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Artist pulling wagon fakes out Google Maps, creates traffic jams on empty streets 02/04/2020 07:45am • We're always looking to provide more reasons for you to want to get your traffic information from WTOP — but we never thought of this one. Artist Simon Weckert focuses on technology, and wanted to draw attention to the blind trust some people put in tech companies. Artist Simon Weckert pull Rockville driver in fatal 2011 crash sentenced to lengthened term for violating his probation 02/03/2020 05:07pm • Montgomery County State's Attorney John McCarthy speaks about the Kevin Coffay case on Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (WTOP/Michelle Basch) A Rockville, Maryland, man who had spent prison time for the 2011 drunken driving crash that killed three of his friends received additional prison time Monday for v 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 Former Metro worker admits stealing thousands in cleaning supply scam 02/02/2020 08:20am • A former Washington Metro employee admitted to stealing thousands from the agency in a cleaning supply scam that could ensnare other Metro workers or contractors. Kirby Smith plead guilty Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, to one count of supplementation of a government official's s PETA is calling on Punxsutawney Phil to retire and be replaced with an AI groundhog 01/28/2020 08:12pm • PETA is calling on the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club to let Phil retire -- and to be replaced by an animatronic groundhog. The robots are coming for Punxsutawney Phil's job, too. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is calling on the keepers of the weather-forecasting groundhog to let hi 'Attempted abduction' of Fairfax Co. student never happened 01/25/2020 04:46pm • Fairfax County, Virginia, police have determined that the "attempted abduction" of a Belle View Elementary School student earlier in the week was a fake. They announced their findings in a Thursday release. "Late today, after an extensive several day investigation detectives have determined th Ex-lawyer gets 7 years for defrauding business, charity, Va. campaign 01/24/2020 06:26pm • A Fairfax, Virginia, man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for conspiring to defraud the campaign of a Virginia state senator. Former lawyer David H. Miller, 71, was sentenced Friday to 88 months in prison for defrauding SkyLink Air and Logistic Support Inc., the campaign of s A new text message scam is disguising itself as a FedEx notification 01/23/2020 07:13am • It's an exhilarating feeling we can all relate to -- FedEx notifying you that your package has been delivered. But before you mindlessly click on that text message that looks like it's from FedEx, take a second look because it could be a scam. Some people around the country are receiving Fairfax County 'swatting' suspect with neo-Nazi ties to remain in jail 01/15/2020 09:51pm • A Fairfax County, Virginia, teenager, with links to a group law enforcement say is sympathetic to neo-Nazi causes, will remain in jail on federal charges related to so-called swatting calls that targeted black and Jewish people. "Swatting" involves calling 911 and faking an emergency that draws a Maryland man's killer sentenced 15 years later 01/10/2020 09:29pm • His death went unsolved for more than a decade, and 15 years after the fatal stabbing of a Laurel, Maryland, man, his killer is going to prison. Michael Andre Duvall, 61, of D.C. was sentenced Friday to the maximum time of 30 years for the murder of Brian Moses. On Sept. 15, 2005, Moses was fo Beyond Carne: District Taco unveils meat substitute on menu 01/07/2020 01:35pm • Called "Itza — Beyond Carne," the meat substitute is a proprietary District Taco ingredient, even though it was developed with Beyond Meat. (Courtesy District Taco) District Taco has put a plant-based meat substitute it developed in collaboration with Beyond Meat on the menu. Called Itza � Maryland man used fake passports to launder romance fraud money 01/07/2020 07:26am • GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — Federal officials say a Maryland man used fake passports to facilitate a money laundering conspiracy involving nearly $1 million. Arinze Michael Ozor, 36, pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges of forgery or false use of a passport, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Dis The other fake meat: Impossible Foods unveils pork, sausage 01/07/2020 07:21am • After a big year for its plant-based burger, Impossible Foods has something new on its plate. The California-based company unveiled Impossible Pork and Impossible Sausage on Monday evening at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas. It's Impossible Food's first foray beyond fake beef. The Impossible Cook, Vikings upend Saints 26-20 in OT in NFC playoffs 01/05/2020 05:18pm • NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Kirk Cousins hit tight end Kyle Rudolph with a 4-yard fade on third-and-goal in overtime, and the Minnesota Vikings pulled out a 26-20 victory over the Saints in the wild-card round of the NFC playoffs on Sunday. The Vikings will face the top-seeded 49ers in San Francisco on How will gadgets change our lives in 2020 and beyond? 01/01/2020 12:39pm • It is hard to believe the first iPad was released 10 years ago. On the first day of 2020, Data Doctors' Ken Colburn says quickly-evolving personal technology will change our lives in the next decade in ways we can't imagine. "Starting with 5G and the wireless car, both of which will create new i