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Best places to retire in 2022 10/19/2021 12:00am • Find your ideal retirement spot. You might be able to save money and improve your quality of life by relocating to a retirement spot that better suits your interests and budget. A new U.S. News analysis compares the 150 largest metropolitan areas in the country as potential places to retire. The Anne Arundel County school complex put on lockdown after report of a possible gun 10/18/2021 05:33pm • Old Mill High School and Old Mill Middle School in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, went into lockdown Monday afternoon after a student reported seeing another student with a possible gun, which turned out to be a BB gun. ���Shortly before dismissal, a student at Old Mill High School reported that Howard University responds to students' concerns about housing 10/17/2021 06:32pm • Last week students at Howard University took over the Blackburn University Center to protest against housing conditions and lack of student representation on the school's board of trustees. The board of trustees responded Saturday in a release, saying "Simply put, we hear you and we continue to w Md. Army vet accused of faking he was paraplegic to net $1 million 10/15/2021 10:36am • A Maryland Army veteran has been charged with faking that he was paraplegic in order to claim more than $1 million in veterans disability benefits. William Rich, 41, of Windsor Mill, allegedly claimed he was paralyzed and unable to walk on medical forms, according to the Department of Justice. Fall will test leaders' ability to keep Congress on rails 10/11/2021 12:05am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Year-end pileups of crucial legislation and the brinkmanship that goes with them are normal behavior for Congress. This autumn, lawmakers are barreling toward battles that are striking for the risks they pose to both parties and their leaders. Though few doubt that Congress wi How Instagram led to two teens' eating disorders 10/09/2021 11:29am • At 14, Ashlee Thomas was in the grips of anorexia. She weighed 85 pounds. She was hospitalized. Her heart stopped twice. Doctors thought she would not survive. But she did. And now the resident of New South Wales, Australia, is dedicating her life to helping other girls. Her first warning to p Md. Dems hoping to succeed Hogan speak out at Anne Arundel Co. forum 10/08/2021 01:14pm • Former Obama administration official Ashwani Jain, Former Clinton administration official Jon Baron, former U.S Education Secretary John King, former Prince George���s County Executive Rushern L. Baker III, entrepreneur Michael Rosenbaum and Comptroller Peter V. R. Franchot (D) discuss their policy DC, Md., Va. food stamp recipients to retain access to emergency funds through October 10/07/2021 02:22pm • Recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits in Maryland and Virginia are now set to retain access to emergency funds made available during the pandemic through at least the end of the year. During the pandemic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created a waiver so tha COVID Conspiracy: Analysis of foreign disinformation driving US vaccine resistance 10/06/2021 04:08am • Disinformation is based on a lie ��� plain and simple. The National Counterintelligence and Security Center, or NCSC, says disinformation is ���false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately, most often by adversaries.��� While adversaries really are the genesis of most disinforma Gyms ask DC to review mask mandate 10/05/2021 04:51am • Area gyms are asking D.C. to review its mask mandate and requesting parity for the fitness industry. Bryan Myers, CEO and president of SolidCore, and other gyms in the District sent a letter to Mayor Muriel Bowser and Health Director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt on Monday asking them to examine availabl Montgomery Co.'s COVID test-positivity rate dips below 2% 10/04/2021 04:40pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, officials say the county's COVID-19 test-positivity rate has dropped below 2%. During a weekly briefing, officials also said the county has the lowest number of new daily cases across state health metrics. But in other metrics, they remain concerned about racial di Loudoun schools turn to parents for help curbing 'Devious Licks' TikTok trend 09/29/2021 10:01pm • The Loudoun County public school system in Virginia is asking parents to talk to their kids to discourage their participation in the destructive "Devious Licks" TikTok trend. TikTok said it is removing Devious Licks video content ��� which consist of a series of challenges in which students steal Mark Twain Prize creator recalls bringing Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray to White House 09/28/2021 12:00am • Hear the full conversation on today's "Beyond the Fame" podcast. Cappy McGarr co-founded the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. On Tuesday, he tells all in his new book, "The Man Who Made Mark Twain Famous: Stories from the Kennedy Center, the White House and Other Comed Northwestern suspends fraternity events after drugging allegations 09/27/2021 11:00pm • Northwestern University suspended social events and recruitment activities at its fraternities for at least three weeks after multiple people filed reports with the school alleging they were drugged at two fraternity houses last week on its campus outside Chicago. The university said it's investigat COVID Conspiracy: Foreign disinformation driving American vaccine resistance 09/27/2021 04:45am • On May 18, German social media influencer Mirko Drotschmann was sitting on his couch when a strange email popped into his inbox. It was from an advertising company called Fazze, offering him compensation to disparage U.S. COVID-19 vaccines. ���They wanted me to tell my subscribers that the