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Grandmaster Flash poised to school fans on hip-hop history at U Street Music Hall 02/05/2020 01:12am • Grandmaster Flash recently performed in D.C. at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. (Courtesy Smithsonian Institution) He was the first hip-hop artist ever inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Now, he's revealing his music-making secrets. On Saturday, Grandmaster Flash will hit 'Little Shop of Horrors' leads Helen Hayes Award nominations with 11 02/04/2020 10:22am • The D.C. theater community gathered at the National Theatre on Monday night to reveal the nominees for the 36th annual Helen Hayes Awards. Constellation Theatre's "Little Shop of Horrors" lead the way with 11 nominations. The ultimate winners will be announced May 18 at a ceremony at The Anthe 6 cited for selling vaping products to underage customers in Loudoun County sting 02/04/2020 12:05am • Deputies in Loudoun County, Virginia, issued citations to several store clerks for selling vaping products to underage customers. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office conducted a vaping operation on Friday, issuing tickets to six people who sold Juul pods to customers under the age of 21, a news r Rush Limbaugh says he's been diagnosed with lung cancer 02/03/2020 10:30pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Conservative radio host and Republican kingmaker Rush Limbaugh said he’s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Addressing listeners on his program Monday, Limbaugh said he will take some days off for further medical tests and to determine treatme What comes after high school: Prince George's Co. schools spotlight career education 02/03/2020 03:39pm • Helene Johnson’s 12th-grade students are in Suitland High School’s IT Networking CISCO Academy — focused on cyber security. (WTOP/Kate Ryan) It's Monday morning, and the seniors in Helene Johnson's class at Suitland High School are filing in and are already getting their first instructions Cashier suggesting a store card? You should probably say no 02/03/2020 11:11am • Store credit cards can be enticing, but generally come with a 25% to 30% interest rate. (AP/Jenny Kane) Did you end up with a retail store credit card after all of your holiday shopping? Despite their drawbacks, many consumers can't resist them, especially when opening one gets you a big disc The best and worst of Super Bowl ads 02/03/2020 09:51am • NEW YORK (AP) — Boston accents got poked. “Groundhog Day” got – surprise – resurrected, complete with Bill Murray. Google pulled out tears, and Cheetos and Doritos danced. All to the tune of $5.6 million for 30 seconds — to reach 100 million people with your product. During adverti Chinese communities in US rattled by virus, cancel new year events 01/31/2020 11:16pm • ALHAMBRA, Calif. (AP) — The rapid spread of a new virus from China has cast a pall across Chinese American communities, with people staying inside whenever possible, wearing medical masks when they must go out and canceling some celebrations for Lunar New Year, China's biggest holiday. Those ac Photos: Beijing hunkers down amid virus outbreak 01/29/2020 06:31am • BEIJING (AP) — In a normal year, the city of Beijing springs to life in the closing days of the annual weeklong Lunar New Year holiday as families leave home for shopping, dining and to visit tourist attractions. But this is not a normal year. Fears of a virus outbreak have kept many indoors Virginia could ditch jail time for drivers going 81 mph in a 70 mph zone 01/28/2020 01:20pm • Virginia could remove the risk of jail time for drivers who speed 81 mph in a 70 mph zone. The Virginia Senate voted 25-14 Monday to approve a bill that would change the automatic reckless driving standard from over 80 mph to over 85 mph in a 70 mph zone. "I've not met anyone who actually thin Why is Arlington so fit? Young people who love gyms and restaurants 01/27/2020 02:03pm • Arlington has again been voted the most fit city in the United States (WTOP/Jeff Clabaugh) One of the reasons Virginia's Arlington County is consistently rated highest for health and fitness is because of its young demographic. Take Ballston, for example, where 47.7% of the adult population i Feds plan to move Epstein warden to prison job 01/24/2020 08:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — The warden in charge when Jeffrey Epstein ended his life in his jail cell is being moved to a leadership position at another federal correctional facility, putting him back in the field with inmates despite an ongoing investigation into the financier’s death, two people familia Md. mail carrier stole rare coins, police say 01/24/2020 06:40pm • A Maryland mail carrier has been charged with theft after police say he admitted to stealing mailed items, including two rare coins worth nearly $3,000. All told, Lorenzo Pugh, 32, of Greenbelt, is suspected of stealing several items from his Silver Spring mail route from March 2019 through this Things to do around DC this weekend: Jan. 24–26 01/24/2020 03:00pm • All Weekend The Washington Auto Show at the Washington Convention Center brings state of the art ride and drives with 600+ new makes and models, demos, family friendly activities, special guests and more through this weekend. The World of Pet Expo at the Maryland State Fairgrounds is for pet ent Police release photos of suspect wanted for luring, killing seagulls in Laurel parking lot 01/23/2020 08:31pm • Laurel police released this photo of a man suspected of luring seagulls into a parking lot before running them over, killing 11 birds. (Courtesy Laurel Police Department) Police in Laurel, Maryland, have released photos of a man who they said deliberately drove a car into 11 seagulls earlier thi