Category Archives: Local News

Redskins players will be revealing their custom designed game cleats this week for the My Cause My Cleats campaign. Each player’s cleats are customized to support the causes they are most passio...

Mel Madarang WMAL.com WASHINGTON D.C. (WMAL)- Following the reports of an active shooter situation at Walter Reed Medical Center, multiple government agencies reported that there was no active shooter...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — An apparent criminal complaint against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is the subject of a federal court hearing in Virginia.Free-press advocates want a judge to unseal the co...

DAMASCUS, Md. — Four Maryland 15-year-olds are out on bail but face life in prison after being charged as adults with first-degree rape in a locker room attack.WTOP-FM reports Jean Claude Abedi,...

BALTIMORE (AP) – Maryland’s governor says a “nonpartisan” emergency commission will be created to draw new boundaries for a congressional district. Republican Gov. Larry Hogan ...

RICHMOND, Va. – Some state lawmakers in Virginia say they’re drafting legislation to allow sports betting in the state.The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported last week that the proposals fol...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of an Ohio man accused of killing a woman during a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville last year. James Alex Fields Jr.,...

NEW YORK – Some people spent the end of their Thanksgiving holiday stuck on an Amtrak train for more than five hours. The Boston-bound Acela had left Washington Sunday when Amtrak says debris ca...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. – The Coast Guard has rescued a man whose inflatable kayak capsized in cold waters off a Virginia state park.Accomack County police contacted the Coast Guard’s command cent...

STAFFORD, Va. – Troopers in Stafford County are investigating a deadly road crash that killed two Virginia women.The Virginia State police say a Triangle woman driving a Nissan Xterra was travel...