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Should You Let Your Older Parents Babysit Your Kids? 07/12/2018 08:00pm • When it comes to babysitting, today's modern families often turn to an old-fashioned resource: grandparents. The arrangement seems like a natural fit: If your parents did a good job raising you, it's assumed they'll do a good job watching your children. But your mom and dad are quite a bit older sin DC restaurant manager robbed, shot in Atlanta 07/12/2018 03:37pm • WASHINGTON — The general manager of a D.C. restaurant is in critical condition in an Atlanta hospital after he was robbed and shot following a wedding. Christian Broder, the general manager of Millie’s, on Massachusetts Avenue in Northwest, was shot outside a country club where he and three DC police chief defends last month's stop-and-frisk incident in Northeast 07/12/2018 02:44pm • WASHINGTON — At a D.C. committee hearing Thursday, police Chief Peter Newsham discussed a recent stop-and-frisk incident in Northeast that has prompted criticism about how the department polices some of the District's communities. And while he defended the officers’ asking a group of men for Food truck driver sentenced to nearly 12 years in crash that killed Va. mother of three 07/12/2018 12:30pm • LEESBURG, Va. — The owner of a decrepit school bus converted into a food truck has been sentenced to almost 12 years in prison for the 2017 crash that killed a Loudoun County, Virginia, mother of three. Tony Dane was sentenced Thursday by Loudoun County Circuit Court Judge Benjamin Kendrick to Prince George's Co. opens 1st solar carport 07/12/2018 09:29am • WASHINGTON — Prince George's County has opened the government's first solar carport system at the Wayne K. Curry County Administration Building in Largo. The solar carports are ground-mounted solar panels that are installed above parking lots. In addition to generating electricity, they provide Metro ready to add Red Line service, end Grosvenor turnback 07/12/2018 04:25am • WASHINGTON — Metro would run all rush-hour Red Line trains to Shady Grove, doubling service through Rockville, under a recommendation set to be voted on Thursday by the Metro Board. The measure would settle a long-running debate, and if it’s approved, Metro would run trains every four minutes How tolls, extended hours are impacting I-66 traffic 07/12/2018 04:16am • WASHINGTON — Extended Interstate 66 HOV hours and high morning tolls aimed at reducing the number of cars hitting a chokepoint passing the Dulles Connector Road appear to be the biggest drivers of traffic changes since tolls for solo drivers began in December. A new state review of traffic and How to Invest in Your 30s the Easy Way 07/11/2018 08:00pm • If the 30s had a tagline, it'd be: There's no time like the present to prioritize. Either that or: Juggling would be so much easier with eight arms. Because life in your 30s is a constant juggling act of competing financial priorities. You're paying bills and saving for retirement, a first house and 17-year-old driver dies after car speeds off road, hits tree in Fairfax Co.; 2 other teens injured 07/11/2018 02:25pm • CLIFTON, Va. — The 17-year-old driver of a speeding car that crashed into a tree in Fairfax County Tuesday afternoon has died. Fairfax County police say three teens were traveling westbound on Fairfax Station Road in a 2005 Jeep when the car left the roadway and hit a tree near the intersection Metro weekend parking fees, expanded hours likely to become permanent 07/11/2018 11:21am • WASHINGTON — Metro is set to extend Saturday parking fees, extra parking fees for people who do not pay with a SmarTrip card just used to ride the system, and parking fee hours changes through the end of the year, with a recommendation that much of the “pilot” program becomes permanent. The How wrapping car keys in foil can stymie cyber crooks 07/11/2018 07:48am • WASHINGTON — Wrapping car keys in aluminum foil can lessen the chances cyber-crooks will be able to steal a vehicle, according to security experts. With the growth of the wireless, connected world, thieves have been accessing key fobs, without the owner's knowledge, to open garages and steal ca 'Money is on our minds': Millennials attempt to stay afloat amid student loan debt 07/11/2018 01:21am • In our three-part special report, Money On Our Minds, WTOP takes a close look at the financial situation of millennials in the D.C. area and how they make ends meet, with a focus on student loan debt, homeownership and retirement planning. WASHINGTON — As college-educated, millennial workers fl Video shows moment of Clooney crash, actor thrown in air 07/10/2018 10:57pm • OLBIA, Sardinia (AP) — Actor George Clooney slammed his motorbike into an oncoming car that turned suddenly into his lane Tuesday and was thrown several meters (yards) in the air on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to video of the crash. "He is recovering at his home and will be fine," How to Become an Extreme Saver in 2018 07/10/2018 08:00pm • If you want to cultivate healthy financial habits this year -- and stash away some money for your emergency fund, your retirement, your kid's college education and that elusive worldwide vacation -- now is the time to develop smart saving practices. But if you're going to become an extreme saver, How to Deal With a Financial Emergency in Retirement 07/10/2018 08:00pm • Life events like a natural disaster, health crisis or expensive home repair have one factor in common: They come when you least expect them. Most Americans (55 percent) worry about what they would do when faced with a financial emergency, according to the 2018 Northwestern Mutual Planning & Pro