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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 Woman dead after Anne Arundel County house fire 09/25/2020 04:39pm • Anne Arundel County firefighters work to put out a house fire in the Millersville/Crownsville area of the county. (Courtesy Anne Arundel County Fire Department) A house fire in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, left a 77-year-old woman dead Friday morning, according to the county's fire department. Data Doctors: How waterproof are iPhones? 09/25/2020 05:40am • Q: I know that iPhones are supposed to be waterproof, but how reliable is the protection? A: Virtually every smartphone made by every manufacturer today has been designed to be water-resistant, but there are a lot of variables that could still cause damage to your phone if it gets wet. Spills Maryland courts go to full operation Oct. 5 09/24/2020 05:14am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Maryland will begin jury trials on Oct. 5, ending a long wait for defendants who have been in jail or on home detention since March, when co How to prevent fires at home as weather gets chilly 09/24/2020 03:47am • As those chilly, crisp fall nights have you adjusting the thermostat, making more hot meals or maybe even having candles on the table, a Montgomery County, Maryland, fire official urges caution. All of those things can also spark fires, and Pete Piringer, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service Montgomery Co. warns of ‘COVID fatigue,' appeals for more residents to get tested 09/23/2020 04:19pm • While COVID-19 testing is rebounding in Montgomery County over the past week or so, officials on Wednesday warned of “COVID fatigue” and said the numbers are still lower than they need to be to keep track of the virus. While Health Officer Dr. Travis Gayles said testing was inching back up in