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Virginia Beach, Richmond, Fairfax receive millions for trails and road safety improvements 12/16/2023 09:24pm • The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded the city of Virginia Beach a $14.9 million federal grant on Wednesday, marking the single largest grant to a Virginia’s locality from the Safe Streets and Roads for All program established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The funding will suppo Police: Victim identified in Northeast DC hit-and-run 12/16/2023 08:18pm • D.C. police have identified the man killed in a hit-and-run in Northeast's Kingman Park neighborhood. The victim was 54-year-old Maurice Oliver, of Northeast D.C., police said in a Friday news release. According to a preliminary investigation, an unknown vehicle hit Oliver while moving westbou Alexandria-based church hosts 'Reindeer Run' to help families in need with Christmas shopping 12/16/2023 05:47pm • A church in Alexandria, Virginia, helped make a better Christmas for a dozen or so families Saturday, hosting a shopping spree for kids in need. At 6 a.m., well before the Target on Richmond Highway opened to the public, Lamonya Hudson and her two kids got to tear through the aisles, picking out Prosecutors say Washington state man charged in 4 murders lured victims with promise of buried gold 12/16/2023 05:20pm • SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington state man in jail awaiting trial in one murder case has been charged with three more killings, and prosecutors say he lured all four victims by asking them to help dig up buried gold. Richard Bradley Jr., 40, was charged in May 2021 with first-degree murder in the deat Electric vehicles owners and solar rooftops find mutual attraction 12/16/2023 09:03am • When Jim Selgo moved to his home in Goodyear, Arizona in 2019, he quickly had rooftop solar installed, having had a positive experience with solar at his previous home. Less than a year later, motivated to take more action to address climate change, he said, Selgo bought his first electric vehicle, Federal Reserve on cusp of what some thought impossible: Defeating inflation without steep recession 12/16/2023 07:29am • WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the most painful inflation Americans had experienced since 1981, when “The Dukes of Hazzard” and “The Jeffersons” were topping the TV charts. Yet the Federal Reserve now seems on the verge of defeating it — and without the surge in unemployment and the deep reces 'General Hospital' dominates 50th annual Daytime Emmys with 6 trophies, Susan Lucci honored 12/15/2023 11:45pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thorsten Kaye and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood of “The Bold and the Beautiful” won lead acting honors at the Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday night, when “General Hospital” collected six trophies, including four for acting. Kaye, who plays Ridge Forrester on the CBS soap, wasn' A Tesla driver to pay $23K in restitution for a 2019 Los Angeles crash that killed 2 people 12/15/2023 07:37pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Tesla driver will pay more than $23,000 in restitution for the deaths of two people during a 2019 car crash in a Los Angeles suburb, a decision announced the same day that the automaker recalled nearly all vehicles sold in the U.S. Wednesday's court hearing wrapped up a case b California men charged with running drugs to Australia, New Zealand disguised as car parts, noodles 12/15/2023 07:13pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) — Four California men have been charged with running a drug ring that sent hundreds of pounds of cocaine and methamphetamine to Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea disguised as shipments of everything from car parts to instant noodles, federal prosecutors announced Friday. Israeli military opens probe after videos show Israeli forces killing 2 Palestinians at close range 12/15/2023 06:43pm • JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Friday said it was opening a military police investigation into the killing of two Palestinians in the West Bank after an Israeli human rights group posted videos that appeared to show Israeli troops killing the men — one who was incapacitated and the second unarmed � Departing North Carolina Auditor Beth Wood pleads guilty to misusing state vehicle, gets probation 12/15/2023 05:57pm • RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — On her last day on the job, North Carolina State Auditor Beth Wood pleaded guilty Friday to two misdemeanors for misusing a state-issued vehicle for personal activities. Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway sentenced Wood to 12 months of unsupervised probation on the How Fairfax Co. is trying to make it easier to own an electric car 12/15/2023 04:56pm • Electric vehicle charging stations could be coming to some Fairfax County, Virginia, neighborhoods where residents don’t have garages or driveways to store them. As part of its Charge Up Fairfax pilot program, the county’s Office of Environmental and Energy Coordination has picked 10 communit Mexico's president inaugurates first part of $20 billion tourist train project on Yucatan peninsula 12/15/2023 03:29pm • MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president on Friday inaugurated the first part of the pet project of his administration, a tourist train that runs in a rough loop around the Yucatan peninsula. The $20 billion, 950-mile line, called the Maya Train, is meant to connect beach resorts and archaeological Prince Harry claims vindication in court victory as judge finds British tabloid hacked his phone 12/15/2023 02:19pm • LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry's phone was hacked by journalists and private investigators working for the Daily Mirror who invaded his privacy by snooping on him unlawfully, a judge ruled Friday, delivering an historic victory for the estranged royal who broke from family tradition to take on the Bri Family hopeful after FBI exhumes body from unsolved 1969 killing featured in Netflix’s ‘The Keepers’ 12/15/2023 02:03pm • CENTREVILLE, Md. (AP) — Darryl Malecki’s last memory of his older sister is a routine interaction between siblings: A teenager at the time, he was working at a fast food restaurant outside Baltimore when she stopped by to switch cars before heading to the mall. Joyce Malecki, 20, never return