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Virginia Gov. Northam vetoes first bill of the year 03/12/2019 04:38pm • Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued his first veto of the year Tuesday, blocking a bill that would have automatically granted out-of-state residents a temporary concealed carry permit if Virginia State Police did not complete their review of an application within 90 days. The gun bill meant to mak No cat videos?! What life was like before the World Wide Web 03/12/2019 09:57am • It's been 30 years to the day since Tim Berners-Lee laid out his proposal for an information management system that he called the World Wide Web. Those born after 1989 have never known a world without a web, but some of us with earlier birth dates are reflecting on how life has changed since www 1 injured after car crashes, overturns in Gaithersburg 03/12/2019 07:57am • A person was injured after a car crashed and overturned in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The crash happened Monday around 9 p.m. on Clopper Road near Longdraft Road. The driver of the car was trapped and pinned inside the car and had to be extricated, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue said. Rescu 1 dead, 5 injured after multi-vehicle crash on I-95 in Maryland 03/12/2019 05:58am • One person is dead and five others are injured after three cars and a tractor trailer crashed on Interstate 95 near Columbia, Maryland on Tuesday. The crash was in the southbound lanes of I-95 after MD-175. The five people who were injured are expected to recover, Maryland State Police said. Suspect arrested after crashing into police car during Stafford Co. chase 03/12/2019 04:56am • Police arrested a wanted man, who crashed into a police car during a pursuit in Stafford County, Virginia, with the help of a K9 unit on Friday. The suspect, Jamaunta McQueen, 23, of Triangle, Virginia, caught a deputy's attention when he drove past a stop sign at Shasta Place and Newcastle Place 7-year-old boy among 2 dead in fiery Maryland highway crash 03/11/2019 05:15pm • A massive crash that closed roads and sent smoke billowing into the air for miles was cleared, but a 7-year-old boy was among the dead when a tractor-trailer plowed into a line of 12 cars Monday morning. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan tweeted his condolences to the families of 7-year-old Tripp Johns Metro fare, service changes: What's in, what's out of final budget plan 03/11/2019 02:30pm • Metro would significantly improve service through Columbia Heights, Fort Totten and Hyattsville by extending all Yellow Line trains to Greenbelt, and add service on the Red Line near Glenmont under a final budget proposal set for preliminary approval Thursday. The Yellow Line extension would “d Bumpy stretch of BW Parkway remains 'absolute nightmare' 03/11/2019 11:18am • (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: 'd9fa3ff6-453f-4dea-944e-72c48508a572' }).render("11161536af011e38");}); A bumpy and damaged stretch of the Balt 1 suspect caught in Virginia car chase that ended in DC 03/10/2019 10:50pm • A car chase Sunday that started in Virginia ended in Southeast D.C., with one person caught and two others escaping. The chase started in the Tysons Corner area in Fairfax County after a robbery of a sun glass store, NBC Washington reported. Virginia State Police pursued the vehicle into D.C., Car Review: Redesigned Ram 1500 Laramie offers luxury, brawn for a price 03/09/2019 10:12pm • If you look at sales of vehicles in the U.S. you might be surprised to know that the top three are pickups. Ford, Chevy and Ram full-size pickups are selling well ahead of the rest of the pack which means big business and profits for the “Big Three” U.S. automakers. Ram has been number three Pay-per-mile driven instead of gas tax? Testing with tolls coming to Va. 03/09/2019 05:30am • Virginia is about to join the areas testing a fee per mile driven as a potential replacement for the gas tax to fund critical transportation needs. The I-95 Corridor Coalition is expanding the East Coast testing of a "vehicle miles traveled fee," also sometimes referred to as a mileage-based user Snow gives way to rain Saturday, before springlike Sunday 03/09/2019 01:00am • A mix of rain and snow fell across the WTOP listening area Friday afternoon and evening and forecasters say the storm is all but finished. But beware black ice and slushy roads in suburbs north and west of D.C. Listen to WTOP online and on the radio at 103.5 FM or 107.7 FM. Current tr Today in History: March 9 03/09/2019 12:51am • Today is Saturday, March 9, the 68th day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On March 9, 1933, Congress, called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, began its ``hundred days'' of enacting New Deal legislation. On this date: In 1796, the future emperor of the French Va. bills on naloxone in schools, nuisance animal control signed by Gov. Northam 03/08/2019 02:45pm • The latest round of bills signed into law in Richmond range from changes that could jump start stalled developments in Northern Virginia, to allowing naloxone in schools, to granting permission to shoot certain animals from a car. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed the Senate version of the chang 2 hospitalized after car slides off GW Parkway, NB lanes closed for hours 03/08/2019 10:40am • Two people are in the hospital with serious injuries after a car slid off the George Washington Parkway and crashed into trees Friday morning, shuttering northbound lanes for hours. U.S. Park Police said it happened around 6 a.m., just before the exit to Reagan National Airport. WTOP's Jack Ta