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A phone lifeline for families in need in DC receives support from Doris Duke Foundation 03/11/2024 08:53pm • A national foundation is bringing funding into D.C. to help struggling families connect with basic needs and, in turn, help children at risk of child abuse and child neglect. It's part of the Doris Duke Foundation's Opportunities for Prevention and Transformation initiative, also known as Opt-in DC���s mayor says crime is falling, as she signs sweeping anti-crime bill into law 03/11/2024 06:29pm • Touting already improving crime trends, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser signed a sweeping anti-crime bill Monday, signaling a crackdown on violent crime that plagued the city last year. The package, called Secure D.C., was unanimously approved by the Council last week, with Council member Trayon White v Car Review: The Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring packs a dose of luxury in a small plug-in crossover 03/11/2024 06:27am • Not every buyer needs a big three-row crossover but that does not mean you have to settle for less luxury when it comes time to buy an upscale ride. Lincoln, the luxury brand for Ford, is known these days for big luxury SUVs that have style and opulent interiors. Last year, Lincoln turned their atte Centuries-old battle gear unearths clues on life in Maryland's first colonial capital 03/11/2024 06:00am • There's little historians know about Maryland's early colonial past. So, when archaeologists in St. Mary's City uncovered a nearly 400-year-old piece of battle gear last month, researchers celebrated. "This was definitely an exciting moment. Our eyebrows rose," said Travis Parno, director of rese 2 unrelated fatal pedestrian crashes happened minutes apart on Capital Beltway, Virginia State Police say 03/10/2024 02:34pm • Virginia State Police said that two fatal pedestrian crashes that happened minutes apart and nearby on the Capital Beltway Sunday morning were "unrelated." The two separate crashes both happened shortly before 4 a.m. and nearby Exit 176 in Fairfax County, a police spokesperson told WTOP. The f 3 women charged in alleged prostitution ring at massage parlors in Frederick 03/10/2024 05:15am • Three women were charged for their role in an alleged prostitution ring at a number of Frederick, Maryland, massage parlors. Jinchan Yang, Xiaohing Wan and Yuxia Chang were charged with multiple crimes, including second-degree assault and prostitution, according to a Frederick Police Department n Why you should stop texting your kids at school 03/10/2024 12:11am • Virginia high school teacher Joe Clement keeps track of the text messages parents have sent students sitting in his economics and government classes: ��� ���What did you get on your test?��� ��� ���Did you get the field trip form signed?��� ��� ���Do you want chicken or hamburgers for dinne Descendants of suffragists talk importance of women's voices in 2024 03/09/2024 09:31am • ▶ Watch Video: The group who fought for women's rights Over a century ago, women in the United States were finally granted equal voting rights by the 19th Amendment. Decades later, their descendants are carrying on the family tradition and fighting for women's rights. Michelle Jones These states, U.S. territories don't observe daylight saving time 03/09/2024 06:00am • ▶ Watch Video: How researchers seek to perfect the study of time As 2024's daylight saving time starts, most of the U.S. will change the time on clocks ��� but there are two states and several territories that do not observe daylight saving time. Come Sunday, people across the count You got smarter online. Here's how hackers are trying to stay ahead of you 03/08/2024 07:13pm • Cyber threats are everywhere these days ��� just check your spam folder. But by now, most of us know not to click on links from random emails and other phishing attacks. But these days, that's low-level hacking. So how prepared are you? First off, it's important to remember not all hackers DC's buses for students with disabilities are often late, don't provide accommodations, lawsuit says 03/08/2024 03:55pm • Buses that pick up students with disabilities in D.C. are sometimes late or never show up at all, don't provide accommodations and can't be reliably tracked, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday afternoon. Parents of students with disabilities and the group The Arc of the United States filed the New stakes in Md. Senate race following Alabama Supreme Court ruling on IVF 03/08/2024 10:39am • A recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling that equated frozen fertilized embryos to children has shaken up the national conversation around reproductive health care and abortion access, which had already gained urgency after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022. Potential impacts of that ruling could b DC delegate rails against 'patronizing' bill aimed at District criminal reform 03/08/2024 06:43am • Despite a sweeping anti-crime bill passed by the D.C. Council just this week, some members of Congress are pushing forward with a new crime measure they want to impose on the city. Republican Rep. Byron Donalds, of Florida, introduced the bill called the D.C. Criminal Reforms To Immediately Make Montgomery Co. council members want update on search for new police chief 03/08/2024 05:40am • There are job openings at the top of two of Montgomery County's public safety agencies: the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service and the county Police Department are both looking for new chiefs. Now, on the heels of the withdrawal of his pick for fire chief, Montgomery County Executive Marc Teen rapper 'Baby K' to be tried as adult in attempted killing on Md. school bus 03/07/2024 05:25pm • A 16-year-old known as "Baby K" will be tried as an adult on charges connected to the attempted killing of a student on a Prince George's County, Maryland, school bus in May 2023, a judge ruled Thursday afternoon. Police said Kaeden Holland was 15 when he burst onto a school bus with a gun and tr