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Prosecutors rest in ex-Virginia governor case 08/15/2014 03:12am • ALAN SUDERMAN Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Prosecutors wrapped up their case in the public corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on Thursday by giving jurors their first in-person look at the designer clothes and other gifts the couple received from After 5 year manhunt, fugitive couple arrested 08/13/2014 10:10pm • JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A couple accused of leaving their severely injured 2-year-old daughter at a hospital and keeping their other adopted children in putrid conditions were arrested after a five-year manhunt, authorities said Wednesday.The search for Janet and Ramon Barreto began when they skipped FBI agent testifies about ex-governor's debts 08/13/2014 07:10pm • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, were swamped with heavy credit card debt and money-losing real estate investments when they turned to a wealthy businessman for financial help, an FBI agent testified Wednesday.Prosecutors i Spielberg encounter described at ex-governor trial 08/12/2014 10:35pm • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The wealthy businessman who showered former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife with thousands of dollars in gifts and loans tried to impress a cardiologist by having the then-first lady introduce him to movie director Steven Spielberg, the do Rental Report: You Found A Great Place, Now What? 08/12/2014 01:00pm • Editor’s Note: This biweekly sponsored column is written by Rick Gersten, founder and CEO of Urban Igloo, a rental real estate firm that matches up renters with their ideal apartments, condos or houses. Please submit any questions in the comments section or via email. Now that Foreign policy crises intrude on Obama vacations 08/12/2014 03:44am • JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent CHILMARK, Mass. (AP) -- Foreign policy crises have a way of intruding on President Barack Obama's Martha's Vineyard vacations.Obama's last three summer sojourns to this Massachusetts island have coincided with tumult primarily in the Middle East and North Afri Former state AG testifies in ex-Va. governor trial 08/11/2014 07:16pm • LARRY O'DELL Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The wealthy businessman who lavished former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife with thousands of dollars in gifts and loans said repeatedly that the couple supported his company and its signature product, former state Attorney General Jerry K Authorities investigate Ocean City diving accident 08/06/2014 04:30pm • OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) -- Maryland authorities are investigating a diving accident in Ocean City that left a Pennsylvania man critically injured.Maryland Natural Resources Police say it occurred shortly before 6 p.m. Tuesday night as a group was returning a pontoon boat to a rental facility after visi GOP establishment on a roll over tea party 08/06/2014 03:22pm • DONNA CASSATA Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) -- Add Kansas to the list of states where tea partyers tried and failed to knock out Senate Republicans this year. Next up: Tennessee, and the odds for the upstarts are no better.Three-term Sen. Pat Roberts dispatched tea party favorite Milton Wolf on T Md., Va., decide fates of car-sharing services; take opposite positions 08/06/2014 01:01pm • Amanda Iacone and Ari Ashe, wtop.com WASHINGTON - On one day, neighboring states Maryland and Virginia took opposing stances in how they would treat car-sharing service Uber. In Virginia, the state cut a deal with both Uber and Lyft that would allow the companies' drivers to operate legally as France's camps offer family-friendly flexibility 08/06/2014 09:52am • SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press SAINT-JUST-LUZAC, France (AP) -- One son's conquering a waterslide. The other's at the soccer pitch leading French, British and Dutch teammates to victory. Mom's getting a massage. Dad's poolside chatting to his new European neighbors and plotting a barbeque.You mig It's not a typo: Apartments in The Woodley priced at up to $12,000 a month 08/05/2014 11:18am • The JBG Cos. sold its 212-unit The Woodley apartments by the Woodley Park Metro for a record-setting $195 million, or roughly $920,000 per unit earlier this year. The price might seem hard to fathom until you try to rent one of them. Units in the development at 2700 Woodley Road have been priced at Missing from New Zealand's ski slopes? Snow 08/05/2014 08:16am • NICK PERRY Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Winter has rolled into its third month in New Zealand, and Nick Jarman says he's going stir crazy as he stares out at the driving rain on the small ski area he manages in the Southern Alps.The Craigieburn Valley Ski Area is one of several a D.C.'s floating food truck: Nauti Foods feeds Potomac traffic 08/04/2014 12:14pm • WASHINGTON -- On a recent Sunday afternoon, three paddle boarders coast slowly past a pontoon boat that's anchored in the Potomac River between the Key Bridge Boathouse and the Potomac Boat Club. The paddlers strain their eyes to read a sign on the boat; they take a few seconds to digest what they r Correction: On The Money-Energy Investing story 08/04/2014 12:00pm • NEW YORK (AP) -- In a story July 30 about investing in yieldcos, The Associated Press reported erroneously that NRG Yield owned a coal-fired power plant in Delaware. That plant has been converted to burn natural gas.The story also said that NRG Yield hopes to increase its dividend by 10 percent to 1