Category Archives: Local News

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a comprehensive anti-discrimination bill that advocates said will make the state the first in the South to enact such protections for...

RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia lawmakers passed a bill Monday that scraps the state's Lee-Jackson holiday celebrating two Confederate generals and replaces it with one on Election Day. The House approved le...

WASHINGTON - Lee Boyd Malvo, the Washington, D.C., area sniper, and Virginia agreed Monday to dismiss a pending Supreme Court case after the state changed criminal sentencing law for juveniles. Under ...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comWASHINGTON (WMAL) – The Naval Academy is mourning the loss of a 22-year-old midshipman who was found dead in Bancroft Hall Thursday. Early Saturday morning the football tea...

BALTIMORE (AP) - A freshly dug grave was waiting for the 18-year-old man when gang members lured him to a Maryland park nearly three years ago. They choked him until he passed out. They took turns sla...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) – A sheriff’s office in Virginia says a property owner held a suspect accused of stealing goats from his farm at gunpoint until authorities arrived.A Stafford Coun...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - The World Series rematch between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros, who've been embroiled in the fallout from a sign-stealing scandal, that will open the teams' exhib...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Former intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning is again asking a judge to let her out of jail. In a motion filed Wednesday in federal court in Alexandria, Manning's lawyers argue that M...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – The Maryland Senate has voted to take voters out of the process of deciding whether to allow gambling expansion in the state. The Senate voted 46-1 Tuesday for the constitu...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) – Plastic carryout bags would essentially be a thing of the past in Maryland if a bill in the General Assembly gathers enough lawmakers’ votes. The bill would ban plast...