Category Archives: Local News

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– After a brief hiatus from “The Mark Levin Show”, heard weeknights here on WMAL, host Mark Levin returned Wednesday and announced he is recovering after ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Police in northern Virginia are warning the community about a potentially fatal batch of cocaine laced with fentanyl after six people overdosed early Tuesday morning.At a pres...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) - Two students were wounded in a shooting at a Virginia high school Monday afternoon, police said. A 17-year-old boy was shot in the face at Heritage High School and a 17-year-o...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Early in-person voting in Virginia's general election has begun. Friday is the first day of a 45-day period when voters can cast ballots in-person before Election Day at a local r...

WMAL NewsRepublican Glenn Youngkin and Democrat Terry McAuliffe are squaring off in their first debate of this election season.The hour-long debate is taking place at the Appalachian School of Law in ...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Virginia gubernatorial candidates Terry McAuliffe and Glenn Youngkin each raised more than $11 million in the last two months, but Youngkin loaned his campaign an additional $...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration on Wednesday began notifying governors and state refugee coordinators across the country about how many Afghan evacuees from among the first group of nearly ...

EASTON, Md. (AP) - A Confederate monument is set to be moved from a courthouse lawn on Maryland's Eastern Shore after local officials voted Tuesday night to relocate it to a Virginia battleground.The ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A panel of Maryland lawmakers approved an emergency measure on Tuesday to require masks in K-12 schools to help stop the spread of COVID-19.The 10-7 vote by the General Assembly'...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– The Virginia Department of Health says five Afghans who recently arrived in Virginia from Afghanistan have now been confirmed to have the measles. Cases have been d...