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The fight to keep the NFL away from RFK Stadium 01/28/2019 12:48am • WASHINGTON — In a vacuum, it seems easy: Why wouldn’t you want the NFL back in Washington? It’s a point of civic pride, to have your sports team play within your city’s limits; for the caravan of fans from around the suburbs and exurbs and beyond to migrate to the hub for which the team i Regionwide bus route overhaul to start next year 01/25/2019 04:16am • WASHINGTON — D.C.-area buses are going 9 percent more slowly and are carrying fewer riders than just a few years ago. Now, the outlines of a major overhaul are expected by April. The plan would have major impacts on people who have built their lives around existing bus routes, and would aim to TSA closes BWI Marshall checkpoint after callouts 01/20/2019 03:30am • WASHINGTON — Travelers flying out of BWI Marshall Airport this Martin Luther King Jr. weekend faced a longer wait time than usual at times after the Transportation Security Administration closed a checkpoint "due to excessive callouts." On Sunday, BWI Marshall tweeted that the A Pier security c Flying Dog brewing up a THC-infused pale ale 01/16/2019 10:27am • WASHINGTON — Frederick, Maryland-based Flying Dog Brewery is partnering with Maryland medical marijuana grower Green Leaf Medical Cannabis to produce the first THC-infused beer in the state. It will be a nonalcoholic India pale ale named Hop Chronic. Flying Dog said the beer will be a medica DC will soon issue marriage licenses again 01/08/2019 05:40pm • WASHINGTON — Good news for lovebirds: Marriage licenses will soon be issued in D.C. again. The licenses have been unavailable during the partial government shutdown because D.C. Superior Court decided issuing them was a nonessential function. At the request of D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, the D New TV drama 'Project Blue Book' based on real-life X-Files 01/08/2019 04:21am • BALTIMORE — If you miss Mulder and Scully from the X-Files, check out a new series premiering Tuesday night on the History channel. "Project Blue Book" stars Aidan Gillen, best known for portraying Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish in HBO's "Game of Thrones," and is executive produced by Robert Zem DC Water: Anacostia tunnel saved river from billions of gallons of sewage 01/07/2019 10:45am • WASHINGTON — D.C. Water said Monday that its Anacostia River Tunnel passed its first year — the rainiest on record — with flying colors. The utility announced that the Anacostia River Tunnel, which opened last March, kept more than 4.5 billion gallons of sewage, and nearly 900 tons of trash As Christmas travel begins, so does rain and wind — and even some thunder 12/21/2018 08:10am • WASHINGTON — Winter officially starts Friday evening, but if you're on the move for the holidays, spring-like temperatures and a chance for thunderstorms might make it hard to believe. What NBC Washington meteorologist Chuck Bell dubbed a "massive storm moving up the spine of the Appalachian Mo Straight to the source: WTOP gets the scoop on Christmas with Santa 12/21/2018 12:06am • WASHINGTON — Think your December is busy? Better check that twice, because few people keep a schedule more packed than Santa Claus this time of year. There’s the toy-making, the list-checking, the reindeer-tending, and, of course, the mall visits. Santa has been making the trek from the No Rolling Thunder comes to an end; 2019 will be last ride 12/13/2018 12:23pm • WASHINGTON — One of the nation's most iconic displays of support for military veterans, those missing in action and prisoners of war is coming to an end. The annual Rolling Thunder ride — which has brought thousands of bikers to the D.C. area for decades — is hitting the brakes. They won't Howard Co. residents petition FAA amid rising BWI noise complaints 12/09/2018 02:52pm • WASHINGTON — Howard County is asking a federal judge to get involved with its petition against the Federal Aviation Administration over increased noise complaints around BWI Marshall Airport. The county had originally filed an administrative petition with the FAA back in July, but The Baltimore When are the worst times to travel on DC-area roads this Thanksgiving? 11/20/2018 11:59pm • WASHINGTON — Before stuffing turkeys and cracking wishbones, millions of drivers in the D.C. area will have to endure traffic delays and backups this Thanksgiving eve. More people are expected to travel this year than they have in over a decade, causing travel times likely four times longer ove Flying to, from DC area will take longer this holiday season with crowds, construction 11/15/2018 04:02am • ARLINGTON, Va. — Construction delays and big holiday crowds mean you’ll have to add extra time to fly in or out of the D.C. region's airports for much of the next month and a half. The key is to plan ahead and come early, said Margaret McKeough, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority exec Apology and explanation offered for terrible traffic at Reagan Airport 11/14/2018 02:37pm • ARLINGTON — A Metro station closure, rain, a holiday weekend and confusion about space for shuttle buses were among the contributors to Friday’s terrible traffic around Reagan National that rippled across Arlington, Alexandria, D.C. and beyond, Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority leaders Traveling around DC for Thanksgiving? So are more than a million others 11/14/2018 10:33am • WASHINGTON — If you crack the wishbone this Thanksgiving, consider praying for lighter traffic: AAA Mid-Atlantic forecasts that 1.3 million people living in and around the D.C. region this year will be traveling. That's the most since 2005. And it means travel times could be four times longer o