Search

���We want to keep people alive���: How laws across DC region can help prevent fatal overdoses 05/15/2023 05:08am • This article is part of the WTOP series, ���Facing Down Fentanyl: Teens Confront Drug Danger.��� Even as rates of fatal drug overdoses remain alarmingly high, experts say the vast majority of deaths are preventable. More than three out of five overdose deaths involved at least one instance in Car Review: Audi's Q7 brings power and luxury in a 3-row SUV 05/15/2023 03:31am • The Audi Q7 is a luxury three row SUV with looks that still fresh and updated look at even after a few years on the market. (WTOP / Mike Parris) The Audi Q7 was the first SUV by the company back in 2006 and it has been popular ride ever since. The stylish SUV combined luxury and utility in a handsom Location for pedestrian bridge linking Crystal City to Reagan National Airport OK'd by Arlington Co. Board 05/14/2023 01:01pm • Rendering of the proposed bridge that would link a future VRE station in Crystal City to Terminal 2 at Ronald Reagan National Airport. (Courtesy Arlington County) The Arlington County Board in Virginia has approved a location and a preliminary budget for the pedestrian bridge coming to Crystal C Md. father, son convicted in drug trafficking conspiracy 05/13/2023 03:36pm • A federal jury convicted a Laurel, Maryland, man and his son Thursday on drug-related charges, following a nine-day trial focused on a series of events involving their now-deceased marijuana supplier. Scott Williams, 45, and Taeyan Williams, 26, were convicted of a drug trafficking conspiracy and Strasburg man leads Fauquier deputies on pursuit, hitting a speed of 130 mph 05/13/2023 12:22pm • This article was written by WTOP���s news partner,��InsideNoVa.com, and republished with permission. Sign up for��InsideNoVa.com���s free email subscription today. A Strasburg man was arrested Thursday after attempting to elude Fauquier County sheriff���s deputy while hitting a speed of 130 mph. A Guilty verdict for man who shot woman reading Bible in her Md. home 05/12/2023 08:14pm • On Friday, a Prince George's County jury found a man from Bowie, Maryland, guilty of second degree murder in the shooting of a grandmother in Hyattsville on Jan. 1, 2020. According to the State's Attorney's Office, Sammie Warren, 26, shot into the home of 56-year-old Filomena Vasquez while she wa Man who attacked officer inside patrol vehicle shot and killed by Fairfax Co. police, chief says 05/12/2023 05:57am • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said one of their officers shot and killed a man in a McDonald's parking lot after that man assaulted another officer and stole his service weapon while inside a police cruiser. The shooting happened near the intersection of Route 1 and N. Kings Highway, in the Shopping rules to slash impulse spending 05/11/2023 09:34am • Whether you're shopping for small things like groceries or big things like a new car, it's easy to get carried away and end up spending more than you intended. That's especially true when stores and websites are designed to encourage you to spend as much as possible, even as inflation is pushing Friendship bracelets, Tay-gating: Inside Taylor Swift fans' plans ahead of her closest concert to DC 05/11/2023 05:02am • Many D.C.-area Taylor Swift fans were disappointed when the singer didn���t include any dates in the D.C. region on her new tour, but thousands are "swiftly" heading north to see the next-closest shows this weekend. Swift is playing three-hour-long sets on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at L Unseen and unheard: Unique Maryland high school aims to help students beat addiction 05/11/2023 04:34am • This article is part of the WTOP series, "Facing Down Fentanyl: Teens Confront Drug Danger." Getting someone with a substance-use disorder into a recovery program is a difficult process, even if that person wants help ��� in part because the list of those programs is a short one. The process Cherish the final summer at Union Market Drive-In before condos take over parking lot 05/11/2023 04:10am • Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi" famously lamented that "they paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Jon Gann, founder of the Drive-In at Union Market, says condos are about to take over his movie parking lot. "This is the 11th year of the drive-in and I fear it might be the last, Nearly 9K people experiencing homelessness in DC region, report finds 05/10/2023 06:03pm • Living in shelters, on the streets or in parks, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the D.C. region has increased this year compared to last. But the trends over the past five years offer some encouragement, according to the latest report from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Group documents hundreds of cases where cars are stolen with kids inside 05/10/2023 04:44pm • There have been hundreds of instances nationwide over the past couple of years involving vehicles that were stolen with children inside, according to the nonprofit child safety organization "Kids and Car Safety." The group said there have been 79 children left in vehicles that were stolen so Teen hit by car in Montgomery Co., has life-threatening injuries 05/10/2023 12:09am • A teenager was crossing Wisteria Drive after Great Seneca Highway in Germantown, Maryland, when he was hit by a car Tuesday night. The 15-year-old male was hit by the car around 9 p.m., Montgomery County police said. The teen was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries. Police said Pregnant DC postal worker charged with shooting rival in domestic dispute 05/09/2023 09:49pm • A little girl was the only witness when a pregnant postal worker shot a woman in a parking lot, D.C. police said. Davida Johnson faces several charges, including assault with a dangerous weapon, possession of a firearm during a crime of violence and assault with significant bodily injury while ar