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Data Doctors: An update on anti-robocall technology 03/12/2021 11:20am • Q: I’m fed up with robocalls; wasn’t there supposed to be a new system to take care of this annoying problem? A: The technology used to make robocalls and texts is cheap and easy to use, which is why the problem persists despite all the efforts to fight them. Last year actually saw a drop Man dead, another person injured in Reston shooting 03/12/2021 07:58am • A man is dead and another person was injured after a shooting in Reston, Virginia, Thursday evening. The shooting happened just before 5:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of Winterthur Court near Colts Neck Road. "Officers arrived and located a person suffering from gunshot wounds inside the entryway Prince George's teachers and students voice concerns about return to hybrid learning 03/12/2021 05:57am • A cacophony of car horns filled the air around Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Springdale Thursday as part of a protest against Prince George’s County’s plan to return students and teachers to the classroom in the Maryland county amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of the people behind th One year later: College and the coronavirus, from a High Point High grad's perspective 03/11/2021 07:21pm • Vanessa Velas Romero, 18, is a member of the high school Class of 2020 — an entire group of students across the country who saw their proms, graduations and beach weeks evaporate as the coronavirus pandemic was declared last year. Vanessa Velas Romero is a High Point High graduate now at the U Md. Senate advances far-reaching climate bill 03/11/2021 06:09am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Maryland Senate advanced a sweeping climate action bill on Wednesday after 10 Republican attempts to amend the legislation failed. Th Killer leads to Alexis Murphy's remains, could face charges in murder of second Va. woman 03/11/2021 05:15am • Randy Allen Taylor, who is serving two life sentences for the 2013 murder of 17-year-old Alexis Murphy in Virginia, led investigators to her remains,and could now face prosecution for the 2010 murder of 19-year-old Samantha Clarke, WTOP has learned. Fifty-five-year-old Taylor was given two life s Stafford Co. seeks to rename Route 1 in honor of fallen state trooper 03/10/2021 11:50pm • Stafford County, Virginia, is looking to rename its stretch of Route 1 after a law enforcement member who died in the line of duty. Virginia State Trooper Jessica Cheney was hit and killed while on scene of a crash on Jan. 17, 1998. Cheney was 23 years old and served as a state trooper for two Suspects, bikes sought in DC shooting that damaged vehicles 03/10/2021 11:08pm • Police are looking for suspects and the vehicles they were operating in connection to a shooting that struck at least two cars last month in D.C. It happened on Feb. 16 just after 5 p.m. in the area of the 3700 block of North Capitol Street NW Several dirt bikes were blocking traffic on the ro Report on Swann Street arrests calls for DC Council to tighten rules on police 03/10/2021 02:22pm • Last June, amid protests in D.C., police penned demonstrators into a block of Swann Street in Northwest D.C., arresting and pepper-spraying those out past curfew and leading residents to take others into their houses while police roamed outside trying to make more arrests. A new report claims D.C Md. woman dead after car overturns off Crain Highway 03/10/2021 09:52am • A woman is dead after a crash late Tuesday along Crain Highway in Prince George's County, Maryland. Michelle McMillan, 42, of Crofton, died after her vehicle overturned off Crain Highway, Maryland State Police said in a news release. State troopers were dispatched to the southbound lanes of Cr Inventor of Compact Cassettes, which spawned countless mixtapes, dies at 94 03/10/2021 09:32am • The man who invented cassette tapes in 1963, which spawned the recording of countless mixtapes for music lovers, has died at age 94. Lou Ottens, while working with the Dutch company Royal Philips, came up with the idea of the Compact Cassette — a convenient analog magnetic tape recording format US senators want to keep Daylight Savings Time 03/10/2021 09:21am • Americans are about to "spring forward" and adjust their clocks for Daylight Saving Time, and a group of lawmakers wants to make it the last clock change ever. A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the Senate to keep DST so that come November, Americans don't have to "fall back" and adjust th How the pandemic has reduced DC traffic, by the numbers 03/09/2021 04:47pm • While the pandemic has no doubt led to heavy traffic on The Information Superhighway, the flip side of that is lighter traffic on the regular superhighways — especially around D.C. Traffic analytics company Inrix has published its 2020 global traffic scorecard, and it lends hard data to what th Blacklane’s chauffeur-on-demand car service comes to DC 03/09/2021 10:37am • Blacklane, a Germany-based car service, is bringing an app-based chauffeur-on-demand service with luxury sedans and SUVs to D.C. (Courtesy Blacklane) Germany-based car service company Blacklane is bringing an app-based chauffeur-on-demand service with luxury sedans and SUVs to D.C., part of its Amtrak adds private rooms on DC trains to NY and Boston on overnight runs 03/09/2021 08:39am • Amtrak is offering bedrooms for $288 each way, per person, from D.C. to Boston, a 10-hour trip. (Courtesy Amtrak) Amtrak is offering more privacy and space on some of its overnight Northeast Corridor trains from D.C. to New York and Boston. Northeast Regional service will include a few trains