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A statement from McLean, Va.-based Mars Inc. issued late Thursday said the ad featuring the actor Mr.

A statement from McLean, Va.-based Mars Inc. issued late Thursday said the ad featuring the actor Mr.

Freddie Mac Treasurer Timothy Bitsberger said there was no decline in investor demand for the US$6 billion of debt the mortgage-finance company sold this week with yields near record highs.

A five-year project to build express lanes on the Virginia portion of the Capital Beltway is getting started.

Jacquelyn Martin AP Photo A top view of a fire hydrant is seen in the Somerset Crossing neighborhood of Gainesville, Va., on Friday July 18, 2008.

In the 1988 hit "I'm Gonna Be ," Scottish pop band the Proclaimers famously declared "I would walk 500 miles / And I would walk 500 more" - just to wind up at the door of some distant love interest.

A former contractor was charged Friday with making false statements as military investigators probe the apparent theft of nearly $40 million in fuel from a U.S. Army base in Iraq.

Freddie Mac Treasurer Timothy Bitsberger said there was no decline in investor demand for the $6 billion of debt the mortgage-finance company sold this week with yields near record highs.

Energy-efficient house being built in McLean. Tuesday, July 15, 2008 West*Group has launched a new initiative with the construction of the first "carbon-neutral" house in the mid-Atlantic region.

Soaring inflation and fears about the safety of the banking system sent share prices plunging in London, Asia and New York yesterday.

Freddie Mac sold $3 billion of short- term notes, finding higher-than-average demand after U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the government will shore up the mortgage-finance company.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , ranked Aaa by the world's largest credit-rating companies, are being treated by derivatives traders as if they are rated five levels lower.

Fannie Mae paid a record yield over benchmark rates on $3 billion of two-year notes amid concern the U.S. mortgage-finance company doesn't have enough capital to weather the biggest housing slump since the ...

Wed, Jul 9, 2008 Dorian Leigh, an early supermodel who made Revlon's 1950s "Fire and Ice" cosmetics line famous, has died at age 91.

Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean, Va., investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of the online file-sharing network LimeWire while using a company ...

Although their stock portfolios may be in decline, wealthy Americans who are less likely to feel the impact of a slowing economy and rising energy and food prices are largely going ahead with their vacation ...

A Fairfax County couple is searching for the owner of a $40,000 diamond ring that they have found.

Celebration surrounding the conversion of two existing athletic fields to synthetic turf took place during a groundbreaking ceremony held June 29, 2008 at Spring Hill Park in McLean.

Prospective and current graduate business students who used a Web site to cheat on entrance examinations over the last five years could have their scores thrown out.

Speed, agility, flexibility - The HP BladeSystem c-Class. Two leading carrier network vendors each claim victory with Comcast as the prize, amid heating competition in an increasingly lucrative market.