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Refinance your car loan? Arlington’s MotoRefi can do that 03/26/2019 06:00am • Homeowners refinance their mortgages all the time, but refinancing an auto loan isn’t something most borrowers consider. Arlington, Virginia-based startup MotoRefi thinks it has found a way to make it easy to do. MotoRefi has raised $4.7 million in venture capital funding to ramp up its auto Redesign of Maryland Ave. in Northeast aims to improve safety 03/26/2019 05:25am • After years of waiting, major safety improvements are on the way for a commuter corridor that runs through a Northeast D.C. neighborhood. "Maryland Avenue, as you can see it right now, was a road that was built to handle about 30 to 45 minutes in the morning, but we live with it 24 hours a day," Make travel easier, more enjoyable with these 5 expert tips 03/26/2019 12:50am • Samantha Brown practically lives out of a suitcase. In the last two decades, she has captured the cultures, cuisines and people of more than 60 countries and 250 cities on a number of travel TV shows, including her current PBS series, “Samantha Brown’s Places to Love.” And along the way, sh HopSkipDrive, a kid-friendly ride service, comes to Washington 03/25/2019 06:30pm • Los Angeles-based HopSkipDrive is bringing its youth transportation car service to Washington and said it will make life easier for busy Beltway parents. The service uses highly-vetted drivers, called “CareDrivers,” who pass a 15-point certification process that includes fingerprinting, back 'Some Response' indeed: Horse tosses rider during race, hoofs it down Route 50 03/25/2019 04:23pm • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: '684e2a60-05af-4fdb-8761-48ef19d4308e' }).render("357615363be9f437");}); It's not something you see everyday, ev DC's 'Potholeplaooza' aims to smooth record road problems 03/25/2019 01:42pm • There’s a promise of relief to at least some commuters who have faced wild rides bouncing off potholes or zigzagging around them the last few months. With the weather warming up, the District kicked off months of pothole repair efforts Monday morning with what is expected to be a larger-than-us Car Review: New Toyota Sienna offers something other minivans don’t 03/24/2019 09:21pm • It might be not be the coolest vehicle on the road, but the minivan is a useful ride for families that want space and good utility. But there's usually one major downfall: no all-wheel drive. The loaded $45,123 Toyota Sienna XLE Premium I drove is the only minivan to offer AWD, giving it a leg up 10-foot sinkhole: Northbound George Washington Parkway to remain closed through weekend 03/23/2019 09:15am • The northbound lanes of a major stretch of the George Washington Parkway in Virginia will remain closed through the weekend, though officials from the National Park Service say repairs are going well and hope to have the road open for some traffic by Monday. Road crews and engineers are working t A child's plea: 'Please, please be careful with how you drive' 03/22/2019 04:14pm • After a series of serious and deadly crashes along Maryland Route 210/Indian Head Highway in Oxon Hill, Maryland, county leaders are trying something different: launching a safety campaign that targets the younger generation. "We're calling it 'Driving It Home' because we're really focused on dri Self-driving shuttles coming to Northern Virginia 03/22/2019 01:10pm • Self-driving shuttles are set to hit the streets of Northern Virginia in coming months, in what could just be the first of several deployments across the region. "We're working with two particular pilots, both here in Northern Virginia, and I think....we will see a deployment of an autonomous shu Va. outlines alternatives during monthslong closure of Blue, Yellow lines 03/22/2019 04:15am • Virginia will spend $3.6 million to let buses run past traffic on part of the Capital Beltway, discount Amtrak trips for VRE riders and to support expanded bus and water taxi service during this summer's monthslong Metro shutdown of six Blue Line and Yellow Line stations. The Commonwealth Transpo Police: Man posed as Howard U. student lured, sexually assaulted victims 03/21/2019 05:37pm • A New Carrollton, Maryland, man has been arrested and charged in connection with three sexual assaults that happened over 14 years. Two of his victims were Howard University students at the time, and police are concerned there are more victims. Julian Everett, 35, posed as a Howard University stu Shooting on I-495 in Prince George’s County sends 1 to hospital 03/21/2019 04:05am • A shooting on Interstate 495 in Maryland's Prince George's County sent one person to the hospital with minor injuries on Wednesday. According to Prince George's County police, around 6:45 p.m., officers were called to the University of Maryland Prince George's Hospital Center in response to a 16- Man convicted in 2017 rape, murder of artist in Northeast DC 03/20/2019 06:22pm • Two years after a woman was attacked by an intruder as she was loading up her car to leave D.C., a jury convicted the man charged with her rape and murder. Jurors found El Hadji Toure, 30, formerly of Laurel, Maryland, guilty Wednesday of all 13 counts he was facing, including the murder and rape Pedestrian deaths rising in Va., but safety improvements working 03/20/2019 05:47pm • More pedestrians are being killed on Virginia's roads, but safety strategies implemented at problem-prone areas are working, according to a highway safety update presented to the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board on Wednesday. Between 2015 and 2018, the number of people kille