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An investigation is underway into why some D.C. personnel records were being burned at the fire academy. Firefighters responded to a fire in two dumpsters Friday afternoon at the D.C. Fire Training Academy.
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Just moments before a live report for the evening news, ABC 7's Greta Kreuz got the call from her doctor. "He said to me, 'You have lung cancer.' I said, 'What?! I've never even smoked a day in my life!'," Greta says. But, on the cat-scan there was a half-inch tumor on her left lung.
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Just three business days after going public, Facebook and its precocious founder, Mark Zuckerberg, are among those being sued over the company's IPO, Reuters reports. The suit comes after Facebook's stock, which opened at about $38 per share last Friday, has dipped more than 18 percent.
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May is probably best known for being college commencement season. But, just as graduates are finally handed their hard-earned diplomas, one local university is asking them to hand them back. It's all a part of Gallaudet University's sesquicentennial celebration in 2014. For the 150th anniversary, the school wants to collect a diploma to represent every graduating class.
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Red light runners are racking up quite a bill in Alexandria. The city's three red light cameras are keeping an eye on traffic at all times. So far this year, thousands of tickets have been handed out to drivers who run the light.
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The owner of a Howard County store is under arrest Tuesday and stands accused of trying to sell about $20,000 worth of stolen goods, but he told ABC 7 that "he doesn't care" if the items he had in his store were illegally obtained.
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Daybreak Daily's afternoon photo shoot of the pop-culture world finds a pretty good bar, many different shades, other things, and the mystery music video. CATCHING ON: Perhaps you've heard of this book. Selena has, per PerezHilton, "Everyone's jumping on the Fifty Shades of Grey bed train - including Selena Gomez...
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Montgomery County Police officials say they've made an arrest in the murder of a 24-year-old man in White Oak last December. On Dec. 27, 2011, Franklin Amobi, a 24-year-old Silver Spring man and a popular local rapper nicknamed "Frank Diggy," was shot and killed near a bus stop in the 11400 block of Stewart Lane.
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A 13-year-old girl fought off a potential robber in Takoma Park on Monday, and police are on the hunt for the man who accosted her. Takoma Park Police say that at about 5:15 p.m. on May 21, the victim was walking home from a school bus stop on Glenside Drive near Anne Street when she was stopped by a Hispanic man in his mid 20s.
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Controversy is brewing in the medical community. Monday evening, a government panel recommended men to skip a common test used to detect prostate cancer. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force gave a nearly failing grade for "prostate-specific-antigen" or PSA testing. It got a "D." The group says getting the test causes more harm than good.
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A two-year-old boy is recovering Tuesday after falling three stories from a building in Southeast. It happened Monday night in the 800 block of Chesapeake Street. Sources say the toddler suffered head injuries but was conscious when taken to the hospital.
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A fire involving a school bus has forced the closure of both directions of I-395 inside the 3rd Street tunnel, MPD and fire officials say. D.C. Fire spokesman Chief Brian Lee says that there was no one on the bus when the vehicle caught fire while traveling in the northbound lanes of the tunnel.
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Candice Adams has waited two long years for this. In that time, there have been moments when she wondered if it would happen at all. In April, 2010, she and her fiancé Ryan Ismirle got engaged. Six months later, they were devastated when she found a lump.
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Marion Barry is being treated in a Las Vegas-area hospital Monday after reportedly suffering from a blood clot while traveling to Nevada, the Washington Examiner reports. The Examiner's City Hall reporter, Alan Blinder, tweeted Monday morning that Barry was in the hospital, but that officials had no further information.
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‹ Exit photo gallery The 2012 Joint Service Open House & Air Show at Joint Base Andrews is drawing tons of fans this weekend. Friday was Armed Forces Day, a special preview day for military, their families, DOD employees, and school groups. Take a look at the full weekend's events.
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A man wanted by police was killed Saturday night after he drew a sword on police. Fairfax County police came to the Springfield area apartment around 11:08 p.m. after hearing that the suspect was hiding in a bedroom.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation's annual "Click It or Ticket" campaign gets underway Monday. Police will be cracking down on drivers and passengers who aren't wearing seatbelts. In the above video, The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration's David Strickland appeared on ABC7's Good Morning Washington to talk more about the initiative.