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PHOTOS: Thunderstorms whack DC area, toppling trees and causing 200K outages 06/20/2025 01:46pm • Powerful storms whacked the D.C. area on Thursday, toppling trees onto cars, vehicles and power lines. .in-article-vertical-video {float: right; padding-left: 10px;width:300px !important;}@media only screen and (max-width: 767px) {.in-article-vertical-video {float: none; padding-left: 20px;}}.in-a 'Wall of wind and rain': Thunderstorms in DC area bring in 60-plus mph winds, downed trees 06/20/2025 11:42am • Listen live to WTOP online and on 103.5 FM for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Tens of thousands of D.C.-area residents spent their Thursday evening without power after quick-moving storms poured down on the region, bringing powerful winds that toppled trees and caused damage to severa 'You're going to sweat almost instantly': Heat wave zeroes in on DC region 06/20/2025 09:56am • It���s officially summer and the D.C. region's first heat wave is forecast to start on Sunday, just days after damaging storms toppled trees onto homes and cars in the area. Temperatures are expected to reach 100 degrees next week, but the humidity will make it feel even hotter. ���We're g Car Review: Toyota���s biggest Highlander soldiers on with its grandeur 06/20/2025 05:34am • This hot-selling three-row SUV just might be right for you. The Toyota Grand Highlander, which is now in its sophomore season, is proving to be a very popular choice. We drove the Grand Highlander in the 2024 model year, and it’s worth having us look at again, because it’s simply a smash Prince William Co. plans to connect trails by going under, rather than over busy stretch of US 15 06/19/2025 06:37pm • Less than a year after a proposed safety improvement project that would have added a pedestrian bridge over a stretch of U.S. 15 near Battlefield High School, where two middle school students were killed stalled, the Prince William Board of County Supervisors is set to move forward with another Who will have the 2025 song of the summer? We offer some predictions 06/19/2025 12:13pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� What makes a great song of the summer? Is it an up-tempo pop banger? Something with an earworm chorus? Does it need to feature the words ���summer,��� ���sunshine,��� or another synonym ��� ���California��� ��� in the title? How could anyone attempt a song of the summer after the l Man who plotted mass shooting at church in Haymarket sentenced to 25 years in prison 06/19/2025 06:46am • A Falls Church man was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for his attempt to carry out a mass shooting at a Haymarket church in 2023. In March, a federal jury convicted Rui Jiang, 36, of attempting to obstruct the congregants of the Park Valley Church in the free exercise of their religiou Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted 2023 mass shooting at Prince William Co. church 06/19/2025 06:23am • A man from Virginia was sentenced to 25 years in prison for posting online threats and then traveling to a church with the intent to carry out a mass shooting in 2023, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Rui Jiang, 36, of Fairfax, was convicted by a jury in March aft Electric shock: Maryland has not joined suit against Trump over EV sales rules 06/18/2025 11:17am • Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown has filed or signed onto��two dozen lawsuits��by states challenging Trump administration actions. But not this one. When California��filed suit��last week to defend its ability to set tougher vehicle emission standards ��� standards aimed at speeding ado Zoey���s Law aims to prevent another fatal crash caused by a pursuit in Prince George's Co. 06/17/2025 05:01pm • It happened four times between Feb. 1 and March 21 of this year ��� a police pursuit of someone who ran from authorities ended with someone dying in Prince George���s County, Maryland. Flanked by grieving relatives of one such victim, Prince George���s County Council member Krystal Oriadha introduce Moore administration officials try to put human services secretary's DUI charge behind them 06/17/2025 01:50pm • Moore administration officials were trying to put DUI charges against Human Services Secretary Rafael L��pez in the past, with L��pez and the governor both saying the secretary has taken ���full responsibility��� for his actions. They were responding to reports that��L��pez was charged��in Washin Maryland man killed by bullets fired from another vehicle on I-70 in Frederick Co. 06/16/2025 08:44pm • A vehicle carrying six people on Interstate 70 on Saturday night in Frederick County, Maryland, was hit with a barrage of bullets that came from another vehicle, resulting in the death of one passenger, according to Maryland State Police. Eduardo Alexander Alvarado Urrea, 20, of Silver Spring, wa How automakers are invisibly raising costs for buyers 06/16/2025 12:51pm • The tariff impact on new vehicles imported to the U.S. probably won���t show up on dealer lots until this summer. But automakers are finding invisible ways to raise some costs for buyers right now. Automobile review and price comparison site Edmunds said incentives are where dealers are quietly p Quick to break, hard to fix: Meet the Metro worker ensuring your bus doesn���t stall on the way to work 06/16/2025 04:29am • In 1999, Shane Lonesome took her car into her uncle���s auto repair shop in Baltimore because of an issue with the muffler. It didn���t take them very long to fix, and quickly, Lonesome became intrigued. She was curious about how the process could unfold so fast, and wanted to learn about how the What we know about the Minnesota shooting suspect 06/15/2025 03:26pm • (CNN) ��� The man sought by authorities for allegedly shooting Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota on Saturday while impersonating a police officer worked for a security company that advertised a fleet of ���police type vehicles,��� and other equipment that could potentially have aided him in appearin