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VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Metro experienced another near miss Wednesday morning when one Red Line train operator had to push his emergency brake to avoiding hitting another train ahead of it. The incident is ringing alarm bells for how the agency’s safety system failed to stop the trains from getting so close again, but also […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: State police say Virginia saw declines in violent crimes and other offenses in 2009. The Virginia State Police’s 2009 Crime in Virginia report says violent crimes fell by 9.7 percent compared to 2008. Motor vehicle and other property thefts and drug offenses also decreased, the report said. Juvenile arrests also declined […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: Howard University has submitted a $1.1 billion plan to move its hospital and health sciences operation to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center campus after the facility closes next year and the District assumes control of its more than 62 acres from the federal government. University officials say the ambitious proposal […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: When Jelani Freeman came home after school one day, his mother was gone. Eight years old, he waited, realizing as the hours passed that she would not be back. She was mentally ill and in need of treatment. His father was in prison. “I just knew that was it,” he recalled. […]
VIA MYFOXDC: Customers can expect lengthy delays of up to 30 minutes this weekend (May 7-9) as old track components are replaced on the Red and Orange lines, causing inbound and outbound trains to take turns sharing one track on portions of the rail system. Red Line Track Upgrades Metrorail customers traveling between the Grosvenor-Strathmore […]
VIA MYFOXDC: There is a new warning from police. Robbers are hip to new chat technology. A seemingly innocent meeting with someone could prove dangerous. Prince William County Police are investigating a case that happened April 12. A 28-year-old Manassas man downloaded a text chat application to his cell phone. Police said he exchanged pictures […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: D.C. officials showed off the prototype of a streetcar on Wednesday that they hope will run along 37 miles of trolley lines within the next decade. The public can view the 66-foot-long streetcar, which spent years in storage in the Czech Republic where it was made, through Saturday as the city […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER: Metro on Wednesday fired a bus driver who struck a pedestrian last month in Southeast D.C. The incident occurred on April 13, shortly before 8:50 p.m., as the W2 Route Metrobus was turning right from Irving Street onto Alabama Avenue, according to Metro. The pedestrian was taken to a hospital; the […]
VIA WTOP: D.C. Police are looking for a man who they say robbed a bank, and then dropped his wallet while running away. The robbery happened at a TD bank in the 1700 block of Connecticut Avenue in Northwest around 7:45 p.m. on April 29. Police say the suspect handed a teller a note, and […]
VIA THE WASHINGTON POST: The District, Maryland and Virginia are nearly doubling their funding of a safety oversight group that monitors Metro, plus bolstering and reorganizing its staffing, after a federal audit found major weaknesses in the organization. The little-known Tri-State Oversight Committee laid out the plans in a response due Tuesday to a scathing […]