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WTOP Traffic Center: As summer wanes, schools start, adjust your commuting schedules and expectations 08/12/2019 05:07am • The dog days of summer are fading away. Congress will soon reassemble. Kids from all around the D.C. area are making their way back to school. Parents will soon see early mornings full of packing lunches and getting out the door at the speed of light. Students in Virginia's Fredericksburg City an Today in History: Aug. 12 08/12/2019 12:15am • Today is Monday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On August 12, 2017, a car plowed into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and hurting more than a doze Today in History: Aug. 11 08/11/2019 12:00am • Today is Sunday, Aug. 11, the 223rd day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On August 11, 1992, the Mall of America, the nation's largest shopping-entertainment center, opened in Bloomington, Minnesota. On this date: In 1919, Germany's Weimar Constitution was signed by President Fried Bethesda teen remembered as a kind, loving bridge builder 08/09/2019 07:53pm • Listen to anyone who knew Jake Cassell talk about him, and the story will start with a smile. The Bethesda, Maryland, teen — who died after being struck by a car Aug. 1 — was remembered during a gathering Friday at Winston Churchill High in Potomac, where he attended school. There were lau Kickoff time: Loudoun United to finally play on home turf Friday 08/09/2019 11:25am • Eager and ready to play in their own soccer stadium in Leesburg, Virginia, Loudoun United has their first official home game Friday night. The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. against the Charlotte Independence at Segra Field, the long-awaited home stadium for Loudoun County's first professional s Swinks Mill Road bridge repair to start in Fairfax Co. a month after flash flood 08/09/2019 04:00am • Construction to repair one of the washed out roads in Fairfax County, Virginia, that's still closed due to last month's flash flooding will begin by Monday. A Virginia Department of Transportation crew is set to get to work on Swinks Mill Road at Scott's Run. The asphalt of the bridge was lift Fiery crash in Frederick involved speeding and alcohol 08/08/2019 10:09am • A crash on Elmer Road in Frederick County leaves behind a burned-out car. (Courtesy Frederick County Fire Department) Three people were sent to the hospital after a violent crash in Frederick, Maryland, Thursday that involved speeding and alcohol. Frederick County firefighters found a 2019 Vo Woodstock photos are displayed for 1st time, 50 years later 08/08/2019 07:31am • As Jerry Garcia jammed and Janis Joplin wailed, Mark Goff captured images at Woodstock that no one ever saw. The 22-year-old photographer for an underground paper took hundreds of pictures of the performers and the crowd that weekend. Some were published, and the negatives from that weekend were Afternoon storms slam DC area 08/07/2019 11:59pm • Storms exploded over the D.C. area Wednesday afternoon, prompting several severe thunderstorm warnings as the storms rolled over the D.C. area, bringing strong winds. Damage included a roof collapse at a Gaithersburg store. HomeGoods Store, 602-A Quince Orchard Road, partial roof collapse, Actor Danny Trejo helps save baby trapped in car in LA 08/07/2019 09:25pm • FILE – In this March 16, 2017 file photo, actor Danny Trejo arrives at the TAO, Beauty and Essex, Avenue and Luchini Los Angeles grand opening. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actor Danny Trejo played a real-life hero when he helped rescue a baby trapped in an I-66 speeds drop as Virginia lowers tolls 08/07/2019 01:00pm • Interstate 66 traffic inside the Capital Beltway slowed in the first three months of 2019 compared with last year, as the Virginia Department of Transportation significantly lowered tolls for solo drivers. Average toll prices paid toward D.C. in the morning fell from $8.31 in the first quarter of Ongoing mystery: Will Maryland make Metro funds available? 08/07/2019 07:53am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. If Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) and his transportation secretary, Pete K. Rahn, were looking to create a sense of drama and uncertain Tips on buying secondhand stuff 08/07/2019 12:59am • Saving money and the environment are good reasons to buy used things, but there are some items you should avoid. A locally-based consumers' group said buying secondhand stuff can help the environment in a number of ways. Items bought used don't end up in landfills. They don't have to be shipp Man arrested in 3rd Street Tunnel shooting 08/06/2019 02:33pm • D.C. police arrested a suspect in the shooting of a man in the Third Street Tunnel on Interstate 395 in D.C. after a crash in late July. The July 30 shooting left a man with life-threatening injuries and closed sections of the roadway for hours while an investigation occurred. Now, police said th Crash in Prince William Co. sends woman to hospital with life-threatening injuries 08/06/2019 11:18am • A woman was flown to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash near Forest Park High School in Montclair, Virginia, on Tuesday. SERIOUS CRASH on #Dumfries Rd, area of Forest Park High School in Montclair, Virginia #breakingnews #Chopper4 @nbcwashington #vatraffic @charlienbc @TomL