Category Archives: WMAL News Now Headlines

Disneyland reopens as California emerges from virus depths
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Disneyland reopened to excited visitors Friday, marking a dramatic turnaround in a state that was so overwhelmed with coronavirus cases just four months ago that patients were b...
Syndicated Author Apr 30, 2021

Hold on! 240-pound fish, age 100, caught in Detroit River
DETROIT (AP) - Now that's a whopper - a very old whopper! A 240-pound (108.8 kilograms) sturgeon that could be more than 100 years old was caught last week in the Detroit River by the U.S. Fish and Wi...
Syndicated Author Apr 30, 2021

Judge: Case against McCloskeys won’t go back to grand jury
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A judge on Friday denied a defense request to return to a grand jury the case against a St. Louis couple accused of waving guns at racial injustice protesters last year. A St. Louis g...
Syndicated Author Apr 30, 2021

Former reality TV star Josh Duggar faces child porn charges
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) - Former reality TV star Josh Duggar faces charges of downloading and possessing child pornography under a federal indictment unsealed Friday.Federal prosecutors announced the ...
Syndicated Author Apr 30, 2021

US closes in on 100 million Americans fully vaccinated
Disneyland reopened Friday and New York's mayor predicted the big city will be up and running again at full strength by July 1, as the number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 closed in o...
Syndicated Author Apr 30, 2021

SD Governor plans to sue for fireworks at Mount Rushmore
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem will take her effort to see fireworks shot over Mount Rushmore on Independence Day to federal court in a lawsuit against the National Parks Servi...
Syndicated Author Apr 30, 2021

Biden reaches 26.9 million–lowest since 1993 for yearly Presidential speech
NEW YORK (AP) - An estimated 26.9 million people watched President Joe Biden's first address to Congress across 16 television networks, the smallest audience for the yearly presidential speech since a...
Syndicated Author Apr 29, 2021

5 arrested in violent robbery of Lady Gaga’s dogs
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The woman who returned Lady Gaga's stolen French bulldogs was among five people arrested in connection with the theft and shooting of the music superstar's dog walker, Los Angeles p...
Syndicated Author Apr 29, 2021

Biden and Carter, longtime allies, reconnect in Georgia
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) - President Joe Biden was a first-term Delaware senator in 1976 when he endorsed an upstart former Southern governor for the presidency over the party's Northern establishment players...
Syndicated Author Apr 29, 2021

Northam updates mask mandate to align with new CDC guidance
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Thursday updated the state's mask mandate to align it with newly relaxed guidelines issued earlier this week by the federal government.For most of t...
Syndicated Author Apr 29, 2021
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