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Girl injured in Prince George's County shopping center shooting 10/08/2021 06:00pm • A girl is in the hospital after being shot in Prince George's County, Maryland. It happened around 6:30 p.m. on the 5200 block of Marlboro Pike at the parking lot of a shopping center in the Coral Hills area. An investigation found that a shooting took place outside the shopping center, and th Loudoun Fall Farm Tour is back this October 10/08/2021 09:24am • The Loudoun Fall Farm Tour is returning on Oct. 16 and 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Courtesy Loudoun Farm Tour) For the first time in two years, the annual Loudoun Fall Farm Tour in Virginia will be offered in-person, with more than two dozen locations on this year’s tour. The tour will be he Weekend Road and Rail: Full closure on Outer Loop, Suitland Parkway to close; Metro work brings single tracking 10/08/2021 07:05am • We have rain in the forecast with full closures planned on the Outer Loop of the Virginia Beltway, Suitland Parkway and ramps from the Beltway to the Clara Barton Parkway. Metro continues its shutdown with Saturday maintenance bringing single tracking. Here’s what you need to know if you're tra Tips sought on string of Gaithersburg fires 10/07/2021 07:42pm • A strip mall on Gaithersburg's East Diamond Avenue suffered damage after a fire in the overnight hours of Wednesday into Thursday. (Courtesy MCFRS/Pete Piringer) Fire crews in Gaithersburg, Maryland, battled a series of fires that happened between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Thursday, and investigators ha Ah-beetz: New Haven's Frank Pepe Apizza to open in Alexandria 10/07/2021 06:15pm • New Haven's popular pizza restaurant will open a location in Alexandria, Virginia. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein) One of the oldest and most celebrated pizza restaurants — Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana of New Haven, Connecticut — will open a new location in Alexandria, Virginia, in mid-2022. Kno Fall is the time to plant the seeds of a bountiful spring garden 10/07/2021 03:06pm • Fall is the best time to plant perennials, shrubs and trees. (Getty Images) Gardening is usually associated with spring and summer, but fall is actually the ideal time to take advantage of the cooler weather and plant your garden for next year. “The easiest thing, most rewarding thing, is t Arena Stage's 'Celia and Fidel' presents 2 competing visions for Cuba's future 10/07/2021 01:05pm • Arena Stage kicked off its 2021-2022 season last month after a long pandemic hiatus. Starting Friday, it presents its second show, "Celia and Fidel," now through Nov. 21. "The story is about Celia Sanchez, the mother of the revolution in Cuba," Artistic Director Molly Smith told WTOP. "It Hall of Fame band Chicago plays MGM National Harbor with Silver Spring guitarist 10/06/2021 12:19pm • Listen to the full conversation on our "Beyond the Fame" podcast. They made music history by blaring their signature horns over classic rock 'n roll. This Friday, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Chicago will perform at MGM National Harbor. "It's Chicago and their greatest hits," the band' 'These are hate crimes': Montgomery Co. prosecutor comments on racist graffiti incidents 10/05/2021 02:53pm • A recent rash of racist graffiti, including the words "White Pride," has been painted at five locations in Bethesda, Maryland, and the local prosecutor said he intends to try the cases as hate crimes. In a statement to WTOP, Montgomery County police say they are "investigating graffiti in five lo How VP Kamala Harris, DC Mayor Bowser used stop at Colada Shop to support female entrepreneurship 10/05/2021 05:08am • When Daniella Senior, CEO of D.C.-based Colada Shop, was invited to the White House last week, she was so surprised at the invitation that she asked Vice President Kamala Harris’ chief of staff why she was included. The Cuban cafe and bar executive was told she came highly recommended, and soon First of its kind sportsbook opens in Adams Morgan 10/04/2021 03:25pm • A popular sports bar in Adams Morgan can now call itself a sportsbook — something no other typical sports bar in the country can do. Grand Central, a longtime sports bar on 18th Street in Northwest, received the District's first Class B sports betting license and started taking bets Monday morn Why a hand gesture has South Korean companies on edge 10/02/2021 08:00pm • It took three years for players to notice the "offensive" hand gesture lurking in one of South Korea's most popular multiplayer games. When players made their avatars laugh, talk or give the "OK" sign in "Lost Ark," they clicked an icon featuring a gesture that might have appeared benign to many: Old Town Alexandria pop-up shop to open ahead of holidays 10/01/2021 11:54am • A new pop-up shop will bring crafters, artists and other kinds of vendors together for the holiday season in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Made in ALX — a collective that organizes Alexandria-based microbusinesses so shoppers can access local, small-batch goods — said it will open its tempor Scooter crash turns fatal in Prince George's Co. 09/29/2021 10:34pm • A crash involving an electric scooter turned fatal in Prince George's County, Maryland, Wednesday night. According to Prince George's County police, a man was riding a scooter in Bowie around 5:30 p.m. when he ran into an SUV as it pulled out of a shopping center on Highbridge Road. Mo No cars allowed: DC Open Streets event envisions other ways to travel 09/29/2021 08:39pm • The District of Columbia will close several miles of Georgia Avenue in Northwest — a major north-south route through the nation's capital — for five hours Saturday, as a way to encourage residents, visitors and businesses to consider alternatives to car-based travel. During the District's sec