Category Archives: Local News

Juan Herrera WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) - Raphael Schklowsky, who previously worked as a drama teacher at Herndon High School in Fairfax County, has been charged with 20 felony charges of possession o...

DAMASCUS, Md. – The principal of a Maryland high school has resigned months after several junior varsity football players were accused of raping or attempting to rape teammates with a broomstick...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) – After years of work and an international manhunt, Fairfax County Police have tracked down and arrested a man wanted for shooting two people to death in ...

BALTIMORE – Blue crabs are rebounding in the Chesapeake Bay, with an annual survey showing the highest estimated population in seven years.That’s welcome news for fisherfolk and those who ...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) – A 73-year-old woman will spend 15 years behind bars after being sentenced Friday for murdering a child she was babysitting.Oluremi Adeleye was taking ca...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comUPDATE 1:15 p.m. (WMAL) – The driver came forward and has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident. He called police and said he did stop and got out of his car, ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam says he will no longer sign any legislation that imposes new mandatory minimum sentence requirements. Northam said in a news release Wednesday and in ...

In a dramatic surprise, a black woman who had dropped out of the race for Maryland’s House speaker has won the powerful office. Del. Adrienne Jones was unanimously elected by members of the Hous...

BEDFORD, Va. – Prosecutors say a Chevy-versus-Ford argument escalated and ended with a man shooting his girlfriend and her son.Mark Edwin Turner was arrested last week after he barricaded himsel...

RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has vetoed legislation that would allow officials to temporarily block convicted sex offenders from using emergency shelters. Northam said Tuesday it ...