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  • A car hydroplanes in standing water northbound on the George Washington Memorial Parkway neat Gravelly Point in Alexandria on Monday as Hurricane Sandy smashes the Atlantic Coast with devastating winds and heavy rain. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

    Trees downed by hurricane force roads to close

    A handful of roads were closed due to high water or downed trees Monday afternoon as Hurricane Sandy moved into the D.C. area, though the storm was expected to wreak far more havoc on the region into Tuesday.


  • P.G. adds patrols after two drag-racing crashes

    Back-to-back street racing crashes in Prince George's County over the weekend left one man dead and another critically injured, as county safety officials ramped up surveillance in a county with a history of deaths resulting from illegal drag-racing.


  • Phil Soriano is outnumbered by women during choir practice at Leisure World retirement community north of Silver Spring, where two-thirds of the residents are women. Among Langley Park's recent immigrants from South America, women are a small minority. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

    Census: It's a man's world — or maybe a woman's

    An eclectic bunch of Washington-area locales, for wildly different reasons, have either a glut of men or a disproportionate number of women, according to a Washington Times analysis of newly released census data. The differences represent a basic dynamic affecting every facet of life for those seeking to date, those raising families and those trying to live out their days in comfort.


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