Category Archives: Local News

Washington will not have cheerleaders for the first time since the NFL's longest-running cheerleading team was founded in 1962, with a coed dance team taking its place. The move is part of the organiz...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - A second wave of nearly 100 midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy is going to move to a hotel because of a COVID-19 outbreak at the school. The Capital Gazette reported Tuesday ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Gov. Larry Hogan announced Tuesday that Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be a senior adviser to support Maryland's...

ABERDEEN, Md. (AP) - Vi Ripken, matriarch of the famed Orioles family that includes Hall of Fame son Cal Ripken Jr. and once the victim of a bizarre kidnapping, has died. She was 82. Family spokesman ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - The Maryland General Assembly gave final approval Friday to expanding a state tax credit for low-income workers to include immigrants, including some living in the country illega...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia lawmakers gave final approval Friday to a measure that would provide certain home health care workers paid sick leave.The final product was a compromise agreement that fe...

Many of Maryland's most populous districts are set to welcome some students back for in-person instruction Monday, marking the start of varying local plans in response to Gov. Larry Hogan's push to re...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam announced Wednesday that he will begin loosening some coronavirus-related restrictions, affecting alcohol sales and late-night curfews, as key pandemic...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Virginia Republicans have opted to hold an in-person convention at Liberty University in May to choose their nominee for governor, again rejecting an effort to hold a more inc...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The wife of Mexican drug kingpin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested on Monday at an airport in Virginia on international drug trafficking charges, the Justice Department said. Emma Coron...