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Spokes bicycle shops in Northern Va. sold to Trek 01/18/2022 10:04am • Trek Bicycle has bought all six of Northern Virginia's Spokes Etc. bicycle shops, including its popular Quaker Lane location in Alexandria, the company said Monday. In mid-March, the Spokes Etc. stores will become Trek Bicycle stores. More Alexandria News More Virginia News Bitcoin vs. Ethereum: Which Is a Better Buy? 01/17/2022 07:00pm • It's no surprise that investors are interested in cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin (BTC), the first in the asset class, was the single best-performing mainstream investment in the last decade, and it's not even close. Hundreds of other digital currencies have followed in its footsteps, with many putting up 9 Best Cheap Stocks to Buy Now Under $5 01/17/2022 07:00pm • These sub-$5 stocks could deliver big gains in 2022.In the past, companies used to split their share prices frequently to keep their stocks affordable to the general public. This has changed in recent years, however. Now, companies such as Amazon.com Inc. (ticker: AMZN) and Alphabet Inc. (GOOG, GOOG Austin company brings IV drips, cryotherapy to Alexandria 01/14/2022 11:33am • Fast-growing alternative wellness chain Restore Hyper Wellness will open its second D.C.-area location, in Alexandria's Bradlee Shopping Center, this spring. Restore Hyper Wellness has one location on Rockville Pike in North Bethesda, and has plans for a third D.C.-area location in Arlington’s Water’s End Brewery expands to Fredericksburg (with a chicken partner) 01/14/2022 10:11am • Water’s End Brewery, started by a former Fairfax County police officer in 2016 with its first location in Lake Ridge, Virginia, in 2016, will open a third location in a historic building in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Its second location, in Woodbridge, opened in 2020. More Business Ne Suspect, 3 others injured after Columbia chase ends in crash 01/13/2022 08:29am • A police chase in Columbia, Maryland, ended with the suspect striking another car and injuring three people Wednesday evening. The Howard County Police Department said the pursuit began near a shopping center in the 6400 block of Dobbin Road around 5:50 p.m. Wednesday, after an officer saw a man Driver critically injured after crashing into Georgetown shop 01/13/2022 07:16am • A man was critically injured after his car flipped and crashed into a store in Georgetown Wednesday night. D.C. police said it happened around 10 p.m. when a driver was going over the speed limit on Wisconsin Avenue in Northwest. More D.C. News Moments later, the dri 3 charged with 20 burglaries in Silver Spring, Wheaton areas 01/12/2022 11:47am • Three men, two from D.C. and one from Maryland, are charged with 20 commercial burglaries in the Silver Spring and Wheaton areas of Montgomery County. Kevon Neal, 32, of D.C., Jaron Anderson, 22, of District Heights, Maryland, and Kevin Bing, 27, of D.C., are charged with the burglaries and with Grocery Food Shopping Tips 01/11/2022 07:00pm • The supermarket used to be my home away from home. Until now. As a mom of three boys and as someone who loves to cook and bake, it seemed like I was in and out of stores on a daily basis. I'm one of those people that really enjoys going food shopping. I like to compare products side-by-side that are 7 High-Risk Stocks for Aggressive Investors 01/11/2022 07:00pm • These high-risk stocks seem worth the stretch if you're OK with volatility.The stock market as a whole continues to sit near its record highs. However, certain more speculative areas of the market have gotten shellacked. Special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, cloud software firms and crypt 9 Best Thematic ETFs to Buy 01/11/2022 07:00pm • Thematic ETFs offer unique, tactical strategies.Wall Street is a weird place. While most investors tend to watch a short list of investments, including blue-chip stocks and index funds, there remains a massive ecosystem of alternative investments and niche products out there to serve almost any stra How to Choose the Best Financial Planning Software 01/11/2022 07:00pm • Financial planning isn't the pen-and-paper activity it used to be. Luckily for financial advisors, abacuses and crank-operated calculators are technologies of the past. But while modernization has made math easier, it's also made the art of long-term financial planning more complicated. Today's advi Afghan refugees resettling in N. Virginia describe challenges, needs 01/11/2022 04:59pm • One of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service’s employees is Muzghan Azizy, who immigrated from Kabul in July just ahead of the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan. She spoke during a ribbon-cutting for LIRS’ new site in Alexandria, which opened last month. (Courtesy LIRS) Hundreds Best jobs in America in 2022 01/11/2022 09:00am • The right job for you The pandemic continued to influence the extreme fluctuations of the job market and the way we worked in 2021. Many workers who were able to remain remote did so, as concerns over the coronavirus persisted in spite of access to vaccines; others returned to a workplace that lo 10 Tips to Keep Your Diet on Track 01/10/2022 07:00pm • If you want to lose weight, you'll need to make changes. Change is hard, to be sure. But it's possible. To make lasting changes that will improve your health and wellness long term, you must first consider why you want to change.Thinking about your motivation can help galvanize your resolve and make