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Despite weather glitch, the Paris Olympics flame is lit at the Greek cradle of ancient games 04/16/2024 08:06am • ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed as an ancient Greek priestess uses the s Auburn's Freeze aims to revive fortunes, passing game with Payton Thorne leading QB competition 04/06/2024 06:24pm • AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — The Auburn Tigers have a new offensive coordinator, new wide receivers and renewed competition at quarterback. Hugh Freeze & Co. are hoping that formula will be good enough to make big strides in the passing game next season. In fact, it's likely essential in improving on t Cleanup begins as spring nor'easter moves on. But hundreds of thousands still lack power 04/05/2024 03:27pm • GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — Snow showers lingered Friday as the cleanup began following a major spring storm that brought heavy snow, rain and high winds to the Northeast, left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power, and contributed to at least two deaths. Well over a foot (30 centim The true toll of the war in Ukraine is measured in bodies. This man brings them home, one at a time 04/04/2024 04:25am • DOVHENKE, Ukraine (AP) — The smell in the car is sick and sweet, the overpowering scent of corpses that have lain too long in muck and ruin, the ones the dogs didn’t devour. Oleksii Yukov, a 38-year-old martial arts instructor who leads a team of volunteer body collectors in Ukraine, doesn’t n This Maryland clinic is helping Ukrainian veterans who lost limbs during the war 03/06/2024 04:51pm • A Maryland prosthetic clinic has been helping Ukrainian veterans who have been severely wounded in the war between Russia and Ukraine. It's been more than two years since Russia invaded Ukraine and during that time Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics in Silver Spring has been helping war Nashville cleared the runway for an emergency. Pilot said 'I'm too far away' 03/05/2024 05:13pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The pilot of a single-engine plane that crashed near downtown Nashville told air traffic controllers he could see the runway they were clearing for an emergency landing. But he said he couldn’t reach it. “I’m going to be landing — I don’t know where!” the pilot Man believed to have fired shots before a Virginia house exploded died in the blast, police say 12/05/2023 06:49pm • ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The owner of a Virginia house that exploded as police tried to execute a search warrant is believed to have died in the blast, officials said Tuesday, as details emerged about numerous grievances he expressed against neighbors and others on social media and in lawsuits. James Things to do in the DC area: Holiday markets, drag Santa afternoon tea … and more! 11/30/2023 06:27am • There’s so much to do in the D.C. area in the coming days, and WTOP has you covered with our weekly roundup of area events worth anticipating. Check back every Thursday for a roundup of Things to do in the D.C. area. The 11th annual Christmas Markt will host approximately 50 vendors. (Phot Factory fishing in Antarctica for krill targets the cornerstone of a fragile ecosystem 10/13/2023 06:30am • ABOARD THE ALLANKAY off Antarctica (AP) — The Antarctic Endeavour glides across the water’s silky surface as dozens of fin whales spray rainbows from their blowholes into a fairy tale icescape of massive glaciers. But as a patrol of environmentalists approaches the Chilean super trawler in an in Before Oppenheimer: How DC became the unlikely birthplace of the atomic age 07/26/2023 08:19am • Years before Robert Oppenheimer led the Los Alamos lab that developed the first nuclear weapons, physicists in D.C. thrust the world into the atomic age — inside a narrow, zigzagging tunnel running underneath Chevy Chase. "Totally by coincidence," said Shaun Hardy, a librarian at the Carneg Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards 06/03/2023 09:30pm • Winners of the 2022 Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards were announced June 3, 2023, in Ocean City, Md. Twenty-seven news organizations in Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia submitted 314 entries in the contest. The list of winners can be found at https://capb Cause of fatal Silver Spring apartment fire still 'undetermined' 05/02/2023 09:09pm • In a newly released report put together by the Montgomery County Fire and Explosive Investigations Unit, the cause of a fire last February at a Maryland apartment complex was classified as "undetermined." The early morning fire on Feb. 18 claimed the life of Melanie Diaz, 25, a former Georgetown 'Razz (The) Documentary': Revered DC band, from 'explosive' to fizzle 04/28/2023 08:06am • Any fan of D.C.'s 1980s punk and new wave music scene has likely heard of Razz — the explosive and original band destined to be the next big thing. Yet, many of those entertained and fascinated by Razz — including me — never got the chance to see them, between their start in 1971 and br Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr holiday with feasts, prayers 04/22/2023 08:39am • BEIRUT (AP) — The holiday of Eid al-Fitr ushered in a day of prayers and joy for Muslims around the world on Friday. The celebration was marred by tragedy amid the explosion of conflict in Sudan, while in other countries it came against the backdrop of hopes for a better future. After the Ramadan Explosive thrown at Japan PM at campaign event; 1 hurt 04/15/2023 05:51pm • WAKAYAMA, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was evacuated unharmed Saturday after someone threw an explosive device in his direction while he was campaigning at a fishing port in western Japan, officials said. Police wrestled a suspect to the ground as screaming bystanders scrambl