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Car Review: 2021 BMW X5 xDrive45e allows for 30 miles of electric motoring 08/30/2021 04:10am • Luxury SUV and crossovers are big business, and BMW has been making the popular X5 model for two decades now. There are models catering to the performance-minded buyers with turbo in-line 6 and big V-8 turbo power for those who need more punch than most sports cars pack. Now for 2021, there is a new Witnesses describe life inside R. Kelly's 'Chocolate Factory' 08/29/2021 05:02am • About 25 miles outside of Chicago in the village of Olympia Fields sits a mansion that R. Kelly once lived and worked in. The home was also the site of his studio called the "Chocolate Factory," which operated from about 2004 to 2010, according to testimony during Kelly's federal trial in Brookly Boating collision off coast of Ocean City kills 1, injures 1 08/28/2021 02:36pm • OCEAN CITY, Md. — Authorities say one person has died and another was injured in a boating collision off the coast of Ocean City, Maryland. The Daily Times of Salisbury reports a call about the crash 60 miles offshore came in Friday afternoon. The city's fire department said in a Facebook po Montgomery Co. first responders heading to Louisiana to assist with impact of Ida 08/27/2021 06:39pm • A group of first responders from Montgomery County, Maryland, are on their way to Louisiana to help with the impact of Hurricane Ida as it moves toward the Gulf Coast. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service is sending 45 of its members along with eight boats, five pick up trucks, four vans, th Motorists express broad opposition to proposed I-270/I-495 toll rates 08/27/2021 11:19am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. By more than 2-to-1, members of the public who submitted formal comments on Maryland’s proposed Interstate 270/I-495 express lanes plan 1 dead following 3-vehicle crash on Beltway in Chevy Chase 08/27/2021 05:16am • One person is dead after a crash on the Inner Loop of Interstate 495 in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Thursday afternoon. Another person was hospitalized following the three-vehicle crash that temporarily shutdown all lanes of the Beltway's Inner Loop near Connecticut Avenue in Chevy Chase arou Anti-drunken driving events kick off in Maryland, Virginia through Labor Day 08/27/2021 04:30am • Drunken driving prevention and awareness campaigns are being held in Maryland and Virginia ahead of the Labor Day holiday. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam kicked off the 20th annual Checkpoint Strikeforce DUI enforcement and public education campaign on Thursday. The initiative uses sobriety checkpoi Northern Va. Catholic schools back in class with full in-person learning 08/26/2021 04:15pm • Classes have resumed at dozens of Catholic schools around Northern Virginia, and learning that was mostly in-person last school year is informing COVID-19 protocols currently in place. "Things that were suggested like using seating charts. So, we always knew who was near whom, in the classroom, f What Daniel Gafford is focusing on during his offseason workouts 08/26/2021 01:33pm • What Gafford is working on this offseason originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonThe first thing Daniel Gafford did when his 2020-21 season ended was slow down. All players take their rest when they can, but for Gafford, it holds a different meaning.Remember that talk during the season abo Man dies in Prince George's County shooting 08/26/2021 12:11am • Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Prince George's County, Maryland. It happened Wednesday night at Kent Village Drive and East Lombard Street in Landover. At around 8 p.m., police responded to the area for a report of a shooting. They found an unresponsive man with a gunshot wound. Freeman Hrabowski, educator who built UMBC into a powerhouse, announces retirement 08/25/2021 05:10pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the charismatic educator whose transformational leadership dramatically boosted Black achievement in science and e Dominion to lease part of terminal for offshore wind project 08/25/2021 04:23pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Gov. Ralph Northam’s office announced Wednesday that Dominion Energy will lease part of the Portsmouth Marine Terminal as part of a wind project off Virginia’s coast. Under the agreement with the Port of Virginia, Dominion will use 72 acres of the deep-water, multi-use Reel big: New Maryland record for biggest blue marlin catch 08/25/2021 08:39am • Angler Billy Gerlach and crew on Jon Duffie's Billfisher at the 2021 MidAtlantic big game annual fishing tournament. (Courtesy MidAtlantic) The 30th MidAtlantic big game fishing competition set a lot of records this year, including a $1.6 million prize for Maryland's largest blue marlin catch. 'The Office' superfans create 'Schrute Farms' cookbook filled with tasty beet recipes 08/24/2021 12:02am • Fact: Dwight Schrute is the best Assistant to the Regional Manager ever at Dunder Mifflin. Fact: The beet is certainly the most superior plant-based food ever discovered by man. Fact: You can find tasty recipes in "Beet This: An Unofficial Schrute Farms Cookbook," co-written by "The Offi 'Righting the wrong' -- 61 years later, headstones from Black cemetery returned 08/23/2021 06:24pm • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, in the back row, were on hand for the transfer of the headstones. (Courtesy Gov. Hogan's office) More than 50 historic headstones that marked the final resting place for some of the District’s free Blacks and