The Brooklyn Botanic Garden will unveil a new visitor center and gateway at the northeast corner of the garden next Wednesday.
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Architecture Review: A New Visitor Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
As capital punishment erodes in the Northeast and other parts of the country, its status as a Southern phenomenon has intensified.
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Death Penalty Critics Don’t See Nationwide Shift in Connecticut Vote
Monitored Muslims at Northeast universities.
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Students Outraged at NYPD Spying
Finally, those long-suffering New York and Boston sports devotees have something to cheer about. Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup between the Giants and Patriots means the rabid body-painted and foam-fingered fans in one of these Northeast metropolises will celebrate a sports championship for the first time since . . . last year. Read full article > >
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Super Bowl 2012, for much of America, offers a lot to hate
NEW YORK — Starbucks said Tuesday it is raising some prices regionally as it faces rising ingredient costs. The Seattle coffee chain is raising prices about 1 percent in the Northeast and Sunbelt regions. Starbucks wouldn’t disclose all of the states its raising prices, but the regions include New York; Washington, D.C.; and most Southern states. They exclude California and Florida. Read full article > >
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Starbucks planning to raise prices for some beverages in Northeast, Sunbelt
Experts say the violent weather of the past few years in the Northeast is stressing the 20th century above-ground utility grid as never before, along with the people who depend on it.
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Some Snowstorm Victims Not New to Losing Power
At least 2.3 million people across the Northeast found themselves without electricity after an unusual autumn storm dumped record amounts of snow.
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Storm Leaves More Than 2 Million Without Power
A rare early storm bearing ferocious winds knocked out power for nearly two million customers in the Northeast and threatened to topple October snowfall records.
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More Than a Million Lose Power as Snow Coats Region
Two men were shot to death Saturday in the District, closing an unusually deadly week on the city’s streets. Just before 4 a.m. Saturday, police found Domingo Ezirike, 40, suffering from a fatal gunshot wound near the entrance to the Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in far Northeast Washington. Ezirike, of Lanham, was found in the taxi he drove in Prince George’s County. Read full article > >
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Two homicides in the District bring year’s total to 95, still below last year’s tally
An automobile was taken at gunpoint in Northeast Washington on Saturday night and recovered by officers within 15 minutes with the aid of high-tech equipment, D.C. police said. Commander Andrew Solberg, head of the 5th police district, said an automated license plate reader in an officer’s car helped police spot the late-model Cadillac taken in the carjacking. Read full article > >
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Police use license reader, seize carjack suspects
An automobile was taken at gunpoint in Northeast Washington on Saturday night and recovered by officers within 15 minutes with the aid of high-tech equipment, D.C. police said. Commander Andrew Solberg, head of the 5th police district, said an automated license plate reader in an officer’s car helped police spot the late-model Cadillac taken in the carjacking. Read full article > >
RFK Stadium never got the love it deserved. The stadium was in the wrong part of town. (Mine.) It never entirely beat the rap. That didn’t keep it from being, over a lifetime, my favorite structure in Washington. For me, it even tops the Capitol. If you were a kid growing up in Northeast Washington in the ’50s, that is a mountainously high hurdle because, back then, the Capitol grounds were perhaps the biggest, best playground in the world. Read full article > >
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RFK Stadium: After 50 years, it’s still personal
Kevin Durant could hardly take two steps at Trinity University in Northeast Washington last month without seeing the flash from cellphone cameras or feeling the nudge of awestruck fans waiting for an autograph. LeBron James looked around for some open space to stretch at Morgan State in Baltimore a few days later, but there was no room because fans were standing on the court and chatting with Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul, among others, before the game. Read full article > >
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NBA players making most of lockout
A woman was fatally stabbed Tuesday afternoon in an alley behind a Northeast Washington recreation center, possibly during a domestic dispute, D.C. police said. Officers were called to the 1200 block of Morse Street and found a 42-year-old woman with stab wounds near the Joseph H. Cole Recreation Center, just after 3 p.m.officials said. Police took one man into custody near the scene. Read full article > >
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Woman fatally stabbed near D.C. recreation center
Architecture Review: A New Visitor Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012Death Penalty Critics Don’t See Nationwide Shift in Connecticut Vote
Friday, April 13th, 2012Starbucks planning to raise prices for some beverages in Northeast, Sunbelt
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012Two homicides in the District bring year’s total to 95, still below last year’s tally
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