Category Archives: Local News

BALTIMORE – The union representing Baltimore police is drawing criticism after a comment on social media which described some youths as “criminals” following arrests at the Inner Har...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) – Lots of people and organizations stepped up offering to pay to keep Rolling Thunder in D.C. after the director said Sunday’s ride was the last in ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Richmond police say a girl was fatally shot and a boy was wounded during a cookout in a public park on the city’s south side. News outlets are reporting that officers were ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has vetoed legislation that would change state laws regulating handguns and oysters, among other bills.Hogan, a Republican, vetoed a bill that would ha...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – A first-in-the-nation measure in Maryland to create a prescription drug affordability board will become law without Gov. Larry Hogan’s signature.The bill was included Frid...

WASHINGTON – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has called for the chair of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to resign from the board, calling him “ethically compromised.” H...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – Montgomery County residents could be in danger following two recent outages of the county’s aging emergency communications system. Outages over ...

RICHMOND, Va. - Jesse Matthew Jr., who abducted and killed two Virginia college students five years apart, was transferred to a new prison this week so he can receive medical treatment for cancer.Matt...

Juan HerreraWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) - Virginia Governor Ralph Northam released a statement today regarding the Eastern Virginia Medical School investigation, where he denied that he was in the photo...

NORFOLK, Va. - An investigation ordered up by a Virginia medical school failed to determine whether Gov. Ralph Northam is in a 1984 yearbook photo of a man in blackface next to someone in a Ku Klux Kl...