Subject: Afternoon Buzz: Tolls will drop on the Bay Bridge and ICC
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Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 13:07:48 -0400 (EDT)

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MARYLAND CUTS TOLLS ON BAY BRIDGE, ICC AND OTHER ROADWAYS 
Ovetta Wiggins, Lori Aratani
Starting July 1, motorists will pay less to drive on Maryland bridges and roadways.Gov. Larry Hogan (R) made the surprise announcement Thursday during a hastily called press conference at the foot of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, where tolls will drop from $6 to $4. Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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LOVE ON THE METRO? WITH BENDED KNEE, ROSSLYN HOSTS A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL 
Dana Hedgpeth
A photo making the rounds Wednesday on social media showed that love — not a word often associated with the D.C. area’s Metro system — can hit at a place that usually draws sneers, eye-rolling, complaints and curses from riders. Greg Rockwell, 29, proposed April 12 to his girlfriend, Robyn Haaland, also 29, at the Rosslyn station. He decided Wednesday to post the photo on Twitter. Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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COULD A BALTIMORE RIOT HAPPEN IN D.C.? BOWSER SETS TOWN HALL WITH CITY’S YOUTH. 
Aaron C. Davis
Could a Baltimore-style riot happen in Washington?D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) says she wants to know what is on the minds of the city’s youth in hopes of preventing one.The mayor has scheduled a town hall meeting Thursday afternoon with about 60 teens and young adults, ages 14 to 24, and will take questions online and submitted through area radio stations. Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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TIME TO SLAUGHTER THE RABBITS: TWO LAWYERS AND THEIR FIVE KIDS RAISE — AND KILL — ANIMALS ON A SUBURBAN FARM 
Petula Dvorak
Rabbits, it turns out, are a gateway animal.Because those lead to chickens. Then goats. Then a pregnant sow. And before the two Maryland lawyers knew it, they’d ditched their townhouse, bought two acres in Silver Spring and found themselves chasing piglets around the yard and giving each other sheep for Christmas and a kelly green tractor on Mother’s Day.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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ELDER ABUSE EXPERTS: EXPECT MORE CASES LIKE THIS ONE IN BETHESDA 
Dan Morse
To Montgomery County detectives, the care that James Kirkland provided to his 87-year-old mother — who had pressure ulcers so bad that her spine was exposed — amounted to felony abuse of a vulnerable adult.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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ROBBERY SUSPECT POSTS INSTAGRAM VIDEO OF POLITE NOTE HANDED TO TELLER 
Dana Hedgpeth
Few bank robbers are probably as polite as a man in Virginia Beach who asked a teller for $150,000 with a “please” at the end of his handwritten note.The Virginian-Pilot reported that Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca, 23, posted a video on Instagram with a shot of a handwritten note handed to a bank teller. Then it shows her reading it and stuffing stacks of bills into a bag at the TowneBank.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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WHAT POPE FRANCIS DID WHEN HE SAW A PHOTO OF TWO LITTLE GIRLS WHO DIED IN AN ANNAPOLIS MANSION FIRE 
John Woodrow Cox
When Pope Francis read a story about two little girls killed earlier this year in an Annapolis mansion fire, he placed his hand on their photo to bless it.Francis was visiting Rome’s North American Seminary on Saturday when he met Father Aaron Qureshi, who gave the pope a letter detailing the deadly blaze that ravaged a $6 million Annapolis mansion and took the lives of four children and their grandparents, according to the Catholic News Agency. The blaze killed homeowners Don and Sandra Pyle and two sets of Boone siblings: Charlotte, 8, and Wes, 6, and their first cousins Lexi, 8, and Katie, 7, who are in the photo, shown above, that the pope saw.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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NEW WHOLE FOODS COMING TO TYSONS CORNER, NEAR A METRO STOP 
Dana Hedgpeth, Jonathan O’Connell
Whole Foods Market, a chain that sells natural and organic groceries, said it will open a large store in the Tysons Corner area of Virginia near a Metro station.The store will be located in a new development of stores, offices and housing called the Boro near the Greensboro Metro stop on the Silver Line. It will be about 70,000 square feet, making it one of the chain’s biggest stores in the area. An opening date has not been set.Read full article &gt;&gt; [
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