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'I didn't want to die': Uber driver recounts confrontation with dirt bikes, ATVs in DC 09/07/2022 08:25pm • For the first six hours of his shift as an Uber driver on Sunday, Javier Gutierrez of Rockville, Maryland, said, his time picking up and dropping off passengers around the D.C. area was like any other. That all changed, he said, around 9 p.m., when he encountered a group of people riding dirt bik Police release video of Woodbridge drug-operation shooting that killed 1 09/07/2022 02:44pm • Police in Prince William County, Virginia, on Wednesday released security video of the incident in which police shot two men in Woodbridge, killing one of them. The police said that the incident began when three men tried to rob a detective during an undercover drug purchase. The Prince Willia Va. Republicans to discuss repealing ban on new gas cars 09/07/2022 09:47am • The Virginia General Assembly returned to Richmond Wednesday for a special session, and Republicans were expected to discuss their opposition to a law that requires Virginia to follow California's plan to ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles beginning in 2035. "I do believe that we will t Prince George’s County moves closer to stiffer punishment for illegal off-road vehicles 09/06/2022 06:25pm • The Prince George's County, Maryland, council wants to crack down on the illegal use of off-road vehicles. Council members in a meeting as the committee of the whole on Tuesday wanted to know  whether they had the power to go as far as they could in terms of punishment and whether it would w Metro to increase frequency of trains, starting Sept. 12 09/06/2022 04:32pm • Over the next couple of weeks, Metro riders can expect to see Metro trains that will come by more often. Metro said its new schedule, which starts Sept. 12, means the longest that riders on any line will have to wait is 15 minutes for a train — even on weekends. The new schedule also comes a DC firefighters find body in burning vehicle 09/05/2022 11:28pm • A body has been found inside a burning vehicle in Northwest D.C. It happened Monday around 4:30 p.m. on the 500 block of Nicholson Street, D.C. police said. D.C. Fire and EMS responded to a car on fire in the rear alley, and they put the fire out within 10 minutes. Fire crews asked for poli Car Review: 2022 Toyota GR Supra 2.0 gives you fun with a smaller engine and price tag 09/05/2022 05:08am • This is the third new generation Toyota Supra that I’ve driven. This new Supra comes with a friendlier starting price tag than the last one I drove in 2021. The biggest reason for the lower price is a smaller four-cylinder turbo engine powering this sleek sports car. While not as quick as the What to do around DC this Labor Day 09/05/2022 04:54am • With Labor Day weekend underway, here are some ways to spend the long weekend in the D.C. area. More Labor Day News The Labor Day Parade in Gaithersburg will celebrate the unofficial end of summer, following a two-year hiatus. The annual parade, which features high school marchin Northbound BW Parkway reopens after deadly crash, hours-long closure near Beltway 09/04/2022 11:04am • The Northbound lanes of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway near the Beltway were closed for more than seven hours Sunday morning following a two-car crash that left a man dead and a woman injured, according to U.S. Park Police. WTOP traffic reports the crash happened in the Northbound lanes of the Metro could take a look at fare structure 09/04/2022 10:25am • Six weeks into the new job, Metro General Manager and CEO Randy Clarke is trying to set goals for the D.C.-area transit system. Beyond finishing the Silver Line extension and getting the 7000-series cars back into service, he told the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission on Thursday that W 22 of the USA's most underrated destinations 09/04/2022 10:00am • Disney World, Times Square and Yellowstone National Park can be packed to the rafters with tourists. But there are plenty of other places across the United States that continue to fly beneath the travel radar. While there are literally hundreds of locations that fit that description, here are 22 Prince George's Co. police release video, make arrest in Capitol Heights murder case 09/04/2022 08:35am • Police in Prince George’s County, Maryland, made an arrest Thursday in the recent murder of Stanley Ramey, but officers say they don't think he was the intended target. Now, they're hoping to talk to the people inside a red car who may have been targeted by the suspect or who could know more ab Police: Car involved in Beltway shooting found in flames in Northern Virginia woods 09/04/2022 04:20am • The vehicle that was involved in a shooting on the Beltway last month was found on fire in the woods in Northern Virginia during the predawn hours of Saturday, according to police. Prince William County police said they found the car in Prince William Forest Park near Joplin Road shortly before 4 FBI returns 2,000-year-old Italian mosaic believed lost for almost a century 09/03/2022 04:25pm • Special Agents Elizabeth Rivas and Allen Grove traveled to Italy for the repatriation of the mosaic. Hidden for decades, a mosaic that is a "key part of Rome's history" was located and returned to the Italian government, the Federal Bureau of Investigations said in a news release on Friday. DC family feels betrayed after prosecutors offer son's killer plea deal 09/02/2022 11:32pm • A local family is not happy with the prison sentence given out Friday to the person who fatally shot their son in D.C. Roger “Tom” Marmet, 22, was killed almost four years ago by a stray bullet as he sat in his car at a traffic light in Northeast after volunteering at the nonprofit SOME (So O