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Arlington County Police Department9/11 at the PentagonLISTEN: Arlington County Fire Department Capt. Justin Tirelli shares his story of responding to the Pentagonhttps://www.wmal.com/wp-content/upload...

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A man who threatened to kill a member of Congress from Maryland over Republicans' claims of a rigged presidential election was sentenced on Thursday to serve eight consecutive...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Work crews searching for a time capsule they believed was buried inside the pedestal under a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that had towered over Richmond, Virginia, hit...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland is authorizing COVID-19 booster shots for all residents 65 and older who live in congregate care settings, Gov. Larry Hogan said Wednesday.Residents in nursing homes, as...

BOSTON (AP) - The wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy's says assassin Sirhan Sirhan should not be released from prison, further roiling a family divide over whether the man convicted of killing her hus...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A crowd erupted in cheers and song Wednesday as work crews hoisted an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee off the pedestal where it has towered over Virginia's capit...

Heather Curtis WMAL.comGov. Larry Hogan walked through debris littered streets of Annapolis and Edgewater on Thursday looking at buildings torn apart by a tornado on Wednesday afternoon that formed as...

ASHBURN, Va. (AP) - When Landon Collins joined Washington in 2019, he told friends something needed to change. In the two years since he played his first game in burgundy and gold, just about everythi...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia GOP gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin rolled out the most sweeping policy proposal of his campaign so far Monday, a so-called "day one game plan" that envisioned subst...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com High schoolers in Fairfax County Public Schools who participate in Virginia High School League winter and spring sports will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 8 to...