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What Are Cohabitation Agreements and Who Are They For? 05/28/2024 08:00pm • If you live with a romantic partner and don't have plans to marry, it may be beneficial to explore whether a cohabitation agreement may be beneficial. This legal document outlines the rights and responsibilities of both parties. We've consulted with three experts who shared the potential benefits of Alzheimer's Disease: Treatments, Medications and More 05/28/2024 08:00pm • In the spring of 2022, Marla Neise's brother noticed she was experiencing memory issues and confusion at the company where they work. "I couldn't balance a checkbook, put things in an order or stay on one task and I was having a hard time with numbers," recalls Neise, now 59. She went to her primary Hundreds mourn gang killings of a Haitian mission director and a young American couple 05/28/2024 07:29pm • PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of people packed into a sweltering church in Haiti's capital on Tuesday to mourn Judes Montis, a mission director killed by gang members who also fatally shot an American couple that worked with him. Wails filled the crowded church during the early morning ser WTOP’s Wedding Week: A little sweat equity can help make your wedding a little more affordable 05/28/2024 06:17pm • If you are dreaming of that big wedding and hope to make it a little more affordable, there are plenty of ways to save you a little money, whether it is avoiding some common wedding money pits, or going to friends and family to help make the big day happen. WTOP's Luke Lukert and his wife, Lesli Albert Ruddy, Oscar-winning producer of 'The Godfather' and 'Million Dollar Baby,' dies at 94 05/28/2024 05:29pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Albert S. Ruddy, a colorful, Canadian-born producer and writer who won Oscars for "The Godfather" and "Million Dollar Baby," developed the raucous prison-sports comedy "The Longest Yard" and helped create the hit sitcom "Hogan's Heroes," has died at age 94. Ruddy died “peacefully Big changes for the NCAA likely to upend scholarship limits and roster sizes across college sports 05/28/2024 04:34pm • Cody McDavis' life changed forever with a few strokes of a pen. McDavis grew up in a single-parent home where his mother worked three jobs to afford life's essentials. There was zero chance of paying for college if not for a basketball scholarship to Northern Colorado. “The assumption was if I d Fairfax Co. students create mobile bed to help student with disabilities return to school 05/28/2024 03:58pm • At Chantilly Academy on Tuesday afternoon, senior Sebastian Nowicki held a measuring stick against a mobile medical bed situated in the back of the classroom. He highlighted newly installed storage containers underneath the main frame as a few of his peers watched on. A few minutes later, the Majority backs continued weapons screening in Alexandria public schools 05/28/2024 02:20pm • Most people who answered an Alexandria City Public Schools survey support making the ongoing Weapons Abatement Pilot Program into a permanent fixture at city high schools and middle schools, and the Virginia school system agrees. However, despite a proportionately high number of parents and famil Recovery of Brazil's Spix's macaw, popularized in animated 'Rio' films, threatened by climate change 05/28/2024 11:21am • CURACA, Brazil (AP) — All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past their home, the couple can readily identify bird No. 17 by its smooth feathers and can tell No. 1 The number of new German citizens hits another high last year, with many Syrians naturalized 05/28/2024 07:02am • BERLIN (AP) — Germany saw another big increase in the number of people gaining citizenship last year as large numbers of people from Syria helped push naturalizations up to their highest level since at least 2000, according to official data released Tuesday. About 200,100 people were granted Germa Montgomery Co. schools reach $300,000 settlement in lawsuit against former principal, lawyer says 05/28/2024 04:39am • Montgomery County Public Schools has reached a settlement in a lawsuit against Joel Beidleman, former principal of Farquhar Middle School, who was at the center of multiple sexual harassment and bullying investigations by the Office of the Inspector General and the school system. Jerry Hyatt, an Fairfax Co. schools staff eligible for maternity, paternity leave benefits starting this summer 05/28/2024 04:30am • Fairfax County Public Schools teachers and staff will be eligible to get maternity or paternity leave starting July 1. School Board Member Melanie Meren said Virginia’s largest school district is expected to learn more details about the county’s program this summer. Information on human resou A woman could be Mexico's next leader. Millions of others continue in shadows as domestic workers 05/27/2024 01:57pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Concepción Alejo is used to being invisible. Alejo, 43, touches her face up with makeup on a Tuesday morning, and steps out of her tiny apartment on the fringes of Mexico City. She walks until the cracked gravel outside her home turns into cobblestones, and the campaign posters A synthetic drug ravages youth in Sierra Leone. There's little help, and some people are chained 05/27/2024 07:17am • FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — In Sierra Leone, a cheap, synthetic drug is ravaging youth. Trash-strewn alleys are lined with boys and young men slumped in addiction. Healthcare services are severely limited. One frustrated community has set up what it calls a treatment center, run by volunteers. B South Africa's election could bring the biggest political shift since it became a democracy in 1994 05/27/2024 01:01am • CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country will take its most significant political step since the moment 30 years ago when it brought down apartheid and achieved democracy. This national election will not be as momentous as the one South Afri