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Residents still missing after Md. apt. explosion, fire kills 2 08/11/2016 11:49am • WASHINGTON — Emergency crews recovered two bodies from the rubble of the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland, Thursday afternoon after an explosion and three-alarm fire tore through the apartment complex in the overnight hours. The victims have not yet been identified, and sev Photos: Apartment explosion in Silver Spring 08/11/2016 09:21am • photos-apt-explosion-in-silver-spring Will small craft beer get too big? Samuel Adams' Jim Koch on the future of the industry 06/09/2016 05:41pm • WASHINGTON — Walk into any bar and you’re bound to find more than a couple of craft beers — but it wasn’t always that way. Thirty years ago, if you wanted a premium beer at an average bar, you had to buy a European beer. But that all changed when Jim Koch, founder of The Boston Beer Compa Candlelight vigil in Silver Spring honors San Bernardino victims, calls for peace 12/05/2015 01:45am • SILVER SPRING, Md.-- A candlelight vigil in Silver Spring, Maryland, honored the 14 people killed in San Bernardino, California, earlier this week. Held at the Muslim Community Center, Muslim and non-Muslim community leaders gathered to pray for those affected by the attack and to call for a united Silver Spring water main break repaired 08/12/2015 04:45pm • WASHINGTON — A water main break that flooded several Silver Spring businesses Wednesday has been repaired but Flower Avenue remains closed to traffic. Customers also once again have service, according to the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission. However Flower Avenue is closed betw Saved from the fire: Classic films get 4K restorations 06/22/2015 03:33am • WASHINGTON — To see a restored film is to see it for the first time. Too many folks assume that watching a decades-old movie will mean a grainy image, poor sound and a dated viewing experience — recalling faded reruns of old television shows. But when properly restored, a classic mo Fire in Silver Spring apartment building under investigation 04/14/2015 08:41am • WASHINGTON —- A fire in an eight-story apartment building in Silver Spring, Maryland Tuesday morning remains under investigation. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service spokesman Pete Piringer tweeted that the two-alarm fire at 25 E. Wayne Ave. occurred on the eighth floor and was confin 3rd show added for premiere of D.C. punk doc 'Salad Days' 10/09/2014 10:49am • WASHINGTON -- After several years of production, and 30 years after the events in it happened, local filmmaker Scott Crawford's documentary about D.C. hardcore punk revolution, "Salad Days," is ready for harvest. WTOP has learned the local premiere will be held at the AFI Silver Theatre, in Cars catch fire at Silver Spring garage 06/23/2014 09:53am • Silver Spring, Md. - Three cars were destroyed and another badly damaged when a car in a Silver Spring, Maryland, garage caught fire and the fire spread Monday morning. "Nobody got hurt and unfortunately, there was some damage done to the cars," says Battalion Chief Mark Davis. The fire broke out High Winds Mean Power Outages Throughout Bethesda, Potomac 03/12/2014 10:35pm • Wind gusts reaching as high as 60 miles per hour are causing power outages throughout the D.C. area on Wednesday night, including in spots around Bethesda and Potomac. At 10:30 p.m. Pepco reported about 1,100 customers are without power in neighborhoods near Falls Road and Democracy Boulevard in Po Metro determines cause of Red Line fire 06/14/2013 09:25am • WASHINGTON - WMATA has determined the cause of a fire on a Red Line train in May. The Washington Examiner reports that the fire, which happened during evening rush hour on Tuesday, May 14, was caused by a breaking off of a cleat that held a hose on a 1000-series train. The hose fell so that i Metro: No cause of Silver Spring fire yet 05/15/2013 07:06pm • WASHINGTON - Metro continues to investigate what caused a railcar to catch fire during the evening rush hour this week. Although the ultimate cause of the fire that badly damaged one of the transit agency's oldest model railcars and left hundreds of commuters stranded has not been determined, the Family 'thankful to God' UMd. student survived shooting 02/13/2013 12:13pm • URBANA -- An Urbana man is thankful his stepson was not seriously injured during a College Park shooting that left two people dead.Chris Merz said his stepson, Neal Oa, is at home, recuperating from a gunshot wound to the leg. Oa, a junior at the University of Maryland, survived an attack at a ho ACPD Helps Wounded Veterans Get Segways 05/16/2012 06:10pm • Fifty military veterans who sustained life altering injuries during combat received new Segway vehicles at a ceremony today in front of the Marine Corps Memorial in Rosslyn. The charity Segs4Vets arranged to give the vehicles to the wounded warriors, many of whom are amputees. Some of the Segways Officer honored for bravery in Discovery standoff 01/09/2012 03:49pm • Kate Ryan, wtop.com ROCKVILLE, Md. - Officer Ed Paden was fresh off a training swim in the Chesapeake Bay when the jellyfish stings were getting to him. So he finished his workout and headed back to Montgomery County, and though he was off-duty, he headed back to his station. That's when the 911