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Nintendo is reviving Game & Watch, one of its oldest handhelds from the '80s 11/13/2020 07:14am • Nintendo is feeling nostalgic lately, and it's reviving a yet another '80s relic. The Game & Watch portable console, first introduced in 1980 and produced until 1991, was responsible for putting Nintendo on the map. It was a far cry from the Nintendo of today, which regularly puts out best-se Cloudy start from overnight rain gives way to sunshine Friday 11/12/2020 08:17pm • Most of the rain has left the D.C. area, and there could still be some flooding on vulnerable area roadways and along small streams. But Friday will see some sunshine and seasonably pleasant temperatures. Here's what you need to know. There may still be some isolated showers and patchy drizzle ov New details emerge in 2011 disappearance of Va. woman Bethany Decker; boyfriend arraigned 11/12/2020 03:48pm • The former live-in boyfriend of 21-year-old Bethany Decker, who was last seen in her Ashburn, Virginia, apartment almost 10 years ago, has been arraigned on abduction charges. There are also new details of the case against Ronald Roldan, revealed in a recently filed charging document. He was extr Home for the holiday: AAA forecasts Thanksgiving travel at historic lows 11/12/2020 01:35pm • The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a bite out of Thanksgiving travel, AAA reports. In a statement Thursday, AAA Mid-Atlantic said that while they predict more than 50 million Americans will travel 50 miles or more from home over the Thanksgiving holiday, that’s down about 5 million from last year Medical consultation seeing 'astronomical' growth in popularity during pandemic 11/11/2020 09:00pm • Virtual doctor visits have just passed a milestone in the D.C. area — MedStar Health has had more than 500,000 telehealth interactions since the coronavirus pandemic began in the U.S. in March. “The month of February (2020), we had 270 video visits total with patients in their homes. So that Gang members indicted in murder in Charlottesville, two murder attempts in Prince William 11/11/2020 08:24pm • 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. Federal prosecutors unsealed indictments Wednesday charging three MS-13 gang members for their roles in multiple violent crimes inclu DC police arrest suspect accused of armed carjacking caught on livestream 11/11/2020 07:55pm • D.C. police arrested a man suspected of committing an armed carjacking while the victim was doing a Facebook Live inside a vehicle. Police said 21-year-old Jamal Hunter is believed to be the same person seen during the livestream shouting and shoving 38-year-old Warkwa Anagaw out of his parked ca Md. paintball attacks injure 1; photo of suspect's vehicle released 11/11/2020 10:13am • Authorities in Charles County, Maryland, are searching for suspects in a series of recent paintball assaults in Waldorf that sent one person to the hospital with severe eye injuries. The paintball attacks happened in Waldorf on Oct. 30 and Nov. 6, the Charles County Sheriff's Office said in a new Reston’s Electrify America surpasses 500 EV charging stations nationwide 11/11/2020 09:55am • Reston, Virginia-based Electrify America said it has more than 500 electric vehicle charging stations now open across the U.S., with a total of more than 2,200 individual fast chargers. Electrify America began building its nationwide network of EV charging stations in 2018 to address the range an Md. business groups cheer Beltway-widening plan; former Gov. Glendening calls approach ‘nonsense’ 11/11/2020 08:12am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Groups representing commuters and businesses urged the Maryland Department of Transportation to move forward with Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. Police identify man killed by officers in alleged shootout 11/11/2020 05:19am • BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police have identified a man who was fatally shot by authorities after he allegedly fired at plainclothes officers. Police said 25-year-old Rodney Eubanks was shot and killed Monday after wounding Det. Brandon Bolt. Commissioner Michael Harrison said two officers from Will college students bring COVID-19 home for Thanksgiving? 11/11/2020 04:19am • Weston Kerekes plans to eat his Thanksgiving dinner alone in his childhood bedroom in Santa Monica, California. If all goes as planned, the Yale University freshman's quarantine will have followed a tightly choreographed trip from his New Haven, Connecticut, campus to ensure he doesn't expose his Veterans Day 2020 freebies, deals and sales 11/11/2020 04:05am • In honor of Veterans Day, several companies and organizations are providing numerous freebies and discounts for veterans and active-duty members of the military. Many require you to show a military ID. WTOP has included some of those Veterans Day deals and offers set to start next week. Thing Police: 2 dead in Lanham after man runs over family member with stolen cruiser, shootout 11/10/2020 09:14pm • Two people are dead in Prince George's County, Maryland, after a man ran over and killed a family member with a stolen police car, then had a shootout with officers, according to Prince George's County police. Interim Police Chief Hector Velez said that just before 1 a.m. Tuesday, in the 7700 blo 1 dead, driver rescued in Montgomery Co. after crash sends truck off road 11/10/2020 08:23pm • One man is dead and another was injured after a box truck tumbled off an embankment on Shady Grove Road in Derwood, Maryland, early Tuesday morning, leading to road closures in the area as fire crews rescued the truck's driver. Montgomery County fire officials first tweeted about the crash that h