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Popular DC bagel shop Call Your Mother replaces Little Red Fox in Chevy Chase 01/04/2023 12:20pm • The popular D.C. bagel shop and self-proclaimed "Jew-ish" deli, Call Your Mother, is opening its newest location in Chevy Chase, D.C., replacing popular bakery Little Red Fox, which closed last month. This will be Call Your Mother's eighth location in just four years. The first location opene Artworks rescued from Afghanistan kick off Tysons exhibit 01/04/2023 08:51am • The artworks selected for the mall's first exhibition have traveled from Afghanistan. (Courtesy Tysons Corner Center) Tysons Corner Center partnered with ArtsFairfax last year with a call for artists to showcase their talents. The first art group to debut the shopping mall's exhibition is ArtLor Where to dispose of your holiday decorations in the DC area 01/03/2023 07:00am • As the holiday season winds down, it'll soon be time for people to take down their Christmas trees. Here's how D.C.-area residents can dispose of their trees properly. More Local News More Holiday News DC The Department of Public Works said that it will collect holiday trees For culling, food security, firearm deer hunting in Md. returns this weekend 01/02/2023 01:27am • For Maryland hunters using firearms, deer hunting season resumes this weekend in most parts of the state. In a news release, Maryland's Department of Natural Resources said hunting season will be open Jan. 6-7  in “Deer Management Region B,” which includes all but the westernmost counties in ‘We don't know what January will bring’ -- Loudoun Co. health director urges caution against flu, colds, COVID 12/27/2022 11:38pm • Declining numbers of new recorded flu cases might suggest the flu season has peaked, but the health director in Loudoun County, Virginia, wants people to remain vigilant and take precautions against all the viruses currently circulating. More Health and Fitness News More Coronavirus Ne Shoppers flock to Tysons Corner Center for holiday returns, sales 12/27/2022 09:48pm • Thousands of shoppers visited Tysons Corner Center on Tuesday to make holiday returns and to take advantage of some post-holiday sales. Some people who spoke with WTOP at the mall say an annual post-Christmas trip to the shopping center is a tradition. “Straight after Christmas Day, it’s s What is the meaning and symbolism of Kwanzaa? 12/26/2022 01:00pm • Monday marks the beginning of Kwanzaa — a seven-day celebration of African American culture, family and community that lasts until Jan. 1. It was started in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, an activist and professor of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach following the 1965 Watts Ri Brands tightening policies on holiday returns 12/26/2022 07:36am • The busy shopping season isn’t over yet for retailers because consumers will now be heading back to stores for those returns. At least 33% of shoppers are expected to return unwanted gifts before the end of January, according to the e-commerce company, Red Stag Fulfillment. More Mazza Gallerie shopping center permanently closes 12/25/2022 10:32pm • Mazza Gallerie, the largely empty shopping center along Wisconsin Avenue at the D.C.-Maryland border, used to be thought of as a local Rodeo Drive. But its stores have been closing over the last few years and now the very last retail business in the mall has closed. The T.J. Maxx closed permanent Children's National brings the Christmas spirit to kids spending the holiday at the DC hospital 12/24/2022 04:36pm • While some kids will have to spend Christmas hospitalized, those staying at Children's National will at least get some presents and holiday cheer, thanks to a special toy shop within the hospital. For the last few days, Dr. Bear's Holiday Toy Shoppe was open for families of children staying in th Cold weather hampers final day of DC's Downtown Holiday Market 12/23/2022 10:49pm • The cold weather was tough for some vendors on the last day of D.C.’s 2022 Downtown Holiday Market in the Penn Quarter area, which opened a week before Thanksgiving. Some vendors said that fewer customers came out because of the wet and cold weather, and that many stands packed up earlier than What to know before choosing an assisted living community option for aging loved ones 12/22/2022 10:36pm • Interest in senior living communities skyrockets during and after the holidays, according to a senior living expert who has advice for families considering whether an elderly loved one needs help. "The adult children all get together, they all see what's going on, and they basically agree that ei Rain, then look for bitterly cold conditions 12/22/2022 09:30pm • It's beginning to look a lot like what could be the D.C. region's coldest Christmas in 20 years, as an arctic cold front arrives on Friday. Here's what you need to know. Sleet, freezing rain, snow, and heavier rain is expected overnight, ahead of a record arctic cold front. If you're doing any la Fairfax police chief talks about Tysons arrest, domestic crimes and dept.'s future 12/21/2022 11:39pm • A Virginia police chief credited the "good police work" of members of Fairfax and Arlington county police departments, which led to the arrest of two suspects at a busy Virginia shopping mall. Fairfax County police Chief Kevin Davis told WTOP's "DMV Download" podcast that an off-duty Arlingto Arlington’s Ballston Macy's site to be transformed into 553 residences 12/19/2022 08:11am • A major redevelopment project is slated to bring more housing and shopping to the current site of the Ballston Macy's in Arlington County, Virginia. The site will be transformed into a 16-story building, bringing 553 residential units, a grocery store and retail space to the Ashton Heights ne