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Easter eggs roll onto White House lawn ��� and road closures roll out in downtown DC 04/01/2024 12:06am • Spring and Easter brings the White House Easter Egg roll to D.C. and the traffic closures that come along with it. About 40,000 people��are expected to participate in Monday���s ���EGG-ucation���-themed White House Easter Egg Roll. That's about 10,000 more than last year. First Lady Jill B Today in History: April 1, first pro baseball, hockey strikes begin, 20 years apart 04/01/2024 12:00am • Today in History Today is Monday, April 1, the 92nd day of 2024. There are 274 days left in the year. This is April Fool���s Day. Today���s Highlights in History: On April 1, 1972, the first Major League Baseball players��� strike began; it lasted 12 days. Twenty years later, on April 1, 1992, th Pope overcomes health concerns to preside over Easter Mass and appeal for peace in Gaza and Ukraine 03/31/2024 08:58pm • ROME (AP) ��� Pope Francis rallied from a winter-long bout of respiratory problems to lead some 60,000 people in Easter celebrations Sunday, making a strong appeal for a cease-fire in Gaza and a prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine. Francis presided over Easter Sunday Mass in a flower-decked St. Crews at Baltimore bridge collapse continue meticulous work of removing twisted steel and concrete 03/31/2024 05:48pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� As divers assisted crews with the complicated and meticulous operation of removing the steel and concrete from the fallen Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, some near the site took time on Easter Sunday to reflect on the six workers presumed to have plunged to their deaths. Prince George's Co. man dead after DC tunnel crash at Massachusetts Avenue exit 03/31/2024 05:47pm • A Prince George's County, Maryland, man is dead after his car struck a light pole, following an initial hit-and-run crash with another vehicle in a D.C. tunnel on Friday, police said. Ronald Jerome Jordan Jr., 48, of Capitol Heights, was driving a Malibu northbound in the Third Street Tunnel when A list of mass killings in the United States this year 03/31/2024 04:55pm • The latest mass killing in the U.S. happened Wednesday, March 27, in Rockford, Illinois, where authorities said a 22-year-old man has been charged in connection with a frenzied stabbing and beating rampage that left four people dead in a matter of minutes and at least seven people injured. The man Metro board seeks new members for police oversight panel 03/31/2024 02:58pm • The Metro Board of Directors first approved its Investigations Review Panel in June 2020 in the wake of protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd, increased complaints of excessive force and selective enforcement concerns. Now, the group that made multiple recommendations to the Metro Tran 2 people killed in weekend crash of small plane in Northern California mountain town near Lake Tahoe 03/31/2024 02:53pm • TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) ��� Two people died when a single-engine airplane crashed amid moderate snow conditions in a California mountain town just north of Lake Tahoe, authorities said. The Socata TBM9 with two people aboard crashed around 6:40 p.m. Saturday while on approach to Truckee Tahoe Airport, 'No room for human error': Prince William Co. to launch automated public safety assessment tool 03/31/2024 12:57pm • When a person is charged with a crime, it can take months before a trial begins ��� now, Prince William County in Virginia is preparing to launch a new tool to help judges determine if the person can safely be released back into the community in the meantime. The Public Safety Assessment (PSA 2 killed, 3 injured during shootings at separate Houston-area birthday parties 03/31/2024 12:27pm • HOUSTON (AP) ��� Gunfire at two separate Houston-area birthday parties this weekend resulted in two people being fatally shot and three others being injured, officials said. During the first shooting, gunfire broke out around 1 a.m. Saturday at a party celebrating a woman���s 21st birthday, said Har 1 dead in Northeast DC crash, police say 03/31/2024 05:40am • D.C. police are investigating a fiery vehicle collision on Interstate 295 that killed one person and injured another Friday morning. Witnesses said events leading to the collision began at around 6:50 a.m. when the driver of a Dodge Ram 1500 pick-up truck began speeding northbound along I-295, ac Man in custody after deadly Fairfax Co. shooting 03/31/2024 05:06am • A man faces a murder charge after what Fairfax County police said was a "domestic-related fatal shooting" in Mosby Woods, Virginia. Officers responded to the 10400 block of Viera Lane around 9 p.m. Friday for a shooting, according to Fairfax County police. Police said a woman told officers tha Spring baby boom: Fairfax County asks residents to protect the youngest wildlife 03/31/2024 04:35am • New buds on trees signal a baby boom of wildlife in many backyards across the D.C. area. Spring is the season that wildlife welcome their furry babies ��� and also the time Fairfax County���s Animal Protection and Wildlife Management office in Virginia receives an uptick in calls from people In Key Bridge collapse, Baltimore lost a piece of its cultural identity 03/31/2024 12:03am • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Generations of Maryland workers ��� longshoremen, seafarers, steelworkers and crabbers whose livelihoods depend on Baltimore���s port ��� watched in disbelief last week as an iconic symbol of their maritime culture crumbled into the Patapsco River. The deadly collapse of the hi Crews carefully start removing first piece of twisted steel from collapsed Baltimore bridge 03/30/2024 10:56pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� Teams of engineers worked Saturday on the intricate process of cutting and lifting the first section of twisted steel from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which crumpled into the Patapsco River this week after a massive cargo ship crashed into one of its supports. Sparks c