Category Archives: Local News

UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) – Board members of Maryland’s second-largest school district have signed a May 30-dated letter calling for investigation into alleged “widespread systemic co...

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has been cleaned and refilled after about 80 ducklings died in the pool in May.The Washington Post reports the pool’s 7 million gallo...

Steve Burns WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/06/20062047/Steve-for-web-reston-teen-.mp3 FAIRFAX – (WMAL/CNN) It was road rage that sparked 22-year-old Darwin Martinez-Torres to...

Steve Burns WMAL.com SILVER SPRING – (WMAL) Monday afternoon’s severe storms appear to have hit a Silver Spring neighborhood especially hard. Montgomery County Fire and Rescue reports seve...

By Emanuella Grinberg (CNN) — Otto Warmbier, the American college student who spent 17 months in detention in North Korea, died Monday afternoon in Cincinnati, Ohio, his family said in a stateme...

Steve Burns WMAL.com NEW YORK – (WMAL) Major League Baseball officials have upheld the six-game suspension for San Francisco Giants pitcher Hunter Strickland in the May 29 incident at AT&T P...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Supreme Court struck down part of a federal law that denies trademark protection of terms that disparage living or dead.The ruling could benefit the Washington Redskins, w...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/06/19075659/MON-AM-SafeTrack-Wrap-2.wav   WASHINGTON - (WMAL) The last SafeTrack surge has Shady Grove and Rockville Metro statio...

Wyn Delano WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/06/19074541/Wyn-Web-Wrap-Body-River.wav   WASHINGTON — (WMAL) A body was found in the Potomac River, between Roosevelt Island a...

Steve Burns WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/06/19060857/Steve-for-web-simpson-field.mp3 ALEXANDRIA – (WMAL) When Simpson Park hosts its first game since Wednesday’s shoo...