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Driver injured after tree fell on SUV Saturday night 05/01/2023 10:08am • Wise Road in Northwest D.C. reopened by Monday evening after a tree fell on an SUV Saturday night, leaving the driver injured. The road closed between Beach Drive and Oregon Avenue when tree fell at around 8 p.m. Saturday night, WTOP Traffic reports. The road remained closed through Monday mornin 6 things everyone should know about money before 30 05/01/2023 09:10am • Saving for retirement, becoming wholly financially independent or reaching debt freedom might seem intimidating or even out of reach at a young age. But it's important for young individuals to start making good money decisions if they want to have financial success later in life. Here are some of Car Review: The GV60 Performance begins Genesis' move into the EV luxury market 05/01/2023 04:56am • The 2023 Genesis GV60 Performance is a small luxury all-electric crossover that has a unique look that stands out. (WTOP / Mike Parris) Genesis, a newer company in the luxury market, has been selling luxury cars and SUVs that offer all the options for an easier-to-live-with price tag. Recently, my d 13 high school graduation gift ideas 04/30/2023 08:00pm • Gifts for graduates With the school year winding down, many families are preparing to celebrate the graduation of their high school seniors. Whether the student is college-bound, taking a gap year or entering the workforce, mark this milestone with a thoughtful or practical graduation gift. Here Montgomery Co. resources to help you avoid 'being ripped off' at the car mechanic 04/30/2023 04:33pm • Summer is ahead, and for many, so are long road trips. Last summer, 97% of vacations were taken by car, according to AAA. These long road trips take a toll on vehicles — which end up in the mechanic's shop sooner or later. In Montgomery County, officials are reminding drivers to look out for 8-year-old girl struck, killed in Woodbridge crash 04/30/2023 05:30am • An 8-year-old girl from Woodbridge, Virginia, has died after being struck by a car earlier this month, Prince William County police say. Due to the victim's age, her name will not be released to the public, according to a news release from police Saturday. Police said the girl's death resulted Black bear spotted inside the Beltway 04/28/2023 09:04pm • At least two sightings of a black bear in Montgomery County, Maryland, have neighbors on alert. The two sightings in Kensington and Chevy Chase are likely the same black bear according to Jim Bennett, with the Wildlife & Heritage Service of Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources. In Own a car in Maryland? Here's how you can help grow trees across the state 04/28/2023 02:00pm • A pair of state agencies are teaming to offer vehicle owners a new way to fund efforts toward planting native trees on public lands, schools, and community spaces across Maryland. For as little as a dollar, state residents can voluntarily donate money to the Pamela J. Kelly Tree-Mendous Maryland After $5M settlement, family of Bijan Ghaisar plans to continue push 'to save lives and do justice' 04/28/2023 01:18pm • The family of a Virginia man shot and killed by two U.S. Park Police officers after a minor traffic crash in 2017 said they will use a $5 million settlement to push for changes in laws changing policing standards. Last week, the family of 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar reached a $5 million settlement Why some families are calling for pedestrian safety upgrades near several Reston schools 04/28/2023 04:58am • Several families and Fairfax County, Virginia, school board member Melanie Meren are urging county and state governments to take steps to increase pedestrian safety near several Reston schools. In a memo addressed to Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay and obtained by WTOP, Me One of the most notorious I-95 bottlenecks will soon get an extra lane 04/27/2023 03:50pm • Drivers who inch through a twice-daily bottleneck on Interstate 95 near Occoquan, Virginia, will soon get some relief, with the addition of an extra travel lane. Thursday marked the ribbon-cutting for the I-95 Southbound Auxiliary Lane project, which converts a mile-and-a-half of the existing I-95 shootout suspect charged with attempted capital murder of law enforcement officer 04/27/2023 09:58am • The Virginia man charged with abducting a woman in New York leading to a deadly police shootout on Interstate 95 in Prince William County earlier this month is now facing more charges. Michael C. Davis, 34, of North Chesterfield has been charged with one felony count of attempted capital murder o 3 teenagers hospitalized after car crash in Mount Airy 04/27/2023 07:53am • Three teenagers have been hospitalized following a single-vehicle crash Thursday morning in Mount Airy, Maryland. The WTOP Traffic Center reported that the crash happened on Ridge Road near Wind Song Way just after midnight. One of the teens was flown to the University of Maryland's R. Adams C 2 drivers injured in Md. crash, BW parkway reopens 04/26/2023 06:15am • Two men are in the hospital Wednesday after an early morning two-car crash on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland, a U.S. Park Police spokesman tells WTOP. It happened just after 1 a.m. in the southbound lanes before Maryland Route 32 in Anne Arundel County, nearby the National Security Woman hospitalized after car plummets into ravine in Rock Creek Park 04/25/2023 11:00pm • A woman is in the hospital after her car fell down a ravine in Rock Creek Park Tuesday afternoon. D.C. Fire and EMS said the car left the road around 5 p.m. on Piney Branch Parkway — east of Beach Drive in Northwest D.C. Update crash with entrapment Piney Branch Parkway NW. Using a rope pull