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Dozens of liquor outlets are shut down 09/27/2023 06:33pm • PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dozens of people faced criminal charges Wednesday after a night of social media-fueled mayhem in which groups of thieves, apparently working together, smashed their way into stores in several areas of Philadelphia, stuffing plastic bags with merchandise and fleeing, authorities What autoworkers' strike could mean for car repairs in the DC area 09/27/2023 05:44pm • Not long after the union United Auto Workers went on strike against three big carmakers earlier this month, Precise Auto Service in Kensington, Maryland, sent an email blast to about 1,000 customers.  Many customers have been reluctant to go through with all of the shop’s recommended repairs o Virginia Daybook 09/27/2023 04:30pm • Associated Press Virginia Daybook for Wednesday, Sep. 27. The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. To see your Daybooks and events for Virginia and other S Kyle Busch sells NASCAR team to Spire Motorsports as 2-time Cup champion ends ownership role 09/27/2023 02:41pm • CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Kyle Busch has sold his Truck Series team, manufacturing business and all the Kyle Busch Motorsports assets to Spire Motorsports in a deal announced Wednesday. KBM is one of the most successful truck organizations in NASCAR history and holds the series record for most caree Shopping for Medicare Advantage: 6 pitfalls to avoid 09/27/2023 08:52am • Only 3 in 10 Medicare beneficiaries shop around during open enrollment, according to a 2022 analysis from KFF, a health policy nonprofit — and only 1 in 10 Medicare Advantage enrollees voluntarily switch plans. But a 2020 analysis of Medicare Advantage plan choices by the National Bureau of Econom ‘Failure is not an option’: Bringing life back to Union Station 09/27/2023 05:50am • A year and some change — that's how long Doug Carr, CEO and president of the Union Station Redevelopment Corporation, has been at the helm of the D.C. region's largest transit hub and the effort to redevelop it. In recent years, Union Station has become a shell of its former self — a once Climate change and the shift to cleaner energy push Southeast Asia to finally start sharing power 09/27/2023 12:55am • Hanoi, VIETNAM (AP) — The urgency for Southeast Asian nations to switch to clean energy to combat climate change is reinvigorating a 20-year-old plan for the region to share power. 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