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Gas leak near Navy Yard Metro station prompts evacuations, rail service delays 12/26/2019 03:35pm • Emergency crews worked to fix a gas leak near the Navy Yard Metro station on Thursday, Dec. 26, 2019. (WTOP/Kate Ryan) A gas leak near the Navy Yard Metro station caused some nearby evacuations and rail service disruptions in the area Thursday afternoon, but emergency crews have since fixed the Track Santa's trip around the globe 12/24/2019 06:45am • Santa is on his way, and the North American Aerospace Defense Command is keeping track of Kris Kringle's progress. NORAD is the U.S. and Canadian cooperative charged with defending the airspace in North America, and monitoring airspace activity around the world. In addition to their defense dutie Baba Ram Dass, spiritual guru and LSD proponent, dies at 88 12/23/2019 04:42pm • HONOLULU (AP) — Baba Ram Dass, the 1960s counterculture spiritual leader who experimented with LSD and traveled to India to find enlightenment, returning to share it with Americans, has died. He was 88. Dass’ foundation, Love Serve Remember, announced late Sunday tha Weather service releases winter-long outlook for DC region 12/23/2019 06:33am • The National Weather Service has issued its weather forecast for the entire winter season — and while it is expected to be a milder than normal winter across the northern tier of the U.S. extending into our region, you will still want to keep a close eye on the forecast. Listen to WTOP Roads re-open after fog, ice causes 69-car pileup, injuries on I-64 near Williamsburg 12/22/2019 04:55pm • A pileup involving at least 69 cars caused massive delays and numerous injuries on Interstate 64 near the Queens Creek Overpass in York County, Virginia, according to the York-Poquoson Sheriff's Office. The series of crashes started at 7:51 a.m. Sunday and were caused by ice and fog on the Queens DC man sentenced for $500K scheme involving city employee 12/20/2019 09:40pm • A D.C. man has been sentenced to 41 months in prison after stealing more than $560,000 from a company that did business with the District. John Woods, 57, was a consultant for a company that worked with the city's Department of Human Resources. In an announcement Friday, Woods pleaded guilty to r Va. AG Herring says state's gun 'sanctuaries' won't be above likely new laws 12/20/2019 04:12pm • FILE — Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring speaks to reporters outside the Arlington County Courthouse in Arlington, Va., Monday, Oct. 6, 2014.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) In hearings packed with gun rights supporters, several Virginia counties and cities have voted recently to become Record number of holiday travelers set to brave the roads and skies 12/20/2019 04:04pm • A record number of Americans are set to travel this holiday season. AAA estimates that 115.6 million people — over a third of the U.S. — will brave the roads and skies. It's the largest number of travelers that AAA has ever recorded since it started keeping the statistic in 2000. The bulk Ring in 2020 with extended Metro service on New Year's Eve 12/20/2019 03:48pm • Metro trains will run until 2 a.m. for New Year's Eve revelers celebrating the end of 2019 and the start of 2020. The final trains will depart stations one hour later than a typical Friday or Saturday night. Since some trains leave more than 30 minutes before the stated closing time, riders sh 8 takeaways from the sixth Democratic presidential debate 12/20/2019 06:01am • The final Democratic presidential debate of 2019 may have taken place in California, but it was all about Iowa. Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren are banking on a strong performance there on the path to the nomination. They showed that on Thursday, with Anne Arundel County gun violence task force releases preliminary report 12/19/2019 08:32pm • A gun task force assembled in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, has released a preliminary report looking at ways the county can prevent gun violence. The task force was formed in April by county Executive Steuart Pittman to take a look at how the county could address this issue. The group's three c Trump impeached on charges of abuse of power, obstruction 12/19/2019 05:25am • WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors. The historic vote split along party lines Wednesday n Va. man receives 5 life sentences for drugging, sexually abusing child in 'den of hell' 12/19/2019 02:13am • Officials described the scenes where Raymond Harry, Jr. lived and kept his captive as a "den of hell." (Courtesy Spotsylvania Sheriff's Office) A 35-year-old Virginia man was sentenced Wednesday to five mandatory life sentences and an additional 100 years in prison after he was convicted of four Money from DC-area park fee increase will go toward local improvement projects 12/18/2019 06:21pm • When entrance fees go up on Jan. 1 at national parks, money collected locally will go toward all sorts of D.C.-area projects — even improving pavement on the George Washington Parkway. "Part of milling and paving on part of George Washington Memorial Parkway was paid for through entrance fees," Best modern Christmas movies 12/18/2019 12:54am • We all know that “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946), “Miracle on 34th Street" (1947), “A Christmas Story” (1983) and “Christmas Vacation” (1989) are holiday classics. But if we capped it at the 1990s and beyond, what would the list look like? Let the countdown begin: Best Mo