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NOAA office in Suitland rescues 100s of stranded people every year 02/17/2019 10:31am • WASHINGTON — Inside a sprawling, secure federal complex in Suitland, Maryland, sits a building housing some of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's most secure systems. Among them is the Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking System, commonly referred to as SARSAT. It's where 3-vehicle crash in Northwest DC leaves 5 injured 02/17/2019 05:46am • WASHINGTON — Five people are in the hospital, one with injuries that are life threatening, after three cars crashed in Northwest D.C. early Sunday morning. It happened just after 3:30 a.m. at the intersection of Missouri and Kansas avenues in Brightwood Park. The man with life-threatening in 1 dead, 2 injured in Anne Arundel Co. crash 02/16/2019 01:40pm • WASHINGTON — One person is dead and two have minor injuries after a two-vehicle crash in Anne Arundel County Saturday morning. The crash happened just before noon on eastbound Maryland Route 100 at the intersection of Quarterfield Road. Anne Arundel Fire officials said one car was on its sid Lowest and highest average car insurance premiums in the region 02/16/2019 07:27am • WASHINGTON — It’s not just the cost of new and used cars that keeps going up: area car insurance rates have also continued to climb. A new study shows rates have jumped about 3.5 percent since last year, and over 10 percent since 2011. And while that’s a lot, it’s still about half as high Md. police partner with Ring app to offer neighbors digital crime watch 02/16/2019 07:03am • WASHINGTON — The technology company Ring, known for its video doorbell device and home security cameras, has a modern take on the concept of a neighborhood watch, and Prince George's County Police are all in. Prince George's County police said they will use the Ring Neighbors app to share crime 3 injured in roadside crash in Frederick Co. 02/16/2019 06:34am • WASHINGTON — Three people were taken to the hospital with serious injuries after they were struck by a car near Frederick, Maryland on Friday. Police say they were responding to a crash around 8 p.m. on Route 194 in Walkersville that involved two cars when a third car hit one of the cars involv DC parking ticket, towing revenue on the decline 02/15/2019 03:09pm • WASHINGTON — Parking ticket and towing revenue collected through the Department of Public Works is on the decline in D.C., continuing a trend of fewer tickets going back about a decade. While the District collected about $75 million in parking tickets and towing fees in the 2016 and 2017 budge Video released of suspect in Anne Arundel Co. fire that damaged 2 cars, town house 02/15/2019 01:53pm • WASHINGTON — Authorities in Anne Arundel County have released video of a suspect in a fire that damaged two cars and a town house early Friday morning in Glen Burnie, Maryland. The Anne Arundel County Fire Department was called to a town house development on Wisdom Court near the Quarterfield C Metrobus hits pole avoiding another crash in Rockville 02/15/2019 08:37am • WASHINGTON — A Metrobus driver suffered serious injuries after hitting a pole and avoiding another crash in Rockville, Maryland. Montgomery County firefighters say around 7 p.m., an off-duty Metrobus driver was traveling northbound on Rockville Pike when the bus hit a traffic light pole at the Single and looking in DC? Turns out you're in the majority 02/15/2019 05:06am • WASHINGTON — Did you celebrate (commiserate) Singles Awareness Day on Friday? If you are in the D.C. area, you weren't alone (or may be you were). According to research by Move.org, a website that helps people find movers, D.C. is home to the nation's loneliest group of people. But take hear Today in History: Feb. 15 02/15/2019 12:00am • Today is Friday, Feb. 15, the 46th day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On Feb. 15, 1961, 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to the World Championships in Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium. On this date Auditor's report critical of Maryland's State Highway Administration 02/14/2019 06:15pm • WASHINGTON — The agency that maintains Maryland's highways hasn't been doing enough to ensure a vendor that operates speed cameras in work zones is holding up its side of a contract with the state. It's one of eight areas that auditors for the Office of Legislative Audits found needs improvemen Hilton named by Fortune as best company to work for; 6 other local businesses make list 02/14/2019 07:33am • WASHINGTON — Hilton, a McLean, Virginia-based global hospitality company, climbed to the top of Fortune's annual Best Companies to Work For list for 2019. The company, which has more than 5,400 managed and franchised properties in 106 countries, climbed 32 spots since last year's list. Accor Why blackface? 02/14/2019 06:48am • (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. See the full story on The Conversation.) (THE CONVERSATION -- By Michael Millner) Blackface is part of American culture’s DNA. But America has forgotten that. For almost two we Potential new Bay Bridge crossings revealed 02/14/2019 06:35am • WASHINGTON — It’s been discussed for several years, and now the state of Maryland and the Federal Highway Administration are conducting a $5 million study to look at where a new Chesapeake Bay Bridge crossing might work best. A map showing the different crossings was released by Delegate Rob