Category Archives: Local News

GERMANTOWN, Md. (AP) - One of four people shot during a fight at a Maryland recreation center basketball court has died and a teen has been charged with murder, police said. Montgomery County police o...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Yogananda Pittman, the Capitol Police official who led intelligence operations for the agency when thousands of Donald Trump loyalists descended on the building last January, is back...

WASHINGTON (AP) - A military base in the nation's capital was locked down for about two hours Friday, after an armed man ran onto the grounds during a local police investigation of gunshots on the str...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Virginia continued its trend toward a top-heavy state as population growth in the northern part of the state outpaced the rest of the commonwealth, according to census data re...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comVoters in the city of Greenbelt will be asked in the 2021 city election whether they want to create a 21 member commission to review, discuss and make recommendations about local...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's administration issued a universal mask mandate for K-12 schools Thursday.The move came after a handful of school districts in recent days ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The groundwater of at least nine military installations near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and Virginia is contaminated with high levels of toxic fluorinated "forever chemicals,...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A board voted Wednesday to move ahead with preliminary work on a multibillion-dollar plan to ease choking traffic by replacing the aging American Legion Bridge linking Maryland a...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers gave final approval Monday to a spending plan for $4.3 billion in federal coronavirus relief money, including funding for initiatives aimed at helping small bus...

McLEAN, Va. (AP) - It came as a surprise to Mottrom Drive resident Beau Fitzpatrick that he lives on a street named for a Confederate soldier."Really? I always assumed it was named for an apple, or ap...