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Virginia doctor who prescribed more than 500k doses of opioids granted new trial 02/05/2024 06:42pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia doctor who was sentenced to 40 years in prison after prescribing more than half a million doses of highly addictive opioids in two years has been granted a new trial by a federal appeals court that found the instructions given to jurors at his trial misstated the la Appeals court weighs whether to let stand Biden's approval of Willow oil project in Alaska 02/05/2024 06:16pm • JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An appeals court panel is deciding whether to let stand the Biden administration's approval of the massive Willow oil project in a federal petroleum reserve on Alaska's North Slope. Environmentalists and a grassroots group called Sovereign Iñupiat for a Living Arctic are see Motorsports madness: A week of utterly bizarre and shocking developments in global auto racing 02/05/2024 04:53pm • NASCAR successfully waved the checkered flag on its opening event of the year just before the heavy rains began to drench Los Angeles. That NASCAR crammed the two-day Clash at the Coliseum into a compelling one-day show capped a frenzied week in global motorsports. So many crazy things happened in Tribal sovereignty among the top issues facing Oklahoma governor and Legislature 02/05/2024 04:38pm • OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tribal sovereignty is expected to again be a top issue facing Oklahoma lawmakers and Gov. Kevin Stitt as they returned on Monday to begin the 2024 legislative session. Stitt, a Republican and himself a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, has had a contentious relationship with tri Mississippi judge drops punishment of probation and book report for a child who urinated in public 02/05/2024 04:25pm • SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) — A 10-year-old Black child who urinated near his mother's car outside a Mississippi office building will no longer be required to serve probation and write a book report about Kobe Bryant, an attorney for the child's family said Monday. Tate County Youth Court Judge Rusty Ha Safer, but also prettier streets, coming to Mt. Rainier 02/05/2024 03:43pm • It's a small town in terms of size, but the city of Mount Rainier, Maryland, is also dense, with thousands of residents living in a municipality that's less than 2 square miles. It's very urban today, though it was designed as a much more suburban locale decades ago. But the streets and sidewalks Family of Black girls handcuffed, held at gunpoint by Colorado police in mistaken car theft get $1.9 million settlement 02/05/2024 03:28pm • DENVER (AP) — Family of Black girls handcuffed, held at gunpoint by Colorado police in mistaken car theft get $1.9 million settlement. 'Complete shock': DC musician Cat Janice has 'dream come true' in hospice watching song climb the charts 02/05/2024 03:02pm • The Grammys rocked L.A. on Sunday night, but D.C. should invent its own award for the Most Inspiring Singer: Cat Janice. WTOP first told you about the D.C. native releasing her final song from hospice on Friday, Jan. 19. After being diagnosed with an ultrarare sarcoma early in 2022, Janice arr DP World Tour Schedule 02/05/2024 03:00pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen Book Review: George Pelecanos’ 'Owning Up' has elegant prose and well-drawn characters 02/05/2024 11:08am • Although George Pelecanos has devoted much of his energy toward writing for television in recent years ("The Wire," “The Duce,” “We Own This City”), he has continued to produce first-rate crime novels set in his native Washington, D.C. Working in a genre often associated with grisly murders, Grammys are Taylor Swift’s world on a night when women like Cyrus, Mitchell and Chapman also shine 02/05/2024 10:02am • It's Taylor Swift's world, and she just allows us to live in it. After weeks where she attracted endless attention for her football star boyfriend and a mystifying right-wing campaign against her, the Grammy Awards put the focus squarely back on her art. “Midnights” earned Swift her fourth caree The owners of Russia's tech pioneer Yandex are selling — at a big, Kremlin-required discount 02/05/2024 09:37am • FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil company Lukoil, one of the biggest deals for Western-held companies to exit Russi Car Review: 2024 Subaru Crosstrek gets a makeover with a little more space and improved tech 02/05/2024 04:33am • The 2024 Subaru Crosstrek is a popular small crossover with a big makeover that looks a lot like the old one. (WTOP/Mike Parris) Subaru has been making the small Crosstrek crossover for some time now and it has proven to be a popular ride with rugged styling, flared fenders and better than normal gr Taylor Swift wins album of the year at the Grammy Awards for the fourth time, setting a new record 02/05/2024 02:47am • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Taylor Swift won album of the year at the Grammy Awards for “Midnights,” breaking the record for most wins in the category with four. She began her speech by thanking her producer and friend Jack Antonoff and added, “I would love to tell you this is the happiest moment Second atmospheric river in days blows into California, knocking out power and flooding roads 02/04/2024 09:41pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — The second of back-to-back atmospheric rivers battered California on Sunday, flooding roadways and knocking out power to nearly 850,000 people and prompting a rare warning for hurricane-force winds as the state braced for what could be days of heavy rains. The storm inundated st