Category Archives: Local News

Heather Curtis WMAL.com Many veterans are struggling as they process the deadly situation in Afghanistan. It has been a chaotic scene at the Hamid Karzai International Airport since the Taliban took o...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland's highest court has agreed to take up the case of Lee Boyd Malvo, who is serving life in prison for his role in the 2002 sniper spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican Party of Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday asking the courts to remove Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe from the ballot for failing to sign an offici...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Maryland State Board of Education voted Thursday for an emergency regulation to require children and adults to wear masks in schools statewide to help stop the spread of COVI...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A school board in Virginia has agreed to pay $1.3 million in legal costs to the American Civil Liberties Union after the nonprofit spent six years representing a student who sued o...

More than 6,000 Afghan refugees have arrived in Virginia and more are expected, Gov. Ralph Northam said Tuesday. Northam said he appreciates all of the humanitarian work being done in Virginia right n...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Democrat Terry McAuliffe urged all Virginia employers on Monday to require the COVID-19 vaccine for their workers who are eligible, sharpening a policy debate in the closely watch...

WASHINGTON (AP) - An officer who shot and killed a woman during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol as she began to climb through the broken part of a door leading into an area known as the Sp...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - More than 200 University of Virginia students who didn't comply with the school's COVID-19 vaccine requirement have been disenrolled ahead of the fall semester.The school d...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comThe Fairfax County Public School system's the latest in the D.C. metro area to mandate vaccines for teachers and other employees or regular testing. The deadline to get vaccinate...