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Memorial Day weekend 2024 could break travel records. Here's what to know. 05/20/2024 05:04pm • ▶ Watch Video: Record travel expected as millions make plans for Memorial Day Despite another month of spring technically still ahead, travelers often view Memorial Day weekend as an unofficial kickoff to the summer season — and traffic notoriously reflects that. Based on current fo Man dead, another hospitalized after shooting during 'car meet' at Prince George's Co. shopping center 05/20/2024 05:03pm • A Waldorf man was killed and another man hospitalized in a Sunday morning shooting that happened during a "car meet" in District Heights, Maryland, according to police. The Prince George's County Police Department said the shooting happened around 1:45 a.m. in the Great Eastern Plaza shopping cen Maine man charged with stealing, crashing 2 police cars held without bail 05/20/2024 04:33pm • PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A man charged with crashing two law enforcement vehicles during a police chase that concluded with gunfire from 11 officers should be held without bail until his trial, prosecutors said Monday. Gary Porter of Maine had been arrested on a warrant for theft on May 6 when he es Colton Herta shows speed as Honda fights back in penultimate Indy 500 practice session 05/20/2024 04:14pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Colton Herta and Andretti Global showed Monday that the Honda teams at the Indianapolis 500 just might have something for the mighty Chevrolet cars from Team Penske and Arrow McLaren when the green flag drops next weekend. Herta spent about half of the penultimate 2-hour practi Off-duty police officer injured in shooting in Washington, DC 05/20/2024 03:42pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — A off-duty police officer in Washington, D.C., was injured Monday afternoon when a suspect opened fire as the officer was driving to work. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Pamela Smith said the officer was on his way to the 4th District station just after noon when he “obse Analysis: Larson enters conversation with Verstappen as best drivers in the world 05/20/2024 03:41pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ask almost any hardcore motorsports fan who the best driver in the world is right now and the answer is probably going to be Formula 1's three-time reigning champion. But Alexander Rossi has raced against Max Verstappen, just as he has raced against NASCAR star Kyle Larson. An Senate report finds parts made with China's forced labor in cars by BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and VW 05/20/2024 03:38pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Volkswagen have bought parts made by a Chinese company sanctioned under a 2021 law for using forced labor, a Senate inquiry found, prompting lawmakers to call for stricter enforcement. The automakers responded to the Senate report, released Monday, by DC police officer wounded after suspect fires at his vehicle; 2 arrested in Prince George's Co. 05/20/2024 03:02pm • A D.C. police officer was taken to the hospital after a person shot at his car while he was on his way to work Monday afternoon. Two suspects sought by police in the shooting were later arrested in Prince George's County after their car crashed and flipped over. It all began unfolding around 12:1 DP World Tour Schedule 05/20/2024 03:00pm • Nov. 23-26 _ Joburg Open (Dean Burmester) Nov. 23-26 _ Fortinet Australian PGA Championship (Min Woo Lee) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ Investec South African Open Championship (Dean Burmester) Nov. 30-Dec. 3 _ ISPS Handa Australian Open (Joaquin Niemann) Dec. 7-10 _ Alfred Dunhill Championship (Louis Oosthuizen Scottie Scheffler's Louisville court date postponed after arrest during PGA Championship 05/20/2024 02:49pm • LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky court has postponed pro golfer Scottie Scheffler's appearance on charges he injured a police officer and disobeyed commands outside the gates of Valhalla Golf Club as the venue hosted this year's PGA Championship. Scheffler, who was handcuffed and briefly jailed o Hall of Fame outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. to lead Indianapolis 500 field in Corvette pace car 05/20/2024 12:09pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Hall of Fame outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. will drive the pace car for the 108th running of the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday. Griffey has attended “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” in his second career as a photographer, but now his job will be much more visible. He'll be behin Ricky Stenhouse could face suspension after throwing punch at Kyle Busch after All-Star Race 05/20/2024 11:35am • NORTH WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. threw a right hook at Kyle Busch, and suddenly, an otherwise boring All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway had NASCAR fans buzzing heading into next weekend's marquee Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. Busch had wrecked Stenhouse on the second lap of Today in Sports - Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title 05/20/2024 10:00am • May 21 1881 — A small group of tennis club members meets at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City to form the world’s first national governing body for tennis: the United States National Lawn Tennis Association. The new organization is created to standardize tennis rules and regulations and to Car Review: Kia Sportage adds plug-in hybrid version with 35 miles of all-electric driving 05/20/2024 05:12am • The Kia Sportage PHEV is happy to cruise quietly on electric power or combine the gas and electric together. (WTOP/Mike Parris) It seems like I just drove the revised and impressive Sportage Hybrid with its new looks and pleasing fuel efficiency. Like the hybrid version we looked at two weeks ago, t After the only hospital in town closed, a North Carolina city directs its ire at politicians 05/20/2024 01:13am • WILLIAMSTON, N.C. (AP) — Weeds have punctured through the vacant parking lot of Martin General Hospital’s emergency room. A makeshift blue tarp covering the hospital’s sign is worn down from flapping in the wind. The hospital doors are locked, many in this county of 22,000 fear permanently. So