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Home renovation company Curbio settles DC lawsuit for $7.5M 09/12/2024 09:57am • Potomac, Maryland-based Curbio, which specializes in renovating homes to prepare them for resale, will settle a lawsuit brought by the D.C. Attorney General's Office (OAG) last fall for $7.5 million, including restitution to homeowners who claim they were harmed by Curbio's deceptive practices. C Arlington reports success in recruiting substitute teachers using updated approach 09/11/2024 08:30pm • Increasing pay and earlier recruitment has helped Arlington Public Schools improve its substitute teacher hiring efforts, school system leaders said at a board meeting last week. The school system ended the first week of school with an 89% substitute fill rate, chief academic officer Gerald Mann This old-school DC Italian grocery store is aging like fine wine 09/11/2024 05:25pm • This story is part of WTOP’s Small Business September series, sponsored by EagleBank. A. Litteri, an old-school Northeast D.C. Italian grocery store, has been around since the 1920s, and it's aging like a fine wine, getting more and more popular and respected through the years. "The st 'Focused on the future': DC-area residents, politicians react to presidential debate 09/11/2024 11:00am • In a city whose business is politics, it was no surprise that people packed D.C.-area bars and restaurants to watch Tuesday's presidential debate. Hundreds at The Admiral restaurant and bar in Dupont Circle were glued to 15 big screen TVs to witness Vice President Kamala Harris battle against From dog bites to shelters, DC's Health Department and Humane Rescue Alliance prepare for changeover 09/11/2024 04:16am • For more than 40 years, the Humane Rescue Alliance and the District of Columbia's Department of Health have had an agreement on the handling of everything from sheltering animals to corralling strays and investigating cruelty cases. Soon, the roles of the nonprofit and the D.C. agency will change Say 'goodbye' to DC Circulator: How the city plans to make up for lost bus routes 09/10/2024 04:49pm • The D.C. Circulator is being booted from circulation but the mayor's office and Metro have said they have temporary plans to help make up for the lost routes starting next month. The D.C. Circulator will start rolling back service Oct. 1 and it will end all routes by the start of the new year. Loudoun Co. courthouse named for civil rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston 09/10/2024 01:19pm • Loudoun County's historic courthouse, in Leesburg, Virginia, now bears the name of groundbreaking civil rights attorney Charles Hamilton Houston, whose arguments within its walls led to U.S. Supreme Court rulings, and more equitable education for area families. After graduating from Harvard Law S Trash is dirty business. In Prince George's Co., some are stinking mad that it's not being picked up 09/10/2024 08:05am • Dozens of Prince George’s County, Maryland, residents dealing with the sights and smells of uncollected trash for a good chunk of the summer unwrapped their frustration at a public meeting Monday night. Angel Nelson, who lives in the Fairwood section of Prince George's County, said she's had pr DC police release bodycam video footage of fatal shooting outside Southeast DC McDonald's 09/09/2024 07:47pm • A week after police shot and killed a man outside a McDonald's in Southeast D.C., authorities have released body camera video footage of the shooting. Justin Robinson, 26, a D.C. man who worked with violence interruption programs in the District, was fatally shot by two police officers last w How DC is using a robot to help keep track of street signs 09/09/2024 05:05pm • Its eyes make hearts and stars, and they may wink at you as the Kiwibot roams streets across D.C. Contrary to speculation, the robot that’s been captured on social media in recent days isn’t giving out parking tickets. Instead, it’s part of a pilot program that’s helping D.C.’s Depa Prince William County school board denies petition to remove popular book from circulation 09/09/2024 01:51pm • The Prince William County School Board has upheld a recommendation by the superintendent and division-level committee that the book "A Court of Thorns and Roses" remain in circulation for high school students, denying a petitioner's request to remove the book. A county parent, Chris Funderburg, f DC sniper Lee Boyd Malvo transferred from Virginia supermax prison 09/09/2024 01:05pm • Convicted D.C. sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, who killed 10 people in October 2002, has been transferred from Virginia's supermax prison, Red Onion State Prison, to Keen Mountain Correctional Center, WTOP has learned. Malvo was 17 when he committed the crimes, and was arrested with John Allen Muhammad, a Did Maryland lawmakers overstep their bounds with a law to protect abused children? 09/09/2024 11:19am • A Maryland state law that removed the limits for sexual abuse victims to accuse their abusers is facing legal challenges. That’s the crux of a case that will be in front of the Maryland Supreme Court this week as the justices hear arguments on whether the Maryland Child Victims Act is constitut 7 years after deadly crash, blind intersection on winding Loudoun Co. road will soon be eliminated 09/09/2024 09:48am • Sunday marked seven years since a Loudoun County, Virginia mother was killed when an out-of-control, dilapidated food truck plowed into her station wagon on a dangerous stretch of Evergreen Mills Road outside Leesburg. Now, the county is acquiring nearby land to eliminate the blind intersecti LL Flooring founder to rescue company from bankruptcy 09/09/2024 09:21am • Richmond, Virginia-based LL Flooring, the former Lumber Liquidators, which announced plans to liquidate and close all stores last week, has agreed to a last minute deal that will save thousands of jobs and keep hundreds of its stores open. Late Friday, the company said an agreement was reached wi