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  • 5 days ago | wtop.com | Kay Perkins |Neal Augenstein

    While local water officials monitor drought conditions, and weigh the likelihood of needing to tap water reserves to supplement the Potomac River, more local utility companies are utilizing an age-old method of increasing their backup supply. “Quarries have been used since Roman times to supply water,” said Michael Nardolilli, executive director of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.

  • 1 week ago | wtop.com | Abigail Constantino |Neal Augenstein

    A teenager was killed and another person was wounded after they were shot in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, over the weekend. The Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s office said Tyler Chase Butler, 27, of Spotsylvania County, has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder and malicious wounding, among other weapons related charges.

  • 1 week ago | wtop.com | Neal Augenstein

    This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. Rick Schena, of Alexandria, Virginia, and his doctor at MedStar Health, in McLean, have begun use the latest technology — adaptive deep brain stimulation — in his treatment for Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. “Mr. Schena has had Parkinson’s disease for 17 years,” said Dr. Fernando Pagan, a movement disorders neurologist.

  • 1 week ago | wtop.com | Neal Augenstein

    A trip to the farmers market this weekend would offer an easy and delicious way to improve your digestive and metabolic health. “Springtime is my favorite time to go to the farmers market,” said Christie Youssef, a family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician for Kaiser Permanente in Fair Oaks, Virginia. “There’s tons of really beautiful and fresh fiber-rich foods.”There are two kinds of fiber: soluble and insoluble.

  • 1 week ago | wtop.com | Neal Augenstein

    Former Republican Virginia Gov. George Allen says that he wants people to focus on “the issues that matter” rather than the rift between Gov. Glenn Youngkin and John Reid, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor. Allen — who served as the 67th governor of Virginia from January 1994 to January 1998 — said he believes the controversy over Youngkin’s call for Reid to exit the race is winding down. “I think this is getting resolved,” Allen said in a Wednesday interview with WTOP’s Nick Iannelli.

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