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After decades of advocacy, Fairfax Co. community gets school bus service 06/20/2024 10:40pm • For decades, students who lived in the Mount Vernon Square community have had to cross busy residential streets and walk along an unpaved and unmaintained path to get to the nearby Hollin Meadows Elementary School. Some of the trek for the Fairfax County, Virginia, students included a wooded area Are Virginia toll roads costly and confusing? A state study shows many drivers think so 06/20/2024 10:03am • Researchers found that some complex toll roads in Northern Virginia are ���less understandable��� for people who drive high occupancy vehicles and that inconsistent toll signage in Virginia may also cause driver confusion. The findings come after a months-long study into easing vehicle traffic conge 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 '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 Juneteenth: What's open, what's closed in the DC area 06/18/2024 12:20pm • On June 19, 1865, a Union general informed enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, that the Civil War had ended ��� two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery. June 19 ��� or Juneteenth ��� was recognized by Congress as the 12th DC ���Maserati shooter��� gets more than 30 years behind bars 06/17/2024 09:44pm • The Maryland man convicted on a slew of charges connected to a 2021 road rage incident where he got out of his car while in rush-hour traffic in D.C. and fired shots at a woman, children and bystanders has been sentenced to more than three decades in prison. Kenneth Miles Davis, Jr., 45, was sent Round-the-world racing yachts dock at The Wharf in DC ��� see them up close 06/17/2024 12:03pm • The more than 40,000 mile "Clipper Round the World Yacht Race" made an impressive arrival before docking at The Wharf in Southwest D.C. Monday morning. Eleven clippers will remain there for a week before setting off on the final leg back across the Atlantic Ocean. Hannah Brewis and a first mat Mountain Valley Pipeline goes into service, starts delivering gas in Virginia 06/15/2024 10:48pm • Mountain Valley Pipeline, the 303-mile vessel that will deliver natural gas from the Appalachian region of West Virginia into Southwest Virginia, officially went into service Friday, after about a decade of steadfast opposition over concerns about environmental and community impacts in the areas in 13 tornadoes ��� NWS nearly doubles tornado count from initial projections of DC-area storms 06/13/2024 08:34pm • Listen live to WTOP for traffic and weather updates on the 8s. The National Weather Service has upped its tornado count to 13, nearly double its initial report, after doing an additional survey of damage from storms that blew through the D.C. area last week. One day after storms blew through, Woman charged in DC hospital carjacking denied showers in jail, lawyer says 06/13/2024 07:49pm • A woman charged with carjacking after police say she stole a vehicle parked outside a hospital with an ill passenger inside last week, has been denied showers in the D.C. jail and experienced other mistreatment, her lawyer told a judge Thursday. Kayla Brown, 23, is charged with unarmed carjacking This stretch of road near the Lincoln Memorial will close for 6 years as part of project to keep sewer overflow out of Potomac River 06/13/2024 03:08pm • Heads up, drivers: A small chunk of road along the Potomac River in D.C., near a key commuter route, is set to close for the next six years ��� and it could impact your drive into and out of the District. The portion of Ohio Drive in Southwest D.C. that will close Monday, June 17, is from Indepen Has a 'scofflaw' driver figured out how to avoid getting towed? 06/12/2024 10:10pm • WTOP is continuing its exclusive coverage on D.C.���s efforts to go after what it calls "scofflaw drivers" ��� drivers who don���t pay the automated traffic enforcement cameras and parking tickets they rack up. But one city resident is wondering whether his neighbor found a loophole. Records In a few months, these new federal rules could speed up airline refunds 06/11/2024 04:18pm • We've all had to deal with delayed or canceled flights because of weather, equipment, or staffing problems ��� but new federal regulations will take effect this fall, requiring all airlines to automatically refund you when it happens. Experts say you are entitled to a full refund for the unused p NASA taps George Mason U. to lead space mission that could help find another habitable planet 06/10/2024 09:07pm • The answer to some of life's most fascinating questions could eventually be answered with help from a NASA mission that George Mason University has been tapped to lead. The Fairfax County, Virginia, college will build and launch an "artificial star" into orbit. The small satellite will be equippe