Category Archives: Local News

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A former executive of a global investment firm, Glenn Youngkin, announced he will join Virginia's race for governor, casting himself in a video as a conservative political outside...

Juan HerreraWMAL NEWSWASHINGTON – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has announced that the state will open at least six mass vaccination sites throughout the state in the near future.According to a pres...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A House panel advanced a bill Tuesday that would phase out two costly coal tax credits that a state investigation recently found generate economic losses for Virginia. The incenti...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland officials remembered the nation's longest-serving state Senate president on Friday as a powerful leader who influenced policy for nearly half a century, a towering figur...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A panel of Virginia legislators advanced a bill Friday to remove a statue of Harry F. Byrd Sr., a staunch segregationist, from the state Capitol grounds. The decision to advance t...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) - Sports betting in Virginia is now a reality after the state lottery approved an online sportsbook operated by FanDuel through a partnership with the Washington Football Team.M...

LONACONING, Md. (AP) - The jackpot-winning Powerball ticket worth $731.1 million was sold in a struggling coal mining town whose biggest previous claim to fame was being the hometown of baseball legen...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Senate is advancing a resolution to censure a GOP lawmaker for "fomenting insurrection against the United States," saying she helped incite the storming of the U.S. C...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan highlighted his $1 billion virus relief proposal and tax cuts Tuesday in his annual budget proposal for the next fiscal year.Hogan outlined only highlig...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Two Virginia Democratic lawmakers are spearheading a push to repeal a decades-old law that allows the state to hold certain sex offenders at psychiatric facilities indefinitely af...