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Virginia liquor stores to return to normal hours 02/24/2022 02:04pm • Drink up, Virginians. Virginia's nearly 400 state-run Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority stores will return to normal operating hours starting March 1, the authority announced in a news release Thursday. Hours have been reduced since Jan. 24, when a surge of COVID-19 cases from the omicron v Masks no longer required in Frederick Co. schools starting Friday 02/24/2022 10:22am • Face coverings will be encouraged, but no longer required, inside all public school buildings across Frederick County, Maryland, beginning Friday. But face coverings will remain mandatory on school buses due to a federal mandate, according to Frederick County Public Schools interim Superintendent Del. Norton: Capitol Police planning heightened security, but truck protest may be losing steam 02/24/2022 06:25am • A small group of vehicles, including one tractor-trailer, arrived in the D.C. area Wednesday afternoon from Scranton, Pennsylvania. (WTOP/Mike Murillo) D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton said a truckers' protest, expected in the Washington area next week, may be losing some steam, but U.S. Capi Fairfax Co. judge dismisses removal petition against school board member Laura Jane Cohen 02/24/2022 06:12am • A Fairfax County, Virginia, Circuit Court judge has dismissed a removal petition, with prejudice, filed against a school board member who a group of parents alleged failed to provide in-person learning for all students during the pandemic. The recall effort to unseat Springfield school board Maryland crab industry says labor shortage looms again 02/24/2022 01:57am • Ask Jack Brooks, president of the Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association, how the Maryland crab-picking season ahead looks right now, and he simply said, "Ugly." The problem has nothing to do with the supply of crabs expected to be caught and processed in the crab houses of the Chesapeake Impact of pandemic-related stress on children persists, experts say 02/23/2022 09:28pm • Experts detailing how the pandemic still is affecting kids' mental health and learning loss want to emphasize that children are resilient and can flourish with good support. "What we've seen are patterns of lost learning persisting," said Jim Soland, an assistant professor of quantitative met DC judge refuses attempt to block COVID vaccine mandate for police 02/23/2022 06:43pm • A D.C. Superior Court judge Wednesday refused to block the District's COVID-19 vaccine mandate affecting police officers. Judge Joan Zeldon denied the request for a temporary restraining order from the Fraternal Order of Police, the Metropolitan Police Department Labor Committee, the D.C. Police 'It's complicated' — Montgomery Co. officials on school masking off-ramps 02/23/2022 05:20pm • The Montgomery County, Maryland, school board is expected Thursday to discuss whether and how to lift the school system's mask mandate, but County Executive Marc Elrich said he does not support the move to unmask in schools just yet. "I do think that we will get to a point where masking will safe Ryan Zimmerman says physical toll was biggest factor in retirement decision 02/23/2022 11:00am • Zimmerman: Physical toll was biggest factor for retirement originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonWhen it’s time, it’s time.Nationals infielder Ryan Zimmerman spent months weighing his decision to retire from baseball before making his official announcement on Feb. 15. Even after al Md. board of education lifts statewide school mask mandate 02/22/2022 09:13pm • The Maryland State Board of Education voted Tuesday to lift its statewide school mask mandate and allow local school boards to adopt their own policies. Board members voted 12-2 in favor of a measure that called for the mask mandate to be lifted by March 1. Before that can take effect, however, a Booster shot after initial COVID vaccination likely to prevent serious disease for years 02/22/2022 08:01pm • Researchers who are learning more about how a COVID-19 booster shot works after initial vaccination against the coronavirus have new insight into various levels of protection. Protection against an infection is less durable than the longer-lasting protection against serious outcomes from severe d Immunity against COVID-19 from omicron infections varies across the DC region 02/22/2022 03:44pm • The omicron variant of the coronavirus has infected so many people, a Johns Hopkins disease modeler says, that between 50% and 90% of the population of various states have some degree of immunity against COVID-19. The numbers in D.C., Virginia and Maryland are on the high end of that scale. "B Maryland COVID-19 numbers continue decline 02/22/2022 01:08pm • Maryland’s COVID-19 numbers have reached their lowest levels in months, Gov. Larry Hogan’s office said in a statement Tuesday. The seven-day test positivity rate fell to 2.92%, Hogan’s office said – the first time that number has been below 3% since last Nov. 6. The state has the fourth-l Montgomery Co. business owners react to lifting of mask mandate 02/22/2022 11:01am • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, allowed a countywide indoor mask mandate to expire Tuesday morning, as the COVID-19 omicron surge continued to weaken across the region. The mandate applied to businesses including stores, restaurants and gyms, but some business owners said they would con 16-year-old chess prodigy stuns world champion Magnus Carlsen 02/22/2022 06:58am • ▶ Watch Video: World Chess Championship 2018: American loses to Magnus Carlsen Indian teenage chess grandmaster Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa won praise Tuesday for a stunning victory over world number one Magnus Carlsen in an online championship. Praggnanandhaa, 16, who in 2016 became