by Loumay Alesali | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON- The cost of this year’s July 4th professional displays and all of those consumer fireworks was about $1.2 billion, the executive director of American Pyrotechnics Association said Thursday. And it might have been even higher if some displays hadn’t been...
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by Athena Liu | Jul 5, 2018 | Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Sacramento area hamburger aficionado Molly Schuyler on Tuesday defended her title as the Independence Burger Eating Champion in the 9th annual Z-Burger chain contest. Eight people from all over the country competed for the biggest burger eater title,...
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by Cailin Crowe | May 18, 2018 | Featured, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON – To keep up with the record-breaking pace of cyber crime against Americans, Social Security numbers need to be replaced as the de facto required identification, but not by switching to complicated technologies like blockchain, cybersecurity experts say....
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by Shelby Fleig & Em Steck | May 18, 2018 | Living
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of hungry tourists and D.C. locals flocked to the opening of the 23rd annual Department of Agriculture Farmers Market Friday, featuring food grown or raised in the Maryland, Virginia and other nearby states. Long lines formed around booths...
by Cailin Crowe | May 16, 2018 | Business & Tech, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON — A cozy, intimate bookstore in Washington, D.C., whose bestselling titles include the “Good Night Story for Rebel Girls” and “The Handmaid’s Tale,” refuses to be intimidated by the brick-and-mortar Amazon bookstore that just opened nearby—the first...
by Xinyi(Ethel) Jiang | May 12, 2018 | Business & Tech, Featured, Living, Topics
WASHINGTON – Matchmakers are betting the business that breaking up really is hard to do. Facebook’s recently-announced entry into the crowded online dating market—a free service that will be operational in the “next few months”—is putting pressure on premium, offline...
