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Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of beer goes up in flames on I-95 causing delays in Stafford Co. 06/19/2024 05:32pm • A truck hauling 40,000 pounds of beer went up in flames Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 95 in Stafford County, Virginia, causing miles of backups and, perhaps, making drivers wish they could drown their sorrows. The fire started around 3:45 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the interstate, just b Boaters find $1 million of cocaine floating off Florida Keys 06/19/2024 05:04pm • MIAMI (AP) ��� Recreational boaters found $1 million worth of cocaine floating in the ocean off the Florida Keys. Samuel Briggs II, the acting chief patrol agent of the U.S. Border Patrol, wrote about the find in a social media post on X. Briggs posted video Monday night showing the wrapped packages Scorching temperatures, humidity making life miserable for millions from Midwest to Maine 06/19/2024 04:36pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� A blistering heat wave Wednesday extended from the Midwest to New England, leaving millions of people sweltering through the Juneteenth holiday, including in places like northern Maine where they rarely experience such conditions this early in the year. The city of Caribou, Maine, j U.S. Open champ Bryson DeChambeau now pins his Olympic hopes on Los Angeles in 2028 06/19/2024 02:34pm • COLLEGE GROVE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Bryson DeChambeau couldn't play at the Tokyo Olympics because of COVID-19. His decision to sign with LIV Golf is keeping him out of the Paris Games this summer. So the two-time U.S. Open champion is pinning his hopes on Los Angeles in 2028. ���I���ve done my best up un Rickwood Field, Willie Mays' first pro park and monument of opportunity and oppression, welcomes MLB 06/19/2024 02:30pm • BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) ��� Gerald Watkins watched Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and other New York Yankees wade through stalks of corn onto an Iowa field in 2021, near the filming site for the 1989 baseball movie ���Field of Dreams.��� Watkins thought about Rickwood Field, the 114-year-old ballpark Summer wildfires plague Greece and Turkey. The worst ones have been contained 06/19/2024 01:02pm • ATHENS, Greece (AP) ��� Scores of Greek firefighters and water-bombing aircraft succeeded late Wednesday in taming a large wildfire on the fringes of Athens that forced authorities to evacuate two nearby settlements. Summer wildfires also plagued Greece's Mediterranean neighbor Turkey, where two vil 'I did not over consume': Md. House GOP leader Jason Buckel charged with DUI 06/19/2024 12:45pm • Editor's note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Del. Jason Buckel was speeding when he was stopped by police on June 13. Buckel was not speeding. The speeding incident referenced in the earlier version stemmed from a 2023 traffic stop. This story has been updated. Del. Truck crash on US-50 leads to 14-mile backup, delays leading to Bay Bridge 06/19/2024 12:30pm • Listen live to WTOP for the latest traffic updates on the 8s.�� A tractor-trailer crash closed all lanes of traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in Maryland for more than eight hours, leading to a 14-mile backup during the Wednesday morning commute. By noon, all lanes have reopened, with delay Italy's coast guard searches for dozens of migrants missing after their ship capsized 06/19/2024 11:15am • MILAN (AP) ��� Italy's coast guard was searching by sea and from the air on Thursday for dozens of people missing when a boat capsized and partially sank earlier this week in the perilous central Mediterranean, officials said. The partially submerged boat was still in view, but the commander of the Muslim pilgrims wrap up the Hajj with final symbolic stoning of the devil and circling of the Kaaba 06/19/2024 02:05am • MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) ��� Muslim pilgrims wrapped up the Hajj in the deadly summer heat on Tuesday with the third day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, and the last circumambulation around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site, in the city of Mecca. The three-day stoning ritual in Mina, a desert sit At least 1 dead in New Mexico wildfire that forced thousands to flee, governor's office says 06/19/2024 12:49am • SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) ��� Thousands of southern New Mexico residents fled a mountainous village as a wind-whipped wildfire tore through homes and other buildings, and killed at least one person. Officials warned the danger isn't over. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergen Cubs score 3 runs in 8th, top Giants 5-2 06/18/2024 11:38pm • CHICAGO (AP) ��� Cody Bellinger, Ian Happ and Christopher Morel each had RBI singles in Chicago's three-run eighth inning and the Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Tuesday night to end a two-game slide. Michael Busch led off the eighth against reliever Tyler Rogers (0-2) with a double off th Canal pipe breaks, threatening a northern Montana irrigation project and drinking water 06/18/2024 10:53pm • Two century-old steel pipes that help convey water from a river on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to a river that helps irrigate northern Montana cropland have failed, causing local flooding and raising concerns about the availability of drinking water for at least 14,000 residents this summer, in Sudan accuses UAE of fueling war with weapons to paramilitary rivals. UAE calls claim `ludicrous' 06/18/2024 10:19pm • UNITED NATIONS (AP) ��� The Sudanese government accused the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday of fueling the 14-month war in the African country by providing weapons to a rival paramilitary force. The UAE dismissed the allegation as ���ludicrous,��� calling ���a shameful abuse by one of the warring pa Blaze at Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk is the third in a little over a month 06/18/2024 09:56pm • COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) ��� A fire broke out Tuesday at an office building belonging to Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, the third in a little more over a month to hit the drugmaker. There were no reports of injuries and police said the blaze was under control. Flames were seen at the t