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October Sky sights: Wallops launch, full moons, Mars and meteors 10/01/2020 11:07am • NASA's Wallops Flight Facility is scheduled to launch a rocket Thursday night that should be visible to the DMV as it climbs into the night sky. The facility hopes to launch the 14th Northrop Grumman resupply mission to the International Space Station at 9:38 p.m. EDT, which will mean dark skies DC-area filmmakers shine in free, virtual Chesapeake Film Festival 10/01/2020 12:16am • Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay might be one form of social distancing. Another great one is streaming the Chesapeake Film Festival virtually. The 13th annual event arrives free of charge this Thursday to Sunday. "Once we realized we were going to go virtual, thought, you know what, let' DC Water offers flood relief for homeowners 09/30/2020 10:20pm • D.C. saw massive flooding in September, and DC Water is offering financial relief to homeowners that saw damage. "There's just so much rain. High intensity in a short amount of time, and it overloads our sewer system; and that system just cannot handle that amount of flow," said John Lisle, a spo Deadline for property tax, rent credits in Maryland extended 09/30/2020 05:35pm • Homeowners and renters in Maryland who are struggling to pay bills during the pandemic may be eligible for tax credits through two programs — and the deadline to apply has just been extended. The deadline for both the Homeowners Property Tax Credit and Renters' Property Tax Credit programs has Filmfest DC, city's longest running film festival, pivots to virtual experience 09/30/2020 11:40am • The longest-running film festival in the nation's capital is pivoting to virtual this year. The 34th annual Filmfest D.C. shows 52 films from 35 countries from Oct. 2 to Oct. 11. "These are brand new films," festival director Tony Gittens told WTOP. "Film lovers, people who just like id As schools weigh reentry, options open for changing day care needs 09/30/2020 08:28am • With ever-changing data on the spread of COVID-19, and tweaking of public health guidance, movement toward students returning to in-school learning is throwing one more ball in the air for parents to juggle. Most school systems are aiming toward a hybrid program, with students spending two days p Maryland Health Department offers virtual diabetes education series 09/29/2020 05:10pm • Diabetes is Maryland's sixth leading cause of death. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/AndreyPopov) Maryland has launched an online education series to try to help the nearly 45% of adults in the state who have diabetes or prediabetes. The free webinars can be found here on the Maryland Department of Alexandria driving tour offers deeper look at city's Black history 09/29/2020 01:10pm • From the site of one of the nation's earliest sit-ins to the oldest active historically Black congregation, Alexandria, Virginia, is offering a new tour, and it's rich with history. It’s called "The Courageous Journey: Alexandria’s Black History Driving Tour." The self-guided tour is made up TSA installs plastic barriers at Reagan, Dulles airports to fight coronavirus 09/29/2020 12:42pm • With air travel slowly ticking up from a coronavirus drop-off, the Transportation Security Administration is installing plastic booths and other barriers at security checkpoints to protect travelers and workers, the agency announced Tuesday. In the D.C. area, Reagan National and Dulles Internatio Jury trials to resume next week in Maryland, with COVID-19 precautions 09/29/2020 10:23am • Maryland courts will resume holding jury trials, Monday, Oct. 5, entering the final phase of the courts system's COVID-19 reopening plans  according to the Maryland Judiciary. Courts in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia have continued to perform most functions since the March outbr Looking for something to do? Hit the roads less traveled for a day trip on the back road. 09/29/2020 06:43am • This content is sponsored by Fair Oaks Motors. Usually when you get in the car it’s to go from point A to B, hit the highway and there isn’t much to it. How about mixing it up? Just beyond the highway and byways of the D.C. region lies something magical. The roads less traveled can turn a Puberty in a pandemic? It's not all bad news, experts say 09/29/2020 02:58am • For many, the pandemic has scrambled any sense of passing time. Parents and pediatricians know better: Babies turn into toddlers, who turn into elementary school students, who eventually hit puberty. Kids grow up no matter what happens in the outside world. "I have a number of patients who have g IRS: More than 400,000 in DC, Md., Va. could be missing out on stimulus payments 09/28/2020 12:58pm • The Internal Revenue Service on Monday said up to 9 million people may have missed out on claiming $1,200 stimulus payments that have been made to Americans this year under the federal CARES Act, and more than 431,000 of them live in the District, Maryland or Virginia. Letters will go out this mo DC-area health student volunteers assist coronavirus pandemic response 09/27/2020 10:12am • Hundreds of D.C.-area medical students that are attending their classes virtually have become a part of a larger network of health profession students aiding the coronavirus pandemic response. The National Student Response Network (NSRN) has group of nearly 500 health profession students across t Stafford County babysitter arrested on charge of assaulting baby 09/25/2020 07:32pm • A Stafford County, Virginia, babysitter is accused of hurting a baby. Lauren Siegel, 36, of Stafford, was arrested last Saturday following a review of video showing her pushing down the head of a 7-month-old into the floor of a playpen. The video also showed the suspect "forcefully manipulatin