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First on WTOP: Thousands fined for driving, parking in DC's bus lanes 03/13/2024 03:29pm • Thousands of people have received tickets for driving or parking in D.C.'s dedicated bus lanes, ever since a program that aims to make buses safer and more efficient advanced to its second phase earlier this year. As part of its Clear Lanes initiative, D.C.'s Department of Transportation started Waymo's robotaxi service expands into Los Angeles, starting free rides in parts of the city 03/13/2024 03:17pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Robotaxis will begin cruising the streets of Los Angeles on Thursday when Google spinoff Waymo starts offering free rides to some of the roughly 50,000 people who have signed up for its driverless ride-hailing service. Waymo is expanding into Los Angeles, the second largest U.S. Spring for Amish people in Pennsylvania means 'mud sales,' from pitchforks to pies 03/13/2024 03:13pm • GORDONVILLE, Pa. (AP) ��� A couple hundred used buggies ��� horses not included ��� were lined up and ready for the auctioneer's gavel last weekend when day began at the Gordonville mud sale, a local Amish tradition dating to the 1960s. Mud sales are country auctions that benefit volunteer fire d Connecticut officer suspended for 5 days after video shows him punching motorist while off duty 03/13/2024 02:44pm • MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) ��� A Connecticut police officer caught on camera punching a motorist who honked at him got suspended for five days and charged with assault but has been allowed to keep his job. Dashcam video obtained by WTIC-TV, FOX 61, through a freedom of information request shows Meriden Po Appeals court overturns convictions of former Georgia officer who fatally shot naked man 03/13/2024 02:11pm • ATLANTA (AP) ��� An appeals court has overturned the convictions of a former Georgia police officer who shot and killed an unarmed, naked man. Robert ���Chip��� Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when he killed 26-yea Elon Musk visits a Tesla plant near Berlin as production resumes after a suspected arson attack 03/13/2024 09:53am • GRUENHEIDE, Germany (AP) ��� Tesla CEO Elon Musk visited the electric car maker's first European plant on Wednesday as production resumed at the factory just outside Berlin, about a week after a suspected arson attack cut its power supply. Musk was expected at a ���team huddle��� with employees at t Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, Cody Johnson lead CMT Music Awards noms 03/13/2024 09:40am • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini, Lainey Wilson, Megan Moroney, and Cody Johnson are the leading nominees for the 2024 CMT Music Awards, celebrating the best in country music videos. On Wednesday, CMT announced the nominees for their fan-voted awards show, where the five artists are Edmunds: Which three-row EV is best? Edmunds compares the Kia EV9 and Rivian R1S 03/13/2024 07:43am • Shoppers thinking about buying a three-row SUV have plenty of options. Unless they want an electric SUV, that is. Fortunately, there are two models that hold a lot of promise: the Kia EV9 and the Rivian R1S. The EV9 is Kia���s latest and largest electric SUV. Think of it as a Kia Telluride that���s House GOP launches new probe of Jan. 6 and tries shifting blame for Capitol attack away from Trump 03/13/2024 07:07am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� House Republicans are launching a vast reinvestigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump, who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election. As Trump campa From El Salvador to the Senate: A local business owner lives the American dream 03/13/2024 06:03am • When Maria Duran first came to the United States in 1995 from El Salvador, she was seeking a better life, and she embarked on a journey that would ultimately help her reach her American dream. "I started making food at home and selling it outside," Duran said. Duran developed a passion for foo 'The Fall Guy,' a love letter to stunt performers, premieres at SXSW 03/13/2024 03:06am • AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ��� Coming nearly straight from the Oscars with a truck full of Kenergy, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt rolled into the South By Southwest Film and TV Festival to premiere ���The Fall Guy,��� an affectionate, action-fueled ode to stunt work and the dedicated professionals that throw Afghan refugee stands trial in first of 3 killings that shocked Albuquerque's Muslim community 03/12/2024 09:15pm • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) ��� Fear coursed through the Muslim community in New Mexico���s largest city over several days in the summer of 2022 as authorities scrambled to determine if race or religion might have been behind the ambush-style killings of three men from the community. It was not long befo Rio police release 17 hostages from a gunman on a bus, at least 2 wounded 03/12/2024 08:24pm • RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ��� Brazilian police said Tuesday they released 17 hostages from a gunman that took over a crowded bus for three hours in Rio de Janeiro and wounded at least two people. Rio police spokesman Col. Marcos Andrade told journalists all hostages aboard a bus parked at one of the city' Bald eagle rescued from car grill after collision in Maryland 03/12/2024 08:07pm • A Calvert County, Maryland, Animal Control officer swooped in to save a bald eagle after a collision Saturday. A driver alerted Animal Control early Saturday that they collided with an eagle on Route 4, and that the bird was still alive and trapped in their car's grill, according to a Facebook po The Best Places to Retire in Mexico 03/12/2024 08:00pm • Mexico is home to many breathtakingly beautiful places that offer a high quality of life at an affordable price, so it's no wonder that a growing number of Americans are heading south. An estimated 1.6 million U.S. citizens live in Mexico, and it consistently ranks as the top destination for U.S. tr