, and a sleep expert says it'll be easier for kids to "lose" an hour of sleep on Monday morning if parents start preparing them now. "Anticipate the time change and discuss it with the kids, and say, 'Here's the plan,'" said Dr. Robert Kowa