Ashburn boy scheduled to appear again on ‘America’s Got Talent’ this week

By InsideNoVa.com
July 27, 2020 | 8:47 AM

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This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. A 12-year-old boy from Ashburn is scheduled to appear in the next round of the “America’s Got Talent” reality competition on Tuesday, according to The Burn. Noah Epps, a rising seventh-grader at Stone Hill Middle School, wowed the judges during the auditions, televised earlier this year, with a marionette-style dance performance. Tuesday’s show will air on NBC at 8 p.m. and consists of previously recorded performances. A total of 44 acts will be chosen to go on to compete in live shows.

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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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