The Bronx Bombers now have torpedoes in their arsenal. The New York Yankees officially launched the “torpedo bat” era over the weekend — with multiple players using a modified baseball bat during the teams historic offensive onslaught in its opening series of the 2025 season. The wood of the bat is shifted from the barrel towards the batter’s ...

Video shows dirt bike and ATV riders speed around D.C.s World War II Memorial, which honors those who served in the war and those who died. At least three people can be seen whizzing around the circular memorial on the National Mall. The riders rev their engines as they pass the memorials granite columns, which represent U.S. states and territories. ...

Reagan Washington National Airport has seen passenger traffic drop significantly since Jan. 29’s deadly mid-air collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Blackhawk helicopter, which killed 67 people. New safety concerns over more recent incidents including aircraft getting too close to each other last weekend and a kite being ...

The work to remove D.C.s Black Lives Matter Plaza is nearly complete. News4 video shows solid paint where huge yellow letters spelled out Black Lives Matter three weeks earlier. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced on March 4 that the two-block-long, curb-to-curb letters painted in 2020 would be painted over. She acknowledged she made the decision in the ...

Two No. 1 seeds are Final Four bound. The top overall-seeded UCLA Bruins and defending champion South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday punched tickets to Tampa, Florida, for the national semifinals in the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament. The Bruins, led by First Team All-American center Lauren Betts, defeated the No. 3 LSU Tigers to reach the program’s ...

We share the best things to do every weekend in The Weekend Scene newsletter its completely free to subscribe! The clock may be ticking on the cherry blossoms’ peak bloom, but we’re still counting down to plenty of exciting events for the National Cherry Blossom Festival. April is the perfect time to embrace the finer things. Stop and smell some ...

Massachusetts native and astronaut Sunita Williams is scheduled to speak publicly on Monday for the very first time since splashing back down to Earth earlier this month. The former Needham resident will speak alongside fellow astronaut Butch Wilmore at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. You can watch the 2:30 p.m. press conference live in the ...

An 87-year-old woman was found killed inside a home in Potomac, Maryland, Sunday night after her grandson showed up to a police station and confessed to the crime, police say. Spencer Dillon Hamilton, 27, walked into the Rockville City Police station just after 8 p.m. and told officers he killed his grandmother, Pauline Yvonne Titus-Dillon, at her home, ...

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Maxim Naumov came to a stop in the middle of the ice, looked up at the sky and patted his heart. Then he mouthed a few words, in Russian, to his parents: This is for you guys. You guys are with me. I love you both. Former world pairs champions Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova died in January when their plane crashed into a military helicopter on ...

Bird flu wasnt on Tim Hansons mind when he fed his cats specialty pet food containing raw chicken. You go to the pet shop and it was the premium raw food, he said. It was finely ground to a consistency that I thought was beneficial to my cats. But in early February, one of his cats, Kira, developed a fever and stopped eating. A test ordered by a ...

Morgan Wallens second stint as musical guest on Saturday Night Live is stirring some controversy among viewers. On Saturday, March 29, Oscar winner Mikey Madison hosted the late-night sketch comedy show for the first time alongside Wallen as musical guest.  During the episode, the country music star performed two songs fromhis upcomingprojectIm The ...

Three teenagers were charged after multiple fights broke out at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City on Saturday, according to Arlington County police. A 13-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were arrested after police closed the mall early from the fights. At 7:06 p.m., police responded to the 1100 block of S. Hayes Street for ...

Kevin Willard, the former head coach for men’s basketball at the University of Maryland, has been named the new head coach for Villanova University’s men’s basketball team. Willard replaces Kyle Neptune, who was fired earlier this month after three straight seasons without an NCAA Tournament appearance. Welcome to Nova Nation, Coach Willard ...

Instead of joining in Columbia Universitys annual Alumni Day celebrations for the School of International and Public Affairs, several alumni gathered to denounce the school by ripping up their diplomas in protest. The protest follows the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), a ...

Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series “Dr. Kildare” who found a second career as an award-winning “king of the miniseries,” has died. He was 90. Chamberlain died Saturday night in Waimanalo, Hawaii of complications following a stroke, according to his publicist, Harlan Boll. Our beloved Richard is with the ...

A kite appears to have hit a passenger jet as it flew near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Saturday afternoon, United Airlines said. The airline said it was aware of reports that a kite hit United Flight 654, and that the flight from Houston landed safely. “Customers deplaned normally,” it said, “and upon inspection there was no ...

School districts across the DMV are opening up their doors for federal workers in need of a career change. Amid so much uncertainty within the federal workforce, federal workers like Monique Mason are searching for new opportunities. Divine Alignment, she said. Everything happens for a reason. Mason is currently on administrative leave from her job ...

Two people were injured when they were struck by a vehicle during a protest at a Tesla dealership in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Saturday. Watertown police said the incident occurred earlier Saturday at the protest at the Tesla dealership on Pleasant Street. During the protest, the side mirror of a black pickup truck struck two people. Officers ...

One month after a Maryland mother was killed in a crash on East-West Highway, a close friend is demanding justice. Investigators say Esmeralda Montoya died after she was struck by a driver who was trying to get away from police. Loved ones say the 33 year old mother of two was on her way home and waiting for a bus when she was hit. “She had her ...

The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nations top health official for allowing misinformation and lies to guide his thinking behind the safety of vaccinations. Dr. Peter Marks sent a letter to Acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner on Friday saying that he would resign and retire by April 5 as ...

The U.S. has had a shortage of air traffic controllers for years. Air traffic controller staffing “is at an all-time low,” said Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, their union. In an interview with CNBC, Daniels said the situation has “hit a critical point. “We currently have 10,800 certified ...

When a protester was caught on video in January at a New York rally against Israel, only her eyes were visible between a mask and headscarf. But days later, photos of her entire face, along with her name and employer, were circulated online. Months of them hiding their faces went down the drain! a fledgling technology company boasted in a social media ...

Alysa Liu skated around the ice in disbelief, her golden dress shimmering in the lights of TD Garden, and the appreciative roar from a sellout crowd reminded her why she had returned to the sport following a nearly two-year retirement. When her score was finally read, the 19-year-old from Clovis, California, had made history. Liu became the first ...

License plate readers, artificial intelligence and new technology led police to the crew believed to be responsible for a series of robberies of Ulta cosmetics stores in Maryland and Virginia, Fairfax County police said. At least three people worked together smashing display cases at stores in Northern Virginia and Montgomery and Anne Arundel counties in ...