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The Washington Bridge That Collapsed Last Night Was Functionally Obsolete
Crews survey the scene of a bridge collapse on Interstate 5 on May 23, 2013 near Mt. Vernon, Washington. I-5 connects Seattle, Washington to Vancouver B.C., ...
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CSC plans exit from Lanham office site
Computer Sciences Corp. is planning to vacate a 12-story building in Lanham by the end of the year as part of a larger effort to reduce its real estate footprint. Computer Sciences Corp. plans to pull out of a 12-story office building in Prince George's County by the end of the year as the Falls Church-based government contractor consolidates its Washington-area real estate. The company has ...
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Metro eyes modernizing fare collection system
http://wapo.st/16XlGme ) that the agency also wants to let people pay with the wave of a smart phone, key fob or credit card as they board a bus or pass a fare ...
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$270K Heroin Bust in Stafford
Steve Carrington Durham, Jr., was arrested earlier this month, the Stafford County Sheriff's Office announced Friday. Durham, 28, of Brick, N.J., has been charged with possession with intent to distribute a Schedule I or II ...
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TV Broadcasters Launch Aereokiller Lawsuit in Washington
Hollywood Docket: Digital Music Class Action; Aereokiller Settlement; Snoop Lion Lawsuit On Thursday night, Fox, NBCU, Disney/ABC, Allbritton Communications and Telemundo filed a copyright infringement lawsuit ...
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D.C. teen birth rate drops 15 percent as U.S. hits record low
Teenage birth rates dropped in D.C. and nearly every other state from 2007 to 2011, with the country as a whole hitting a record low, according to a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
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The number of startup events might be too damn high
Philippe Chetrit, former chief of Tixelated and Affinity Lab The inevitable backlash to the rise of D.C. tech meetup culture has kicked in. Part of the community is beginning to ask if maybe, possibly, we might be going to a few too many events. If he or she is so inclined, a founder can find a startup-oriented gathering or two almost every day, at the very least, several times a week. ...
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Man Arrested In DC Area For Killing Family In Czech Republic
PRAGUE (WUSA9) -- WNEW reports that an American man accused of killing a family of four in the Czech Republic was arrested in our area Thursday night. "Leos Trzil, regional police chief in Brno, said Kevin Dahlgren was arrested at an airport in the Washington, D.C., area late Thursday after the Czechs issued an international warrant," reports WNEW. Dahlgren reportedly fled to the ...
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Police Man Used Hatchet in Gaithersburg Homicide
Claude Alexander Allen called police just after midnight to report a death that resulted from a burglary attempt in the 7200 block of Cliff Pine Drive. He claimed the victim tried to break in and he killed ...
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Bridge Collapse in Washington Cripples Highway Near Seattle
A section of a major interstate highway bridge in Washington state collapsed yesterday, sending two vehicles into the rushing waters of the Skagit River north of Seattle. Three people were rescued and no one is believed to have died, authorities said. The bridge carried both north- and south-bound lanes of Interstate 5, which runs the length of the U.S. West Coast from Mexico to Canada. ...
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Washington scandals intrude on Mass. Senate race
The controversies swirling around the Obama administration - from the IRS targeting of conservative groups to lingering questions about last year's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya - are threatening to engulf Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate ...
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Deputy Defense Secretary Carter Industry needs profits and margins to be successful
Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter Lowest price will no longer rule the day in federal contracting at the Defense Department, as the latest iteration of its procurement strategy recognizes the need for industry to to make money, said Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter in a speech Thursday. In comments made at D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, Carter was referring to ...
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Twitter links ads to TV programs
Linking promoted tweets with TV content would give Twitter a new way to tap into what remains the largest ad spending category television advertising. Taking advantage of the fact that large numbers of people love to tweet about television programs they are watching, Twitter Inc. is testing targeted ads linked to the TV ads its users likely see, according to the San Francisco Business Times. It ...
