GREENBELT — Maryland State Highway Administration officials say crews are working to repair cracks found in overpasses on the Intercounty Connector. Inspectors for the administration have discovered cracks on 10 bridges along the new $2.5 billion toll highway. David Buck, ...

Tagged with: bridge cracks intercounty connector maryland state highway administration

WASHINGTON — A billionaire history buff has stepped forward to donate the $7.5 million matching gift that’s needed to start repairing cracks near the top of the Washington Monument caused by last summer’s East Coast earthquake. Businessman David Rubenstein told ...

Tagged with: Congress cracks david rubenstein earthquake engineers national mall national park service repairs restoration Smithsonian Institution Tourism washington monument

WASHINGTON — In what looked like a scene from a Hollywood action movie, an elite team of professionals rappelled down the Washington Monument on Wednesday — not to carry out a covert mission but to inspect the damage done to ...

Tagged with: cracks earthquake inspection iPad national weather service Tourism washington d.c. washington monument

Southwest Airlines Co. expected to have nearly all of its grounded planes back in the air by late Tuesday after checking them for microscopic cracks in the aluminum skin. That will do wonders for Southwest’s schedule, which was plagued by ...

Tagged with: Baltimore boeing BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport cancellations cracks faa federal aviation administration Southwest Airlines Co.

Southwest Airlines, BWI’s largest carrier, expects to cancel 70 more flights on Monday as it inspects older planes for cracks in the fuselage. The airline canceled about 600 flights over the weekend after a Boeing 737-300 jet sprung a 5-foot ...

Tagged with: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport cracks inspections Southwest Airlines Co.