Category Archives: Local News

Maryland Marijuana Measure Prioritizes Social Equity
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland is working toward creating a recreational marijuana industry with greater social equity, lawmakers said Friday, with more licenses for minority-owned businesses and proc...
Syndicated Author Feb 06, 2023

GOP-Led Panel Again Defeats Campaign Finance Reform
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Republican-led Virginia House panel voted down legislation early Wednesday that would prohibit lawmakers from using campaign funds for personal expenses such as a vacation, mort...
Syndicated Author Feb 01, 2023

Virginia’s Error Leads Local Schools to Overestimate Aid
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Department of Education acknowledged Tuesday that an error in a mathematical formula it provides to local K-12 school divisions led some schools to expect more state ...
Syndicated Author Feb 01, 2023

Virginia Says Error Led to Shortage in Local School Funding
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Department of Education is acknowledging it made a mistake in calculating state aid for K-12 schools, an error that is leaving divisions with less funding than expect...
Syndicated Author Jan 31, 2023

Lawmakers Shelve Bills Cutting Unemployment Appeals Times
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers have shelved a pair of bills that would have given unemployment claimants half as much time to file an appeal with a state agency still struggling with pandemic...
Syndicated Author Jan 31, 2023

AG: Ex-Parole Board Chair Violated Law; Too Late for Charges
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A former Virginia Parole Board chair violated state policy and law in her handling of cases at the start of the coronavirus pandemic and could have faced criminal charges if not f...
Syndicated Author Jan 26, 2023

Patrol Officers Investigate Theft of Gorilla Statue in Kensington; Video of Suspect Released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szh_fr0iNv4Gaithersburg, MD - Officers from the Montgomery County Department of Police - 2nd District Patrol Services are investigating a theft of a gori...
Syndicated Author Jan 25, 2023

Virginia Senate Panel Okays Gun Bills After Campus Shootings
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A Democrat-led Virginia Senate panel voted Monday to advance a range of gun control bills, including legislation meant to address recent campus shootings at the University of...
Syndicated Author Jan 25, 2023

Ex-Prosecutor’s Defense Team Can’t Quit Now, Prosecutors Say
BALTIMORE (AP) - After attorneys for Baltimore's former top prosecutor Marilyn Mosby asked to stop representing her in an ongoing perjury and mortgage fraud case, federal prosecutors filed a motion Sa...
Syndicated Author Jan 23, 2023

Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia to Seek Reelection
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee and a fixture in Virginia politics for decades, said Friday that he would seek reelection next year, easing...
Syndicated Author Jan 23, 2023
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