(Medford, MA) — Young people who focus all of their extracurricular activities on sports are putting themselves at risk. Researchers at Tufts University have found adolescent boys and girls who don’t get involved in activities other than sports tend to have the lowest test scores in competence, confidence, character, connection and caring. They have the […]
(Culpeper, VA) –Authorities are still searching for a Culpeper man accused of dousing his wife with a flammable liquid, then setting her on fire. The Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to the intersection of Alanthus Road and James Madison Highway at Brandy Station just after 8 p.m. Monday and found the 37-year-old wife […]
Are you ready for some football? The SportsGroove previews the preseason opener for the Burgundy and Gold and the Baltimore Ravens tonight at 7 pm. Join host Mark Gray and his guests Rick Snider of the Washington Examiner and Brent Harris of Comcast SportsNet. Get the scoop before kickoff on NewsTalk 1450 WOL and http://www.woldcnews.com
VIA OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY: Hillary Clinton’s Congo blow-up is a story that just won’t go away. Even those sympathetic to Obama and Clinton, like Jon Stewart, are having a field day with this. Mrs. Clinton’s answer on Monday has quickly become the No. 1 sound bite from her trip. Her whole seven-nation Africa tour, which […]
Check out SportsGroove TV’s exclusive coverage of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference football media day from Newport News, VA. The SportsGroove host Mark Gray reports.
VIA WASHINGTON POST: PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Aug. 11 — President Obama began a personal effort Tuesday to reclaim momentum for his health-care initiative with a direct rebuttal of what he called “scare tactics,” rumors and misrepresentations. Senior adviser David Axelrod said the president had for weeks been “relishing” the opportunity to engage with people to defend […]
VIA STARPULSE: Jennifer Hudson has given birth to a baby boy, according to reports. The singer/actress and her fiance David Otunga welcomed little David Daniel Otunga, Jr. on Monday night, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The tot is the couple’s first. Hudson never confirmed her pregnancy news but reportedly staged a baby shower at a […]
VIA WASHINGTON POST: Suit Seeks Right to Pack Heat in Public The lawyer who won the battle to allow District residents to keep handguns in their homes is now fighting to allow residents and visitors to carry their weapons in public. Alan Gura filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court on behalf of four […]
VIA WASHINGTON POST: A federal grand jury has subpoenaed an amateur video that shows confusion and screaming in the moments after U.S. Park Police fatally shot a man in the District’s Trinidad neighborhood, as part of an ongoing investigation into the shooting death of Trey Joyner. Will Jones, a Trinidad resident who filmed the scene […]
VIA USA TODAY: A growing dispute about whether radio stations should pay royalties to artists when their music is aired may be temporarily eclipsed by a potentially precedent-setting fight about radio stations’ public-service obligations. Lobbyists and activists are preparing to descend on the Federal Communications Commission after the agency said it will accept comment by […]