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What you need to know about getting around DC during Capital Pride this weekend 06/09/2023 04:41pm • Over 600,000 people are expected to descend on D.C. this weekend to celebrate Capital Pride, which could lead to an increase in traffic and Metro ridership. Here's what you need to know about the events and some tips for getting around. Events The Capital Pride Parade will take place Saturday, Former Prince George's Co. police lieutenant awarded $1.1M after arrest for talking on cellphone 06/09/2023 04:21pm • The hands-free cellphone law for drivers in Maryland doesn't apply to law enforcement. So, after a state trooper pulled a Prince George's County officer over near National Harbor for being on her phone, she filed suit. And a jury just awarded her more than $1 million. In May 2019, Lieutenant Alit DC-area leaders said stay indoors, avoid unhealthy smog. What should homeless people do? 06/09/2023 01:19pm • A man offers drivers water and cool beverages for change while he stood in the smog in Northwest D.C. (WTOP/Ivy Lyons) During the Wednesday morning commute through haze along Georgia Avenue in Northwest D.C., the region's drivers smelled smoke in the air and kept on moving. Alan stayed put. A 'I'm making everybody proud, especially my daughter': Fairfax Co. high school senior gives grad speech 06/08/2023 09:45pm • Anyeli Salguero walked across the stage on Wednesday alongside her Bryant High School classmates. “I know we all have different stories, but I know we all have one thing in common," Salguero said in a graduation speech at the Fairfax County High School. "And that is today, we can say we made it These cars were abandoned at DC-area airports. Auto tech students in Fairfax Co. went to work fixing them up 06/08/2023 12:52pm • Some local high school students are learning valuable skills that they can take into the workforce after graduating. The students are part of auto tech at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Fairfax County. Leith Mosmar, a junior at the school, says that through the program, he’s learned skill Funeral company owner fatally shot pallbearer before burial service for 10-year-old shooting victim, police say 06/07/2023 06:59pm • The owner of a funeral company has been charged with murder after police say he shot and killed a pallbearer before a burial service for a 10-year-old girl at a Prince George's County, Maryland, cemetery. Wilson Chavis, 48, of Hughesville, has been charged with first- and second-degree murder in Drive for Uber? DC wants to give you a free dash cam 06/07/2023 05:08pm • In an effort to put more cameras on the streets to help police investigate crimes, D.C. leaders will be giving away free dash cameras to people who spend a lot of time behind the wheel. "It is focused on public safety," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser said Wednesday. The cameras will be handed out la Police release more details about fatal I-395 crash caught on video 06/07/2023 02:59pm • D.C. police have identified the driver who was killed in a dramatic crash on Interstate 395 this weekend that was caught on video. Police said Van Thomas Lee, 28, was driving a Hyundai Elantra around 7:45 p.m. Sunday when it careened off an overpass and landed in oncoming traffic below. Dashca Court sees body camera footage from officer who pulled over drunken driver charged in Rock Creek Parkway crash 06/06/2023 10:59pm • Questions remain over how a driver with three drunken driving convictions in D.C. was able to hang onto her license before she got behind the wheel in March and crashed into a ride-share vehicle, killing three people. Nakita Walker, 43, was in D.C. Superior Court on Tuesday for a preliminary hear Police: 1 killed in shooting during service at Prince George's Co. cemetery 06/06/2023 04:10pm • Police in Prince George's County, Maryland, said a man is dead and a woman is in the hospital after a shooting during a funeral service at Washington National Cemetery on Suitland Road. Police said the shooting happened about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday. At the time of the shooting, a burial service was ta Woman was killed, dismembered by daughter and granddaughter, prosecutors say 06/05/2023 05:07pm • Words such as "mind boggling" were used in court to describe a murder that the chief of the unit that prosecutes many of the worst crimes in Prince George's County, Maryland, described as among the worst murders in memory. At the moment, 71-year-old Margaret Craig, of the Landover area, is still Montgomery Co. police searching for suspect after teenager shot at Silver Spring block party 06/05/2023 03:30pm • Police in Montgomery County, Maryland, are looking for suspects after a 16-year-old girl was shot at a block party in Silver Spring on Friday night. According to police, a group of people were at a block party on the 11400 block of Stewart Lane, near White Oak Community Center, when a dark sedan Car Review: The 2023 Hyundai IONIQ 6 is another Tesla killer 06/05/2023 05:45am • Brian Armstead, Special Contributor As auto manufacturers race toward partial or full electrification, one brand is building an electric vehicle arsenal that could catapult it ahead of the current number one EV brand: Tesla. Hyundai and their new 2023 IONIQ 6 is an affordable, well contented, techno WTOP wins 5 first place awards from Chesapeake AP Broadcasters Association 06/04/2023 03:36pm • It was a big night for WTOP at the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards convention held in Ocean City, Maryland, on Saturday. In all, 27 news organizations in D.C., Maryland and Delaware submitted 314 entries for the annual contest. You can check out the full list of the wi 3 dead after car plunges into Frederick Co. quarry 06/04/2023 12:44pm • Three people are dead after a car was found in the bottom of a quarry Sunday morning in Frederick County, Maryland. The Frederick County Sheriff's Office said that, shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, deputies were called to the area of Clemonsville and Peter Shriner roads for a report of a car cr