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Highway robbery: Watch out for auto maintenance cost and repairs 08/16/2023 06:40pm • If your summer travels take you on the highway, pay attention to vehicle and maintenance repairs because it could cost you a pretty penny. "I think a lot of shops know that many drivers don't know what their car needs during these maintenance sessions," said Kevin Brasler, executive editor of Con Rosie's Gaming Emporium clears final hurdle for ballot initiative to open Manassas Park location 08/16/2023 09:47am • A ballot initiative to bring a Rosie’s Gaming Emporium to Manassas Park cleared its final hurdle Friday. A question asking voters whether they wish to allow pari-mutuel gambling in the city to make way for a new Rosie’s location will appear on the November ballot after Prince William County Cir Food & Friends hosts 30th 'Chef's Best' fundraiser to bring free meals to AIDS, cancer patients 08/15/2023 04:06am • For the past three decades, it's raised $18 million for folks in the D.C. area who are battling AIDS, HIV, cancer and other illnesses. Next week, the D.C. nonprofit Food & Friends will host the 30th anniversary of its signature dinner and auction fundraiser Chef’s Best at the Marriott M Ways to save money on a tight budget 08/14/2023 05:57am • More than half of Americans are currently living paycheck to paycheck, and when funds are tight, it can be easy to get distraught and feel like the situation is permanent. But even in tough financial times, there are strategies you can employ every day to save money. You've probably heard the cli Woman shot, infant child found safe in car at Northern Virginia shopping center 08/13/2023 10:38pm • Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said a woman is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after being shot in a vehicle at a Hybla Valley shopping center with her infant child alongside her. Officers found the victim around 3:49 p.m. Saturday afternoon, when they responded to reports of Cats at Loudoun Co. shopping center may have caused rabies exposure, health dept. says 08/12/2023 03:13pm • A picture of the rabid tabby cat found in Loudoun County, Virginia (Courtesy Loudoun County Government) Health officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, are warning residents about potential exposure to rabies from a cat and its three kittens spotted in the vicinity of an Ashburn shopping c As deadly wildfires blaze, what's the plan for hopeful Hawaii tourists right now? 08/10/2023 06:10pm • Due to devastating wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui, travel agencies are getting calls from tourists who were scheduled to travel to Hawaii and are now unsure about what they should do. While people are still traveling to parts of Hawaii that are not affected by the fires right now, thing Thousands of new homes are needed in Tysons as population surges 08/09/2023 10:17am • Tysons is not just a shopping destination for the D.C. area -- it's also an attractive place to live in Northern Virginia. A new study shows Tysons is going to need more housing in the next couple of years to keep pace. To accommodate population growth, Tysons will need to add 4,400 housing op Got rats? These cats are here to help 08/09/2023 07:00am • For International Cat Day we're celebrating all felines, not just house pets, but working cats that provide pest control to businesses across the D.C. region! Cats that grew up on the street and were never socialized have been "put to work" by the Humane Rescue Alliance's Blue Collar Cats program Manassas Park officials divided over push for new Rosie’s Gaming Emporium location 08/08/2023 10:36am • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. A petition to allow a new Rosie’s Gaming Emporium in Manassas Park has cleared the necessary threshold to get the question onto the bal Here's what college students are buying to go back to campus this fall 08/08/2023 04:10am • Before college students return to campus this fall, many are on a buying spree, updating their tech and furnishing new dorm rooms and apartments. Back-to-college spending is expected to average $1,366.95 per student this year, $200 higher than last year's spending, according to a survey by the Na 'American cinema classic': DC's Union Market Drive-In extended for 3 more months 08/08/2023 04:00am • "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" have reignited people's passion for movie theaters after months of pandemic streaming. The founder of D.C.'s Drive-In at Union Market hopes that it will spill over to a classic form of moviegoing. "It's great to see people going back to the movies, this whole 'Ba An office return of federal workers could help revitalize downtown DC 08/07/2023 06:56pm • Many businesses in downtown D.C. are breathing a sigh of relief after reports from Friday that President Joe Biden is pushing cabinet members to bring federal workers back to offices. “Most of our business are people who worked in the buildings, in the offices,” Chocolate Chocolate owner Ging Go shorty, it's your birthday: 50 Cent hits Jiffy Lube Live to blow out 20 candles for 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'" 08/07/2023 01:58pm • Did you see Beyonce at FedEx Field in Maryland over the weekend? Are you headed to Pink at Nationals Park in D.C. on Monday night? Why not make it a DMV trifecta with a hip-hop show in Virginia on Tuesday night? Rapper 50 Cent takes the stage at Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia, as his fa Oppressive heat, wildfires expected to worsen globally, experts say 08/04/2023 05:17pm • Blistering heat, large wildfires and warming oceans from North America across Europe to North Africa have caught hundreds of millions of people in dozens of countries unprepared this year. Experts warn it will only get worse in the short term, even if critical changes are made immediately. In ear