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Car prices are about to soar again, thanks to Hurricane Ida 09/15/2021 06:23am • Just when car prices looked like they were edging down from their record highs, they're heading skyward again. It's Hurricane Ida's fault. Ida caused widespread flooding from Louisiana, where it came ashore as a hurricane on August 29, to the heavily populated Northeast, where its remnants hit ha Ramp metering system starts on I-270 09/15/2021 05:00am • The Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration on Wednesday activated a ramp metering system on 23 ramps of southbound Interstate 270 in an effort to reduce congestion and increase safety on one of the nation's busiest travel corridors. Ramp metering employs traffic signal Hundreds rally to save Greater Manassas Baseball League's field complex 09/14/2021 10:32pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. A majority of Manassas City Council members seem ready to enter into an agreement to sell Micron Technology the 18.12 acres of land curre 2 dead in separate Montgomery Co. crashes 09/14/2021 11:12am • Two people are dead after two separate crashes in Montgomery County, Maryland, in which a pedestrian was struck and a motorcycle collided with a car. Both incidents happened Monday night. In the first, around 9 p.m., officers responded to a call for a pedestrian struck by a vehicle at the inte Audit reveals notable flaws in Metro's safety, maintenance practices for railcars 09/14/2021 11:10am • An audit of Metro's railcars has found that the transit system has some significant lapses in how it carries out its safety and maintenance procedures. The Washington Metrorail Safety Commission, which conducted the audit, said that Metro didn't follow its own safety certification processes for t Woodbridge man charged with child endangerment after toddler's car crash death 09/14/2021 01:32am • SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia man has been charged with child endangerment after a 2-year-old died while riding unrestrained on his lap when his car crashed into two trucks in July. Fairfax County police said Monday that they charged 41-year-old Jamaal Lowery of Woodbridge, with c Capitol Police say they're ready for so-called 'Justice for J6' rally 09/13/2021 05:27pm • It has been more than eight months since a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of President Biden’s 2020 election victory. Since then, federal authorities have arrested hundreds of people in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection. A rally will be held No public threat after perplexing Anne Arundel Co. incident involving shattered police cruiser window 09/13/2021 01:22pm • Police in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, say there is no public safety threat as they continue to investigate a perplexing incident Monday that may have involved a police cruiser window being shot out as officers looked into the report of a teen "shooting small critters" in the woods. In an updat DC-area doctor advises caution for new users of electric scooters, bikes 09/13/2021 04:20am • Electric bikes and scooters are becoming more popular, and a D.C.-area surgeon cautions users to become familiar with new motorized modes of transportation before taking them into crowded urban settings. "You just have to be very careful if you're using them and realize that they are a pretty fun Car review: 2021 Genesis GV80 3.5T AWD makes a splash as company's first SUV 09/13/2021 04:01am • car-review-2021-genesis-gv80-3-5t-awd-makes-a-splash-as-companys-first-suv 1 dead in Prince George's Co. shooting; child and 1 other injured 09/12/2021 11:52pm • A man is dead and two others, including a child, are in the hospital after a Sunday night shooting in Prince George's County, Maryland. Prince George's County police said the shooting happened near a gas station at the 7600 block of Marlboro Pike in Forestville some time before 8:30 p.m. Offic Five stages of grief, and how to get through them 09/12/2021 06:04am • When someone you love dies, the world as you've known it is totally upended. One way people cope, added psychologist Sherry Cormier, is by trying to find some sort of certainty. This need for structure is probably one factor behind the popularity that latched onto the "five stages of grief" over PHOTOS: New Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge opens to drivers 09/11/2021 02:20am • D.C.’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge welcomed its first vehicles across early Saturday morning. It opened just after midnight with one right lane of southbound traffic on South Capitol Street. WTOP Traffic Reporter Dave Dildine said Interim Director of the District Department of Transportatio Montgomery Co. jury hands down guilty verdict in double murder 09/09/2021 06:07pm • In January 2019, investigators discovered two men with gunshot wounds inside a vehicle at a White Oak apartment complex on Stewart Lane. Now, a jury has found a man guilty for their deaths. (Courtesy Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office) Montgomery County, Maryland's, first in-person murd Ex-Maryland officer charged with raping woman after traffic stop faces civil rights charge 09/09/2021 11:28am • A former Maryland police officer charged with raping a woman in a police station after a 2019 traffic stop is now facing a federal civil rights charge. Martique Cabral Vanderpool, 32, of Fairmont Heights was indicted by a federal grand jury of deprivation of civil rights under color of law, accor