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It's the tooth: Tooth fairy can be pricey 06/18/2013 03:31pm • WASHINGTON -- It's exciting and sweet when a kid loses a tooth, but it can be expensive for the tooth fairy. For parents who received a quarter or dollar under their pillow for a displaced baby tooth, the debate over how much the tooth fairy should leave can be heated -- even within families. Morning Notes 06/03/2013 08:55am • Woman Attacked on Four Mile Run Trail — A man with a knife attacked a woman who was walking alone on the Four Mile Run Trail on Saturday morning. The woman suffered “minor, non-life threatening” injures. The suspect is still at large. Yorktown Falls in Soccer Championship — Hurricane season likely to be active 05/30/2013 05:34pm • WASHINGTON - Cars were crushed, homes were split in two by downed trees, and power outages left Washington area residents sweating in the dark for days. Last year's derecho, an unusual storm system, left the area with just hours to prepare. What can we expect when hurricane season hits this year Solar-pedal vehicle draws stares, questions 05/24/2013 11:23am • FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Most people who see the lime-green ELF hybrid vehicle have the same question: What is it? Parked in the Idylwood Plaza shopping center, the 5-foot-tall, 8-foot-long eye- catcher prompted passersby to stop, look, touch, and in most cases, smile. "This is the ELF -- it's an elec Which traffic tickets raise your insurance rates the most? 05/14/2013 04:49am • WASHINGTON - There's a certain sense of horror when you see the familiar flash of red and blue lights in your rear-view mirror. When everything is said and done and you have a ticket in hand, there's another horror to realize: Your insurance might go up. Insurance.com analyzed more than 490,000 Cost to maintain a car rises 04/19/2013 01:16am • WASHINGTON - The cost to own and operate a car is up just over a penny per mile over last year, according to AAA. According to the automotive club, it cost, on average, $9,122 a year to drive a car. That's almost 61 cents a mile, based on driving 15,000 miles a year. AAA's 2013 Your Driving Cost When is it time to retire your driver's license? 03/28/2013 05:43pm • John Aaron, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Two high-profile incidents are raising awareness about seniors and driving. Earlier this month, an 88-year-old woman wound up taking the wrong ramp onto Route 50 in Annapolis, Md., driving eastbound in the westbound lanes. Police say she clipped three cars and ap U.S. attorney dropping case against Uber driver 03/14/2013 02:01pm • Update - Friday - 4/5/2013, 5:15 a.m. ET WASHINGTON - The U.S. attorney's office in D.C. has stopped an investigation into an Uber car service driver accused of raping a customer and is not prosecuting the case against him. The Washington Post reports statements by the alleged victim and susp Deer Dilemma Part 5: Car crashes and feeding the hungry 03/06/2013 03:46am • Editor's note: This is the fifth installment of "Deer Dilemma," a WTOP series about the controversial deer hunt planned for Rock Creek Park. Michelle Basch, wtop.com WASHINGTON - Those living in the region have likely been involved in a deer-car crash or know someone who has. As WTOP Ga Accokeek family looks to community after fire 03/04/2013 02:55am • Thomas Warren, wtop.com ACCOKEEK, Md. - Pat Ellis lived in her Accokeek, Md., home for 29 years. As quick as a finger snap, it was gone in the flames of a Feb. 23 fire. "You got your car, you got your kids, you got your dogs, but the whole life in that house is now gone," says Ellis. Luckily, D.C. ranks 1st in car affordability 02/26/2013 10:57am • Ever see the rows of German luxury cars lining the streets in D.C. and wonder how all those people can afford them? As it turns out, Washington-area residents have a lot more money to spend on their cars than people do in any other major U.S. city. A report released Tuesday by Interest.com, a Bankr Woman drives car into Glenn Dale home 02/19/2013 07:11pm • WASHINGTON - A woman drove a car into a home in Prince George's County Tuesday afternoon. Prince George's County police say the woman was going down a hill and hit the gas instead of the brake when she came to a stop sign. Her car barreled into a home in the 10800 block of Maiden Drive in Glenn Going car-free could save nearly $10K in D.C. 01/30/2013 12:21pm • Using public transportation instead of driving could save commuters an average of $10,502 a year, according to the American Public Transportation Association.Commuters in Washington could save $9,700 annually, while in Baltimore the average savings is $9,939, according to a monthly report release County Wants Out Of ‘Overlapping’ Trespass Towing Law 01/24/2013 12:35pm • Montgomery County wants to opt out of a recent state trespass towing law officials say confuses its already stringent regulations against the practice. But Eric Friedman, director of the county’s Office of Consumer Protection, told a County Council Committee today the state legislator who s Man gets decade sentence for Frederick-to-Thurmont chase 01/10/2013 12:08pm • A 28-year-old man who led police on a chase from Frederick to Thurmont last summer, injuring two, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday.Roy Ellsworth Summers II, of the 8000 block of Hollow Reed Court, was sentenced on two counts of second-degree assault and one count of driving while impai