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Here are the winners for the 2019 TOP 10 Contest: Best Burger The Burger Shack A family-run restaurant with two locations in Chantilly, Virginia and Ashburn, Virginia.聽 Run Maryland students could win scholarship during tax-free week 08/11/2019 01:48pm • Two lucky students will get something extra this Shop Maryland Tax-Free Week: a scholarship. For the third straight year, the Maryland Retailers Association is holding a contest for a $2,500 scholarship. This year, the University System of Maryland Foundation said it will match that amount if the Today in History: Aug. 11 08/11/2019 12:00am • Today is Sunday, Aug. 11, the 223rd day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On August 11, 1992, the Mall of America, the nation's largest shopping-entertainment center, opened in Bloomington, Minnesota. 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Before Colonial Downs can open a satellite gaming Police investigating Gaithersburg assault near shopping center 08/08/2019 04:23pm • Four people were injured 鈥� including someone who was stabbed 鈥� Thursday afternoon in Montgomery County, Maryland, near a shopping center. Police said it happened around Rothbury Drive and Goshen Road in Gaithersburg around 3 p.m. Two people were taken to the hospital, and the other two ref Hilarie Burton launches campaign to help high school in Sterling 08/07/2019 09:37am • Park View High School in Sterling, Virginia has been struggling in recent years with funding for its football team and other extracurricular activities. Now a famous school alumnus is raising funds to help out. "One Tree Hill" star Hilarie Burton launched a campaign called "High School Forever Concerns raised about deal that put cameras in Montgomery Co. school buses 08/06/2019 04:45pm • Montgomery County, Maryland's inspector general has issued a report that raises concerns about the agreement that put cameras 鈥� including exterior stop-arm cameras 鈥� in county school system buses. Under the 2016 agreement, first with Force Multiplier Solutions, now with Bus Patrol America, Mo Chance for Life: Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month 08/06/2019 11:33am • Cancer is the second leading cause of death in children ages one to 14 and only 4% of federal cancer research funding is dedicated to childhood cancers each year. Alexandria-based nonprofit Chance for Life has raised $6.5 million to date to combat pediatric cancer, donating 100% of its turnkey eve Md. Senate GOP leader attacks white supremacists, gun violence on Twitter 08/06/2019 09:28am • The dual mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, over the weekend prompted predictable outrage and hand-wringing from Maryland politicians. But none of the expressions of outrage were more noteworthy than those that have come over the past two days from the Twitter account of state Se Raskin: Lack of resources to combat domestic terrorism 鈥榓 scandal鈥� 08/06/2019 07:41am • This article was written 麻豆传媒鈥檚 news partners at聽Maryland Matters聽and republished with permission.聽Sign up for聽Maryland Matters鈥� free email subscription today. The U.S. cannot effectively combat domestic, racism-fueled terrorism because federal law enforcement聽has yet to recognize tha 3 bad investing strategies that persist 08/05/2019 08:30am • For a guy who was considered by some to be dumb, Forrest Gump was pretty smart -- at least if you gauge one of his mantras as sound investment advice. "Stupid is as stupid does," he declared in his eponymous movie, and at least three times for emphasis. Yet how many investors who take pride in th Dealing with diet changes: What to do when kids totally change how they eat 08/05/2019 08:00am • In my psychology practice, I am almost always seeing at least one child or teen who has decided to try out a restrictive diet, or one that limits what they can eat. Vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free or very high protein or low-carb diets are the most common. Kids share differ