The pawpular fruit is expected at a lot of farmers markets this weekend, near the tail end of the season.

While supermarkets see crowds and empty shelves, some residents are turning to farm-to-home orders.

Bloomingdale residents are turning to the Metropolitan Police Department to protect them from a spate of attacks by fruit-throwing youths.

A truck carrying 70,000 pounds worth of pineapples and blueberries overturned on I-495 near Bethesda earlier this morning, snarling traffic and forcing workers into an impromptu (yet healthy) clean-up.

Did the completion of the last space shuttle mission make you a little nostalgic and sad that you couldn’t be an astronaut? Well, we found one way you can eat like one.

Finally legal and ready to party This week the Washington Post published an article featuring three local pastry chefs creating recipes around exotic fruits. The article was a nod to the recent change that allows the legal importation from Thailand of rambutan, litchis, longans, new varieties of mangoes, and the “queen of fruits”, the mangosteen. Many of these fruits were available fresh in Asian markets, but were often smuggled from Canada. The fruits will begin…