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RICHMOND, VA. — (AP) A $1.1 trillion budget bill that would keep the federal government running through September fully funds the program that has coordinated Chesapeake Bay cleanup efforts for ...

Surveillance Videos: Steve Burns WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/05/03070535/wed-am-stv-au-2.wav   WASHINGTON – (WMAL) American University has released surveillance tape ...

MARYLAND — (WMAL) A Loudoun County man was arrested after using social media to solicit underage girls to meet him at comic book conventions.Derrick La Marr Jones, 35, would introduce himself to...

Joelle FredmanWMAL.comMARYLAND — (WMAL) Former St. Mary’s County pastor John Mattingly plead guilty Tuesday to bank fraud for stealing checks meant for charity from the St. Francis Xavier ...

Joelle FredmanWMAL.comUPDATE 3:27 pm: The hospital has reopened. Investigators says the suspicious package contained a common household substance and was not dangerous.FREDERICK COUNTY — (WMAL) ...

LEESBURG, Va. (AP) – Authorities in Virginia are updating their investigation of an unsolved stabbing death in 2009 that has been linked to an alleged serial killer. Jammie Lane of Leesburg was ...

Steve Burns WMAL.com UPDATE 3:00 pm: Peter Newsham was confirmed by Council in a 12-1 vote. WASHINGTON – (WMAL) The D.C. Council is set to vote on the confirmation of interim Police Chief Peter ...

BALTIMORE (AP) – Federal officials are lending Baltimore a gun-tracing van to help combat the rising homicide rate in the city. The Baltimore Sun reports that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fir...

PITTSBURGH (AP) – Defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk scored 3:13 into overtime and the Washington Capitals overcame a late collapse in regulation to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 on Monday night in...

Joelle Fredman WMAL,com HOWARD COUNTY — (WMAL) The Howard County Police Department is now offering an award of $10,000 to anyone with information on the prisoner who escaped during a hospital tr...