Category Archives: Local News

Heather Curtis WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2018/04/12170030/Thu-pm-MoCo-cold-case-wrap-1.mp3 UPDATE (WMAL) 4/13/18 – Hours after police named Fernando Asturizaga a person of in...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump issued a full pardon Friday to I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, suggesting he had been "treated unfairly" by a special cou...

Westminster, Md. — A Maryland county school district that allowed students to walk out last month to protest gun violence has promised consequences for those that participate this month.Carroll ...

WASHINGTON — Artemi Panarin scored 6:02 into overtime to give the Columbus Blue Jackets a 4-3 victory over the Washington Capitals on Thursday night in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series...

John Matthews WMAL.com ROCKVILLE — Montgomery County’s newest elementary school has received its name – in honor of civil rights champion Bayard Rustin. Rustin, who worked alongside ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday put off a final decision on possible military strikes against Syria after tweeting earlier that they could happen "very soon or not so soon at all." The...

WASHINGTON - A Mexican drug kingpin convicted in the 1985 killing of a DEA agent was added Thursday to the FBI's list of most-wanted fugitives. Rafael Caro Quintero was mistakenly released from a Mexi...

John Matthews WMAL.com WASHINGTON — A naked man disrupted the early morning Red Line commute Thursday, riding in several cars of a train, and assaulting two other passengers before being taken i...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A police officer defended his partner’s decision to shoot a black motorcyclist in Washington, D.C., and said that he believed the man drove directly at his partner. The W...

Steve Burns WMAL.com WASHINGTON – (WMAL) Washington D.C.’s Mayor and the C.E.O. of the ride-hailing company Uber announced a data-sharing partnership Wednesday, aimed at learning more abou...