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Safety advocates offer mixed reviews for road rules throughout DC region 01/11/2021 12:01am • Virginia, Maryland and D.C. all lack recommended safety measures, and road safety advocates say its affecting new drivers and young passengers. The 2021 Roadmap of State Highway Safety Laws from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety rates all 50 states and D.C. on the passage of 16 traffic sa Memorial bike ride calls for changes to Montgomery County intersection 01/10/2021 08:51pm • A memorial rally was held in Maryland on Sunday for a local leader who was killed after being struck by a car. A white bike with the name "Larry Willis" on it now stands outside of the MacArthur Boulevard entrance to Great Falls Park in Maryland. Willis was injured and later died after a November Mercedes' new touchscreen system takes up the whole dashboard 01/08/2021 08:20am • The car's software will suggest different destinations and vehicle options based on the time of day and other variables. Automakers have, for years, been offering larger and larger touchscreens in vehicle dashboards. Ram trucks, for instance, come with 12-inch screens, measured diagonally, while Greenbelt police identify officer who was hurt while responding to crash 01/05/2021 06:48pm • The Greenbelt, Maryland, police officer who was struck while responding to a crash remains hospitalized with critical injuries. Master Police Officer Chris Peters has been with the Greenbelt Police Department for 22 years. She was helping the U.S. Park Police with a crash on Edmonston Road nor Suspected serial package thief arrested in Crystal City 01/04/2021 07:05pm • Police in Arlington County, Virginia, are working to reconnect stolen packages with their owners after the arrest of a Springfield man suspected in a series of thefts. Haroon Cheema, 36, was arrested around 1:10 p.m. Sunday after patrol officers saw him go to a vehicle without any license plates Car Review: Nissan packs more power, extended range in Leaf Plus 01/04/2021 03:46am • It wasn’t long ago that choosing an electric car meant something odd and bare-bones with a short range. But Nissan’s second generation Leaf fixes a lot of the common complaints about electric cars. The vehicle certainly solves a lot of the range-anxiety, with up to 225 miles per charge. Prince George's Co. officer dragged by fleeing suspect's car 01/03/2021 11:43pm • A Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer has been hospitalized after being dragged by a runaway car Sunday, police said. A police spokesman characterized the officer's injuries as non-life-threatening. The incident occurred just after 9:30 p.m. on Cindy Lane near Central Avenue. P Man shot while sitting in car in Glen Burnie 01/03/2021 07:37pm • A man was shot Sunday morning while sitting in a car in Glen Burnie, Maryland, according to police. Anne Arundel County Police said in a release they found a 29-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound in the 6400 block of Jefferson Place. The man was taken to the hospital for immediate treatm Driver dead after vehicle overturns in Temple Hills 01/03/2021 09:48am • A man is dead after driving off the roadway and overturning off Saint Barnabas Road in Temple Hills, Maryland, early Sunday morning. Prince George's County police responded to a crash involving a single car near the intersection of Saint Barnabas Road and 28th Avenue at approximately 3 a.m. Sunda Vehicle strikes, injures Greenbelt officer responding to crash 01/03/2021 08:42am • A police officer is hospitalized in critical condition after she was struck by a vehicle while responding to a crash in Greenbelt, Maryland, late Saturday night. The Greenbelt Police Department said a female officer was hit outside of her patrol vehicle as she helped U.S. Park Police respond to a New Year's Eve crashes: Driver hit 3 police cruisers, fire hydrant, stop sign 01/01/2021 12:43pm • Two separate New Year's Eve crashes in D.C. sent one person to the hospital and another person to jail. In the first crash, which was reported at 11:12 p.m., a car went off the road and flipped over in the 2500 block of South Dakota Avenue Northeast. Two people were trapped inside the car, and Montgomery County man brings bikes back to life for free in pandemic bike repair shop 12/31/2020 11:54pm • When Ric Jackson opens his home’s garage in Potomac, Maryland, there are no cars inside, instead there is a line of bicycles next to a very organized workbench with a paper sign that reads, “Pandemic Bike Repair Shop. Over 600 served since April 10th.” “I love working on bikes, I love tak Woman trying to park car crashes through fence, disrupts Red Line service in Montgomery Co. 12/31/2020 03:10pm • A car crashed through the fence between the Twinbrook and Rockville Metro stations around 10:30 a.m. Thursday morning. (Courtesy Rockville City police) 2020 isn't over quite yet. A woman trying to park her car in Rockville, Maryland, hit the gas instead of the brakes, causing her vehicle to c How a critical business decision in a pandemic worked out for an area Black-owned business 12/31/2020 01:48pm • As the restaurant business stumbled, cratered and crawled to recovery in 2020, one D.C.-area small business owner is grateful for the one critical decision she and her chef-husband made when launching their own business. Dara Morrison and her Jamaican-born husband, Denardo Elcock, knew they wante 2020's biggest winners and losers in business 12/30/2020 07:14am • In a year of widespread and often devastating hardships, no business or industry came through 2020 untouched by the Covid-19 pandemic. But for some key sectors, the news wasn't all bad. Here's a look at the biggest winners and losers in 2020 and a preview of what the yea