Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white former South Carolina police officer has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting an unarmed black motorist to death in 2015. A federal judge hand...

  HONOLULU (AP) — Pearl Harbor survivor Gilbert Meyer says he has returned to the site of the 1941 Japanese bombing because of his shipmates from the USS Utah. He says he comes to pay his r...

  1:15 PM EST UPDATE: AZTEC, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico State Police say the suspect in a high school shooting is among the three dead. Police didn’t release details about the shooter but...

    WASHINGTON (CNN) — Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota is resigning following allegations that he touched women inappropriately, he announced on the Senate floor Thursday. R...

BALTIMORE (AP) – The American Association of Retired Persons has filed a friend of the court brief in support of a Maryland law against pharmaceutical price gouging. The AARP announced the filin...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – Authorities have arrested more than two dozen people on drug and firearms charges in what prosecutors are describing as a “coordinated takedown” stemming from ...

 NEW YORK (AP) – On the week host Matt Lauer was fired because of sexual misconduct charges, NBC’s “Today” show beat its rivals at ABC for the first time in three months.T...

 (CNN) — Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, who’s been adamantly opposed to Republican Alabama Senate hopeful Roy Moore, posted a photo Tuesday of a check with his signature on it that was a...

 WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate has confirmed Kirstjen Nielsen as President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security.Senators approved Nielsen’s nominatio...

  NEW YORK (AP) – Former employees of the top editor for the National Enquirer, Us Weekly and other major gossip publications say he openly described his sexual partners in the newsroom, di...