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A happy 'tail': Northern Virginia family reunites with lost dog 11/11/2022 08:36am • Back in July, a Northern Virginia family lost their dog Dante in Manassas. After months of searching, they lost hope of ever finding him. Little did they know that the universe would eventually reunite them with their pooch ��� who wasn���t ready to find a new forever home. It wasn���t a lack of Another stretch of I-66 Express Lanes opening this month 11/10/2022 07:55pm • Another portion of the Interstate 66 Express Lanes will be opening soon, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation. The Virginia Department of Transportation said the stretch that is opening is from��Interstate 495 through Virginia Route 28 in Centreville. The westbound lanes will Researchers shed light on Chesapeake Bay dolphins 11/09/2022 10:43am • The Chesapeake Bay may be more important to dolphins than many realize. Researchers are shedding light on what the clever mammals are doing here. They say the bottlenose dolphins normally live in coastal ocean waters, but they do come into the Chesapeake Bay. ���We���ve seen evidence of th Va. attorney general who disagreed over role of SROs tours Alexandria High School 11/08/2022 05:32am • Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares visited Alexandria High School Monday, meeting with officials he disagreed with several months ago over the role of police in schools following a stabbing near the school that killed a student. Miyares toured the city's only high school upon invitation from 2 Asian elephants move in at National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute 11/07/2022 03:08pm • Asian elephants Trong Nhi (left) and Nhi Linh -- shown here at their old home, the Rotterdam Zoo -- have arrived in the D.C. area after an over-4,000-mile-long journey. (Rotterdam Zoo photo courtesy of NZCBI) The Smithsonian���s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute has two new residen Car Review: 2023 Honda CR-V is generational talent 11/07/2022 05:59am • Brian Armstead, WTOP Contributor Now in its 6th generation, and wearing the title of Honda’s most popular SUV, the all-new 2023 Honda CR-V Hybrid takes the Compact Utility Vehicle (CUV) to the proverbial “next level” by offering all of the comfort, utility and safety that young, on Study: More than 37 million US motorists drive drowsy at least once a year 11/06/2022 06:19pm • A new survey suggests that every year, millions of motorists in the United States operate a vehicle when they are too tired to drive. Tthe National Sleep Foundation last week released results of a new survey highlighting attitudes and behaviors toward drowsy driving. It showed that, while 95% of Turkey prices are flying higher this year: Here's how to have an affordable Thanksgiving 11/06/2022 08:45am • If you're feeling ruffled by recent reports that turkey prices are on the rise, don't panic. There's no need to start hoarding turkeys. "We're not seeing a shortage of supply," said Ben Del Coro, vice president of sales and marketing at Fossil Farms, a New Jersey-based purveyor of sustainable and Ashton Kutcher ��� and 50,000 others ��� are running the NYC marathon Sunday 11/05/2022 02:47pm • If you're running in the New York City Marathon Sunday, watch out -- you might just be running alongside actor Ashton Kutcher. Kutcher, 44, is using the marathon as an opportunity to raise funds for Thorn, the organization he founded alongside Demi Moore in 2012 to combat child sex trafficking, a DC's final Open Streets event this year held on Wisconsin Avenue 11/05/2022 11:59am • The last Open Streets event of the year is underway Saturday morning in Northwest D.C. A one mile stretch of Wisconsin Avenue in the Tenleytown/Friendship Heights area will be cordoned off until the early afternoon so people can enjoy fitness classes, live music and other vendors in this fami More details released on Frederick Co. school lockdown, but questions remain 11/04/2022 04:39pm • Investigators released more details on what transpired Thursday at Green Valley Elementary School, in Frederick County, Maryland, but why it all happened is still not clear. The school was put on lockdown early Thursday afternoon after a report of a stabbing, but that report turned out to be fals Netflix's revamped 'Unsolved Mysteries' drops new batch of true-crime puzzles 11/04/2022 11:55am • True-crime junkies get their fix this week, as "Unsolved Mysteries" drops the remaining batch of its nine-episode season delivered in three chunks. It's the third season of the revamped series on Netflix and overall the 16th season of the long-running series that��became a staple of true-crim New Hummer electric super-truck will throw your head back 11/04/2022 10:26am • The GMC Hummer EV is really not all that big, as far as monster trucks go. Designed to showcase what electric vehicles are now capable of (hint: a lot), this massive, super-performance pickup, dressed in ���interstellar white��� paint, sports a mind-numbing 1,000 horsepower ��� several multip Weekend Road and Rail: Open Streets DC, 66 Transforms, 495 Next; Metro shutdown ends 11/04/2022 05:00am • This weekend will see great weather for the final Open Streets D.C. event on Saturday, and scheduled roadwork should continue for the 66 Transformation Project and 495 Next work. In Maryland, a new project is beginning on U.S. Route 1. And on Metrorail, the Blue and Yellow Line shutdown is set to Frederick Co. teacher takes students out of class, makes stabbing accusation 11/03/2022 07:44pm • (Courtesy Frederick County Sheriff's Office) Someone called the Frederick County Sheriff's Office in Maryland Thursday to report multiple stabbings at an elementary school; but when deputies responded, they found a teacher and several students gone, and there were no stabbings at all. At a ca