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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 Maryland woman dead after being struck by her own vehicle in Virginia carjacking 07/29/2024 08:34am • A Montgomery County, Maryland woman was carjacked, then hit and killed by her own vehicle, in Loudoun County, Virginia, Sunday. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office said deputies were called to the Towncenter Plaza at Sterling, along Route 7, for the report of a carjacking, at about 11:40 a.m. Car Review: The Hyundai Ioniq 6 is a stylish sedan with an eye-catching exterior and upscale interior 07/29/2024 05:53am • There are not many straight and upright body panels and it looks like the Ioniq 6 has been shaped by the wind, with big curves and hatchback styling. (WTOP/Mike Parris) The Ioniq 6 has a special look that has big doses of future, with a modern aerodynamic-shaped body that really stands out. Its long Prince George's Co. hopeful on new law cracking down on street racing, illegal car rallies 07/29/2024 05:07am • Community leaders in Prince George's County are hopeful over a new Maryland law that cracks down on illegal street racing and car rallies that have been increasing over the last few years. Six Maryland men arrested last week are charged under a new law, barely 2 months old, that stiffens penaltie DC man sentenced to 18 years for carjacking, shooting driver 07/28/2024 02:25pm • A judge has sentenced a D.C. man to 18 years in prison after he was convicted by a jury in March of armed carjacking, assault and related charges. Tayvon Owens, 31, was sentenced for shooting and carjacking a woman on Newton Street NW in December of 2022, according to a news release from the U.S.