Metro's Board of Directors today is expected to approve a record 15-percent fare hike – "the largest increase in the transit agency’s history," WJLA-TV reports:
For riders, the plan would mean a jump in rail fares to a $1.90 minimum during peak times, and a 20-percent hike for Metrobus trips, to $1.50. The peak-of-the-peak fare hike [...]

I saw a post on CNN's web page last week about old alums from rival high schools in the Lehigh Valley getting back together to settle an old football score.
The official story goes: In the fall of 1993, Phillipsburg (NJ) and Easton (PA) played to a 7-7 stalemate in their regular season-ending game, which has [...]

Driver Matt Kenseth, after winning the Daytona 500 by rainout, told a TV audience through tears that the victory was "a G moment."
I wasn't familiar with the phrase, but ran to Google to confirm that "G Moment" is a trademark of a sponsor.
Turns out it's from Gatorade.
Kenseth's plug was seamlessly delivered with the rest of [...]