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Data breach exposed personal info of nearly 6,000 Montgomery County student accounts 12/03/2019 02:11am • Nearly 6,000 accounts containing the personal information of students in Montgomery County, Maryland, were exposed due to data breaches that went as far back as September. The school system and Montgomery County police determined that a total of 5,962 Naviance accounts were affected across six sc ‘Capital of Basketball’ is labor of love, friendship for wife of Gazette shooting victim 11/27/2019 11:03am • Every book is a labor of love. But few channel the dedication and the emotional weight of three people united through marriage, friendship and tragedy the way “The Capital of Basketball: A History of DC Area High School Hoops” (Georgetown University Press) does. On June 28, 2018, a man walked Versatile Ethan Gick leads Tuscarora, wins Player of the Week 11/26/2019 03:21pm • The DC Touchdown Club and WTOP are partnering all high school football season to honor a Player of the Week and help choose a DMV Game of the Week, presented by The St. James. Read about this week’s Player of the Week below and vote in our Game of the Week poll at the bottom of the arti How to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner without packing on pounds 11/26/2019 04:30am • The annual Thanksgiving feast can pack a real calorie wallop, but you can employ some strategies to lessen the blow. Sally Squires, who writes the Lean Plate Club™ blog, told WTOP that people eat an average of 3,000 to 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving. That’s compared with 2,000 calories o No easy mark: Female bodybuilder, 82, clobbers intruder 11/25/2019 08:00pm • This photo, provided by 13 WHAM-TV on Monday Nov. 25, 2019, shows Willie Murphy, 82, as she lifts weights at a gym in Rochester, N.Y. Murphy, an award-winning bodybuilder, said she clobbered an intruder with a table, poured shampoo in his face and beat him with a broom until police arrived at her ho Mama was wrong: Don't wash that turkey this Thanksgiving 11/25/2019 05:39am • Watch for cross contamination. (Getty Images) After a big Thanksgiving feast you want to feel fat and happy, not sick to your stomach. So food safety experts are working to dispel commonly held myths about cooking that can keep you from falling ill. The most common holiday food safety mistake As DC area schools deal with racist behavior, Anne Arundel Co. moves for written apologies 11/24/2019 06:31am • A bathroom at Wilson High School in D.C. was found vandalized with hate symbols and speech scrawled on the walls on Wednesday afternoon in a pattern of behavior that has grown all too familiar at schools in the D.C. region. In a note sent home by the principal, the incident is described as the la Woman rescued after being impaled on fence in Prince George's Co. 11/21/2019 03:58pm • A woman was seriously hurt Thursday afternoon after being impaled on top of the fence she was trying to climb over in Suitland, Maryland. (Courtesy Prince George's County Fire Department) A woman was seriously hurt Thursday afternoon after she was impaled on top of a fence in Suitland, Maryland, White House: Trump undergoes exam at Walter Reed 11/16/2019 10:50pm • BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Donald Trump spent more than two hours at Walter Reed National Medical Center on Saturday for what the White House said were medical tests as part of his annual physical. The appointment wasn’t on Trump’s weekend public schedule, and Cat allergy: New treatments 11/13/2019 07:00pm • Cat allergies can put a damper on feline friendships. (Courtesy Getty Images/iStockphoto/abadonian) Are you one of the millions who suffer with cat allergy? It's estimated that up to one-third of Americans with allergies are allergic to cats. According to the American College of Allergy, Asthma Q&A: 'RENT' tour brings 525,600 goose bumps to National Theatre 11/13/2019 01:33am • It changed musicals — and society — when it won the Pulitzer Prize and four Tonys in 1996, capturing souls “living in America at the end of the Millennium.” This week only, the smash rock musical "RENT" returns to National Theatre, cycling back for a second time since its 20th anniver Impeachment hearing room ready for TV close-up 11/12/2019 01:57pm • The House Ways and Means Committee hearing room, the largest hearing room in the House, is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) The first nationally televised public hearing in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump will be held Wedn Walking 10,000 steps: Healthy guideline or rigid goal? 11/11/2019 07:00pm • Recently, a colleague of mine had worked with an internationally renowned combat athlete to manage his weight loss prior to a major competition. My colleague, a doctor of physical therapy and performance expert, was taken by the reaction of this athlete to the goals my colleague had put in place for Prehensile-tailed porcupine born at National Zoo in DC 11/08/2019 06:08pm • Here's what a prehensile-tailed porcupine looks like at the National Zoo. (Courtesy National Zoo/Roshan Patel) The Smithsonian's National Zoo in D.C. welcomed a new prickly addition to its Small Mammal House with the birth of a porcupine, and this species has a unique tail. The zoo announced Wine of the Week: Pence Vineyard Wines 11/08/2019 05:07am • I have had the pleasure of writing about wine for a long time now, and over the years, I have met a lot of people in the industry who have become friends. But it is really a special treat for me when I have friends who end up making wine. Especially when they are making really good wine. Such