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Construction of new Crystal City Metro station entrance begins 07/13/2024 07:48am • Metro representatives, Arlington County and other Virginia state officials broke ground on the area for the future east entrance to the Crystal City Metrorail Station on Friday. The new entrance is expected to be completed in late 2027, as constructions is expected to take at least three years. As a new scam targets owners of lost pets, a local shelter offers a heads up 07/12/2024 08:05pm • The Fairfax County Animal Shelter wants pet owners to know that someone is posing as shelter staff in an attempt to get money from owners of lost pets. Reasa Currier, director of Fairfax County's Department of Animal Sheltering, told WTOP how the scam works. When a pet owner posts about their Arlington, Calvert counties top a 'best digital counties' list 07/12/2024 11:20am • Arlington County, Virginia, is ranked No. 1 for its size in the Center for Digital Government’s annual rankings of counties for use of technology to engage with their citizens, and Calvert County, Maryland, topped the list among counties for its size. It is the third year in a row Arlington Cou Desperately needed rain hits DC area. Weekend sees return of scorching temps 07/12/2024 06:22am • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. After a prolonged heat wave pushed feels-like temperatures into the triple digits throughout the D.C. area, things are cooling off on a rainy Friday. However, this weekend could bring a bit of a weather roller coaster, including sh Prince William Co. schools to expand restrictions on student cellphone use 07/10/2024 10:08pm • Prince William County Public Schools intends to expand its restrictions on cellphone usage to all middle and high schools next year. The undertaking — an expansion of last year’s pilot program restricting phone usage in county schools — comes as Gov. Glenn Youngkin is making “cellphone-fr Doctor says tampons are safe after research finds toxic metals in the menstrual product 07/10/2024 07:03pm • Researchers say tampons made by many brands contain toxic metals, including lead and arsenic. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of California Berkeley measured 16 metals in tampons, evaluating 14 unidentified brands from the U.S. and Europe. They found “measurable conc More police are dying on duty in 2024, report finds 07/10/2024 05:12pm • More police are being killed while on duty in 2024 compared to the same time span last year, according to a new report released by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. “The conditions for the men and women out there protecting us are increasingly dangerous and every single year, Confusion, clinic closures may have caused big declines in contraception use, study shows 07/10/2024 11:05am • Clinic closures in the wake of the Dobbs decision and questions about the legality of emergency contraceptives, including disinformation that some are abortion drugs, may have contributed to a sharp drop in the rate of prescriptions for contraceptives in states with the most restrictive abortion ban Gov. Youngkin issues executive order establishing 'cellphone-free education' in Virginia 07/09/2024 04:47pm • Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Tuesday issued an executive order requiring public school divisions to adopt policies establishing cellphone-free education by January 2025. The order directs the Virginia Department of Education to initiate "a robust public engagement effort with parents, students, teacher DC region hit with excessive heat warning as feels-like temps surge past 110 in some spots 07/09/2024 04:30pm • Dangerous heat is keeping its firm grip on the D.C. region Tuesday as heat index values surged past 110 degrees in certain areas, leading the National Weather Service to issue an excessive heat warning until 8 p.m. According to the NWS, a number of locations along I-95 and points eastward experie 'Call first:' Downtown businesses near NATO Summit prepare for uncertainty 07/08/2024 06:19pm • It's hard to run a business if you're not certain whether employees or customers will be able to get to the shop — that's the reality for some business owners near the Washington Convention Center, which will host the NATO Summit from Tuesday through Thursday. At Central Safe & Locksmith, o Feels-like temperatures hit triple digits Monday in DC area 07/08/2024 04:11pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. Sweltering temperatures are baking D.C.-area residents with feels-like temperatures in the triple digits Monday and there's a possibility for a few spotty storms. Here's what you need to know. "Sizzling heat and uncomfortable humid Major street closures for NATO Summit this week; crews install fencing near White House 07/08/2024 09:36am • In preparation for Tuesday's NATO Summit in D.C., crews from a contractor installed tall, latticed steel fences on the sidewalk along the Ellipse near the White House. A small forklift unloaded pallets of the fencing onto the sidewalk on Monday morning while crews dragged and then assembled the How to get around DC amid significant road, sidewalk closures for NATO Summit 07/08/2024 05:27am • As closures change to deal with delays, listen live to WTOP for the latest traffic updates on the 8s. Prepare for significant road and sidewalk closures this week in downtown D.C. for the 75th Anniversary 2024 North Atlantic Treaty Organization Summit. It's the first time in 25 years D.C. has Prince William Co. hospital announces completion of $1M emergency department investment 07/07/2024 08:15am • A $1 million investment project in the emergency department of The Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center in Woodbridge is complete. Jeff Joyner, president of Sentara Northern Virginia Media Center in Prince William County, said the upgrades include a pair of dedicated trauma rooms. "The new