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Chef Duff Goldman of "Ace of Cakes" is taking away financial incentives that he says have made competitive cooking programs "TV-ified." "Cake decorators care about their art. It's more about the art than it is about winning a big check," he said. (Associated Press)

Duff Goldman of ‘Ace of Cakes’ bakes up 2 fresh Food Network shows, 1 with Valerie Bertinelli

Baltimore native Duff Goldman has taken a rather circuitous route to celebrity chef status. He initially studied history and philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, before heading west to the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena, California. But it was back home in his native city where fame found him thanks to Charm City Cakes, which was a prominent feature on Food Network's "Ace of Cakes."

January 11, 2015
Musician Andrae Crouch has died at age 72 after suffering a recent heart attack. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian, File)

Gospel pioneer Andrae Crouch dies at 72

Andrae Crouch, a gospel pioneer who brought church music into the mainstream, has died in California after suffering a recent heart attack, according to USA Today. He was 72.

January 8, 2015
A cannon battery marks where Union forces were entrenched during the Siege of Vicksburg, which rocked the Mississippi town between May 18 and July 4, 1863. (ERIC ALTHOFF/WASHINGTON TIMES)

Visit Mississippi: History, brews, blues flow in Mississippi

Before the Civil War Mississippi was the wealthiest state in the Union, but a century and a half of social change and economic turmoil have put the Magnolia State consistently dead-last in dimensions of health, wealth and education.

December 29, 2014
Chris Marvin (left) was an Army helicopter pilot before suffering numerous injuries in a 2004 crash on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Never one to go down without a fight, Mr. Marvin spent years recuperating and became managing director of Got Your 6, a nonprofit that works to inspire and assist other combat veterans like himself.

Chris Marvin uses #IAmUnbroken Twitter campaign to support veterans

Chris Marvin was a fourth-generation Army combat veteran. Proud of his country and his heritage, the Bloomington, Illinois, native responded to the call of duty, serving in Afghanistan as a Blackhawk pilot and platoon leader. Then, one fateful day in 2004, his helicopter crashed along the Pakistan border.

December 23, 2014
Chris Redd, with Maria Randazzo of the touring Second City troupe, said, "We don't hold back any punches. That's what I like. [The audience] can definitely expect the unexpected. It's a fun Christmas show." (Eric Althoff/The Washington Times)

Second City keeps the show fresh and exciting

The man in the front row of the Arlington Cinema & Drafthouse had been "marked" at the start of the show. For the concluding sketch, two cast members of the touring Second City comedy troupe pull the young man onstage — to his own embarrassment and the delight of his date.

December 16, 2014
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch and Sophie Hunter arrive for the British Independent Film Awards at Old Billingsgate Market in central London, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2014. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Imitation Game’

Benedict Cumberbatch is no stranger to assaying men of complex mental aptitude and anguish, be it Sherlock Holmes or Khan Noonien Singh in last year's "Star Trek Into Darkness." In "The Imitation Game," which opens in Washington, D.C., Friday, Mr. Cumberbatch portrays real-life British math professor Alan Turing, whose machine "Christopher" successfully broke the German Enigma code machine during World War II.

December 12, 2014
Demonstrators chant outside the 75th Police Precinct in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ferguson grand jury decision leads to nationwide protests

Protests broke out from coast to coast Monday night after a grand jury announced that Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Brown would not be indicted in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.

November 24, 2014
Jesse Moss will be Skypeing into a screening of “The Overnighters” at the West End Cinema in Washington on Saturday at 7:20 p.m. The film will also be showing at the Alamo Drafthouse in Loudon, Virginia, this weekend.

‘The Overnighters’ shines light on flawed pastor, fearful community

Documentarian Jesse Moss's new film, "The Overnighters," takes a hard look at a border state community coming to grips with an influx of immigrants seeking a better life. Not Texas or Arizona, nor any state along the Rio Grande. Rather, Mr. Moss' film is set in remote Williston, North Dakota.

November 14, 2014
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Military pilot killed in California jet crash

The crash of a Hawker Hunter MK-58 jet near Port Hueneme, California, resulted in the death of its pilot and severe injuries to a passenger, the Los Angeles Times is reporting.

October 29, 2014