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1 dead, 6 hurt after crash on Capital Beltway, causing delays for morning commute 06/05/2024 02:04pm • Listen to WTOP for traffic updates on the 8s. A man is dead and six others hurt after a three-vehicle crash on the inner loop of the Capital Beltway near Georgia Avenue in Montgomery County, Maryland, early Wednesday. The overnight crash investigation prompted hourslong closures on the interst Hundreds show up to a pool party in a quiet Brandywine neighborhood 06/04/2024 11:38pm • Summertime means time by the pool, but some local pool parties have been getting rowdy. One in Brandywine, Maryland, on Saturday night ended with authorities on the scene. Around 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Charles County Sheriff's officials responded to Inheritance Drive for reports of "an except Police ID woman killed after stolen SUV crashes into DC building; suspect charged with murder, kidnapping, carjacking 06/04/2024 05:01pm • A woman is facing charges after police say she carjacked an SUV with a passenger inside from in front of a D.C. hospital and then crashed into a building Monday afternoon. The 55-year-old passenger, Leslie Marie Gaines, of Northeast D.C., died following the incident, police said. The suspect, 'Egregious behavior': Va. work crew threw bear carcass off overpass, near trail, animal rights group says 06/04/2024 04:30am • A work crew in Virginia illegally threw the body of a black bear that had been hit by a car off an overpass, which led to a woman's gruesome discovery of the carcass Friday, according to the Animal Welfare League of Arlington. A company contracted by the Virginia Department of Transportation has Catholic University unveils DC's largest solar farm 06/03/2024 06:41pm • The Catholic University of America, along with Rockville-based solar energy company Standard Solar, unveiled the city's largest, brand-new, 25-acre solar array located on the university's West Campus on Monday. At the solar array���s unveiling ceremony, representatives from Catholic, Standard Sol Neighbors react after rowdy Potomac, Md. pool party: 'Where was the county?' 06/03/2024 03:10pm • Mindy Farber and John Camp came home from dinner on Saturday, May 25, and found their quiet neighborhood packed with cars. ���I've never seen anything like it,��� Farber told WTOP. The house near them on Stapleford Hall Drive had become the site of a reportedly raucous pool party, with tic Md. motorcyclist dead after striking Tesla in Silver Spring, police say 06/03/2024 05:35am • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, said they are investigating an overnight collision in Silver Spring between a motorcycle and a Tesla that left one man dead early Saturday morning. Police said officers responded to the intersection of University Boulevard and Kerwin Road just after midnight There's no Q about this BBQ: 14th Beltway BBQ Showdown is Sunday 06/01/2024 04:19pm • Cue your barbies ��� the 14th Edition of The Beltway BBQ Showdown will be in Prince George's County on Sunday. The grub hub starts at noon at the Show Place Arena & Equestrian Center. This "art of barbequing" event is "nationally sanctioned, as a Master���s Series Level Event, by the Kansa X Ambassadors ready to rock 9:30 Club like 'Renegades,' leaving DC a little 'Unsteady' 05/31/2024 02:30pm • The alt-rock band X Ambassadors rocks the 9:30 Club in D.C. on Tuesday, June 4. WTOP caught up with lead singer and co-founder Sam Harris to get hyped. "We've played the 9:30 Club so many times, I've eaten so many of those delicious cupcakes, I can't wait to come back and have some more," Har 'World famous' Northern Virginia trail celebrates 50th anniversary 05/31/2024 11:23am • Saturday is National Trails Day, and one of the most popular trails in our area is celebrating a big anniversary. The Washington and Old Dominion Trail, runs 45 miles from Purcellville in Loudoun County to Arlington County and turns 50 in September. "No other feature more defines Northern Virg WTOP rides along with one of DC���s boot crews looking for 'scofflaw' vehicles 05/31/2024 05:17am • The sun was still rising one morning when a big, white traffic enforcement van with license plate readers on top and a computer on the dash left a D.C. Department of Public Works yard in Northeast and started driving. Within a few minutes, not far from Union Station, a computer started buzzing, lett 'I am so honored': Fairfax Co. Fire and Rescue appoints its first Black female battalion chief 05/30/2024 08:20pm • A firefighter has made history at the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue with her recent appointment as battalion chief. ���I am so honored to be the first Black female battalion chief," said Battalion Chief Felicia Barnes. Barnes, a Fairfax County native and Mount Vernon High School graduate, sai Second Virginia man charged in fatal shooting during ���car meet��� at Prince George���s Co. shopping center 05/30/2024 06:02pm • A second suspect is now under arrest in connection with a deadly shooting during a "car meet" at a Prince George's County shopping center on May 19. Caimon Harrel, 21, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was taken into custody Thursday at his home in Prince William County. He is charged with first and se How your relationship with your car radio will evolve in the future 05/29/2024 01:11pm • As Congress debates a bill that would require new cars to be built with AM radios, we're getting a sense of how new technology will affect the relationship between a commuter and their car radio. Some things won't change, says Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association. "Audio is DC isn���t tracking youth in both child welfare and juvenile justice systems, report says 05/29/2024 06:20am • D.C. isn���t monitoring young people involved with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, leaving some of the District's most vulnerable youth without access to essential services, according to a report from the city���s auditor. The report, produced with help from the Council for C