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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 DC man dies in crash after police pursuit that started in Maryland 12/24/2019 06:40pm • A man was killed in a crash early Tuesday after a roughly nine-mile police chase that started in Prince George's County, Maryland, and ended in D.C. It all started just before midnight, when Prince George's County police responded to a reported robbery at a gas station in 9100 block of Livingston Traffic bottleneck near Farragut Square expected to last for at least several weeks 12/23/2019 05:35pm • The closure from Metro and the District Department of Transportation blocks the center lane in each direction on 17th Street Northwest, between I and K streets. (WTOP/John Domen) There's no timeline yet for how long a newly created flow issue near D.C.'s Farragut Square will last while the cente 600 gallons of oil spilled in waters off Galapagos Islands 12/23/2019 03:31am • Emergency teams in the Galapagos Islands are working to contain a 600-gallon oil spill after a cargo vessel overturned while being loaded with containers early Sunday, local officials said on Twitter. The Galapagos, a UNESCO World Heritage site, are home to some of the most unique and scientifica Lanes closed on 17th Street near Farragut Square due to Metro's structural concerns 12/21/2019 12:25am • The closure from Metro and the District Department of Transportation blocks the center lane in each direction on 17th Street Northwest, between I and K streets. (WTOP/John Domen)   The center lanes of 17th Street Northwest near D.C.'s Farragut Square are closed over concerns identified F '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 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 The reviews are in for 'Cats' -- and hiss they're harsh 12/19/2019 12:17pm • Adapting Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" for the big screen was always going to be a gamble, but reviews from the critics have been especially damning. Directed by Tom Hooper (the man behind "The King's Speech" and "Les Misérables"), the trailer for "Cats" was wide Settlement reached in 2016 Silver Spring apartment explosion 12/17/2019 07:54pm • A settlement has been reached with Washington Gas over the deadly 2016 explosion at the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland. The terms and conditions of the settlement, which was reached on Friday, are confidential, according to Washington Gas spokesman Brian Edwards. "The matt Alexandria appoints city's first black permanent fire chief 12/17/2019 07:35am • Alexandria acting fire chief Corey A. Smedley will step up to the role for good, becoming the first black permanent fire chief in the Virginia city's history. Corey A. Smedley is becoming the city's first black permanent fire chief. (Courtesy Michael Zuidema) On the heels of what Alexandria C Road closures scheduled in Dupont Circle for filming 12/16/2019 02:35pm • Several streets in the Dupont Circle area in D.C. will be closed starting Thursday night for a movie production and filming. The following streets will be closed to vehicles from 6:30 p.m. Thursday to 6 a.m. Friday: Corcoran Street NW between 17th and 19th streets NW R Street NW between 1 Preservation or development? Brazil’s Amazon at a crossroads 12/14/2019 10:53pm • TRAIRAO, Brazil (AP) — Night falls in Brazil’s Amazon and two logging trucks without license plates emerge from the jungle. They rumble over dirt roads that lead away from a national forest, carrying trunks of trees hundreds of years old. After pulling onto a darkened highway, the truckers ch Chef Jose Andres named 2019 TIME for Kids Person of the Year 12/14/2019 08:54am • D.C.'s own Chef Jose Andres has been voted the 2019 TIME for Kids Person of the Year. In its announcement Friday, TIME for Kids said more than a half million votes were cast in the poll, which ranked the eight “Octochamps,” who collectively won the Scripps National Spelling Bee and environmen Trump plots his defense following the historic rebuke he hopes to foil 12/14/2019 08:18am • Historic? Yes. Rebuke? Not so much. The House Judiciary Committee's vote Friday passing articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump was meant as extraordinary repudiation. The history was certainly there, and is weighing on the President. But it did not app Caps making themselves at home with record road start 12/13/2019 12:32am • Packing for a mid-December road trip through both Tampa Bay and Columbus could be a head-scratcher for even the savviest of veterans. But as the Capitals embark on a two-game trek this weekend, the potentially 40-degree drop in temperature barely fazes them. “I don’t worry too much about thes