Category Archives: Local News

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Maryland Senate Republican caucus said Thursday its members are opposed to holding a preferred mail-in election in November.The letter to the Maryland State Board of Election...

WASHINGTON (AP) – NASA is naming its headquarters in Washington after the space agency’s first African American female engineer. Mary Jackson started her NASA career as part of a segregate...

The Washington Redskins are removing former owner George Preston Marshall from their Ring of Fame and striking all references to him on their website.A spokesman confirmed the decisions Wednesday, say...

SPRINGFIELD, Va. - A school board in Virginia has agreed to rename a high school that honors a Confederate general.The Fairfax County School Board unanimously voted to change the name of Robert E. Lee...

FORT WASHINGTON, Md. - Respiratory therapist Kevin Cole and his colleagues at a Maryland intensive care center have watched COVID-19 patients die and consoled their families. They've celebrated as som...

RICHMOND, Va. - Police in Virginia's capital declared an unlawful assembly and broke up a gathering of protestors accused of attempting to pull down another Confederate monument along a prominent aven...

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday that he will release the names of nursing homes that have had a coronavirus outbreak, a reversal from his previous stance that withholding ...

WASHINGTON - The nation's capital is moving ahead with the second phase of its reopening Monday, as city officials credited months of social restrictions with blunting an anticipated spike in COVID-19...

RICHMOND, Va. - For the second time in two years, no big-name Republicans in Virginia are bothering to try and win a seat in the U.S. Senate. Once a hotly contested swing state where Senate elections ...

  RICHMOND, Va. - Unemployment benefits in Virginia will be suspended in more than 12,000 cases involving claimants refusing to return to work as coronavirus-related restrictions loosen and busin...