Sure, only a "dusting" is predicted, but that never stopped our area's residents from crowding grocery stores and driving like idiots.

Dusting of snow predicted for Metro area

WASHINGTON – A "southern storm" is expected to dust the Washington metro area with an inch or two of snow.Charles County Public Schools and St. Mary's County Public Schools have already decided to cancel events and activities this weekend. For a complete list of closings and delays, click here.

"I think we'll see some snow developing before sunrise tomorrow," says Channel 7 Meteorologist Doug Hill.

"The guessing game continues here with how much snow we're going to get," he says. "This is going to be a bigger storm south of here."  (read more)

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But William Deeley, president of the Inner Circle of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club, says the animal is "being treated better than the average child in Pennsylvania." The groundhog is kept in a climate-controlled environment and is inspected annually by the state Department of Agriculture.

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Watermen Fight to Protect Oyster Harvesting Techniques

By JENNIFER HLAD

ANNAPOLIS (Jan. 20, 2010) – More than 150 watermen took a day off from the water Tuesday to protest a proposed oyster restoration plan and support a bill they say will help them hang on to their livelihood.

The bill would protect the watermen's right to use certain equipment and techniques — power dredging and patent tongs — to harvest oysters. The areas where oystermen can use that equipment is already limited, and the bill would prevent the state from further restrictions.

"We see this as a preemptive bill," said Sen. Richard F. Colburn, R-Caroline, who sponsored the bill and introduced it Tuesday in the Senate's Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee.

Watermen also say their ability to harvest oysters is threatened by Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposed Oyster Restoration and Aquaculture Development Plan.

The 10-point plan includes increasing oyster sanctuaries from 9 percent of the current habitat to about 25 percent, leaving less area for struggling oystermen to harvest. Watermen worry the state's next step will be to ban power dredging and patent tonging all together. (read more)

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Poe Toaster is 'Nevermore'

No gift of cognac and roses left at poet's grave, ending decades-long tradition

By Liz F. Kay | liz.kay@baltsun.com Baltimore Sun reporter

A longtime tribute to Edgar Allan Poe may have come to an end with the absence of the "Poe Toaster," who for more than half a century has marked the poet's birthday by laying roses and a bottle of cognac at his original grave site.

This is the first time since Jan. 19, 1949 that the person, whose identity is unknown, failed to arrive, said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House. [...]

The curator was surprised that there was no indication that the toaster would be nevermore. "You would have thought he would have left a note saying it's over," Jerome said, since the toaster has left notes at the grave site before.  (read more)

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Of course, marrying for love is the real reason to put a ring on it, but this news doesn't hurt.

Report: More men get economic boost from marriage

By DAVID CRARY, AP National WriterNEW YORK (AP) – Historically, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women. Nowadays it's men who are increasingly getting the biggest economic boost from tying the knot, according to a new analysis of census data.

The changes, summarized in a Pew Research Center report being released Tuesday, reflect the proliferation of working wives over the past 40 years _ a period in which American women outpaced men in both education and earnings growth. A larger share of today's men, compared with their 1970 counterparts, are married to women whose education and income exceed their own, and a larger share of women are married to men with less education and income. (read more)

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Del. Frank S. Turner feels vindicated.

Many skeptics had a field day when he sponsored a bill in the House of Delegates to ban texting while driving, he acknowledges. Logistically, it seemed like it would be a challenge to nab offenders in the act.

"There were a lot of people who said you can't catch any people texting while driving," said Turner (D-Dist. 13) of Columbia.

Turns out police across Maryland have issued 60 citations to motorists for texting while driving either to send messages, update their Facebook page or post on Twitter since the law banning the act took effect Oct. 1.

The new law makes typing or sending text messages while driving an offense punishable by a $500 fine and a point on the driver's license. Maryland is one of 18 states that prohibit sending text messages while driving. (read more)

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ROME (Reuters) – An Italian toy store opened at 4 a.m. on Christmas morning to help a frantic mother whose gifts for her children had been stolen from a basement. (read more)

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The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell

At exactly two minutes after midnight on Jan. 1, 2000, an alarm sounded at a nuclear power plant in Onagawa, Japan. Government officials and computer scientists around the globe held their breath. Was this the beginning of a massive Y2K computer meltdown? Actually, no. It was an isolated event, one of a handful of glitches to occur (including the failure of 500 slot machines at two racetracks in Delaware) as the sun rose on the new decade. The dreaded millennial meltdown never happened.

Instead, it was the American Dream that was about to dim. Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era. We're still weeks away from the end of '09, but it's not too early to pass judgment. Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want — just give thanks that it is nearly over. (read more)

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The blizzard of 2009 brought record snowfalls to area airports. The total at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport reached 16.4 inches, edging out the former record of 16.2 inches in 1962.

At Baltimore Washington International Airport, 21 inches of snow fell, surpassing the 20.4 that fell in December 1966.

The storm was the third-highest single-day snowfall in the District since 1884.  (read more)

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