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Collapse Does Washington Bridge Expose the Crumbling of a Nation
As the nation continues to follow the slash and burn economic policies of the austerity hawks in Washington, will a dramatic bridge collapse in Washington state renew talk of America's eroding infrastructure?On Thursday night, a truck hit a support beam on Interstate-5 near Seattle and caused a complete section of the Skagit River Bridge to collapse, sending vehicles and their passengers ...
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Rolling Thunder Ready to Roar Into Town
ARLINGTON, VA - MAY 29: Thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts and military veterans mix in the Pentagon's parking lot before the start of "Rolling Thunder" rally May 29, 2011 in Arlington, Virginia. Although not an official guest, former U.S. Vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin is expected to participate in today's motorcycle parade from the Pentagon to ...
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Videos Washington bridge collapse survivor You hold on
Zoom In this photo provided by Francisco Rodriguez, rescue workers form a human chain as they begin to remove a woman who reaches out from a smashed pickup truck that fell into the Skagit River after the collapse of the Interstate 5 bridgeThursday, May 23, 2013, in Mount Vernon, Wash. (AP Photo/Francisco ...
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Pentagon lowers cost of F-35 program by 1.1 percent
The Pentagon has lowered the total cost of the F-35 program by 1.1 percent. The nation's most expensive defense program ever just got a little more affordable. The Pentagon has lowered the development and production cost projections of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by 1.1 percent from $395.7 billion to $391.2 billion. Bloomberg reported that the reduction was attributable to lower labor ...
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Vincent Gray approves $24M for D.C. worker pay raises
D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray on Thursday signed a law increasing pay for about 23,000 city government employees, as well as a significant expansion of affordable housing programs, the Washington Examiner reported. The $24 million plan, which the D.C. Council unanimously approved on May 7, also includes money for employment programs and thousands of extra summer school ...
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The entire globe is a battlefield for Pentagon
War Forget it; the Global War on Terror (GWOT) is not becoming more "democratic" - or even transparent. US President Barack Obama now pledges to transfer the responsibility of the shadow 'Drone Wars' from the CIA to the Pentagon - so the US Congress is able to monitor ...
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Video Bridge linking Washington and Canada collapses
Authorities have said no one was killed, but three people were rescued and taken to hospital.The four-lane motorway bridge, which is over 50 years old, crosses the Skagit River near Mt Vernon on the Interstate 5, about halfway between Seattle and Vancouver.The cause of the collapse, which came at the beginning of one of the US's busiest holiday weekends, is still unknown. The state ...
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Ocean City Fishing Pier Reopens
The 489 foot pier was almost completely destroyed during Hurricane Sandy. A large section collapsed into the ocean, and the pilings that were left standing had to be ...
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Worse Than Watergate The Ultimate White House Scandal Matrix
. That's the refrain coming from the Obama administration's critics as it scrambles to tamp down a growing pile of scandals. "The Obama administration's cover-up of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack surpasses ...
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Westfield Montgomery mall parking garage partially collapses
A concrete section weighing more than 50,000 pounds collapsed in a parking garage at Westfield Montgomery mall in Bethesda on Thursday, killing one construction worker and seriously injuring another, The Washington Post reported. The injured worker was pinned for four hours and had to be rescued by a crew that used wood and steel beams to brace the collapsed area around him. The rescuers ...
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Obama schedule for Friday May 24
Obama speaks at the U.S. Naval Academy commencement in Annapolis, Md., Friday, the White House said. The daily schedule indicated Obama also will sign a bill designating the Congressional Gold Medal to commemorate the lives of the four girls killed in Birmingham, Ala., at the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of ...
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Prince Georges court to hear lawsuit over University of Marylands exit from ACC
A $52 million Atlantic Coast Conference penalty against the University of Maryland for exiting the ACC in favor of the Big Ten Conference in 2014 is going to trial in Upper Marlboro, the Associated Press reported. To be heard in Prince George's County Circuit Court, the lawsuit, if decided in the ACC's favor, could wipe out most of the university's athletic ...
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