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Whether you call it 'hydroxymitragynine' or '7-OH,' experts urge caution 09/02/2025 11:00am • Bottles and pills found at gas stations and smoke shops claim to boost energy, focus and mood. But experts warn they may contain a drug that causes heroin-like effects. "It acts similar to what we have with other opioids like morphine, heroin,” said Dr. Christopher Holstege, medical director of From filling station to fleet services business to industrial property management: The story of a home-grown PG County success 09/02/2025 10:45am • This content is sponsored by EagleBank. It all started with a family-run filling station in Beltsville, Maryland. Today, Miller Automotive Services is still family-run, but it comprises both a bustling fleet services and commercial fueling business as well as a growing industrial property Celebration and concern mix as more Africans reach old age 09/02/2025 03:08am • KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — In the packed aisles of this city’s largest market, every passageway is choked with people, but none of them are old. At an elementary school graduation, hundreds pack the audience, but no grandparents appear to be among them. Even in the pharmacies and optical shops up an 9 Free Services to Take Advantage of Now 09/01/2025 08:00pm • When you need to be careful with money, taking advantage of what's available at no cost to you is a powerful tool. Reducing expenses this way can help alleviate financial stress brought on by inflation or recession. Higher prices on goods and services have caused most Americans to make major adjustm 1.2 million immigrants are gone from the US labor force under Trump, preliminary data shows 09/01/2025 02:46pm • It's tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California's Central Valley. She is also anxious. Attention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could upend her life more than 23 years after she illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border as a teenager. “The worry is they’ll p Napoli shops in Manchester again with Hojlund to replace injured Lukaku 09/01/2025 01:59pm • NAPLES, Italy (AP) — Serie A champion Napoli went shopping again in Manchester, signing Rasmus Hojlund on a loan deal from United on Monday to replace injured striker Romelu Lukaku. Napoli acquired Scott McTominay from United before last season and the Scotland midfielder went on to become the Ser Led by Beck, Miami's new faces made some fast first impressions for the Hurricanes 09/01/2025 01:21pm • CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami’s new faces made quick first impressions. At this time last year, Miami quarterback Carson Beck was at Georgia. Wide receiver CJ Daniels — he of the spectacular one-handed grab for a touchdown — was at LSU. Running back Marty Brown was at North Dakota State, g Fish-shaped soy sauce bottles are forbidden by an Australian state in an oddly specific plastic ban 09/01/2025 04:23am • WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Plastic soy sauce bottles shaped like fish are tiny, cute and beloved by many sushi eaters. But in the state of South Australia, the decorative containers swam into a growing net of outlawed plastics. Officials enacted an unusually specific ban on the fish-shaped bot Israel kills Hamas spokesperson as security cabinet meets to discuss expanding offensive in Gaza 08/31/2025 04:08pm • DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military announced Sunday that it killed the longtime spokesperson for Hamas' armed wing, as the country's security cabinet met to discuss the expanding offensive in some of Gaza 's most populated areas. There were no plans to discuss negotiations for a Lebanon's speaker calls for national dialogue on Hezbollah's weapons, criticizes US pressure 08/31/2025 09:19am • BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament speaker on Sunday criticized Washington’s push to quickly to disarm the Hezbollah militant group, and called instead for a calm national dialogue to determine “the fate of those weapons.” Nabih Berri, a key ally of Hezbollah who was instrumental in negoti After nearly 60 years in business, this Montgomery Co. barbershop is turning the clippers off for the last time 08/30/2025 07:36pm • For generations, people around Montgomery County, Maryland, have been getting their haircuts at the Walnut Hill Barber Shop in Gaithersburg. On Saturday, clients headed to the Walnut Hill Shopping Center to get one last haircut — and one last hug — before the nearly 60-year-old barbershop tur Labor Day weekend has arrived. What to know about the holiday 08/29/2025 06:19pm • DALLAS (AP) — From barbecues to getaways to shopping the sales, many people across the U.S. mark Labor Day — the federal holiday celebrating the American worker — by finding ways to relax. The holiday with activist roots is celebrated on the first Monday of September, creating a three-day week Gov. Meyer vetoes bill to loosen marijuana zoning regulations in Delaware 08/29/2025 01:35pm • Gov. Matt Meyer vetoed a bill Thursday that would have loosened regulations around where marijuana businesses can locate in Delaware, likely further delaying the growth of the weeks-old industry. But the governor also offered a competing proposal on such zoning reforms, based upon revenue-sharing fr Meet the 'Catfish King of the Occoquan' and his convivial cast of characters 08/29/2025 01:16pm • When Kev’van Young shouts, “Fish on,” it’s all hands on deck and then some. The self-proclaimed “Catfish King of the Occoquan” is now in his fourth season producing fishing videos for his YouTube channel of the same name. A native of Paris, Tenn., Young averages 35 to 50 episodes p Tensions soar in Indonesia as protests over police brutality and lawmakers' allowances continue 08/29/2025 01:02pm • JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Protests erupted for a fifth day Friday in multiple cities and tensions soared across Indonesia, a day after a delivery rider was allegedly run over by a police armored vehicle during clashes between riot police and students protesting lawmakers' allowances. Protesters m