Category Archives: Local News

Steve Burns WMAL.com WASHINGTON – (WMAL) The Washington Nationals’ managerial search appears to be over. Multiple media outlets are reporting team ownership has finalized a three-year cont...

Amanda Engel WMAL.COM https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/10/27115608/FRI-PM-BILL-STATUE.mp3 WASHINGTON (WMAL) — Plans to erect a statue of former DC Mayor Marion Barry outside the Wilson ...

LANDOVER, MD — Carson Wentz’s Philadelphia Eagles are the class of the NFC East, while Eli Manning’s New York Giants are looking toward 2018. That puts Dak Prescott’s Dallas Co...

RICHMOND, VA — President Donald Trump is giving his strongest endorsement to date of Republican Ed Gillespie in Virginia’s closely watched race for governor. In a series of tweets Thursday...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) – Virginia’s largest county is cutting the ribbon on a new headquarters building for its police and fire departments.Fairfax County is showing off its new public safety h...

Steve BurnsWMAL.comhttps://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/10/26073258/thu-am-stv-hogan-metro-1.mp3WASHINGTON – (WMAL) Metro’s embattled Board of Directors may be hitting a new low, if y...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comhttps://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/10/26070434/THU-AM-Jeb-Stuart-Name-Wrap-1.mp3WASHINGTON (WMAL) – A long-standing debate over what to re-name J.E.B. Stuart High Sc...

Steve Burns WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/10/25155944/wed-pm-stv-dc-ff-2.mp3 WASHINGTON – (WMAL) At the end of his three-month hospital stay, D.C. Firefighter Dane Smothers,...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comhttps://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/10/25133744/THU-PM-Bad-Mom-Wrap-1.wavWASHINGTON (WMAL) – A mother of 10 has been charged with child neglect after police said she ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) – A school board member wants a northern Virginia high school named for a Confederate general to be renamed Justice High. The Fairfax County school board is scheduled to p...