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VIA WJLA: A woman matching the description of a serial bank robber has been taken into custody outside a bank robbery in Chantilly, Fairfax County police said Tuesday. Officer Don Godhardt, a police spokesperson, says investigators had numerous banks in the Centreville and Chantilly area under surveillance because of the recent string of bank robberies. […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Officers from the Greenbelt Police Department were called to Roosevelt High School about 11:30 a.m. for a report of shots fired in an adjacent wooded area, said Officer Kelly Lawson, a police spokeswoman. The officers established a perimeter around the area and used a helicopter and dogs to search the woods, […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The gulf that separates Woodland Terrace in Southeast Washington from Burke Centre in Fairfax County can be measured by income levels as well as unemployment and poverty rates. Over the next few weeks, another telling measurement will be the volume of mail as residents return thousands of census forms being delivered […]

With a packed house of hundreds of students joining them at Leo J. O’Donovan Hall on campus, the Georgetown University men’s basketball team found out that they were the No. 3 seed in the Midwest Region of the 2010 NCAA Tournament and will play Ohio University in the first round. The Hoyas, 23-10 overall after […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee watched from the front row of the D.C. Council chamber Monday as educators fired by her administration last year demanded an apology and questioned her budget practices. About a half dozen former public school educators wore T-shirts that read: “I am not a child molester.” The message […]

Virginia Beach, Va., March 14, 2010 – The MEAC’s regular season and tournament champion Morgan State Bears earned a 15th seed in the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament announced Sunday night during the annual selection show. The Bears will face the Big East’s West Virginia, a number two seed, in the first round of […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: In “The Paradox of Choice,” author Barry Schwartz makes the case that more can be less. Sometimes, he writes, we have too many options for our own good. Rather than being thrilled with the range of possibilities before us, we become anxious about sorting through them all and making the right […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Federal education officials have singled out Alexandria’s only public high school as one of the nation’s poorest-performing schools, putting it on track for dramatic instructional reforms fueled by new federal funds. Washington area educators don’t generally regard T.C. Williams High School, whose early integration efforts were celebrated in the movie “Remember […]

VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: When Coolidge High School announced two months ago that it was looking for a new football coach, one of the school’s science teachers was sitting in a conference room in the building when a colleague asked, “Why don’t you put your name in for it?” Natalie Randolph chewed on the idea […]

SC State Uses Free Throw Shooting to Get By UMES Winston-Salem, N.C., March 11 – South Carolina State scored its last seven points from the free-throw line to pull away to a 59-53 win over Maryland Eastern Shore in the quarterfinal round of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament at the Joel Coliseum. The Bulldogs (17-13), […]