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Early Labor Day Deals Start At Amazon: How Much Shoppers Can Save
Labor Day is still more than a week away, but one of the country’s biggest online retailers is already rolling out holiday discounts.
Amazon has launched its Labor Day sale ahead of the Monday, Sept. 7, holiday, with deals spanning home goods, electronics, fashion, beauty, outdoor gear, and other categories.
The retailer’s homepage was advertising savings of up to 45 percent Saturday, Aug. 29, along with limited-time deals and discounts tied to saved items and shopping categories.
Amazon’s homepage Saturday, Aug. 29, advertised Labor Day savings of up to 45 percent across several sh…
Mother, Daughter Killed By Wrong-Way Mustang Driver On I-270 In Maryland: State Police
A family trip through Maryland ended with a mother and daughter dead and two others rushed to the hospital.
Musammat Shamima Begum, 46, of Burke, and her daughter, Areebah Jahin, 23, of Alexandria, were riding in a Toyota Camry on I-270 in Montgomery County on Saturday, Aug. 29, when police say a Mustang came at them from the wrong direction.
It was shortly before 6:50 p.m.
The Camry was heading south near Democracy Boulevard when Jose Caballero Nolasco, 32, of Germantown, allegedly drove his Ford Mustang north into the southbound lanes, according to a preliminary Maryland State Police inv…
$7.5M Heist: Hacker Hijacked Charity Emails To Pull Off Elaborate Maryland Scam, Feds Say
He didn't need a gun to pull off a multimillion-dollar heist.
A Nigerian national who infiltrated employee email accounts and helped redirect more than $7.5 million from two charities, including one in Maryland, will spend eight years in federal prison for the elaborate cyber scheme.
Olusegun Samson Adejorin, 32, was sentenced on Friday, Aug. 28, to 96 months behind bars, followed by three years of supervised release, after a federal jury found him guilty of a wide-ranging scam following a six-day trial, according to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland.
The scheme ra…
Firefighters Extinguish Maryland Electrical Fire, Return Hours Later To Raging Blaze
They thought they had put the fire out.
Hours later, a Maryland home was engulfed in flames.
The strange sequence began shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 28, when a resident on Walnut Lane in Elkton reported smoke inside the attic, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal.
Firefighters arrived at approximately 9:08 p.m. and found a small, smoldering fire involving the home's electrical system.
Crews quickly extinguished it, secured power to the three-story home, and eventually cleared the scene.
Then, less than eight hours later, came another 911 call.
At 4:55 a.m. on Saturday, A…
