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10 products you should not buy on Black Friday 11/18/2018 10:50am • Most of us know that Black Friday is the best day to find doorbuster sales and limited-time discounts on items such as TVs, appliances and apparel, but there are a surprising number of products to skip purchasing during the popular shopping holiday if you want to snap up the best bargains. Here a Prince George's Co. police urge online buyers, sellers to beware when meeting in person 11/18/2018 07:37am • WASHINGTON — Prince George's County police said that robbers have been targeting victims recently using classified ad apps and online vendor sites, and they want you to be careful as the holiday season ramps up. Police said the cases have a similarity: Victims agreed to meet the suspect or susp How to teach kids to be frugal with gifted money 11/17/2018 07:30am • Raising your children to be financially responsible is a common challenge for many parents. And it's an especially arduous task when it comes to handling gifted money received for birthdays, holidays or other special occasions. On those occasions, children are often compelled to spend their money 9 holiday shopping habits that will make you go broke 11/17/2018 07:00am • Break these habits to keep your wallet intact this season. The holidays put people in the gift-giving mood, but those who don't watch their spending will find themselves feeling less than jolly when credit card bills arrive in January. According to the Holiday 2018 Consumer Trends survey from the Where to shop, what to buy on Black Friday 11/16/2018 12:31pm • WASHINGTON — If you haven't done your holiday shopping quite yet, Black Friday is chock full of deals for the most coveted gift items this season. Once you're stuffed with turkey, stuff your shopping carts — either real or virtual — with some of the best deals around. Which shops offer the Composting 101: Why beginners should stick to leaves, coffee grounds 11/16/2018 05:07am • Steel cage compost challenge! Mark in Waldorf writes: “On Nov. 2, you told us, 'Do not include food scraps, wood ash, grass clippings, junk mail or other nonsense in your compost pile. I’ll explain why next week.' You didn’t. I agree about junk mail and wood ash. And, I agree that grass clip What Is Senior Home Care? 11/15/2018 07:00pm • Aging is a fact of life -- we simply can't stop the clock, and for most adults, there will come a time when a little extra assistance performing the tasks of daily living would be helpful. The Home Care Association of America reports that "nearly 70 percent of Americans who reach 65 will be unable t Spin scooters hit DC streets; company doesn’t like speed limits either 11/15/2018 06:00am • WASHINGTON — San Francisco-based dockless electric scooter company Spin, which entered D.C.’s dockless pilot this year with bikes but decided to pivot to electric scooters, has begun deploying its scooter fleet in D.C. It also has opinions about new dockless rules that will take effect in 20 Flying to, from DC area will take longer this holiday season with crowds, construction 11/15/2018 04:02am • ARLINGTON, Va. — Construction delays and big holiday crowds mean you’ll have to add extra time to fly in or out of the D.C. region's airports for much of the next month and a half. The key is to plan ahead and come early, said Margaret McKeough, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority exec Avoid These 7 Pitfalls of Retirement 11/14/2018 07:00pm • We all look forward to retirement as a rewarding and pleasurable time of our lives. But there are going to be occasions when the reality does not measure up to the dream. Here's what to watch out for, and what to do about it. You get bored. Many new retirees experience a honeymoon period when they Why Retail Stocks May Have a Good Holiday Season 11/14/2018 07:00pm • The holiday season can be make-or-break time for retail stocks. As malls see lower foot traffic and more shopping moves online, affecting stores like Sears Holding Corp. (ticker: SHLDQ) and J.C. Penney Co. ( JCP), there are questions about the viability of brick-and-mortar retail stores in the era Police: Man dead after mother's boyfriend stabs him in Falls Church 11/14/2018 07:35am • WASHINGTON — A 27-year-old man is dead after police say he was stabbed by his mother's boyfriend early Wednesday morning in Falls Church, Virginia. Fairfax County Police say they found Oscar Daniel Diaz Fuentes inside the apartment suffering from a stab wound to the torso when they responded to Amazon's NYC home in 'opportunity zone' for Trump tax break 11/14/2018 01:18am • NEW YORK (AP) — Much of the New York City neighborhood selected by Amazon for one of its new headquarters is in a federal "opportunity zone," a designation created by President Donald Trump's tax overhaul that offers developers potentially millions of dollars in capital gains tax breaks to invest How to Prepare and Qualify for Student Loan Refinancing 11/13/2018 07:00pm • The national default rate for student loans has been slowly decreasing after reaching a high of 14.7 percent in 2013. In 2015, the official default rate was 11.8 percent, and so far in 2018 it has dropped to 10.8 percent, according to Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Educatio Virginia Tech's 'Innovation Campus' played a key role in Amazon's HQ2 decision — so what is it? 11/13/2018 05:24pm • WASHINGTON — Amazon listed Virginia Tech's $1 billion investment to build an "innovation campus" in Alexandria as a major factor in its decision to bring half of its second headquarters to Northern Virginia. So what is all that money going to build? According to the university, the new million-