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Car Review: Genesis steps up its game with the 2023 Genesis G90 3.5T E-Supercharger 11/14/2022 05:35am • It used to be that choosing a Genesis model meant getting a good luxury car for a lower price than the rivals, but the experience wasn’t as rewarding. For 2023, Genesis goes from playing nice to a full-on assault against the established large luxury sedans. Gone are the days of the large but vanil Amid a major federal investment in electric cars, it’s time for states to step up, advocates say 11/13/2022 12:45pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. For years, electric vehicles posed something of a chicken-and-egg problem. Mass adoption, seen as critical to cutting the largest sing Virginia high school remembers student athlete killed in car crash 11/12/2022 06:06pm • A student-athlete at Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington, Virginia, was killed in a car crash in the Rock Spring neighborhood on Friday. Another teen is facing charges for their involvement in the fatal crash. Braylon Meade — a senior basketball and football player, as well as an academ Baltimore plan bans squeegee workers from some high-traffic areas 11/11/2022 09:16am • Panhandlers known as "squeegee workers" have been common in Baltimore since the 1980s. Now a new plan aims to stop them from cleaning drivers' windshields for cash in certain high-traffic parts of the city. A pilot program will be launched in six areas of Baltimore, including Conway and Light Record Veterans Day snowstorm anniversary marked with Nicole downpours, storms 11/10/2022 11:49pm • Thirty-five years ago — just as the D.C. area is bracing for tropical storms from former Hurricane Nicole on Friday — winter was knocking on our door unexpectedly. Similar to this month, November 1987 began with very warm weather. The high temperature reached 77 degrees on Nov. 4, and the wea Small cars from Subaru, Kia are flops in new crash test 11/10/2022 09:36am • Some small cars have come up short in a tough new crash test. Subaru’s Crosstrek and Impreza models, along with the Kia Forte, got poor ratings in an updated side crash test from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The poor ratings mean that “either the structure did not hold u Oakton homeowner shoots, kills intruder 11/10/2022 08:47am • An Oakton, Virginia, homeowner shot and killed a man in what police are calling self-defense after the man attacked the homeowner with a large landscaping rock inside his home Wednesday night. "We're fortunate nobody else was injured by this incident. There are two children that were inside the h Fredericksburg man guilty in COVID unemployment benefits scheme that netted up to $3.5M 11/10/2022 07:35am • A Fredericksburg, Virginia, man pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge for his part in a scheme where he and others obtained somewhere between $550,000 and $3.5 million in pandemic unemployment benefits. The scheme involved mail theft, bank fraud and pandemic unemployment benefits. Veterans Day 2022: Freebies and other specials 11/09/2022 05:50pm • Veterans Day is Friday, Nov. 11, and a number of discounts, specials and freebies will be offered that day to honor the men and women in uniform who have served their nation. Here are just a few Veterans Day offers, and note that some will continue through the upcoming weekend. Also note that Car hits and kills Gaithersburg couple on their way to vote 11/09/2022 02:21pm • A Gaithersburg, Maryland, couple was hit and killed on Election Day as they walked to their polling site at a local elementary school.  At around 7:20 a.m., just after polls opened in Montgomery County, 70-year-old Ana Margarita Ortiz and her husband, 65-year-old Miguel Antonio Ortiz, were crossi DC police make arrests in shooting that killed 15-year-old in Northeast 11/08/2022 05:19pm • D.C. police have made arrests in connection to a shooting that killed a 15-year-old in Northeast last month. Andre Robertson Jr., of Northeast D.C., was shot and killed while sitting on a porch near Kelly Miller Middle and Aiton Elementary schools after 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 13. His father was als 2 pedestrians killed in crash near Gaithersburg polling site 11/08/2022 12:00pm • Two people have died after being struck by a car at a polling location Tuesday morning in Montgomery County, Maryland. The police said the crash happened around 7:20 a.m. as the two were at a crosswalk on School Drive near Muddy Branch Drive and Fields Road Elementary School in Gaithersburg. Overturned cement mixer blocks traffic on Inner Loop 11/07/2022 08:30pm • An overturned cement mixer on the Beltway. (Courtesy Montgomery County Fire and Rescue/Pete Piringer) An overturned cement mixer stopped traffic on the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway near the University Boulevard exit Monday afternoon. Two right lanes reopened about 5 p.m., and all lanes r DC police seek car linked to fatal shooting of teenager near Washington Convention Center 11/07/2022 05:34pm • Police say a person fired at a group of people in Northwest D.C., killing a teenage boy. (Courtesy D.C. police) Police in D.C. are looking for a car they say is linked to the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy last Friday. Makai Green, of Northwest, died following the shooting in an alley on Car Review: 2023 Honda CR-V is generational talent 11/07/2022 05:59am • Brian Armstead, WTOP Contributor Now in its 6th generation, and wearing the title of Honda’s most popular SUV, the all-new 2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid takes the Compact Utility Vehicle (CUV) to the proverbial “next level” by offering all of the comfort, utility and safety that young, on