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Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack 05/08/2021 06:29pm •   WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The operator of a major pipeline system that transports fuel across the East Coast said Saturday it had been victimized by a ransomware attack and had halted all pipeline operations to deal with the threat. The attack is unlikely to affect gasoline supply and prices unl Suspect in custody after police activity causes backup on Bay Bridge 05/08/2021 11:30am • A police standoff causes a backup on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Saturday morning. (Courtesy WTOP listener) Police activity on U.S. Route 50 has caused a massive backup on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on Saturday morning. The Queen Anne's County Sheriff's Office says a suspect is in custody and Amtrak CEO voices opposition to proposed MAGLEV train line 05/07/2021 12:57pm • Amtrak CEO William Flynn laid out his reasons for opposing the proposed MAGLEV train line in the Northeast Corridor. Flynn told a House subcommittee Thursday that once the MAGLEV is built, it would only serve the wealthy because the tickets are much more expensive than Amtrak. He also bashed t 4 rescued after boat overturns near Chesapeake Bay Bridge 05/06/2021 11:53pm • Rescue crews saved four people from an overturned boat in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland Thursday night. Anne Arundel County Fire received a distress call at around 9 p.m. Thursday and responded to the scene about half a mile south of the Bay Bridge. Paramedics evaluated one person for injurie Monday tornado in Frederick County confirmed 05/05/2021 10:55pm • Monday's storms produced tornadoes in parts of West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland, the National Weather Service has confirmed. The latest confirmation was in Frederick County, Maryland, in a rural area between Mt. Pleasant and Libertytown. Some 150 trees were uprooted, snapped or damaged in Tornado confirmed in Jefferson County, West Virginia 05/04/2021 11:10pm • A radar scan of a tornado-warned supercell thunderstorm moving from West Virginia into Maryland on Monday evening. (Courtesy RadarScope) The National Weather Service sent teams to investigate whether tornadoes touched down in West Virginia and Maryland during a severe weather outbreak on Monday Search narrows for new Purple Line builder after 1st one quit project 05/04/2021 10:55pm • The long-promised Purple Line light rail in Maryland is still a work in progress after the general contractor quit the project last year, but the search for a new one is narrowing. Maryland Secretary of Transportation Gregory Slater said Tuesday night that the choice of a new design-build firm ha DC teacher walking coast to coast to raise money for cancer research 05/04/2021 06:48pm • A high school teacher at a D.C. private school is currently on the road traveling across the country by foot for a good cause. Jarad Schofer, a math teacher at St. Albans School in Northwest, is attempting to walk 3,000 miles from coast to coast to raise money for the Cancer Research Institute. These people have gone all-in on boat life: Here's how they did it 05/04/2021 04:55am • Imagine casting off most of your worldly possessions to live on a sailboat you bought on the Internet -- perhaps without even seeing it, or knowing how to tie a knot or hoist the mainsail. For some newbie sailors who embarked on boat life during the pandemic, the past year provided an unexpected 3 Delaware teens charged in 30-mile chase through Maryland 05/04/2021 02:49am • RISING SUN, Md. (AP) ��� Three teenagers wanted in connection with several Delaware shootings have been arrested following a 30-mile-long chase that ended in a crash in Maryland. Maryland State Police said in a statement Monday that 17-year-old brothers Anthony Harrigan and Maurice Harrigan, alon Car Review: Audi e-tron Sportback is a stylish take on the humble crossover 05/03/2021 04:04am • Electric vehicles are gaining in popularity and luxury carmaker Audi has their second e-tron model joining the luxury electric vehicle market. The e-tron Sportback has a racy coupe-like style that trades in some of the utility of the normal e-tron crossover. The sloping roofline might mean less carg Multiple people wounded after three separate shootings in DC Sunday 05/02/2021 05:31pm • Three separate shootings in D.C. on Sunday have been reported by D.C. police, leaving a number of people injured and one person ���unconscious and not breathing,��� according to police. One shooting was at the 3500 block of Wheeler Road in Southeast resulting in three injuries. Two adult males we Biking enthusiasts seek new use for existing Nice/Middleton Bridge 05/02/2021 03:26pm • This article was written by WTOP���s news partners at��Maryland Matters��and republished with permission.��Sign up for��Maryland Matters��� free email subscription��today. A group of biking enthusiasts from both sides of the Potomac is urging officials in Maryland and Virginia to consider a new u SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth; rare night splashdown 05/02/2021 06:12am • CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) ��� SpaceX safely returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on Sunday, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot. The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just Kentucky Derby preview: The year No. 17 is finally No. 1 05/01/2021 07:09am • The first leg of the Triple Crown returns to its normal slot on the first Saturday in May at Churchill Downs. The expected attendance in the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby is expected to approach 60% capacity in certain areas, but the venue is expected to generate less than one-tenth of its