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Celebrity birthdays for the week of April 22-28 04/21/2018 11:15pm • Here are some stars celebrating a birthday this week: April 22: Actress Charlotte Rae (''The Facts of Life'') is 92. Actress Estelle Harris (''Seinfeld'') is 90. Actor Jack Nicholson is 81. Singer Mel Carter is 79. Country singer Cleve Francis is 73. Director John Waters is 72. Singer Peter Fra Young Caps fan in viral 'puck girl' video meets Ted Leonsis before Game 5 04/21/2018 05:54pm • WASHINGTON — Keelan Moxley, the 6-year-old Capitals fan who is now perhaps better known as "puck girl" from a recent viral video, met with the team's owner before Saturday's playoff game. Ted Leonsis and his wife Lynn greeted Moxley and her parents before the team's Game 5 against the Columbus Barbara Bush was 'first lady of the greatest generation' 04/21/2018 02:19pm • HOUSTON (AP) — Barbara Bush was the "first lady of the greatest generation." Historian Jon Meacham bestowed the title on Barbara Bush while speaking to former presidents, ambassadors and hundreds of other mourners inside the nation's largest Episcopal church during her funeral Saturday. He reca FBI helps investigate hidden camera in Prince George's school office 04/20/2018 03:39pm • WASHINGTON — The FBI has joined the investigation into the hidden camera that was found inside a Prince George's County school office. In a statement Friday, county police said that the bureau's Baltimore field office is assisting the department "in the forensic examination of the data." The Police: Md. student fell ill after eating brownie that may have contained synthetic pot 04/20/2018 02:21pm • WASHINGTON — A student in Prince George's County who fell ill after eating a brownie at school was taken to the hospital Friday — and the student who supplied the baked good is now facing charges. Prince George's County police said they are trying to determine what was in the brownie, but tha T-shirts on Md. high school fence stark reminder of gun violence 04/20/2018 10:23am • BETHESDA, Md. — Almost 200 white T-shirts hanging on a high school fence, each inscribed in magic marker with the name of a teenage victim of recent gun violence, was a striking image for commuters, Friday. "They memorialize the 199 teenage victims of gun violence in just 2018 alone, said Bethe How to budget for more than 1 remodeling project at once 04/19/2018 08:00pm • Spring is a popular time to start planning your home improvement projects for the year. Winter is finally retreating, and you can examine both the damage the cold weather did to your home as well as decide which areas you'd like to see updated. Whether you're planning to gut your entire house or Police say Fairfax Co. school never under threat following online posts 04/19/2018 07:15pm • WASHINGTON — Fears that a Fairfax County, Virginia, school was under threat for some kind of attack were unfounded, police say. Fairfax County Police were contacted Thursday morning by a tipster who was worried that Robinson Secondary School was being targeted for violence. The fears all see Opioids Spare Children from Severe Pain, but Leftovers May Fuel the Opioid Epidemic 04/18/2018 08:00pm • Physicians and families believe children discharged from the hospital following surgery or an illness should be spared from pain during recovery. As a result, physicians often send families home with prescriptions for opioids such as oxycodone to treat moderate-to-severe pain. But research conducte 8-year-old arrested after bringing loaded semi-automatic gun to St. Mary's Co. school 04/18/2018 06:37pm • WASHINGTON — An 8-year-old was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly brought a handgun to school in St. Mary's County, Maryland. The Park Hall Elementary student had apparently found it in his residence, which is located in an off-base military housing community. Another student alerted a Park Substitute teacher charged with abuse taught at over 60 Howard Co. schools 04/18/2018 05:03pm • WASHINGTON — The substitute teacher accused of inappropriately touching a Montgomery County, Maryland, elementary student has substitute-taught at more than 60 schools in Howard County, officials say. Steven Katz of Columbia, Maryland, faces charges of sexual abuse of a minor in Montgomery Coun Lawmakers want FDA to ban e-cigarette flavors targeting teens 04/18/2018 03:21pm • WASHINGTON — Nearly a dozen U.S. senators, who have urged the Food and Drug Administration, to immediately ban some Juul e-cigarette flavors are getting support from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. The e-cigarette devices, which look like flash drive and easily go unnoticed by parents, pose ‘Just unconditional love’ – Barbara Bush’s 1989 DC AIDS-hospice visit changed the HIV conversation 04/18/2018 01:00pm • WASHINGTON — Most of the accolades pouring in for former first lady Barbara Bush, who died Tuesday at 92, center on her role as the matriarch of a powerful American political family. But a few people in the D.C. area are pointing to an act of grandmotherly humanity as her defining moment. On Ma George and Barbara Bush, a 'storybook' 73-year marriage 04/18/2018 10:23am • HOUSTON (AP) — They met at a Christmas dance. She was 16. He was 17. Three years later they were married. The couple stayed together for 73 years, becoming the longest-married couple in presidential history. "George Bush knows how I feel," Barbara Bush had said. "He is the hero... He is my h Jet with engine, window damage makes emergency landing 04/18/2018 03:37am • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Southwest Airlines jet with a damaged engine and broken window made an emergency landing at Philadelphia's airport Tuesday, and one passenger was critically injured. A former federal investigator theorized the plane blew an engine and the shrapnel hit the aircraft. Sev