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Richmond police investigate after video shows officer shout at teens 03/30/2019 06:35pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Richmond police are conducting an investigation after a video shows an officer shouting an obscenity at a group of middle-school students. The video, taken Thursday, shows an officer in a patrol car shouting "Wait until your asses turn 18, then you're mine," before driving New N.Va. fire and rescue program delivers blood to trapped crash victims 03/29/2019 06:03pm • A new program that will help Northern Virginia fire and rescue crews save more lives is the only one of its kind east of the Mississippi. It provides supplies and training to first responders so they can give critical blood transfusions to patients who are trapped and can't be immediately moved. Family's lawsuit IDs Park Police officers who shot unarmed Va. driver 03/29/2019 05:44pm • Over a year after an unarmed Virginia man was fatally shot by U.S. Park Police during a traffic stop in November 2017, the names of the officers who shot him have been released. Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya are identified as those officers in a lawsuit filed by the family of Bijan Ghaisar. T Truck driver cited in crash that led to 13-hour Beltway traffic snarl 03/29/2019 04:16pm • The crash of a tanker truck, and the resulting fuel leak, closed the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway for more than 13 hours from Thursday night into the predawn of Friday. Now, the driver of the truck has been cited. Weldon Harrison, 45, of Woodbridge, Virginia, the driver of the truck, has bee Why did the big Beltway closure cause traffic jams across the region? 03/29/2019 02:40pm • The terrible traffic that rippled across the Washington region Thursday from Loudoun to Largo was largely due to a single major crash on the Capital Beltway near the Legion Bridge that sent drivers scrambling for other options. "We saw delays as far away as Leesburg, Lucketts and even Winchester Traffic terrors: After 13-hour shutdown, lanes reopen on Inner Loop at American Legion Bridge 03/29/2019 12:36pm • It was an uneventful Friday-morning commute for the D.C. area after a horrific traffic backup shut the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway for more than 13 hours on Thursday night. Lanes reopened on the Inner Loop on the American Legion Bridge just before 3 a.m. Friday after a tanker-truck overturn 'Not the Wild West': Lost drivers fired at in Fauquier Co. 03/29/2019 07:58am • Twice in one week, drivers in Fauquier County, Virginia were scared by gunshots after GPS directions mistakenly took them onto private properties. "This is not the Wild West," sheriff's spokesman Sgt. James Hartman told the Fauquier Times. "You don’t have the right to shoot first and ask questi Will Metro's summer shutdown in Northern Va. impact fall traffic? 03/28/2019 09:10pm • Some Northern Virginia leaders were surprised to learn this week that Metro's summer shutdown of six Blue and Yellow Line stations could have lingering effects into the fall. Metro has said all stations south of Reagan National Airport will be closed from May 25 through Sept. 2, as well as round- Smartest ways to redeem credit card cash back 03/28/2019 08:00pm • Cash back credit cards are some of the most popular rewards credit cards available today. These rewards credit cards are relatively easy to understand. Redeeming the cash back you earn with them is fairly simple, too. How you use the cash back you accumulate can make a big difference. Rather than Md. may expand tax credits for electric vehicles 03/28/2019 12:47pm • Legislation could increase the Maryland tax credit received for electric cars to $3,000 per vehicle. Marylanders currently receive $100 times the number of kilowatt-hours of the electric vehicle's battery capacity, with a maximum of $3,000. With this bill, each new electric vehicle purchased will Man sentenced to life in prison in killing, rape of Reston teen 03/28/2019 10:37am • A Northern Virginia man who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a Reston teen in what authorities called a "road rage" attack has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Darwin Martinez-Torres attacked 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen in June 2017 as she was walking back to a mosque with frie Man sentenced to life in prison in killing, rape of Reston teen 03/28/2019 05:04am • FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A Northern Virginia man who pleaded guilty to raping and killing a Reston teen in what authorities called a "road rage" attack has been sentenced to life in prison. Darwin Martinez-Torres attacked 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen in June 2017 as she was walking back to a mosque wi What to expect with Metro for cherry blossom peak bloom weekend 03/28/2019 04:20am • Cherry blossom peak bloom weekend in Washington, D.C. brings big crowds to the Metrorail, so the agency is limiting scheduled track work Saturday and Sunday. The latest projection is that the trees around the Tidal Basin in D.C. will hit peak bloom (70 percent blooming) by Monday, lining up the b Guide to opening day at Nationals Park 03/28/2019 01:34am • Can you smell it? The verdant flush of freshly-cut grass, the savory wafts of sausages and onions grilling on the flattop, the, uh, well, whatever a “lobster blossom” smells like. That’s right, opening Day is here once again, America’s unofficial starting gun signaling the beginning of sp New England seeing a huge spike in beached sea turtles 03/28/2019 01:14am • QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — At a sea turtle hospital housed at an old New England shipyard, a biologist leans over a table and uses a needle to draw blood from a sick loggerhead before tagging its flailing flipper. These were the first tentative steps toward a return to the ocean for this juvenile nic