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Caps making themselves at home with record road start 12/13/2019 12:32am • Packing for a mid-December road trip through both Tampa Bay and Columbus could be a head-scratcher for even the savviest of veterans. But as the Capitals embark on a two-game trek this weekend, the potentially 40-degree drop in temperature barely fazes them. ���I don���t worry too much about thes Plan seeks to keep housing affordable along Purple Line Corridor 12/12/2019 07:59am • Building new mass transit options invariably brings new development opportunities, but also increases the threat of current residents being priced out of their homes. As construction continues on the Purple Line ��� 16 miles of light rail that will connect the Bethesda Metro, in Montgomery County Better signs and faster towing among I-95 fixes, with long-term construction plans on hold 12/11/2019 02:00pm • FILE ��� Painful delays for northbound I-95 and I-395 with closure of I-395 HOV Lanes due to high water in April 2018. (WTOP/Dave Dildine, File photo) More tow trucks and better signage are among short-term fixes recommended to address Interstate 95 traffic jams as Virginia works through potenti MiLB reduction talks reverberate throughout Winter Meetings 12/11/2019 03:43am • Some years, depending on the venue, the Major League and minor league sides of the annual Baseball Winter Meetings blend together, a single hotel lobby serving as the epicenter for the entire sport. But in San Diego this week, with MLB in the Manchester Grand Hyatt and MiLB in the Bayfront Hilton, s 'The President is Missing' pilot to film in Md. as officials hope for 'House of Cards'-like impact 12/10/2019 12:42pm • FILE - In this June 28, 2018 file photo, President Bill Clinton, right, and author James Patterson appear at a book signing for "The President is Missing" in Huntington, N.Y. (Photo by Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File) By Ben Cooper, correspondent After the Netflix series ���House of Cards��� had Iron Mountain expands Manassas data farm 12/10/2019 09:11am • Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe addresses attendees at Iron Mountain's Manassas data center opening ceremony in 2017. (Courtesy of Iron Mountain) Boston-based data center operator Iron Mountain Inc. ��� which opened the first phase of its data center campus in Manassas, Virginia, in 2017 �� Virginia considers gas tax hike to cover growing transportation needs 12/10/2019 05:30am • With huge demands for transportation improvements across Virginia, the state could raise gas taxes next year, Transportation Secretary Shannon Valentine suggested Monday. Gov. Ralph Northam's administration plans to include transportation funding initiatives in his agenda in the General Assembly Stephen Strasburg comes home to stay home in DC 12/10/2019 02:38am • When Scott Boras has a big name free agent, he tends to command the Baseball Winter Meetings. This offseason, with Boras representing top three free agents, he took full control of the scene on the first day in San Diego. Boras cannonballed into the middle of the pool, with a seven-year, $245 mil Sunset in Hagerstown? City, team fight for minor league survival 12/05/2019 02:09am • The automated voice that greets you when you call the Hagerstown Suns' front office announces the club as ���your single-A affiliate of the World Champion Washington Nationals.��� This should be a time of celebration, considering 17 former Suns players and coaches were part of the Nats' incredible r How to gift stock and other financial gifts 12/04/2019 10:00am • There are two types of gifts in the world: the depreciating kind and the appreciating kind. Depreciating gifts begin losing value the day they're bought. Appreciating gifts, on the other hand, only grow in value with time, like good investments. Investments make some of the most impactful gifts. US scores above average in reading and science, still lags in math 12/03/2019 03:04am • American students may not be reading any better, but they���re moving up in rankings of educational achievement worldwide because many of their peers in other countries are performing worse. And while their math performance may not be declining, 15-year-olds in the United States still lag the sco Buyer beware! These are the tricks online stores use to get you buying more stuff 11/29/2019 12:27pm • There's a reason you fall into the rabbit hole of online shopping. A new study breaks down a few wily ways digital retailers sucker shoppers into spending more and committing to hidden costs. Websites, it turns out, employ a series of "dark patterns" meant to mislead or Audit: 9-1-1 fee collection needs better oversight 11/28/2019 06:34am • A 9-1-1 emergency call center in Montgomery County. This article was written by WTOP���s news partners at��Maryland Matters��and republished with permission.��Sign up for��Maryland Matters��� free email subscription��today. Despite Maryland���s complex system for assessing 9-1-1 fees, collect Report: Northern Virginia casino would bring 'positive' fiscal, economic impact 11/25/2019 11:00pm • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) ��� A new report found that legalizing casinos in Virginia would provide a modest economic boost in state tax revenues and to communities where casinos are located. And, a casino in Northern Virginia would generate additional positive fiscal and economic impact. The Virginia Ge Former Baltimore mayor enters guilty pleas in fraud case 11/21/2019 01:33pm • BALTIMORE (AP) -- The disgraced former mayor of Baltimore pleaded guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy and tax evasion charges in a case involving sales of her self-published children's books. Catherine Pugh pleaded guilty in federal court in Baltimore to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspir