Category Archives: WMAL News Now

  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s tell-it-like-it-is style has annoyed many residents in his state, but he has made sure to give it to at least one more voter in...

  SEAT PLEASANT, Md. (AP) – Authorities say a house fire that left two men dead in a Maryland suburb of Washington was deliberately set.   PGFD rules Seat Pleasant house fire arson; PG...

 WASHINGTON (AP) – NASA says former Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon has died. He was 88.Gordon was one of a dozen men who flew around the moon but didn’t land there.He was a test p...

 https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/11/07142552/TUES-P-MOCO-Minimum-Wage-CT-1.wavCaroline TuckerWMAL.comROCKVILLE – (WMAL) Montgomery County has made history. With a unanimous vote o...

Washington, D.C. — Favorable views of the Democratic Party have dropped to their lowest mark in more than a quarter century of polling, according to new numbers from a CNN poll conducted by SSRS...

Washington, D.C. — President Donald Trump has asked Congress to approve an additional $6 billion in defense spending for fiscal year 2018 — including $4 billion “to support urgent mi...

Washington, D.C. — Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez expressed confidence Tuesday over his party’s chances in Virginia’s closely watched gubernatorial race, despite ti...

Norfolk, VA. — An Old Dominion University football player was arrested and charged with assault on November 1. Denzel Williams, 20, was charged with two counts of simple assault and one count of...

Washington, D.C. — A Democratic lawmaker walked out of a moment of silence for the Texas shooting victims on Monday night to protest a lack of action on gun safety after mass shootings in the Un...

John Matthews WMAL.com https://cdn.socast.io/6616/sites/238/2017/11/07063320/TUE-AM-Gillespie.mp3 RICHMOND, VA — Could a rainy election day be a lucky charm for Ed Gillespie? The Republican nomi...