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John Barr

Reporter · US

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Sep 28, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · John Barr

    'You treat me like a chump': Disabled veteran challenges tax on new Charles County homes (opens the original)

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    CHARLES COUNTY, Md. (7News) — Nobody likes paying taxes, and in roughly half the states in the country, at least one group of taxpayers gets a tax break. Virginia and Maryland are among the 22 states that provide military veterans, who are 100-percent disabled, with a property tax exemption. It’s one of the ways disabled veterans in those states are paid back for their service and sacrifice. It's also the reason why Jannine Pete, a retired Air Force Master Sgt. who suffered a disability as a res

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · John Barr

    Senate expected to pass bill which could lead to major reforms for collegiate athletics (opens the original)

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    WASHINGTON (7News) — The United States Senate is expected to vote late Monday on a bill that could, if it also clears the U.S. House of Representatives, dramatically reshape the collegiate sports landscape. The Protect College Sports Act (PCSA) is scheduled for a vote on the Senate floor Monday evening. On Saturday, President Donald Trump voiced his support for the legislation, while attending the University of Texas versus University of Tennessee football game, telling commentator Clay Travis h

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · John Barr

    "This is what a death spiral looks like": DC landlords offer councilmember dire warning (opens the original)

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    WASHINGTON (7News) — The warning from Patrick McAnaney, a development director for one of the larger affordable housing providers within the District was stark. "Housing providers are selling off their properties to stay afloat. This is what a death spiral looks like," he told D.C. Councilmember At-Large Robert White, who chairs the D.C. Council's Housing Committee. McAnaney's business, Somerset Development Company, manages seven buildings within the district, totaling 908 units. They are operat

  4. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · John Barr, Ida Domingo

    Boy rescued after large tree crashes into Prince George's County home (opens the original)

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    KETTERING, Md. (7News) — A 12-year-old boy was rescued and taken to a hospital for evaluation after a large tree fell onto a home in Kettering, Maryland, early Friday morning. The Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department said crews were called around 12:04 a.m. to the 300 block of Wren Court for a reported collapse. Firefighters found a large tree had fallen onto a single-family home, damaging the roof and a bedroom, and trapping the boy. The boy's father, Andrew Carter, told 7News a beam from

  5. Article · Sep 3, 2026 · John Barr

    Prosecutors lobby Maryland lawmakers for harsher penalties in vehicular homicides (opens the original)

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    Even on a sun-splashed day of gardening in her Riverdale, Maryland, home, the memory of a snowy day in February can easily creep into Velma Hibbert’s mind. “It was terrible. It hit me so hard that I could not even work. For two weeks I couldn't get out of my bed," Hibbert said. On Feb. 18, 2015, Hibbert's sister, 49-year-old Vanessa Dixon, a mother of five from Jamaica, was waiting for the bus in a residential area of Silver Spring. It was just before noon when Dixon was struck and killed by a d

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