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Metro train operator fell asleep at the switch, investigation finds 02/13/2020 05:08pm • A Metro train operator fell asleep at the controls, leading to a rush-hour train blowing right through a station without stopping last year, a newly-finalized investigation concluded. The 7000 Series Green Line train toward Branch Avenue kept going through the Waterfront station just before 8 a.m Montgomery Co. police to step up distracted driving patrols on Valentine's Day 02/09/2020 07:47pm • While many of us hand out valentines Feb. 14, Montgomery County, Maryland, police officers will issue tickets to distracted drivers caught holding cellphones. "Although we have a great enforcement effort, clearly with drivers' behaviors and how cellphone use is so prevalent, we have to do more an Arlington police seeking info on string of robberies, carjackings near Pentagon City mall 02/05/2020 09:51pm • Police in Arlington County, Virginia, are seeking assistance locating the suspect or suspects responsible for four armed robberies in the Pentagon City area. Over the last 3 1/2 weeks, there have been three carjackings and armed robberies near Fashion Centre at Pentagon City. In each case, a m Cameras aimed at the road coming to Anne Arundel County school buses 02/04/2020 12:42pm • By this fall, at least some school buses in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, should be outfitted with cameras that will be aimed at drivers who aren't stopping for buses that have stopped for kids. In a county that hasn't legalized speed or red light cameras (though the city of Annapolis has), the Rush Limbaugh says he's been diagnosed with lung cancer 02/03/2020 10:30pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Conservative radio host and Republican kingmaker Rush Limbaugh said he���s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Addressing listeners on his program Monday, Limbaugh said he will take some days off for further medical tests and to determine treatme The best and worst of Super Bowl ads 02/03/2020 09:51am • NEW YORK (AP) ��� Boston accents got poked. ���Groundhog Day��� got ��� surprise ��� resurrected, complete with Bill Murray. Google pulled out tears, and Cheetos and Doritos danced. All to the tune of $5.6 million for 30 seconds ��� to reach 100 million people with your product. During adverti Va. assembly votes: Abortion, phone use by drivers, concealed carry, discrimination 01/30/2020 11:12am • Virginia lawmakers voted Wednesday to repeal some abortion restrictions, require concealed-carry permit training be done in person, and to ban handheld cellphone use by drivers. The Senate voted to repeal abortion restrictions imposed by Republicans, including a 24-hour waiting period and mandato Anne Arundel investigates later start time for school days 01/26/2020 10:33am • Parents who attended a recent Anne Arundel Board of Education meeting said they support a later starting time for the Maryland school system. Prismatic Services, a consulting firm, recently recommended roughly two dozen transportation-related changes for Anne Arundel County Public Schools, includ Traffic safety group ranks DC, Maryland and Virginia efforts to prevent deadly crashes 01/23/2020 06:50pm • The White House is visible as morning traffic builds along 16th Street Northwest, in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2016.�� (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) More than 37,000 people are expected to be killed on U.S. highways this year, and one group is renewing calls for states to pass traffic safety l Virginia bills would ban holding phone while driving, prevent racial targeting 01/22/2020 08:10am • It's already illegal to text or read a message on a smartphone while driving in Virginia, but opponents of distracted driving are renewing a push to ban holding a phone while behind the wheel. New bills being considered in Virginia's House and Senate ��� HB874 and SB160 ��� would tweak the curren Traffic deaths at 6-year low on dangerous Indian Head Highway 01/17/2020 11:44am • Almost 70 people have died on Indian Head Highway over the course of a dozen years, in part because of drag racing, drunken driving and excessive speed. But AAA Mid-Atlantic says Indian Head Highway ��� Maryland Route 210 ��� is the safest it's been in years. The travel advocacy group said the nu DC Mayor Bowser 'ready to turn the page' after Jack Evans announces resignation 01/08/2020 02:05pm • As the federal investigation into D.C. Council member Jack Evans continues, Mayor Muriel Bowser made it clear Wednesday that she does not want it to serve as a distraction from the work ahead in the District. "I'm obviously very sad that a public servant who had dedicated his career to improving Movie Review: 'Cats' is a cat-astrophe 01/03/2020 02:47am • This image by Universal Pictures shows Taylor Swift as Bombalurina in a scene from "Cats." (Universal Pictures via AP) Cats may have nine lives, but the new movie "Cats" uses every last one of them. Tom Hooper's adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 Broadway musical simply does not tra 'Dangerous dysfunction': Safety failures found after Metro riders sent toward smoke 12/20/2019 12:29pm • Metro riders in D.C. were stuck in a tunnel near a fire last week because of Metro's failure to follow safety procedures and a lack of training for train operators, a repeat of the ���chaotic��� response in the agency���s long-troubled Rail Operations Control Center. ���The atmosphere in the ROCC Montgomery Co. leaders, residents talk road safety, pedestrian and bicyclist deaths at town hall 12/14/2019 04:45pm • Alarmed by an increase in the number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths and injuries, Montgomery County residents and leaders gathered for a town hall Saturday morning to discuss road safety. And it didn't take long before the session's importance was underscored by another incident. "In the 15 m