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2 DC police officers involved in moped driver's death reinstated after Trump pardons 03/04/2025 01:05pm • Two D.C. police officers involved in a pursuit that left a moped driver dead are now back on the force after being pardoned by President Donald Trump in January. Lt. Andrew Zabavsky and officer Terence Sutton had been convicted on charges related to a 2020 pursuit that ended with 20-year-old Karo Q&A: How will the latest tariffs impact the auto industry? 03/04/2025 12:31pm • After a one-month delay, President Donald Trump has enacted the United States' most aggressive tariffs in nearly 100 years. These tariffs target some of the U.S.'s top trade partners. On Tuesday, Trump put 25% tariffs against Canada and Mexico into effect and doubled the tariffs he imposed agains Car Review: Nissan Altima gains optional AWD for 2025 making the midsize sedan relevant again 03/03/2025 04:49am • The Nissan Altima stays relevant in the midsize sedan class with added AWD for 2025. (WTOP/Mike Parris) The Altima sedan has been a stalwart for Nissan for over a decade, and in 2025, it will add capability to help boost sales in the crossover-dominated marketplace. Nissan still believes in the mids Md. man who scammed 74-year-old out of $1M in gold bar scheme pleads guilty 02/28/2025 04:24pm • An Owings Mills, Maryland, man pleaded guilty to theft and multiple charges Wednesday after scamming a Montgomery County man into converting more than $1 million into gold bars and handing them over to fraudsters. Vipul Thakkar, 53, admitted in Montgomery County Circuit Court to targeting elderl Prince William Co. introduces digital hub to support fired federal workers 02/27/2025 04:55pm • Prince William County is rolling out a digital hub to support government workers who have lost their jobs as a result of recent changes to the federal workforce. The website includes information about job opportunities, workforce training, housing help and mental health resources. Supervisor V New 'StrongHer Generation' thrift store aims to provide safe, stable housing for women and their children 02/27/2025 01:04pm • Saturday marks the opening of the StrongHer Generation thrift store in Gainesville, Virginia — part of the Virginia Women and Family Support Center's effort to provide safe, stable, long-term housing for women and their children. "The fastest growing homeless population in the United States How Virginia Tech is revolutionizing tire testing 02/27/2025 11:44am • A company affiliated with Virginia Tech has invented a new tire testing material that replicates real asphalt. Most tire testing is done on a flat-trac machine, in which a metal belt spins underneath a tire secured to the testing machine, said Alex O'Neill, product and technical solutions manager DC launching pilot to cut cost of camera ticket for low-income residents 02/27/2025 04:26am • Low-income D.C. drivers will soon be able to apply to have the cost of a camera ticket slashed in half, as part of a pilot program scheduled to launch this spring. Drivers eligible for SNAP benefits will be able to apply to have one camera ticket of $100 or less reduced by 50%, if the request is DC officials announce new plan to lower traffic deaths and crashes 02/26/2025 04:12pm • D.C. officials Wednesday announced a new initiative to bring down the city's stubbornly high traffic crash and death rate. Two specific areas are being targeted for increased traffic enforcement for the next 60 days, including a higher police presence: New York Avenue NE beginning at 4th Str Md. lawmakers consider bill using in-car photos of distracted driving violations, spotlighting privacy issues 02/25/2025 05:30pm • The maker of a traffic camera that uses artificial intelligence to pinpoint whether a driver is violating Maryland's law prohibiting handheld cellphone use while driving told lawmakers, "Distracted driving feels like our generation's drunken driving." That's why Dhruv Maheshwari, cofounder of Obv Brown’s Hardware, serving Falls Church for 140 years, is closing 02/25/2025 04:45pm • Ever since Elizabeth Shipley-Moses and her husband John moved to Falls Church, Virginia, in 1977, they’ve been deliberate about shopping at Brown’s Hardware. If she needs a screw, a store staff member will find one. When there are things that she thinks are fixable, but that nobody else wante DC police identify man fatally shot by officers after crashing into cruiser, swinging knife 02/20/2025 10:03am • The man who was fatally shot by police on Georgia Avenue in D.C. Tuesday night has been identified. Around 6:10 p.m. on Tuesday, a man driving southbound down Georgia Avenue NW crashed into a police cruiser in the opposite lane before getting out, brandishing a knife through the open window and s Midweek flurries forecast in DC region — how it could impact Thursday's commute 02/19/2025 05:44pm • Parts of the D.C. region are seeing some flurries Wednesday afternoon, with more flakes possible in the evening and early morning Thursday. The potential for up to an inch of snow by Thursday morning, combined with bitterly cold temperatures, has led the National Weather Service to issue a winter 1 dead after DC police shooting in Petworth 02/19/2025 07:28am • A man was shot and killed during an altercation with D.C. police in the Petworth neighborhood on Tuesday evening. Around 6:10 p.m. on Tuesday, a man driving southbound down an already blocked off Georgia Avenue NW crashed into a police cruiser in the opposite lane before getting out, brandishing Protesters hold anti-Elon Musk demonstration outside Arlington Tesla dealership 02/19/2025 12:34am • On a cold Tuesday afternoon, protesters bundled up and held up signs during a demonstration outside a Tesla dealership in Arlington, Virginia. The anti-Elon Musk protest is one of hundreds happening across the nation targeting the Musk-owned car company locations. “I think Elon Musk has bee