Category Archives: Local News

ASHBURN, VA (CNN) — The CIA “inadvertently” left “explosive training material” on a school bus after a training exercise.Not exactly welcome news for parents.Though it &#...

Bridget Reed Morawski WASHINGTON (WMAL) — This years’ crop of stinkbugs will be lighter than usual, according to local entomologists. Dr. Michael Raupp, an entomologist with the University...

Kendra Yoshinaga WASHINGTON (WMAL)– A petition calling for American University to revise its sexual assault response policies has gained more than 73,000 signatures. The petition comes after a s...

RICHMOND — (CNN) A man pulled a gun and shot a Virginia State Police trooper during a training exercise at a Greyhound bus station in Richmond, Virginia, on Thursday. Both the trooper and the su...

https://www.wmal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/238/2016/03/THU-PM-BILL-GEORGETOWN.mp3 Bill Thompson and Kendra Yoshinaga WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL)– D.C.’s Alcohol Licensing Board will end ...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) — The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will need more than a billion dollars a year in additional funding to restore and maintain the Metror...

Kendra Yoshinaga WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL)– Montgomery County police have charged a Gaithersburg man with a sex offense. A local woman hired Jose Campos-Gonzalez, 44, as a temporary laborer las...

Kendra Yoshinaga WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL)– Police have arrested a Maryland man suspected of plotting to hire a hitman to kill his wife. After receiving a tip that Aafaq Manejwala of Laurel, Md...

Dave Sweet WMAL.com WASHINGTON — (WMAL) A roof collapse at Reinhart Food Service in Manassas has left one person dead and five others with injuries serious enough to be transported to a local ho...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) Forty visitors and two park rangers were forced to take the stairs down the Washington Monument on Tuesday after an elevator got stuck at the 280-foot level. “All visito...