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Do detox teas really work? 02/01/2021 12:00am • At the beginning of a new year, it seems that many people will try anything to lose weight. Some of those ideas fade long before spring arrives, yet there are others that seem to last year-round. One example are detox teas. Besides being popular in the weight loss community, there are also health Maryland senators add $520 million to Hogan’s relief proposal 01/27/2021 03:36pm • Sen. Guy Guzzone (D-Howard), who chairs the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, said the committee will meet Thursday to hash out details of a $520 million amendment to Republican Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.'s proposed Maryland stimulus bill. Photo by Danielle E. Gaines. This content was Pandemic fuels beach home sales in Delaware, Maryland 01/27/2021 09:50am • Home sales in the Delaware and Maryland Eastern Shore beach communities saw a huge spike in 2020, and real estate agents and buyers alike say it was largely fueled by the pandemic, with buyers, many from the D.C. area, seeking a refuge away from the city but within driving distance of home. The m DC, Maryland and Virginia flunk report on restricting flavored tobacco products 01/27/2021 06:29am • D.C., Maryland and Virginia didn't make the grade in a new American Lung Association report that examined restrictions on access to flavored tobacco products and vaping among kids. In the District, there are no restrictions around flavored products, a concern Aleks Casper, director of advocacy, s Georgetown sidewalks may get decked out — literally 01/26/2021 08:44am • The BID has already installed prototypes of the decking extensions in front of three Georgetown restaurants, Clyde’s, Bodega and Ladurée, and it says customer and employee reviews have been favorable. (Courtesy Georgetown Business Improvement District) The Georgetown Business Improvement Dist Owner of market in tiny Md. town on selling $731 million Powerball ticket 01/22/2021 11:45am • The phone keeps ringing at Coney Market in tiny Lonaconing, Maryland, not only with lunchtime orders for a Sloppy Joe or Dagwood sandwich, but to ask owner Richard Ravenscroft about selling this week's jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $731.1 million. Ravenscroft said he first heard the big Maryland man accused of threatening to bomb IRS headquarters 01/21/2021 08:39pm • A Maryland man is facing several years behind bars for allegedly posting online about destroying a federal building. Cody Wolf Gideon Mohr, 27, of Columbia was named in a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland. An investigative unit for the Treasury Departme Giant Food expands Landover headquarters 01/21/2021 02:40pm • Giant Food has expanded its corporate headquarters at 8301 Professional Place, just off the Capital Beltway in Landover, Maryland. Giant — the largest grocery store chain in the D.C. area — expanded its sales and merchandising operations, and added 31,000 square feet to its existing headquart Winning $731.1 million Powerball ticket sold in Maryland 01/21/2021 11:16am • Wednesday's winning $731.1 million Powerball jackpot ticket — the fourth-largest jackpot in that lottery's history — was sold in Maryland, according to lottery officials. A single ticket matched all six numbers in the drawing: 40, 53, 60, 68, 69, plus Powerball 22, and Power Play multiplier 3 How to regulate legal pot? Debate begins in Virginia 01/21/2021 09:38am • If Virginia follows through with Gov. Ralph Northam's plan to legalize marijuana, the state should create a brand-new agency to regulate and oversee the marijuana market, a panel of lawmakers recommended Wednesday. The Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Subcommittee made the determination Trump bids farewell to Washington, hints of comeback 01/20/2021 11:22am • WASHINGTON (AP) — His term at an end, President Donald Trump said farewell to Washington on Wednesday but also hinted about a comeback. “So just a goodbye. We love you," Trump told supporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland where he walked across a red carpet and boarded Air Force One to he What’s next for the Nationals after acquiring Lester, Schwarber and Bell 01/20/2021 10:21am • What’s next for the Nats after acquiring Lester, Schwarber, Bell originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe Nationals have spent the 2020-21 offseason as one of the more active clubs in a time when many teams are shedding payroll rather than adding to it.Gone is Adam Eaton, replaced by Ky Hogan makes education, pandemic relief a priority in next Md. budget 01/19/2021 08:16pm • Gov. Larry Hogan has unveiled Maryland's new proposed budget, and both pandemic relief and education are the next fiscal year's top priorities. At a news conference Tuesday, Hogan said "The Relief Act of 2021" will provide over $1 billion in immediate, targeted emergency tax cuts and financial re Column: Is Watson-to-Washington a real possibility? 01/19/2021 04:10am • As compelling as the NFL's version of the Elite Eight was Sunday, the most breathtaking thing to happen in pro football took place off the field. There's a really messy divorce playing out in Houston, where star quarterback Deshaun Watson apparently wants out of a dysfunctional Texans organizatio Ex-Baltimore mayor seeks commutation of prison sentence 01/18/2021 04:59pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A former Baltimore mayor serving a three-year prison sentence stemming from a public corruption scandal is among the people hoping for clemency from President Donald Trump before he leaves office. Seventy-year-old Catherine Pugh is seeking commutation of the prison sentence she