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Today in History: June 5 06/05/2019 12:00am • Today is Wednesday, June 5, the 156th day of 2019. There are 209 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On June 5, 2004, Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, died in Los Angeles at age 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. On this dat Md. man accused of rape was working on school grounds despite criminal record 06/04/2019 11:26pm • An Upper Marlboro, Maryland, man accused of raping a 12-year-old-girl was working a construction job at Wheaton High School despite a history of felony charges. James Allen Booker's past convictions for robbery and drug distribution should have barred him from being on school property or being in 3 reasons you overspend 06/04/2019 09:00am • It's hard to resist the allure of impulse purchases. While everyone knows the importance of making smart money decisions, many people fall into the trap of overspending even while trying to cultivate good financial habits. Timothy McGrath, a certified financial planner and managing partner with f DC police seek suspects in kidnapping, robbery of ride-share driver 06/03/2019 10:07pm • A surveillance video caught three people at an ATM, and D.C. police said that two of these people kidnapped and robbed the other. It happened Wednesday after 3 a.m. Police said the suspects forced the victim, who is a ride-share driver, into his car and they drove to a gas station on the 4800 blo DC bill aims to decriminalize prostitution involving consenting adults 06/03/2019 08:44pm • D.C. could become the first U.S. city to decriminalize prostitution involving consenting adults. Councilmember David Grosso introduced a bill to make it happen in 2017, but it died in committee. He will reintroduce the bill Tuesday in a slightly different form, this time with three co-sponsors Critics of Beltway, I-270 expansion plan call for a slowdown 06/03/2019 03:29pm • At a park where the noise of traffic from the Capital Beltway nearly overwhelmed the sound of songbirds, residents against a plan to widen portions of the Capital Beltway and Interstate 270 and to add toll lanes joined local lawmakers in calling for a delay in the plan. Maryland’s Board of What you need to know: Rush hour bus lanes now in effect on busy DC corridors 06/03/2019 12:50pm • As of Monday morning, lanes on two of D.C.'s busiest commuter corridors are now dedicated solely to buses as part of a new, summer-long pilot program to help test the impact of bus lanes downtown. The new program, announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser on Friday, is intended to improve bus service and Local reporters killed in past year honored at Newseum memorial 06/03/2019 12:33pm • The names of 21 journalists from around the world who were killed last year while trying to deliver the news have had their names added to the memorial wall inside the Newseum. Many of those names are familiar to people who live in the D.C. area. The new additions include Gerald Fischman, Wend Police identify Maryland man killed in District Heights shooting 06/03/2019 12:17pm • Prince George's County police have identified the man killed in a shooting in District Heights, Maryland, on Saturday that left another man critically wounded. Davion Brandon, 26, of Suitland, Maryland, was killed while sitting in a car in a Rochell Avenue parking lot with another man. Police hav Bigger buses with more amenities rolling at BWI 06/03/2019 07:50am • BWI Marshall Airport put into service the first of 20 new buses for customer transportation from the BWI Rail Station and the parking lots to the terminal. The new buses carry more passengers, provide round-the-clock service and have more amenities. The 60-foot, articulated buses, made by New A look at DC hail history after Sunday's storms, from pennies to softballs 06/03/2019 05:05am • Parts of the D.C. region received a rare dose of large and loud hailfall Sunday afternoon. Reports of ping pong ball and golf ball sized hail were received by the National Weather Service in a swath from Great Falls to Northwest Washington, and from Rockville to Aspen Hill, Maryland. The last Hawaii hiker who spent 17 days lost in the forest says she was irresponsible and unprepared 06/02/2019 04:24am • A woman who survived 17 days in a forest in Hawaii after she got lost while hiking says she was irresponsible for going into the woods unprepared. "It was naïve and irresponsible of me to go out into the woods the way that I did," Amanda Eller, 35, said in a Facebook vi Today in History: June 2 06/02/2019 12:00am • Today is Sunday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country. On this date: In 1886, President Grover Cleveland, 49, married Frances Folsom, 21, in the Blu Car Review: Chrysler offers a minivan that plugs in for some gas-free driving 06/01/2019 07:35pm • Chrysler was the originator of the minivan 35 years ago, and it was a huge success. The new Pacifica looks to capture some of that magic as the first hybrid minivan that can run on electric power for periods of time cutting the use of gas. I've driven the gas version of the Pacifica, and it's a v New law allows more speed cameras on major Md. highway 06/01/2019 08:40am • It’s not the only law taking effect this weekend, but it’s one that safety advocates in southern Prince George’s County, Maryland have spent years fighting for. New speed cameras will be coming to the 13-mile stretch of Maryland Route 210/Indian Head Highway. It’s unclear exactly when the