Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Steve BurnsWMAL.comBETHESDA – (WMAL) Montgomery County firefighters worked to evacuate around 700 people from the Promenade Towers high-rise apartment building on Pooks Hill Road in Bethesda on ...

ATLANTA (AP) – A new poll finds that the slaying of five dozen people at a Las Vegas music festival did little to change American opinion about gun laws.In the survey from The Associated Press-N...

[van id=”politics/2017/10/19/george-w-bush-divisive-politics-sot.cnn”] (CNN) — Former President George W. Bush condemned bigotry and white supremacy Thursday while endorsing pol...

 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Florida Democratic legislators are taking aim at Confederate memorials and holidays linked to Confederate leaders.House and Senate Democrats have filed bills that ...

  Amanda Engel WMAL.COM WASHINGTON (WMAL) — Antoine Petty was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for the murder of his two month old son, Antoine Flemons. The Prince George’s Count...

  WASHINGTON (AP) –President Donald Trump’s chief of staff says he is “stunned” and “broken hearted” by the criticism of Trump’s call to the family of an...

  Amanda Engel WMAL.COM RICHMOND, Va. (WMAL) — The luckiest man in the world may just live in Annandale, Virginia. Hussein Haj-Assaad won the lottery in Virginia for the second time this ye...

ATLANTA (AP) – The National Rifle Association has launched a new insurance program for people who shoot someone. And it’s stirring criticism from gun-control advocates who say it could fos...

https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/10/19134011/THU-PM-GuidanceCounselor.mp3 Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – A guidance counselor at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington i...

Heather Curtis WMAL.com WASHINGTON (WMAL) – A Montgomery County Police officer was taken to the hospital after being struck by a hit-and-run driver during a traffic stop Wednesday night. One off...