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The Smithsonian hopes to get the public’s help plotting out D.C. musical sounds and history by using an online interactive map. The D.C. Music Map was launched last month during “D.C.: The Social ...

Minneapolis is making crime information more current and easy to access. A new crime-tracking map that police are making available gives users daily updates and alerts on their computers or ...