Category Archives: Local News

NORFOLK, Va. - For nearly four years, Gavin Grimm has been suing his former school district after it banned him from using the boys bathrooms in high school. Along the way, he's became a national face...

Juan Herrera WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) - Although the DC metro area has received plenty of snow this winter, we are not out of the woods yet. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Wa...

VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – A little more than two years after a couple was found shot in their Fairfax County home, the man was arrested and charged with murdering his wife. Maj...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – He was supposed to be helping them, but instead police say a behavioral health specialist raped two mentally incapacitated women. 60-year-old Bernard ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Gov. Larry Hogan says his administration has had preliminary discussions with Amazon, and he looks forward to meeting with the company again about potentially expanding to ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – Embattled Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is asking lawmakers to pass a state budget that has a “greater focus on the issues of equity.”Northam met with a group of l...

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) – Melania Trump is doing Valentine’s Day arts and crafts with pediatric patients.Mrs. Trump helped children make candy grams, heart-shaped snow globes and other arts and...

WASHINGTON (AP) -Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says President Donald Trump has indicated he’s prepared to sign the government funding bill and issue a national emergency on the border. ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Amazon will not be building a new headquarters in New York, a stunning reversal after a yearlong search. The online retailer faced opposition from some New York politicians, who were u...