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Small plane makes emergency landing on Loudoun Co. Parkway near Dulles Airport 01/19/2024 03:40pm • A small commuter airplane that had just taken off from Dulles International Airport made an emergency landing on the Loudoun County Parkway near the airport Friday afternoon, authorities say. Virginia State Police said it happened at about 12:50 p.m. The airplane skidded into a guardrail, but avo DC musician Cat Janice, currently home in hospice, releases her last song to benefit her 7-year-old son 01/19/2024 01:58pm • Local alt-pop artist Cat Janice released her last single Friday, one day before her 31st birthday. It is a windows-down gift for her fans and a legacy song for her little boy. The idea for “Dance You Outta My Head" arrived when she was dancing in her car on a sunny spring day with her 7-year-ol Jack Burke Jr., Hall of Famer who was the oldest living Masters champion, has died at age 100 01/19/2024 01:53pm • Jack Burke Jr. loved to play golf as much as he enjoyed teaching it. In a golfing life that spanned just over a century, he delivered the largest comeback in Masters history, built the fabled Champions Golf Club in Houston and left everyone he met with homespun wisdom on golf and life. “Leisure t How to stay warm in layered clothing and avoid frostbite this winter 01/19/2024 01:25pm • MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As a bout of bitter and deadly cold sweeps the U.S., millions of Americans are being told to dress in layers if they must go outside. In places that rarely experience bone-chilling temperatures, that advice can be confounding. What does it mean to layer up? Is it different from A stuntman steering a car with his feet loses control, injuring 9 people in northern Italy 01/19/2024 01:10pm • MILAN (AP) — A stuntman steering a car with his feet while sitting on its roof lost control and struck a barrier during an exhibition in the northern Italian city of Verona on Friday, injuring nine spectators. Video shows the driver exiting the cab, taking his place on the roof and starting to st Flexible underpinnings of new big Stellantis vehicles will help company navigate political changes 01/19/2024 12:15pm • DETROIT (AP) — On the surface, you wouldn't think the platform beneath a new generation of automobiles has anything to do with politics and elections. But at Stellantis, new large vehicle underpinnings announced Friday are key to the company's ability to adjust to European and U.S. government ele Moldovan man arrested in Croatia after rushing a van with migrants through Zagreb to escape police 01/19/2024 10:32am • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — The Moldovan driver of a van packed with migrants was arrested in Croatia following a chase in the capital, Zagreb, early on Friday, police said. A police patrol tried to stop the van on the highway outside the city but the 31-year-old driver instead rushed through the pay Protests by farmers and others in Germany underline deep frustration with the government 01/19/2024 09:48am • BERLIN (AP) — This week began and ended with the long road in front of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate thronged by heavy vehicles tooting their horns in protest — farmers on Monday and truckers on Friday. Such demonstrations underline deep frustration in Germany with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's For Netflix documentaries, there’s no place like Sundance 01/19/2024 09:25am • PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Filmmaker Yance Ford was in a “Sundance haze” when he took a meeting with Netflix following the premiere of “Strong Island” in 2017. The streamer was still somewhat new in the original documentary space at that point, but had made several big splashes with docs as di A baby lived because an Oregon teen couldn't stand by after she saw 3 people get electrocuted 01/19/2024 08:49am • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Majiah Washington noticed a flash outside her home this week in Portland, where a dangerous storm had coated the city with ice. Opening her blinds, she saw a red SUV with a downed power line on it and a couple who had been putting their baby in the car. The woman screamed to Colonial Williamsburg meets Disney World in this $15M Oakton estate 01/19/2024 07:04am • Kevin Lucido arrived at Edgehill by accident. It was 2012, and the founder and CEO of Reston’s Intermarkets Inc., a digital advertising firm, was looking for a new home with a sufficiently large garage to store his small car collection. But he found nothing that offered what he needed. His wife What to stream this weekend: Jason Momoa roaming, Green Day rocking and 'Fast X' exploding 01/19/2024 12:01am • Jason Momoa hosting a new travel docuseries for Max called “On the Roam” and the Finnish romantic comedy “Fallen Leaves” are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean 01/19/2024 12:00am • Jan. 12-18, 2024 Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa decreed a national state of emergency to deal with gang violence. In Rio de Janeiro, Carnival dancers rehearsed. Inmates in Bolivia crafted miniature cars and furniture to sell at a fair. Indigenous people in Guatemala held a ceremony to honor new P The police response to the Uvalde shooting was riddled with failures, a new DOJ report says 01/18/2024 09:56pm • UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Police officials who responded to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting waited far too long to confront the gunman, acted with “no urgency” in establishing a command post and communicated inaccurate information to grieving families, according to a Justice De Icy winter blast gripping US blamed for deaths from coast to coast 01/18/2024 08:57pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new layer of ice formed over parts of Tennessee on Thursday after a deadly storm blanketed the state in snow and sent temperatures plummeting earlier this week — part of a broader bout of bitter cold sweeping the country from Oregon to the Northeast. Authorities said at