Category Archives: Local News

WASHINGTON (AP) – A nearly 30-year veteran of the District of Columbia police department has been named the city’s new police chief. Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the appointmen...

RICHMOND — (AP) Gov. Terry McAuliffe has signed a set of bills that aim to stem Virginia’s growing opioid epidemic.McAuliffe’s office said in a statement Thursday that among the meas...

Steve BurnsWMAL.comhttps://www.wmal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/238/2017/02/thu-am-stv-leggett-1.mp3 ROCKVILLE — (WMAL) In a rebuke to fellow Democrats in deep-blue Montgomery County, Coun...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com https://www.wmal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/238/2017/02/THU-AM-McAuliffe-Metro-Wrap-1.mp3 WASHINGTON — (WMAL) Metro’s falling off the financial cliff fast, and Ge...

TALLAHASSEE, FL — (CNN) A single Powerball ticket sold in Indiana has won Wednesday night’s massive $435 million jackpot. The numbers pulled were 10, 13, 28, 52, 61 and the Powerball was 2...

Joelle Fredman WMAL.com LORTON — (WMAL) The Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department said that a fatal house fire last night in Lorton was an accident and caused by a child inappropriately usin...

HAGERSTOWN — (AP) A California man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting up a western Maryland hotel room, sending bullets into two occupied rooms nearby.Fifty-six-year-old Edwar...

NEW JERSEY — (CNN) The promises of 5G have been swirling for the last few years — but, finally, the mobile broadband service is getting closer to reality.Verizon announced Wednesday that i...

Heather CurtisWMAL.comhttps://www.wmal.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/238/2017/02/WED-PM-Hijab-Tshirts-Wrap-2.mp3 WASHINGTON — (WMAL) Posters of a woman wearing a hijab with the American flag...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Prosecutors have dropped felony rioting charges against three more people who were arrested after protesters broke windows and set fire to a limousine in Washington on Inaugura...