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  • Montgomery Council approves union raises

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Tue, Apr 30, 2013

    The Montgomery County Council approved a trio of pay raises for union employees, which will cost the county almost $32 million in fiscal 2014. The council approved the firefighters, police and county government employees union packages 8-1, with only Councilman Phil Andrews,...

  • More than 1,500 volunteers beautify area

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

    Community members and volunteers joined forces to help improve the D.C. area on Saturday as part of the 12th annual Comcast Cares Day. The day -- sponsored by Comcast and the non-profit City Year Washington D.C. -- brought some 1,500 volunteers out on Saturday to all parts of the area to help...

  • About 500 locks open inside Montgomery County jail

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

    About 500 cell locks opened at Montgomery County's main jail -- the second time in one week locks became unsecured in the facility near Clarksburg. The incident caused officials to declare a security emergency. Just after 12:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, jail workers were alerted that the...

  • Three arrested for robbery in Adams Morgan

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

    Three Maryland men were arrested in connection with an early Saturday morning robbery in Adams Morgan. Police said just after 3 a.m. on Saturday, Sterling Thornton, 22, of Capitol Heights approached an Alexandria man in the 1900 block of Calvert Street NW and demanded his watch. When the man...

  • Fire destroys Largo townhome

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

    A fire that required almost 50 firefighters to control caused about $150,000 in damage to a Largo townhome on Friday. Prince George's County firefighters responded to the fire at about 2:30 p.m. on Friday in the 500 block of Harry S. Truman Drive. The fire started on the second floor of the...

  • Man dies in Fairfax crash

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Sat, Apr 27, 2013

    Police said a 23-year-old Alexandria man died after the car he was driving overturned, causing a three-vehicle crash on I-95 in Fairfax County. Police said Ryan Cox of Alexandria was driving his car south on I-95 near the exit ramp for Backlick Road shortly after 12 a.m. on Saturday when the...

  • Montgomery County union pay raises head to council after committee OK

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Thu, Apr 25, 2013

    A trio of contracts giving three Montgomery County unions two year, double-digit pay raises will head to the County Council intact, after a council committee voted to recommend the increases on Thursday. In total, the contracts would cost about $105.3 million over two years. Members of the...

  • Montgomery County officials crack down on take-home car abuse

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    Montgomery County officials say they will crack down on abuse of take-home vehicles. Officials in the county's Fleet Management Services told County Council members on Wednesday that some employees have been taking their county-owned cars home when the vehicles are not allowed to leave county...

  • The 3-Minute Interview: Morgan Fykes, producer of DCFunemployment.org

    Kate Jacobson

    Published: Wed, Apr 24, 2013

    Morgan Fykes is a D.C. blogger and stylist who produces the blog DCFunemployment.org, a D.C. fashion, food and events blog. After graduating more than a year ago from West Virginia University without a job, Fykes decided to start her blog and connect people of the Washington area with fashion...

  • Montgomery County Council members look to shrink bag tax

    Kate Jacobson

    Updated: Tue, Apr 23, 2013

    Four County Council members introduced a measure Tuesday that would scale back the Montgomery County bag tax so shoppers would have to pay 5 cents for bags only at grocery stores. The bill would modify the tax to apply only to food stores, defined as any store where food consists of more than...


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