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| Preview: Maryland at Northwestern Nov 27th 2012, 00:54 When: 9:15 p.m. Where: Welsh-Ryan Arena, Evanston, Ill. TV: ESPN2. Radio: WTEM (980 AM) Find the shooting touch: Maryland leads the ACC in blocked shots and rebounding margin, but the Terrapins are tied for 10th in three-point shooting at 31 percent. Northwestern will dare them to shoot from the outside in a 1-3-1 half-court trap. Logan Aronhalt went 4 for 4 against Georgia Southern and should be counted on again as a zone-breaker, but the Terps will need more than the Albany transfer to get hot, meaning perimeter threats like Seth Allen, Nick Faust and Jake Layman. Read full article >> |  | Colleges agree to recruit KIPP alumni Nov 26th 2012, 23:35 Twenty colleges and universities, including some of the nation's most prestigious, have pledged in the past year to recruit more students from a prominent charter school network that focuses on educating the urban poor. Read full article >> | | Middle-schoolers tour Maryland college campuses Nov 26th 2012, 22:58 All Ashley Proctor knew about college was what she had seen on television. "You see people sitting on the grass reading, and I thought that was just TV, but that's really what people do," Ashley, 13, a Prince George's County eighth-grader, said as she sat in the middle of the Mall at the University of Maryland at College Park on Monday. Read full article >> | | Pete Snyder running for Virginia lieutenant governor Nov 26th 2012, 21:52 Pete Snyder, a technology entrepreneur and former Fox News commentator who oversaw Republican campaigns in Virginia this year, announced Monday that he will run for lieutenant governor. Snyder, 40, began serving as a paid commentator on Fox last summer while in the thick of Virginia's heated races for president and U.S. Senate. He recently stepped down from that TV role, as the Virginian-Pilot first reported. This is the Fairfax County resident's first bid for elective office. Read full article >> | | PM Update: Mainly light rain late tonight into Tuesday; some snow well north and west Nov 26th 2012, 21:30 Temperatures warmed a bit more than expected today, to highs near normal for this time of year. Plentiful sunshine along with light winds also came together to produce a pretty nice one as well. But when we factor in cold morning lows, today still finishes a bit below average. Conditions deteriorate heading through the evening and into the overnight, first with an increase in clouds, and then with light rain as well as some snow well to the north and west of D.C. | | New Capitol Hill ramp to expand freeway access Nov 26th 2012, 20:59 The District on Monday announced several significant changes in the traffic patterns along the Anacostia riverfront starting this week. A new ramp connecting 11th Street SE with the westbound Southeast-Southwest Freeway is scheduled to open Thursday. Drivers on Capitol Hill can use this for easier access from local streets onto the freeway. It will also provide more direct access to the freeway for Anacostia residents who use the local span of the 11th Street Bridge. And it should help the traffic leaving the Navy Yard in the evening. Read full article >> | | Vandals slash tires of at least 64 vehicles in Herndon Nov 26th 2012, 20:59 The tires of at least 64 vehicles were slashed over the weekend at an Herndon apartment complex, Fairfax County police said. The vandalism occurred between 11 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. Sunday at the Dulles Greene Apartment Complex, police said. The vehicles were parked on Astoria Circle and Rock Hill Road, police said. Read full article >> | | Back to back storms clock United Kingdom Nov 26th 2012, 19:58 A weather double whammy has smacked the United Kingdom (UK) with flooding rain and powerful winds. The first wave struck this weekend, with the follow-up blow last night into today. | | For Repeal Day, party like it's 1933 Nov 26th 2012, 19:52 Dec. 5 will mark 79 years since Utah ratified the 21st Amendment, putting an end to the national experiment of Prohibition. What more reason could you need to raise a celebratory cocktail? The D.C. Craft Bartenders Guild has been throwing a black-tie Repeal Day Ball since 2008, with swing-era music and cocktails crafted by local and nationally-known bartenders, including Dale DeGroff and Tad Carducci. Read full article >> | | Hark! The 25 most cheer-inspiring holiday events in the D.C. area Nov 26th 2012, 16:27 Returning to the office a long holiday weekend (come on, it's not like you accomplished anything on Black Friday, even if you had to report) is the professional equivalent of finding a stale fig in your fruit log. But the four week sprint between Cyber Monday and Christmas Eve is unusual in that it's imbued with that hard-to-define spirit known as holiday cheer. Read full article >> | | O'Malley expected to continue in a top role in Democratic governors group Nov 26th 2012, 16:17 Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley will most likely retain a leadership post in the Democratic Governors Association when his two-year tenure as chairman ends next week, according to party sources. O'Malley is expected to be named finance chairman at the DGA's annual meeting in Los Angeles, the sources said. O'Malley held the position previously, and it will keep him in front of key Democratic donors as he weighs his political future. Read full article >> | |
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