Category Archives: Local News

ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - The smiling side of a handshake line at the end of the second round was a brand-new experience for Alex Ovechkin and Barry Trotz.Ovechkin received a message of good luck and a pa...

OWINGS MILL, Md. (AP) – A Democratic candidate for governor of Maryland has died.Baltimore County police announced early Thursday that County Executive Kevin Kamenetz died early Thursday, follow...

Steve Burns WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2018/05/10063959/thu-am-stv-bay-bridge.mp3 CHESTERTOWN, MD – (WMAL) Maryland officials have begun their slate of public meetings as the ...

John Matthews WMAL.com WASHINGTON — The National Zoo certainly knows how to break the Internet. It just points its webcams on young panda Bei Bei and waits for an “aww moment.” One o...

By Mollie MarkowitzWMALALEXANDRIA, Va. — The city of Alexandria is moving forward in efforts to change the name of Jefferson Davis Highway.For years, the Alexandria City Council has discussed st...

John Matthews WMAL.com WOODBRIDGE, VA — (WMAL) Two girls, ages 10 and 11, have been charged as juveniles for plotting via text to kill a third girl. All three girls are students at a Prince Will...

SAN DIEGO - Jeremy Hellickson didn't give the San Diego Padres a chance over the first six innings. It was 18 up and 18 down for the Padres, who only four nights earlier had been no-hit by four Los An...

Steve BurnsWMAL.comWASHINGTON – (WMAL) In what would be the longest track shutdown in the system’s history, Metro is planning on shuttering six stations on the Blue and Yellow lines over 9...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – The Alexandria City mayor and council members could be getting their first raises in more than a decade. Tuesday a task force appointed by the Alexand...

BALTIMORE — Passengers on board a Southwest Airlines flight from Florida say a pickup truck hit their plane on the runway at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. WJLA-TV...