WTOP news personalities cycle for breast cancer

By Lacey Mason
January 28, 2015 | 2:11 PM

WASHINGTON — D.C. newswomen are coming together to cycle and dance their way to breast cancer awareness.

On Thursday, WTOP’s Hillary Howard along with Lauryn Ricketts and other notable D.C. newswomen, will gather at SoulCycle Bethesda for a 45-minute full-body bike workout.

Tickets are sold out for the 7:30 p.m. event, but anyone interested in donating can find more information by clicking here.

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School bus emergency? Fairfax County students have a plan to handle it

By Heather Gustafson
August 21, 2026 | 10:05 PM

This story is part of WTOP’s 2026 Back to School coverage. The wheels on the bus will soon be going round and round again in Fairfax County, Virginia, and some of its young riders are learning what to do if there’s an emergency on the way to school. The annual Safety Patrol Training Camp, hosted by Fairfax County Public Schools' Office of Transportation Services, combined hands-on exercises with classroom lessons to teach students how to keep calm during emergencies on buses. The training can feel remarkably realistic, with overturned school buses on their side or completely upside down in the middle of the county bus depot. Other buses, right side up, fill with smoke that is water-based but mimics the intensity of a bus overheating.

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