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Neighbors fight to block development of former sand filtration site 12/20/2019 01:54pm • After years of court battles, activists are still fighting to preserve historic McMillan Park and block redevelopment as demolition looms. The 25-acre site along North Capitol Street Northwest in D.C. houses a sand-filtration water purification plant, and was used to store water underground for t Metro, largest union approve 4-year contract 12/20/2019 12:09pm • Metro and its largest union have formally approved a four-year contract that limits some privatization efforts and includes changes to worker benefits plans. The agreement allows some train workers to be hired directly for the first time, rather than only selected from existing bus workers. The a Girl, 4, found in Alexandria Taco Bell parking lot in freezing cold 12/20/2019 07:40am • A 4-year-old girl is safe after she was found wandering around an Alexandria, Virginia, shopping center parking lot in below freezing temperatures early Friday. Alexandria police told WTOP two people passing by the Taco Bell in the Van Dorn Plaza around 4 a.m. saw the girl, who was wearing a swea Maryland sheds light on decision to cut protected bike lane from Nice Bridge 12/19/2019 06:33pm • This May 2014 photo shows the Harry Nice Bridge, which carries U.S. 301 over the Potomac River between Virginia and Maryland. (Courtesy Maryland Transportation Authority) Maryland transportation officials are providing more insight into the decision not to include a barrier-protected pedestrian Money from DC-area park fee increase will go toward local improvement projects 12/18/2019 06:21pm • When entrance fees go up on Jan. 1 at national parks, money collected locally will go toward all sorts of D.C.-area projects — even improving pavement on the George Washington Parkway. "Part of milling and paving on part of George Washington Memorial Parkway was paid for through entrance fees," New developments on the Silver Line timeline: What to know 12/18/2019 05:20pm • It's a few steps forward — and maybe a step or two back — toward opening the Silver Line extension to Dulles International Airport and Loudoun County, Virginia. The stations and most of the rail yard appear to be ready to go and only await some finishing touches. New train testing started Wed Bye-bye, Car2Go: Car-sharing service leaving D.C., Arlington — and all of North America 12/18/2019 03:10pm • Share Now, the car-sharing service formerly known as Car2Go, said Wednesday it will exit the North American market early next year. Starting Feb. 29, Share Now and shareholders Daimler AG and The BMW Group will no longer offer service in North America, as well as London, Brussels and Florence in On-duty US Navy Police officer killed in fiery Charles County crash 12/18/2019 12:15pm • A U.S. Navy Police sergeant who was on duty and in a marked patrol car was killed in a fiery car crash in Charles County, Maryland, early Wednesday morning, authorities said. The crash happened around 2:30 a.m. at the intersection of Maryland Route 224/Chicamuxen Road and Sweden Point Road near I Police ID woman killed in Northwest DC crash 12/18/2019 10:50am • A woman was killed in a three-car crash in Northwest D.C. on Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. (Courtesy D.C. Fire and EMS) Police have identified a Northeast D.C. woman killed in a three-vehicle crash in Northwest Tuesday afternoon. Teresa Larnell Channelder, 35, of Northeast died, D.C. police said We Girl, 4, struck by car outside DC school 12/18/2019 10:24am • A 4-year-old girl is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a car outside a D.C. school Tuesday night. It happened about 9:17 p.m. outside the Rocketship Legacy Prep School on Massachusetts Avenue near Southern Avenue. The driver of the striking vehicle stayed a Baltimore-Washington Parkway reopens after serious crash 12/18/2019 06:17am • Northbound Baltimore-Washington Parkway north of Md. 193/Greenbelt Road reopened around 5:30 a.m. after a serious crash. The northbound lanes of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway north of Md. 193/Greenbelt Road were closed for about 3 1/2 hours after a single car crashed into the Jersey wall befor Man sentenced after guilty plea in bizarre DC kidnapping 12/17/2019 11:45pm • A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in prison followed by 250 hours of community service after pleading guilty in a bizarre D.C. kidnapping case. Ethan Moye-Gordon, of no fixed address, was 22 when he was arrested by D.C. Police in Dec. of 2018 and charged with kidnapping while ar What's in the Virginia budget plan 12/17/2019 06:50pm • More money for education and the environment, plus higher gas and cigarette taxes to help pay for transportation and health care needs are all part of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's $135 billion two-year budget proposal unveiled Tuesday. The proposal includes about $2.7 billion in net new spending Holiday cheer: Car dealership erases $25K Prince George's Co. school lunch debt 12/17/2019 02:09pm • Prince George's County Public Schools students are getting quite a gift this holiday season. DARCARS Toyota announced Tuesday that it's paying off the school lunch debt for every student in the PGCPS system. Chief Operating Officer Jamie Darvish presented a $25,000 check to the nonprofit Excel 2 injured in Fairfax County after car crashes into pole 12/17/2019 05:50am • Two people are injured after a crash involving a vehicle running into a pole on Monday evening in the Alexandria section of Fairfax County, Virginia. Fairfax County police responded to a car which crashed into a transmission pole at the intersection of Telegraph and Hayfield roads, near the Hayfi