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'This is personal' — former WTOP reporter's memoir recounts family's role in Montgomery bus boycott 05/11/2020 06:37am • Karen Gray Houston can still remember her first bus ride. She wasn't much older than 4, and it was shortly after the end of the landmark Montgomery bus boycott — the exhausting, exhilarating 382 days beginning in December 1955, when thousands of black citizens refused to set foot on the city's Car Review: 2020 Nissan Versa moves from has-been to competitive subcompact sedan 05/11/2020 04:44am • A few years back, the last time I tested a Versa, I had to think hard to find something nice to say. It was cheap and the driving experience left much to be desired. But the Nissan Versa has been reworked for 2020, much for the better. The body on the top-of-the-line SR trim-level Versa looks a bit In New York City’s subway shutdown, an unthinkable departure 05/11/2020 03:01am • NEW YORK (AP) — It’s not the end of the line. But it once was. When the first New York subway line connected Lower Manhattan to Harlem in 1904, the stop at 145th Street was its terminus. Since that inaugural run, the subway has never ceased running. There were brief blips of interruptio Mother's Day grocery giveaway feeds hundreds in Prince George's Co., amid coronavirus crisis 05/09/2020 01:22pm • Volunteers from all across the community came together Saturday in Seat Pleasant, Maryland, to hand out 500 boxes packed with food for Mother’s Day. One by one, cars pulled into a parking lot along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard from 10 a.m. to noon, many lining up as early as 7 a.m., to rece Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus at 75 05/09/2020 07:23am • LAS VEGAS (AP) — Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the duo whose extraordinary magic tricks astonished millions until Horn was critically injured in 2003 by one of the act’s famed white tigers, has died. He was 75. Horn died of complications from the coronavirus on Friday in a Las Vegas ho Footage released from Montgomery Co. police shooting death of man with knife 05/09/2020 01:30am • Montgomery County, Maryland, police have released body camera footage of a Thursday incident during which a police officer shot and killed a man who was wielding a knife in the White Oak area of Silver Spring. In the video, Sgt. David Cohen, an officer with the Montgomery County police, is shown Latest Jeep Wrangler tips over in crash tests 05/08/2020 06:18pm • Jeep's latest Wrangler tipped onto its side twice during crash tests conducted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The performance garnered the Wrangler a Marginal rating -- the second worst of four possible ratings in that type of test. The 2019 model year fo 'No one's been driving': Service calls increase for dead car batteries during coronavirus pandemic 05/08/2020 12:06pm • With many people working from home during the coronavirus outbreak, AAA-Mid-Atlantic and a local repair shop are reporting an increase in the number of service calls for dead batteries. "We haven't seen this ever, and I hate to say it, but it's going to be good for business once this is all over, Review: Chris Hemsworth's brutal action flick 'Extraction' sets new Netflix record 05/08/2020 12:18am • This image released by Netflix shows Chris Hemsworth, left, in a scene from "Extraction," premiering this week on Netflix. (Jasin Boland/Netflix via AP) It's no accident that beloved superhero alums keep landing roles in the latest batch of streaming content, from Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) i Amtrak now requires passengers to wear face masks 05/07/2020 03:00pm • In this Nov. 7, 2017 photo a passenger boards a sleeping car on the Crescent in Birmingham, Ala. The Crescent connects New York City and New Orleans. Stops en route include Atlanta, Charlotte, North Carolina and Washington. (AP Photo/Paul Davenport) Amtrak joins most major airlines in now requir Weekend road and rail work: Transforming 66, Purple Line, PaveDC and more 05/07/2020 10:04am • Roadwork If you live or work off I-66 west of the Capital Beltway, chances are you’ve been conditioned to the ongoing work and ever-changing landscape of the Transform 66 Outside the Beltway Project. This work will bring express lanes to the 22.5-mile stretch of roadway, rebuild major intercha DC man charged with stabbing Uber driver at Walmart 05/07/2020 07:17am • A D.C. man is charged with assault with a deadly weapon after an Uber driver was stabbed during a fight at the Walmart in Northwest D.C. on Tuesday night. Court documents indicate the fight was over how many people could ride in the Uber vehicle. Police said the attack at the store on H Stree Updates on DC, Md. and Va. schools' learning plans, free meals for students and graduations during coronavirus closures 05/07/2020 07:03am • With D.C., Maryland and Virginia schools closing for the rest of the school year due to the coronavirus outbreak, many are providing students with lessons to keep their skills sharp as well as free meals to keep them fed. D.C.  D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on Friday, April 17, that pu Northam: Virginia's Phase I plan 'a floor'; localities can seek changes 05/07/2020 01:13am • Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said Wednesday that while he's still confident that the commonwealth can enter Phase I of lifting COVID-19-related safety restrictions May 15, he described the relaxed restrictions as "the floor," and that if localities want to keep some restrictions, they might be able t Man dead after being struck by car in Manassas hit-and-run 05/06/2020 09:35am • A man is died after being struck by a car Wednesday morning in Manassas, Virginia. Prince William County police arrived at the scene around 5 a.m. Police say the hit-and-run happened when a silver sedan was making a turn onto Balls Ford Road at Sudley Road when the vehicle struck a man who was