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Welcome to the Washington DC Traveler
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Ellington arts school staying put for now, Rhee says
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Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, moving Thursday to quell a storm of protest, said that the District has no immediate plans to move the Duke Ellington School of the Arts out of Georgetown but that it hopes to eventually build a new facility to replace the school's century-old home.
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D.C. area gears up for sloppy, wintry mix
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By late January, particularly a month after a two-foot snowfall, the region turns a more jaded eye toward the threat of winter weather, as if to say, "Show us what you've got."
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D.C. reports record unemployment in December; Md., Va. joblessness up slightly
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Unemployment reached a record 12.1 percent in the District in December, keeping the city's jobless rate well above national levels and much higher than in Virginia and Maryland.
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D.C. embezzler's ill-gotten goods sold to highest bidder
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Instead of tiptoeing to Tunisia with her stolen millions, Harriette Walters hoarded designer bags. The former tax manager -- and the most brazen embezzler (embezzleress?) in city government history -- bought purse after purse on the taxpayers' dime. When she was arrested in 2007, the crime scene ...
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Wintry mix skirts Washington area
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Most of the Washington region was bypassed by a wintry mix that swept into the outer suburbs overnight Thursday and early Friday. Although schools in Fauquier County and other outlying areas canceled classes or opened two hours late, the vast majority of area residents woke to rain or no...
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D.C.'s new bag tax: Small fee, but big impact
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Virginia Johnson thinks the bag fee might be driving her crazy.
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D.C. art activists see old trolley station as buried treasure
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Hidden 25 feet below the earth -- beneath the elegant circular park, the trendy shops and the bustling Starbucks -- another part of Dupont Circle sits empty, eerily quiet and largely forgotten.
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LOTTERIES
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Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 2-2-7 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 0-3-2-6
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Foster teens ready to tell city council how to fix system
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The room the other night was full of teenagers and their teenage habits. There was the eye-roller, the wise-cracker, the slouch-in-the-seater.
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Overcrowding at D.C. youth detention center draws criticism
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The District's youth detention center in Northeast Washington, which is supposed to house no more than 88 juveniles, has had to cram as many as 156 into the facility in recent months during a protracted period of overcrowding that has drawn stern criticism from a court-appointed monitor.
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D.C. visitors help rescue woman from Union Station Metro tracks
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"Help!" the disabled woman cried, her motorized wheelchair overturned a few feet away as she lay sprawled on the Metro tracks at Union Station just before midnight one day last week.
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Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 9-4-2 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 0-4-3-2
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Washington D.C. Daily Events
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Tue, 2/9: Mariinsky Ballet (Kennedy Center Opera...)
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Performing live
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Tue, 2/9: The Rivalry - Theatrical Production (Ford's Theatre)
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Performed live
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Tue, 2/9: Grease (The National Theatre)
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Performed live
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Tue, 2/9: Joshua Bell (The Music Center at ...)
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Performing live
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Tue, 2/9: Sweeney Todd (The Signature Theatre)
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Performed live
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Tue, 2/9: Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor (National Geographic ...)
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Nearly 2,000 years ago, thousands of life-size clay figures were buried in massive underg...
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Tue, 2/9: The Timkov Collection (The Mansion at Strat...)
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From the collection of Timothy and Lisa Wyman, landscapes by Russian painter Nikolai Timk...
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Tue, 2/9: Mind and Meditation: Introduction to the Art of Living (Sri Sri Center for P...)
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In this 60-minute session, you will learn powerful breathing techniques, experience a gui...
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Tue, 2/9: Learn to Belly Dance (Sahara Dance)
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Sahara Dance, DC's Center for Middle Eastern Dance, offers over 50 belly dance classes ea...
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