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22 Hours: An American Nightmare - Episode 3: The Money Drop 06/24/2019 09:21am • EPISODE 3: THE MONEY DROP Hours after the victims are taken hostage, a ransom is delivered to the mansion on Woodland Drive. But it doesn’t save the victims — the calls, text messages and voicemails end, leaving key parts of the timeline unexplained. But after the trial, a new theory emer Japanese zoo staff chase furry fake lion in escape drill 06/24/2019 07:34am • A lion escapes from its zoo enclosure and charges into a net-wielding member of zoo staff before being tranquilized and captured. This scene, which unfolded on Saturday at the Tobe Zoological Park in Ehime Prefecture, Japan, would have been quite terrifying if it weren't a drill and the "lion" a Medical groups warn climate change is a 'health emergency' 06/24/2019 05:19am • WASHINGTON (AP) — As Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare for their first 2020 primary debate this week, 74 medical and public health groups aligned on Monday to push for a series of consensus commitments to combat climate change, bluntly defined by the organizations Man dead after being struck by tractor-trailer on SB I-95 06/23/2019 07:39pm • A man died Sunday afternoon after he walked onto Interstate 95 and was struck by a tractor-trailer, according to Maryland State Police. The pedestrian crash happened shortly before 2:30 p.m. on southbound I-95 at the Maryland Welcome Center and Rest Area. Troopers from the Waterloo Barrack, em Fire officials: Fort Washington blaze caused by charcoal 06/23/2019 03:23pm • A fire that broke out Sunday in Fort Washington, Maryland, was caused by charcoal briquettes that were not properly disposed of, according to fire officials in Prince George's County. The Prince George's County Fire Department responded to the blaze on the 1300 block of Gun Powder Court shortly b Montgomery Co. police need help finding lost child's parents or guardians 06/23/2019 01:17pm • UPDATE: (Sunday, 1:27 p.m.) The child's parents have been located. (Courtesy Montgomery County police) Montgomery County police are asking for the public's help in finding the parents or guardians of a child who was found wandering the halls of an apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryl Cellphones near National Mall targeted for emergency test 06/22/2019 02:27pm • A screenshot of the emergency alert sent out on Saturday, June 22, to those near and around the National Mall. WTOP/Jennifer Ortiz) Cellphones carried by people on and near the National Mall sounded a test alert on Saturday morning, to test the safety precautions available ahead of the Fourth of Today in History: June 22 06/22/2019 12:00am • Today is Saturday, June 22, the 173rd day of 2019. There are 192 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On June 22, 1977, John N. Mitchell became the first former U.S. Attorney General to go to prison as he began serving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up. (He was High-speed police chase on Beltway ends in crash, sparked delays 06/21/2019 03:47pm • A high-speed chase on the Capital Beltway in Maryland ended up in a multi-vehicle crash Friday afternoon. Just before 2 p.m., Montgomery County police got a call of a robbery at a CVS near Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland. When officers got there, the suspect had fled the scene in a v Garden Plot: Making pollinator gardens and hydrangeas bloom 06/21/2019 04:05am • Bomb your pollinators in a good way The "Golden Triangle" stretches from The White House to Dupont Circle. As part of an ongoing project to beautify this region, The Smithsonian and the Triangle’s Business Improvement District have created more than 260 pollinator-friendly tree box plantings thro Montgomery County among school systems with highest rate of isolating students 06/20/2019 05:41am • Montgomery County Public Schools have among the highest incidents in the nation of placing misbehaving students in isolation rooms. But a federal report concedes it's impossible to know the prevalence of restraint and seclusion in schools because many school systems don't keep track. Montgomery C Ahead of July Fourth crowds, DC to test emergency alert system 06/20/2019 02:40am • As the area gears up for the Fourth of July, local emergency planners are gearing up as well. This coming Saturday, between 11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., D.C. plans to send out a Wireless Emergency Alert test to cellphones on and around the National Mall. The test is meant to evaluate the city's abi Md. governor slams Montgomery Co. over public safety communication outages 06/20/2019 12:25am • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan accused Montgomery County officials of "standing in the way" of approving a site for a radio tower that provides communications among police, firefighters and other first responders. Hogan cited the recent 14-hour communications outage over Mother’s Day weekend that le Health officials warn of possible measles exposure in Fauquier Co. 06/19/2019 05:49pm • Northern Virginia health officials are reporting the potential of exposure to measles earlier this week at Fauquier Health's emergency department. Officials are warning "out of an abundance of caution" for people who may have been exposed at this time and place: From Monday, June 17 at 3:10 Polar bear spotted in Russian city, far from normal habitat 06/19/2019 06:53am • MOSCOW (AP) — An emaciated polar bear has been sighted in a Russian industrial city in Siberia, far south of its normal hunting grounds. Emergency officials in the city of Norilsk in a statement on Tuesday warned local residents about a bear that has been spotted in one city district. Starvi