Category Archives: Local News

Steve Burns WMAL.com KENT ISLAND – (WMAL) The National Weather Service has confirmed an EF-2 tornado touched down on Kent Island early Monday morning. NWS, in a release, said the funnel formed f...

 WASHINGTON (AP) – A man looking for a dropped cellphone ended up in tumbling into a building’s trash chute where he had to be rescued.Washington, D.C., Fire Spokesman Vito Maggiolo s...

Steve BurnsWMAL.comhttps://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/07/24071040/steve-for-web-crystal-city-.mp3CRYSTAL CITY – (WMAL) It’s not easy to turn around a long-standing reputation like t...

John Matthews WMAL.com STEVENSVILLE, MD — (WMAL) A possible tornado swept through an area just east of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge early Monday morning, leaving a path of destruction in the Steven...

Steve Burns WMAL.com WASHINGTON – (WMAL) The Washington region’s longest-tenured news anchor, Jim Vance, died Saturday morning. The announcement was made through a statement from his longt...

  ANNAPOLIS, MD (AP) – Maryland officials say a study on building and paying for a third span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge has fallen behind schedule. The Daily Times reports the Maryland T...

 BALTIMORE (AP) – About two months after undergoing a heart procedure, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee plans to return to work during next month̵...

 FORT WASHINGTON, MD (AP) – Two men are dead after police say a car traveling the wrong way on a Maryland highway hit another car head-on.Prince George’s County police tweet that the ...

  MCLEAN, VA (AP) — The coach for six teens from Burundi who disappeared after an international robotics competition in Washington says he heard rumors that they might try to stay in the Un...

Monique Robinson wmal.com WASHINGTON — (WMAL) Fairfax County Police Department arrested 58-year-old Robert Clinage for embezzling funds from the local high school Booster Club. The Police Depart...