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Debby downgraded to tropical depression as DC region sees damaging winds, heavy rain, isolated flooding 08/08/2024 07:44pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Tropical Storm Debby was downgraded to a tropical depression Thursday afternoon and it's expected to continue weakening as it moves north this week — but not before it rolls through the D.C. area bringing the risk of flooding and th Car Review: BMW i5 M60 is like an all-electric M5 with sports car performance 08/05/2024 06:37am • The new BMW i5 M60 is an all-electric midsize luxury sedan. (WTOP/Mike Parris) The “Ultimate Driving Machine” is moving to the future with all-electric vehicles and the i5 M60 looks to carry on the tradition with the vaunted M division making sports cars that just happened to be a midsiz Virginia’s school bus driver vacancy rate improves 08/05/2024 12:36am • Virginia’s school bus driver vacancy rate has decreased by five percent over the past three school years, according to the Virginia Department of Education. After the legislature amended its reporting requirements, the agency started collecting bus driver vacancy data two years ago. Factors lik Federal government awards $150 million to reduce emissions in Virginia 08/02/2024 01:03pm • Virginia is the recipient of two federal grants to capture climate changing emissions, one focused on methane and another on promoting natural solutions to capture carbon. The funds, about $150 million, are from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant progra Are you cooling your car off the wrong way? Probably, according to AAA 08/02/2024 01:02pm • On scorching hot days, we're all thankful to have cars with air condition. The problem is, if your car has been outside all day, it's even hotter on the inside. And with our penchant for bigger cars these days, if you think the inside feels hotter than you remember it in your older, smaller v 2 police officers shoot child sexual assault suspect inside Frederick hotel 08/02/2024 10:28am • Two police officers, including a Frederick County, Maryland, deputy, shot a man believed to be wanted for child sexual assault and abuse. The shooting took place just before 1 a.m. Friday at a Super 8 hotel on Monocacy Boulevard. The Frederick County Sheriff's Office told WTOP it received info Maryland couple first in US to use electric Ford truck to power their home 08/02/2024 09:30am • A Howard County, Maryland, couple is the first in the nation to use their Ford electric truck to power their home on a set schedule. One of the reasons that Brian Foreman and his wife bought a Ford F-150 Lightning truck was so they could use it as a backup energy source if their home was experien F1 Arcade with race car simulators and caviar service is rolling into Union Market 08/01/2024 12:11pm • London-based F1 Arcade will open its second U.S. location at D.C.'s Union Market this fall, with 83 Formula 1 race car simulators, private rooms, a 42-foot bar and a high end menu that includes seafood towers, caviar service and Wagyu beef sliders. The first U.S. location for F1 Arcade opened in From bugs to trees, a Md. arborist’s tips for spotting invasive species in your backyard 08/01/2024 10:05am • Some bugs are OK, others are not, and the same goes for trees growing in the D.C. region. What should you be on the lookout for? During a walk-through at Patuxent River State Park, Davey Tree Expert Company arborist Lou Meyer points to an ailanthus tree, also known as the tree of heaven, and Cruise the Potomac River in a Bugatti or Mercedes — the Jet Ski version 08/01/2024 08:59am • .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-article-vertical-video connatix_video_caption {width: 300px !important;}#tnvbNcaMHUrl {margin-bottom: 1 Montgomery Co. police, Hyundai host anti-theft car clinic 08/01/2024 04:25am • If you own one the Hyundai vehicles that's easy to steal — Montgomery County police and the car company have some help for you. They are teaming up for an event next weekend at Paint Branch High School. You can receive a software update for your car and a steering wheel lock to help prevent Cameras could be coming for loud cars with modified exhausts in Montgomery Co. 07/31/2024 09:34am • Do you get annoyed when a really loud car revs its engine as it goes by, nearly deafening you? Montgomery County, Maryland, is looking to cut down on that excessive noise caused by modified mufflers through noise capturing cameras. “These modified mufflers interrupt sleep, they create noise lev Six sought in Montgomery County attack against 4 members of homeless community 07/30/2024 06:22pm • Three men and one woman who are homeless were assaulted in Montgomery County, Maryland, and police have released video of the six people suspected in the attack. It happened July 16 in the 800 block of Ellsworth Drive near Veterans Plaza in Silver Spring. Just before 4:45 a.m., Montgomery Matt About Town: The need for speed! Va. teen chases dream of becoming an F1 or IndyCar driver 07/30/2024 04:56am • .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-article-vertical-video connatix_video_caption {width: 300px !important;}#tnvbNcaMHUrl {margin-bottom: 1 Virginia free clinics hope for funding boost from the state 07/29/2024 01:22pm • Jobs come and go, but free health clinics have been something Florence Roane-Bell could always count on. The lifelong Richmond resident has tapped into the Health Brigade — formerly known as the Fan Free Clinic — when she needed it. It was there that she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia (after