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Wisconsin driver Sam Mayer wins on home-state track for 1st Xfinity Series victory 07/29/2023 08:13pm • ELKHART LAKE, Wis. (AP) — Sam Mayer moved from Wisconsin to North Carolina as a teenager to pursue his racing dreams more seriously with JR Motorsports. A return to his home state Saturday ended with the 20-year-old's first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory. Mayer pulled ahead for good in the next-to- 8 dogs died from extreme heat in the Midwest during unairconditioned drive 07/29/2023 05:56pm • SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — At least eight dogs died of heat -related injuries after being transported in the back of an uncooled cargo van through northern Indiana Thursday night, authorities said. The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds traveling from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago to CLIMATE GLIMPSE: Here's what you need to see and know today 07/29/2023 05:40pm • Police said at least eight dogs being transported inside an uncooled cargo van in Indiana died of heat-related injuries this week as temperatures soared amid an intense heat wave gripping much of the United States. The heat was not letting up Saturday in many areas, including in New York City, where Black Belt Eagle Scout's latest record inspired by return home to Swinomish tribe's ancestral lands 07/29/2023 05:32pm • CHICAGO (AP) — The beginning of the pandemic was devasting for the leader of the indie rock band Black Belt Eagle Scout, Katherine Paul. All her tours, including one headlining across North America, were canceled and she feared her ascending music career might be over. She got a day job at a nonp Unapologetic Hamlin says NASCAR's point system encourages in-race urgency and aggression 07/29/2023 04:55pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Denny Hamlin is not offering any apologies for the move he made last weekend at Pocono that caused Kyle Larson to hit the wall and let Hamlin sail on to victory. Truth be told, it's what NASCAR was hoping to see more of when it established the system that divides races into th F1 leader Verstappen wins rain-hit Belgian GP sprint race. Piastri is second 07/29/2023 01:50pm • SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium (AP) — Two-time reigning Formula One champion Max Verstappen won the rain-hit sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday to extend his huge lead over Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez to 118 points. It was Verstappen's ninth straight win including the two sprint race Atlanta 'Cop City' activists say they're confident of getting 70K signatures. But big hurdles remain 07/29/2023 09:02am • ATLANTA (AP) — “Excuse me, are you a city of Atlanta voter? Do you know about ‘Cop City?’” Clipboards in hand, canvassers Sienna Giraldi and Gabriel Sanchez approached shopper after shopper at a Kroger supermarket lot on a recent evening collecting signatures for a referendum over whether DC's 911 call center reports 'call handled properly' to find crashed car in Anacostia River 07/29/2023 06:09am • The D.C. Office of Unified Communications said that a 911 call to report a car that had driven into the Anacostia River was "coded properly," despite D.C. emergency services not finding the drowned car until more than an hour after the incident was reported. Metropolitan Police responded to a car 'God willing, we will meet again in Libya.' A migrant family's tale shows chaos at Tunisian border 07/29/2023 05:10am • When Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin regained consciousness after collapsing in the desert, the sun had already set. Tunisian authorities had violently forced him, his wife and their 6-year-old daughter across the border to Libya by foot without water, in the blazing heat, he said. Nyimbilo crumpled to the Burning cargo ship off Dutch coast will be towed to a new location after flames and smoke subsided 07/29/2023 04:40am • THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Salvage crews were preparing Saturday to tow a car-carrying cargo ship that has been burning for days to an anchor point in the North Sea after flames and smoke on board subsided, the Dutch government said. Fire erupted in the Fremantle Highway late Tuesday night near Ex-New Mexico police informant headed to prison after admitting 5 bank robberies to feed addiction 07/29/2023 01:01am • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man who confessed to five bank robberies in Albuquerque last year — including one bank he robbed twice as part of what he said were desperate attempts to feed his fentanyl addiction — has been sentenced to more than two years in prison. Jason Smeltzer, 41, NHRA Sonoma Nationals Qualifying 07/29/2023 12:45am • Friday At Sonoma Raceway Sonoma, Calif. Qualifying Results Top Fuel 1. Austin Prock, 3.704 seconds, 331.36 mph; 2. Steve Torrence, 3.706, 329.67; 3. Antron Brown, 3.721, 329.75; 4. Josh Hart, 3.737, 327.74; 5. Shawn Langdon, 3.740, 330.55; 6. Clay Millican, 3.745, 325.77; 7. Brittany Force, 3.771, 3 Severe storm warnings in effect for DC area amid ongoing heat wave 07/28/2023 10:29pm • Listen live for the latest weather updates on the 8s on WTOP.  Dangerous heat lingering over the District is impacting everything from Metro cars to walks in the park Friday, as a heat wave drives temperatures ever closer to 100 degrees. However, as the day ends, severe storms are starting to r $25 million grant will tie trails from DC to Largo Town Center 07/28/2023 10:00pm • As a man pushed a stroller on the sidewalk along Prince George’s County’s busy Central Avenue, federal, state and local lawmakers celebrated a $25 million dollar federal grant that will create more transportation options and improvements for Maryland neighborhoods from Capitol Heights to Lar WATCH: Was Friday hot enough to bake in your car? We tried to find out. 07/28/2023 09:59pm • Before storms rolled through the D.C. region on Friday, it was scorching hot — but is it hot enough to fry an egg? So, WTOP’s Scott Gelman spent the afternoon trying to determine whether the car dashboard was warm enough to bake cookies or fry an egg. Watch his progress in the video below.