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 | Prices spike at public universities, except in Maryland Dec 28th 2012, 22:58 Steep declines in public funding for higher education over the past five years have forced most state universities across the country to jack up tuition and fees. Not in Maryland. The posted price of attending the University of Maryland and other state universities has risen 2 percent for in-state students since 2007 after adjusting for inflation — the lowest rate of increase in the nation for four-year public institutions, the College Board said in a recent report. Read full article >>   | | Fire chief revises controversial ambulance plan Dec 28th 2012, 22:24 The District's fire chief has backed off from a redeployment plan that would have kept the city's most advanced ambulances off the streets during early morning hours. In November, Kenneth B. Ellerbe proposed rescheduling his department's "medic units" — 14 ambulances equipped with advanced life support technology and staffed by paramedics — to better match their availability with call volume, which peaks in the midday hours. Under his initial proposal, no medic units at all would be available between 1 and 7 a.m. Read full article >>   | | Where to watch the Redskins vs. Cowboys game Sunday night Dec 28th 2012, 21:58 You already know the drill: Redskins vs. Cowboys. FedEx Field. Sunday Night Football. Winner takes the NFC East title. Loser (probably) watches the playoffs from home. If you already have tickets to the game, lucky you. If not, prices on StubHub are starting at a cool $220. With that in mind, odds are you're looking for someplace to watch the game on TV. But big games call for mass communal viewing: a packed sports bar if you can't be inside the stadium. And since every two-bit establishment with a cathode ray tube and a set of rabbit ears will be showing this thing, here are the best of the best: Read full article >>   | | 24 busy hours on Metro a baby, a deer, a robber and a bus crash Dec 28th 2012, 17:07 Usually Metro has a host of problems on any given day related to signal troubles, disabled trains or cracked rails. But the past 24 hours have gone beyond the norm and into the slightly odd. It started during Thursday evening's rush hour around 5:30 p.m. when a 17-year-old pregnant woman aboard a Red Line train headed to Grosvenor-Strathmore went into labor. Her water broke as she was on a train and medical personnel arrived to help her at Gallery Place. Passengers were offloaded from the train and the woman was taken to George Washington Hospital. Read full article >>   | | Stolen car crashes into Metro bus Dec 28th 2012, 16:54 Three occupants of a stolen car were arrested Friday morning after the driver evaded Prince George's County police and crashed into a car and Metro bus in the District, according to authorities. At least three people — two of the suspects and the driver of the car that was struck — were injured and taken to area hospitals for treatment. Police said none of the injuries were serious. Read full article >>   | | 'Django Unchained,' 'Les Miserables' and more new movies Dec 28th 2012, 16:35 This week's new movies include "Django Unchained" and the much anticipated "Les Miserables." Both films feature star-studded casts. But how did they fare with the critics? Here's what they had to say: "Les Miserables" (PG-13) "For better or worse, though, this adaptation of the mega-hit Broadway musical fits neither description, largely because it lives in that kinda-sorta, okay-not-great, this-worked-that-didn't in-between for which words like 'better' and 'worse' fall woefully short." — Ann Hornaday Read full article >>   | | Bank robber arrested on Metro train Dec 28th 2012, 16:21 There seems to be a new getaway vehicle — a Metro train. Police arrested a man who robbed a bank on K Street NW Friday morning at the Dupont Metro stop. The man was said to have robbed a Wells Fargo bank on K Street. About 10 a.m., Metro Transit Police received a call from D.C. police asking them to hold trains at Dupont. A train, headed toward Glenmont, was held for six minutes, said Metro chief spokesman Dan Stessel. Read full article >> | | A hot one Dec 28th 2012, 16:18 Today's frigid winds notwithstanding, 2012 was the hottest year on record for Washington, Capital Weather Gang's Matt Rogers reports: "The record will be broken by a landslide. With only a few days left in the year, D.C. should finish 1.3 degrees F warmer than the previous warmest year on record, 1991." What's that, you say? The year's not over yet? Well, Rogers calculates, temperatures between Thursday and Monday "would have to average about 80 degrees below zero not to break the record." The reasons are varied: In the short term, you can blame a negative Pacific Decadal Oscillation. In the longer view, urbanization and climate change are playing a big role. Read full article >>   | |
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