Public meeting on health care set in Petersburg

By WTOP Staff
November 4, 2014 | 4:10 AM

PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Petersburg area residents will have an opportunity to learn more about the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday.

U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott is hosting a health care town hall meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Tabernacle Baptist Church’s Family Life Center. Scott’s office announced that he will be joined by experts who will provide an overview of the federal health care reform law, the enrollment process and other federal and state health care initiatives.

Open enrollment in the health care marketplace under the Affordable Care Act runs from Nov. 15 to Feb. 15.

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.

Related Stories