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Car Review: Mazda 3 sedan moves upscale for 2020 06/15/2020 04:13am • Compact sedans need not be basic transportation anymore: After a week with the 2020 Mazda 3 sedan, I was impressed with the company’s take on what a compact sedan can be. The vehicle is small sedan that’s more luxurious than most with a higher-dollar interior that puts others to shame. I Self-care for parents in a pandemic: Finding time when you don't have it 06/13/2020 04:01am • Parents know the drill: Put on your own oxygen mask before helping your children put on theirs. It's so true, and yet it's become a cliched metaphor for parental self-care. If there was ever a time that it's especially true, it's during this now months-long pandemic and our added ongoing conce Fairfax County pedestrian dies after Lee Highway crash 06/12/2020 02:05pm • A man has died after he was struck and seriously injured Thursday night by a driver while trying to cross Lee Highway in Fairfax County, Virginia. Rafael Raymundo Bernal, 24, of Centreville, was crossing Lee Highway at the intersection of Centreville Farms Road around 9:45 p.m. with another man w Prince George's County begins handing out free groceries on Fridays 06/12/2020 06:16am • Prince George's County, Maryland, will hand out free food and other groceries on Fridays, starting June 12. The county teamed up with the Capital Area Food Bank to distribute "groceries to go" at various locations, starting at 12:30 p.m. on Fridays, while supplies last, according to Prince George Review: 'The Vast of Night' brings indie science fiction suspense to Amazon 06/12/2020 12:27am • Jake Horowitz and Sierra McCormick, right, in a scene from "The Vast of Night." The film is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. (Amazon Studios via AP) It premiered at the 2019 Slamdance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Amazon. Now, the Audience Award winner "The Vast of Night" is Metro eyes next phase of reopening amid COVID-19 pandemic 06/11/2020 02:45pm • FILE - In this March 31, 2020, file photo, a man walks past Metro's Federal Center Southwest station, closed due to reduced ridership in response to the coronavirus, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File) Metro service appears set to ramp up later this summer. Metro is currently operat Prince George’s County to enter Phase Two on Monday 06/11/2020 01:51pm • Prince George’s County, Maryland, would move on Monday into Phase Two of the lifting of safety restrictions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced. “We are moving into Phase Two of reopening,” Alsobrooks said at a briefing Thursday morning, saying GOP tweaks congressional nominating convention in Virginia 06/11/2020 02:32am • WINCHESTER, Va. (AP) — Republicans selecting a congressional nominee in Virginia's 10th District are changing the procedures for their nominating convention in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The convention is scheduled for June 20 in Winchester. The nominee will face freshman Democrat Bike boom continues as DC area moves toward reopening 06/10/2020 11:39pm • In the middle of coronavirus-related measures, there has been big jump in bicycle sales in April. And D.C.-area bike shops have been struggling to keep up with the demand. It's not unusual to see a spike in sales as the weather warms up, but this is different, according to Laurie Lemieux, preside Truex ends 2020 winless skid with victory at Martinsville 06/10/2020 11:38pm • MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Martin Truex Jr. used a trip to NASCAR's shortest track to end a lengthy losing streak on the day the stock car series at long last banned the Confederate flag. Truex cruised down the stretch and won his first NASCAR Cup race of the season on Wednesday night in the firs Elrich on police: 'There are things we absolutely have to change' 06/10/2020 04:42pm • Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich said on Wednesday that "there are things we absolutely have to change" about policing, and that the change has to start from the top. In a briefing with Health Officer Dr. Travis Gayles, Elrich expanded on a question about racial disparities in the COVID-19 DC Council unanimously approves sweeping police reforms in emergency legislation 06/09/2020 09:38pm • A person walks Tuesday, June 9, 2020, near the White House in Washington, past signs hanging on a police fence at 16th and H streets after days of protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday afterno Police: Suspect found driving slain woman's car in Calvert County 06/09/2020 01:50pm • A day after a Calvert County, Maryland, woman was found dead in the living room of her Prince Frederick home, a suspect accused in her killing has been arrested, Maryland State Police said. David H. Johnson, 48, a recent resident of Prince Frederick, was arrested Tuesday morning, state police sai 2 pedestrians killed in separate accidents during busy night for police 06/09/2020 08:19am • Two pedestrians who were struck and killed in separate accidents in D.C. and Prince George's County during a night of crashes that kept police and firefighters busy. D.C. police said a pedestrian was struck and killed by driver in the 7000 block of Piney Branch Road in Northwest at 9:17 p.m. Mond Protests in the DC area continue for an 11th day 06/09/2020 02:42am • Protests over the death of George Floyd continued for an 11th day in the D.C. area. Demonstrators gathered in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, as they have been for nearly two weeks. Among them were Cherise Mattheson and her 12-year-old son, Maurice Rorie. Mattheson