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What are the 99 THINGS WOMEN WISH THEY KNEW BEFORE DATING AFTER 40, 50 & Yes, 60! Are you tired of getting into relationships that go nowhere? Fed-up with making poor choices or wasting time on partners who don’t share your ‘path’? Dating at midlife has its own special challenges. To succeed, it’s important to […]

Historically Black men were often sold off or ran away. Then welfare stated that if an able bodied man lived in the home the family could not receive benefits. Women were asking their men to leave the home because it would disqualify them from the benefit. Then the women’s movement took hold of the US […]

Bomb squad technicians are investigating the report of a possible box of dynamite found inside a Falls Church home this afternoon.  A Fairfax County Police spokesman says a realtor called them just before 2:30 p.m. to say he had found the box at a home in the 18-hundred block of Peabody Street.  Several nearby homes […]

The President of the University of the District of Columbia will soon face the City Council to answer for his high-priced travel expenses.  Dr. Allen Sessoms has spent thousands of university dollars for trips, including nearly eight-thousand dollars to fly one-way to Egypt and Council wants to hear more about his spending habits at a […]

(Annapolis, MD)  —   The head of the state’s Department of Mental Health and Hygiene is coming out against a bill that would legalize medicinal marijuana, striking a blow to advocates who hoped a new law would pass this year. The senate passed a similar bill last year, and there was strong support in the House of Delegates […]

(Washington, DC)  —  Women’s History Month kicks off today with a conference in Washington, DC on the impact of First Ladies.  The seminar will include talks from the former chiefs of staff to Michelle Obama, Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton.  Historians, authors and journalists will round out panel discussions on the role and influence of the […]

VIA NOAA National Weather Service HE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MARYLAND WESTERN AND CENTRAL VIRGINIA SOUTHEAST WEST VIRGINIA COASTAL WATERS EFFECTIVE THIS MONDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON FROM 900 AM UNTIL 400 PM EST. TORNADOES…HAIL TO 0.5 INCH IN DIAMETER…THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH…AND […]

The Washington Football Team will hold auditions for their new 2011-2012 cheerleading season March 26th, 2011 at 1600 Fed-X Way Landover, MD. Registration will start at 8a.m. (promptly) and auditions will begin afterwards.  Requirements include: Hair Down & Styled; Full Performance Make-up; Participants Must Wear a Half-Top (showing mid-section); and wear shorts or a mini-skirt as well […]

(Jessup, MD)  —  Unionized workers at a Giant Food warehouse in Jessup are bracing for the worst as a New Hampshire company gets ready to take over the facility they work in next month.  Hundreds of workers and union leaders met last night to talk about what the future may hold when C&S Wholesale Grocers […]

  (Washington, DC)  —  Union nurses in Northwest DC say, this time, they’re definitely walking. With negotiations again stalled, members of National Nurses United have told Washington Hospital Center that they will strike this Friday.  The 16-hundred-50 registered nurses say the issues are wages, patient care, a lack of staffing and labor practices.  The union originally […]