Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

LOS ANGELES (AP) - William Link, who co-created the hit series "Columbo" and "Murder, She Wrote" and made 1970s and '80s TV movies about social issues then largely shunned by television, has died. He ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom has announced the first known case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus in the nation's most populated state, fol...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Longtime Boston Bruins captain Zdeno Chara signed with the Washington Capitals on Wednesday, a stunning move less than a week before most NHL teams open training camp. Chara agreed t...

The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats. That delay could undermine President Donald Trump's efforts to exc...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The final new "Jeopardy!" episodes hosted by Alex Trebek will air next week, with highlights that promise to be memorable. The first of the five episodes will air Monday and start w...

NEW YORK (AP) - Ryan Seacrest will have a special pair of guests alongside the music stars at this year's New Year's Eve celebration on ABC - the president-elect and the future first lady. President-e...

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” has died. Her publicist says Wells died Wednesday morning in Los Angel...

ATLANTA (AP) - Campaigns and outside groups are making a final push to turn out election-weary Georgians whose votes will determine control of the U.S. Senate, from a crush of text messages and televi...

 DENVER (AP) - The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that's been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday.Today we discovered ...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) - Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines, saying it is "falling far behind."Biden said "it's gonna take years, not m...