D.C. area forecast: Whipping winds this morning as temperatures see-saw through midweek; High wind warning for damaging wind potential overnight; Gust to 66 mph at Dulles; Powerful wind gusts buffet Washington region; many without power; January death of man found in NW Washington residence ruled a homicide; Turkey’s president comes to Maryland to celebrate Turkish center’s opening; Power fails in Adams Morgan; outage lasts about an hour in places; Advocates take their protest over pot laws to the White House; Thousands attend Turkish Cultural Center opening in Lanham; Skywatch: April brings planetary presents; How do you get prisoners to read? Build a library like the one in this jail.; Eric Engberg, CBS correspondent known for watchdog reporting, dies at 74; The romance of D.C.’s pay-as-you-read Pierce Imperial Library; Lost plans for Wright brothers’ ‘Flying Machine’ found after 36 years; Police say fatal stabbing in Arlington result of domestic dispute, not street fight; Police release surveillance video of Howard County bank robbery;
 
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This model of wealthy suburban living is starting to fray
Years of budget cuts, large and small, are taking their toll in Virginia’s Fairfax County as a once-booming area now hunts for new taxes.
D.C. area forecast: Whipping winds this morning as temperatures see-saw through midweek
Today's raucous winds are just the start of a roller-coaster weather week.
 
High wind warning for damaging wind potential overnight; Gust to 66 mph at Dulles
Gusts over 50 mph likely this evening, with damage to trees and scattered power outages.
 
Powerful wind gusts buffet Washington region; many without power
The National Weather Service warned people to “stay inside a sturdy building.”
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January death of man found in NW Washington residence ruled a homicide
A roundup of news from the Washington region.
Turkey’s president comes to Maryland to celebrate Turkish center’s opening
“I was dreaming of this day,” Erdogan says of the Diyanet Center of America.
 
Power fails in Adams Morgan; outage lasts about an hour in places
Adams-Morgan power failure vexes many; at least partial restoration quickly reported.
Advocates take their protest over pot laws to the White House
Protesters say they want the president to remove marijuana from the list of most-dangerous controlled substances.
 
 
Thousands attend Turkish Cultural Center opening in Lanham
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attended the official opening of the $110 million facility that was financed and built by his country.
 
Skywatch: April brings planetary presents
Low on the western horizon now after sunset, fleet Mercury leads off the night.
How do you get prisoners to read? Build a library like the one in this jail.
In its first year, 1,100 D.C. inmates checked out 4,600 books.
 
Eric Engberg, CBS correspondent known for watchdog reporting, dies at 74
Mr. Engberg investigated wasteful government spending and helped identify the remains of a veteran in the Tomb of the Unknowns.
 
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The romance of D.C.’s pay-as-you-read Pierce Imperial Library
For a low daily, monthly or annual fee, members could lose themselves in a good book.
 
Lost plans for Wright brothers’ ‘Flying Machine’ found after 36 years
After being misfiled at National Archives, the patent file was found in Kansas storage cave.
 
Police say fatal stabbing in Arlington result of domestic dispute, not street fight
Teenage relative of victim is charged with murder in Friday night incident near South Glebe Road and Arlington Boulevard.
 
Police release surveillance video of Howard County bank robbery
Police are searching for one man who they believe robbed two banks in less than two hours in Montgomery and Howard counties. Police released a video from the incident in Howard County.
 
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