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In audio from the air traffic control tower around the time of the crash, a controller is heard asking the helicopter, “PAT25 ...

Over the past 30 years, salt has increased 104 percent in the Potomac River, reports the WSSC, the water utility for Maryland’s Montgomery and Prince George’s counties. “Salt levels in the ...

Rescue divers have recovered another body from the Potomac River after a crash Thursday night that sent a white pickup truck off the Arlington Memorial Bridge and into the icy waters below ...

The pickup’s driver lost control of their vehicle, swerving across the median and crashing through the bridge’s protective railing and into the freezing Potomac River. Officials reported that ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — DC Fire and EMS (DCFD) said a crash caused a pickup truck to go over the Arlington Memorial Bridge and into the Potomac River while it was snowing Thursday evening. A DCFD ...

Two people have died after a pickup truck crashed on the Arlington Memorial Bridge and plunged into the icy Potomac River during rush hour Thursday evening, authorities say. Multiple sources ...

The state’s Department of Transportation and Development says their salt trucks are ready to handle icy roads and bridges. “We have 400,000 pounds of salt on hand to disperse on the state ...

The driver was involved in a crash with another vehicle on the Arlington Memorial Bridge when his car flew over the side railing of the bridge into the Potomac River just before 7 p.m., according ...