Category Archives: Local News

  VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat...

BALTIMORE (AP) - Maryland voters can begin to vote in person next week at dozens of sites statewide. Early voting centers open Monday morning and will operate daily until Nov. 2. Maryland has allowed ...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com The wait is over to see live football in the D.C. metro area. Some season ticket holders will be in the stands at FedExField to watch the Washington Football Team take on the G...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declined to sign into law a measure designed to discourage racial profiling of motorists by police, concerned that some language could prevent authorit...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's capital has become one of the first jurisdictions in the country to employ a new COVID-19 notification system, a joint Google-Apple venture that delivers alerts to peopl...

WMAL NEWS WASHINGTON – The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office arrested and charged a middle school teacher with public intoxication Monday. According to the sheriff’s office’s dai...

KINGSVILLE, Md. (AP/WMAL) – Authorities say a Maryland man has been accused of firing gunshots at men who drove past him with a political sign on their truck while he was putting another sign on...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A lawsuit seeking to prevent Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam from removing an enormous statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond is scheduled to go to trial Monday. The pla...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - The board overseeing Virginia's largest school district has failed to endorse a plan from its superintendent that would keep a majority of students fully online until February. In ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says he voted for the late Ronald Reagan for president, instead of President Donald Trump. The Washington Post reported Friday that Hogan told the newsp...