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18-Year-Old Projected To Be First Pick In NHL Draft Now On Worldwide Stage For Team USA 18-Year-Old Projected To Be First Pick In NHL Draft Now On Worldwide Stage For Team USA
18-Year-Old Projected To Be First Pick In NHL Draft Now On Worldwide Stage For Team USA A native New Yorker projected to be the first pick in this year's National Hockey League is displaying his talents on a worldwide stage. Long Island resident James Hagens had two goals and two assists on Thursday, Dec. 26 as Team USA opened play at the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Junior Championships with a 10-4 win over Germany in front of over 13,000 fans in Ottawa, Ontario. Hagens' second goal, which he fired in from the slot, gave Team USA a 4-2 lead with six minutes to go in the second period. Hagens, who plays center, had the primary assist on the team's sec…

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by Joe Lombardi
Business
Amazon Workers Go On Strike, Protest In 20 Nations, Including US Amazon Workers Go On Strike, Protest In 20 Nations, Including US
Amazon Workers Go On Strike, Protest In 20 Nations, Including US Amid the busiest shopping weekend of the holiday season, workers for Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, have gone on strike. Protesting under the banner of “Make Amazon Pay.” employees have walked off the job across six continents in 20 countries, including the United States. The strike is scheduled to last from Black Friday on Nov. 29 through Cyber Monday, Dec. 2, the UNI Global Union announced, saying protests will be held in majors cities in the US, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, India, Brazil and elsewhere. The strike could cause customers' holiday deliveries …

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by Joe Lombardi
Sports
Maryland's Katie Ledecky Sets Olympic Record In Signature 1,500-Meter Race At Paris Games Maryland's Katie Ledecky Sets Olympic Record In Signature 1,500-Meter Race At Paris Games
Maryland's Katie Ledecky Sets Olympic Record In Signature 1,500-Meter Race At Paris Games Maryland's own Katie Ledecky is seeing gold (again), after setting a new Olympic record in her signature 1,500-meter freestyle event in Paris.  Ledecky, 27, who was born in DC and raised in Bethesda, cruised to victory with a time of 15:30.02, representing the first of possibly many gold medals at the Games.  1500 final tonight 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/iqRlKWirjq — Katie Ledecky (@katieledecky) July 31, 2024 She is now the first female swimmer to claim a gold medal in four Olympic Games. With plenty of time to bolster her unrivaled resume. 🐐 No words to be added😱 #Paris2024 pi…

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by Zak Failla
News
DC Native Katie Ledecky Sets Huge World Record, US Record At Swimming World Cup DC Native Katie Ledecky Sets Huge World Record, US Record At Swimming World Cup
DC Native Katie Ledecky Sets Huge World Record, US Record At Swimming World Cup U.S. Olympian swimmer and Washington D.C. native Katie Ledecky has broken yet another world record, this time, by nearly 10 seconds at the Swimming World Cup in Toronto over the weekend, according to multiple reports. World Record. Back to work. 🔜 Indy 🏊🏻‍♀️🏁 pic.twitter.com/VhZKHIjZ67 — Katie Ledecky (@katieledecky) October 30, 2022 Ledecky, 25, broke the world record for the 1,500 short course freestyle, clocking in at 15 minutes and 8 seconds, breaking the previous record of 15 minutes and 18 seconds set by Germany's Sarah Wellbrock in 2019. Ledecky finished her race 40 seconds faste…

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by Annie DeVoe
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Special Education Teacher In Virginia Sentenced For Importing MDMA Into The US From Overseas Special Education Teacher In Virginia Sentenced For Importing MDMA Into The US From Overseas
Special Education Teacher In Virginia Sentenced For Importing MDMA Into The US From Overseas A high school special education teacher in the region will spend years behind bars following his sentencing for importing MDMA into the United States from Europe. Virginia resident Andrew Myers, 39, of Newport News, has been sentenced to two years in prison after being busted bringing the drug, more commonly known as ecstasy, into the country from Spain and German. In February 2020, special agents with Homeland Security Investigations and detectives with the Newport News Police Department received a tip that a package containing MDMA was entering the US and was addressed to Myers, officials…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Woman Pushed Out Of Moving SUV In Arlington Sees Surge Of Support Woman Pushed Out Of Moving SUV In Arlington Sees Surge Of Support
Woman Pushed Out Of Moving SUV In Arlington Sees Surge Of Support A 25-year-old woman who was seriously injured after someone threw her out of a moving SUV in Arlington faces months of rehab and thousands of dollars in medical bills, but hundreds of people have stepped up to help cover the cost of her treatments.  The woman, only identified as Maryna, was coming home early May 15 after a night out when someone pushed threw her out of a car along Wilson Boulevard around 3 a.m., smashing her head on the asphalt and causing life-threatening injuries, an Arlington County police report said.  A GoFundMe campaign set by Maryna's sister Polina lays out…

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by Josh Lanier