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Marine Corps Marathon runners: Share your stories with WTOP 08/27/2020 09:09am • The 2020 Marine Corps Marathon weekend is a virtual-only event due to public health concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic. But that won't stop thousands of people from running with purpose and finishing with pride. The race and its related events were scheduled for Oct. 23 through Oct. 25 in Arling Rescue teams from Md., Va., head to Louisiana to help with Hurricane Laura 08/27/2020 05:29am • The elite search and rescue teams based in Fairfax and Montgomery counties are on their way to Louisiana prepared to be sent into action to help with the rescuing people from Hurricane Laura as soon as conditions on the ground allow it. Maryland Task Force 1 and Virginia Task Force 1, special fed Federal funding will reduce costs of Howard County's RecZone child care program 08/26/2020 05:51pm • This story is part of “Parenting in a Pandemic,” WTOP’s continuing coverage of how parents are dealing with child care, schooling and more through the coronavirus pandemic. Howard County, Maryland, is launching a program called RecZone to help families with child care needs this fall — an Montgomery County schools will stop offering free meals to all students 08/25/2020 05:26pm • Public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland, will go back to charging some students for their meals when the new school year begins. Since the start of the pandemic, the school district has been able to offer free meals to all students in the county thanks to an emergency waiver, but that waive What can you expect from the Republican National Convention? 08/24/2020 03:44am • The Republican National Convention gets underway Monday, and unlike its political predecessor, it will not be entirely remote. While most of the next four nights will be virtual, the convention begins with some Republicans physically in Charlotte, North Carolina, where it was going to originally Accused members of Fairfax Co. 'Reccless Tigers' gang indicted on murder, drug charges 08/21/2020 12:54pm • Several members of a violent gang known as the "Reccless Tigers," which operates out of Fairfax County, Virginia, have been indicted by a federal grand jury on a slew of charges, including murder, kidnapping and racketeering. The 72-page indictment, returned by a grand jury in U.S. District Court Extra $300 payments coming to Marylanders left unemployed during pandemic 08/20/2020 11:56pm • Residents collecting unemployment in Maryland as a direct result of the COVID-19 crisis will get larger checks soon. Maryland applied for and was approved Thursday to receive a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Aug. 8 all Girl whose mom was deported under Trump slams president 08/20/2020 04:34pm • ▶ Watch Video: Harris makes history while Obama and Clinton slam Trump at DNC Day 3 An 11-year-old Florida girl whose mother was deported under President Trump read a blistering letter directed at him during the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night. It's Mail access becoming big problem in DC, local postal leaders say 08/20/2020 03:56pm • D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is seen at a news conference in front of the Ben Franklin Post Office in Northwest D.C. on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. (WTOP/Kyle Cooper) Even though Postmaster General Louis DeJoy has promised to stop enacting changes to the U.S. Postal Service for now that have cau Labor complaint filed on behalf of George Mason janitors 08/20/2020 05:10am • FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — Janitors working at George Mason University who are considering forming a union are facing retaliation from their employer, according to a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board. The complaint filed this week by the union, Service Employees International Uni Woman dragged into car after driver strikes her in Laurel 08/19/2020 09:55pm • Police in Maryland's Howard County are looking for the suspect and the victim in an assault where a woman was dragged into a car after the driver struck her in Laurel Wednesday. Police were called to a McDonald's on the 10000 block of Washington Boulevard just before noon for a report of a woman Learning hubs to operate within Montgomery County school buildings 08/19/2020 09:41pm • This story is part of “Parenting in a Pandemic,” WTOP’s continuing coverage of how parents are dealing with child care, schooling and more through the coronavirus pandemic. Montgomery County public schools won't have in-person learning for the more than 166,000 students in Maryland's larges 6 ways small businesses can save during the pandemic 08/19/2020 12:17pm • This content is provided by Washington Gas. As a small business owner, you’ve likely made a lot of changes during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether you’re an office that has closed, a restaurant that has moved to take-out, or a retail store that offers a mixture of options, you’ve had to make Attorneys general in 14 states, including Md., Va., file suit to reverse Postal Service changes 08/18/2020 05:06pm • Maryland and Virginia are among a group of 14 states that have filed a suit against the U.S. Postal Service to reverse recent changes instituted under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said the suit was filed in federal court and seeks to overturn the changes F Child rescued after being trapped in gun safe in Howard County 08/18/2020 04:51pm • A 5-year-old child was found locked in a large gun safe in Howard County, Maryland, on Tuesday. First responders arrived at the scene around 12:10 p.m. after the child's parents called for help, Howard County Fire and EMS told WTOP. A locksmith was en route, but there were concerns about the c