Elvis Presley retrospective to open in London

By WTOP Staff
November 3, 2014 | 12:30 PM

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Tickets go on sale this week for an exhibition of more than 300 artifacts associated with Elvis Presley in what organizers say is the largest retrospective of the late rock and roll icon ever mounted in Europe.

Elvis Presley Enterprises says “Elvis at The O2: The Exhibition of His Life” is scheduled to open Dec. 12 in London. Tickets go on sale Friday, with pre-sale tickets available starting Wednesday.

Scheduled to run through Aug. 31, 2015, the exhibition will chronicle Presley’s rise as the “King of Rock n’ Roll” and his impact on popular culture.

Artifacts come from the Presley family’s Graceland Archives. Some items have never been exhibited outside of Presley’s home-turned museum in Memphis.

Items on display will include automobiles, historical documents, stage costumes, guitars and photos.

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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