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5 Things You Need to Know Today: Aug. 15
A rainy day, a congressman's big chance and a tax-free week.
- The National Weather Service is predicting a rainy day, with a high of 82 and a 70 percent chance of precipitation. Same goes for tonight, when the low will reach 64 degrees.
- Rep. Chris Van Hollen, a Kensington Democrat, to Congress's so-called "super committee" last week, and our columnist said this could be the Maryland leader's chance to shine.
- It's a tax-free week in Maryland, and qualifying clothes and footwear will be exempt from the state's 6 percent sales tax through Saturday. We'll have more on this later this morning.
- We've got on the case of the North Bethesda woman who went missing in Aruba. Over the weekend, of a Gaithersburg man detained in the disappearance.
- Miss any of last week's news in Kensington? Well, we went ahead and rounded up for you.
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