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D.C. area forecast: Clouds may plague our Saturday; temperatures up into early week Dec 1st 2012, 10:00 Welcome to meteorological winter! One thing for sure: It won't feel too wintry the next few days. In fact, today probably ends up the "worst" of the bunch. Even with that billing, it won't be too bad out there as temperatures end up right around where we'd expect them for the date. While readings continue to rise tomorrow into early in the work week, our largely dry pattern of late also persists. This all means we won't have too much to concern ourselves weatherwise for the in the near future. Redskins vs. Giants: Feeling more like an early-season game Dec 1st 2012, 09:55 By this time of year we can have some rather unpleasant weather conditions, especially after sundown. Not this time! You'll probably want some layers, at least, as it is cool and getting cooler as the game goes. A baseball-soccer stadium suddenly shifts location in Loudoun, and neighbors in Ashburn are stunned Dec 1st 2012, 06:10 When Loudoun County agreed in 2009, after much study and negotiation, to allow a minor league baseball stadium to be built, it was carefully situated along Route 28 in Ashburn near the intersection with Route 7. No neighborhoods too close, part of a gradual mixed-use development, general acceptance all around. Read full article >> TV and radio listings: December 1 Dec 1st 2012, 04:27 NBA 7:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Miami » NBA TV 8 p.m. Philadelphia at Chicago » WGN 10:30 p.m. Sacramento at Los Angeles Clippers » NBA TV COLLEGE FOOTBALL Read full article >> Quince Orchard comes up short again in Maryland 4A final Dec 1st 2012, 04:11 BALTIMORE — For the second straight season, Quince Orchard Coach Dave Mencarini gathered his players on the field at M&T Bank Stadium following the Maryland 4A football final while another team celebrated with the championship trophy in the state's largest classification. But after Friday's 12-7 loss to third-ranked Wise in a game the Cougars led for more than 20 minutes, the emotions of the meeting were not as familiar for the ninth-year coach. Read full article >> Wizards vs. Knicks: Washington reverts to form after first win, falls to 1-13 Dec 1st 2012, 03:42 NEW YORK — Facing off as Eastern Conference foes for the first time, longtime Denver Nuggets teammates Carmelo Anthony and Nene found themselves matched up against each other at the end of the first half of the Washington Wizards' 108-87 loss to the New York Knicks on Friday night. Read full article >> Maryland 4A football: Wise rallies for 12-7 win over Quince Orchard to claim first state title Dec 1st 2012, 03:35 BALTIMORE — Isaiah Black threw a go-ahead 24-yard touchdown pass to Micah Till with 2 minutes, 14 seconds left, and Wise's defense held off a furious late drive by Quince Orchard to capture its first Maryland 4A football championship with a 12-7 victory on Friday night at M&T Bank Stadium. Read full article >> No. 20 Georgetown escapes with 37-36 win over Tennessee in Big East/SEC Challenge Dec 1st 2012, 02:44 Not given to hyperbole, Georgetown Coach John Thompson III said nonetheless that he'd never been part of a game like Friday's against Tennessee — a misfiring mess on both teams' parts, in which the Hoyas eked out a 37-36 victory. Read full article >> MLS Cup: David Beckham ready for his finale, having made impact on MLS Dec 1st 2012, 02:19 Sometime between 4 and 5 p.m. Pacific time Saturday, depending on whether the MLS Cup final between Los Angeles and Houston is decided in regulation or beyond, David Beckham will remove his No. 23 Galaxy jersey and disappear into Home Depot Center's south tunnel for the last time. Read full article >> Does a Maryland man hold the second winning Powerball ticket? Dec 1st 2012, 01:02 We have a winner! Or do we? Surveillance video of a man walking into a Prince George's County gas station Thursday, checking a stack of lottery tickets and reportedly screaming "I won!" has a lot of people wondering: Could the holder of one of two winning tickets for the largest Powerball jackpot ever be right here in the Washington region? Read full article >> One suspect in Woodley Park Metro slaying says victim had knife, detective tells judge Dec 1st 2012, 00:46 The 18-year-old Olney man who was fatally stabbed at the Woodley Park Metro station was holding a knife when his designer jacket was stolen from him, one of the suspects charged in the robbery told D.C. detectives. Read full article >> Fairfax police use dogs, copter to find suspect in roommate killing Dec 1st 2012, 00:38 After a search with a helicopter and dogs Friday, Fairfax County police apprehended a Franconia man and charged him with murder in the slaying of his roommate earlier in the day. Eric C. Kweder, 34, is accused of killing the 32-year-old victim by striking him with a blunt object inside the home they shared in the 6000 block of Hydrangea Drive and then fleeing the scene, said Officer Bud Walker, a police spokesman. Read full article >> WPFW-FM will undergo radical change to a more mainstream lineup of programming Dec 1st 2012, 00:37 For more than three decades, noncommercial station WPFW-FM in Washington has been a feisty voice of sometimes radical leftist politics — relentlessly anti-war, anti-corporate and anti-Republican. Next week, the station will undergo its own radical change, as it moves from an eclectic lineup of homegrown talk shows and musical programs to more mainstream syndicated programming in a bid to win back listeners and their pledge dollars. Read full article >> Zoo vultures acclimate to civil surroundings Dec 1st 2012, 00:30 When Natalie and Tuck first arrived at the National Zoo, their neighbors, the gazelles and the oryxes, were too scared to walk by their stall, such horrid noises did they make. Plus, their diet was unsettling — dead rats and rabbits, and beef bones. They also tended to drool and stand on their food when they dined. And they had a habit of burping up hairballs. Read full article >>

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