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Loudoun Co. to vote on starting commuter bus service from exurbs, aims to get 98,000 cars daily off roads 10/14/2024 09:10am • Almost 97% of people who work in Loudoun County, Virginia, drive alone in their car, resulting in 98,000 solo vehicles daily. This week, the board of supervisors is set to vote on two-year commuter bus pilot program to improve the county's capability to recruit and retain employees, while giving Car Review: The BMW X2 xDrive28i is a sporty, coupe-styled SUV — sized and priced right 10/14/2024 04:39am • Many SUVs and crossovers blend into each other with a taller and boxier design. However, the SUV coupé with a swoopy carlike design tends to get noticed in the crowd. BMW has been making its larger SUVs with the coupé styling for nearly 10 years now. The X2, the smallest of the coupelike SU Police: 2 men in custody after Prince George's Co. Foot Locker shooting; 1 suspect still at large 10/12/2024 04:37pm • Two men have been arrested in connection with a shooting that took place Thursday at a Foot Locker footwear store in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, according to Prince George's County police. Detectives said a third suspect is still at large. Officers were called to the 3700 block of Branch Avenue 'A pretty profound loss': Family of worker killed in I-695 crash sues Md., contracting company 10/11/2024 12:45pm • A year and a half after six construction workers were killed in a work zone on Interstate 695 in Baltimore County, the family of one of the workers is suing the state of Maryland and a Gaithersburg-based contracting company. The family of Sybil DiMaggio, a 46-year-old mother of two from Glen Burn Step behind the wheel and go racing at DC's brand-new F1 Arcade 10/10/2024 05:12am • Driving in the D.C. area can sometimes be a pain, but one new attraction is looking to put the joy back in your commute — but only if you have a need for speed. In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax went to the Union Market District in Northeast D.C. to visit t DC-area traffic now is just as bad as it was pre-pandemic, report finds 10/09/2024 04:33pm • If you've recently found yourself stuck in traffic in the D.C. area, wondering where are all these cars are coming from if remote work is still a popular thing, new data might explain some things. According to a new report from the analytics firm StreetLight Data, traffic is worse now in 2024 tha Supreme Court lets Anne Arundel County gun safety law stand 10/09/2024 08:49am • The U.S. Supreme Court let stand an Anne Arundel County ordinance that requires gun shops to provide buyers with information on suicide prevention, gun safety and conflict resolution. The court, without comment, declined Monday to hear a challenge to the law from a Maryland gun-rights group and 'Students need to be healthy to learn': A mobile health clinic in Loudoun Co. is breaking barriers to health care 10/08/2024 04:14pm • A Loudoun County parent received an email Friday from the Northern Virginia school district informing him that his child couldn’t attend school Monday unless they completed a required medical physical. That sent the dad scrambling, nurse Janis Tandy said, because local pediatricians are lar Maryland researcher's insight into regenerating tissue leads to Time innovator list 10/08/2024 10:46am • Research into harnessing the ability of the body's immune system to encourage severely injured tissue to regenerate has landed a Maryland researcher on a Time magazine list of 2024 innovators. The TIME100 Next list recognizes today's most influential and innovative leaders. During a WTOP v Hurricane Helene leaves lots of water-damaged cars. Don’t buy one 10/07/2024 08:12am • The wake of Hurricane Helene leaves behind leaves behind thousands of water-damaged cars, many of which may be cleaned up and find their way back to the vehicle resale market. Don’t be tempted by the price. Centreville, Virginia-based Carfax estimates close to 90,000 water damaged vehicles w Car Review: Subaru BRZ tS is a shot of fun with just two doors in a crossover crazed world 10/07/2024 05:13am • The small fun-to-drive coupes that dotted the automotive landscape in the 1990s and early 2000s are a wishful thing for many builders and buyers alike. However, all is not lost for buyers seeking that different driving experience today. For Subaru, the BRZ is its daring car in a landscape of SUVs an Open Streets shuts down a mile of downtown DC this Saturday 10/04/2024 06:10am • This Saturday is the 11th Open Streets DC, closing a mile of 7th Street NW to cars and opening up the roadway for people to safely walk, run, bike and play. The shutdown spans from Rhode Island Avenue to E Street, cutting through Shaw, Mount Vernon Triangle and Chinatown. The event runs fr 17-year-old girl dies after vehicle crashes into wooden light pole 10/03/2024 12:54pm • A 17-year-old girl has been killed and two of her friends have critical injuries after she drove into a wooden light pole while the three were on their way to school in Montgomery County, Maryland. It happened shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Norwood Road and Nesbitt Farm La Global Innovation, Local Impact: ST Engineering North America's Diverse Operations 10/03/2024 10:51am • This content is sponsored by ST Engineering. Washington is home to the federal government, but the region also has a vast array of cutting-edge businesses, including those with a national and international scope. One of them is ST Engineering North America, which has headquarters in Alexan Arlington man charged in series of Georgetown home invasion rape cases from the late 2000s 10/02/2024 06:30pm • An Arlington, Virginia, man was arrested at his home Tuesday night and charged in connection with a string of sexual assaults that occurred in the D.C. neighborhood of Georgetown in the late 2000s, authorities said Wednesday. Ernesto Ramon Mercado, 54, has been charged with three counts of first-