Squirrel caused Northern Va. power outage

By WTOP Staff
September 5, 2012 | 12:29 PM

WASHINGTON – The electricity is back on in Northern Virginia.

A squirrel is to blame for the outage that left more than 3,100 homes and businesses without electricity Wednesday morning.

The bulk of the outages were in Arlington.

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Hail to the chief: Take our presidential trivia quiz

By Rick Massimo
February 15, 2021 | 1:46 PM

EDITOR'S NOTE: WTOP first brought you this quiz in 2019. Presidents Day is coming. How well do you know the less-important facts about the nation's leaders? Take WTOP's quiz — with any luck, it won't take you all Presidents Day to finish it.

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