Category Archives: WMAL News Now

COLUMBIA, SC — (CNN) For Dylann Roof’s friends, talk of sparking a race war or wanting segregation reinstated was nothing new. But then again, they didn’t think he was serious. After...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) For the first time in four months, suspended NBC News anchorman Brian Williams is meeting with groups of colleagues and apologizing for misstatements that embarrassed the news...

DANNEMORA, NY — (CNN) U.S. Marshals have added the convicted murderers who broke out of a maximum security prison in upstate New York to their 15 most wanted fugitives list and offered a $50,000...

SPOKANE, WA — (CNN) The City Council of Spokane, Washington, unanimously voted Rachel Dolezal off the Police Ombudsmen Commission on Thursday after an investigation showed she and two other memb...

CHARLESTON, SC — (CNN) Shortly after he turned 21 in April, Dylann Roof got a gun. What’s unclear is how. What may be getting clearer is why. A senior law enforcement official briefed on t...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) President Barack Obama called the nine deaths in the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting “senseless murders” Thursday, and suggested more gun control was ne...

NEW YORK — (CNN) Suspended “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams “has the chance to earn back everyone’s trust,” his boss at NBC News said Thursday, as the netwo...

WASHINGTON — (CNN) The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Texas is allowed to reject a license plate design that featured a Confederate battle flag.In a 5-4 decision authored by Justice Stephen B...

CHARLESTON, SC — (CNN) Charleston church shooting suspect Dylann Roof has been taken into custody in North Carolina, a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told CNN’...

CHARLESTON, SC — (CNN) Presidential candidates have canceled their events in South Carolina after nine people were killed in a church Wednesday evening in what police have labeled a hate crime.F...