Category Archives: Local News

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal marshals have recovered 27 children reported as missing throughout Virginia as the result of a five-day operation, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday. A news release ...

Maria LeafWMAL.comA massive Confederate Flag that used to fly along I-95 in Stafford Co has been taken down. The Virginia Flaggers removed it in a ceremony on Wednesday after learning the Virginia Dep...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Several Virginia residents have filed notice that they will appeal a ruling allowing the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from its prominent place in the stat...

LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Military Institute's board voted Thursday to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson that currently stands in front of the barracks on campus, a school...

NEW YORK (AP) - The late Whitney Houston has earned her third diamond-certified album, becoming the first Black artist to achieve the feat.The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and Lega...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP/WMAL) - A teachers' union in Virginia's largest school district urged its members to call in sick today for a "mental health day" as they ponder how they will respond to a gradual ret...

Maria LeafWMAL.comWASHINGTON– Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has announced he’s signed new laws that will ban no-knock warrants, strengthen the officer decertification process and limit t...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Richmond's massive statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee will stay in place in the former capital of the Confederacy at least a while longer while a lawsuit over the governor's plans to re...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Democrats are suing Richmond's top elections official to get a list of absentee voters whose ballots contain errors that need to be corrected in order for them to be coun...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland voters lined up on Monday for a busy, record-breaking first day of in-person early voting in the state. While more than 1.6 million Maryland residents have requested mai...