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'SNL' goes without an audience and airs pre-taped sketches due to rising COVID cases 12/19/2021 12:16am • "Saturday Night Live" wasn't exactly live from New York on Saturday night. The NBC variety show opened with Tom Hanks greeting a nearly empty studio since the show went without a live audience because of the recent rise in Covid-19 cases. "Tonight everyone at 'Saturday Night Live' planned to Montgomery Co. exec Elrich joins COVID vaccine 'boosterama' in Wheaton 12/18/2021 10:36pm • To help lift the area's rate of COVID booster vaccination, Montgomery County, Maryland, held a special "Super Saturday Boosterama" to get shots in the arms of shoppers at Westfield Wheaton Mall. The event, created in partnership with Por Nuestra Salud y Bienestar and Westfield Wheaton, ran from 1 As COVID cases rise, Charles Co. switches 2 schools to virtual learning 12/18/2021 10:27pm • After increased COVID-19 cases among staff and students, Charles County Public Schools will be closing St. Charles and Westlake high schools for in-person learning, Dec. 20 through Dec. 22. In a release Saturday night, CCPS stated that students at the two high schools will participate in classes Minority-run small businesses in Montgomery Co. get boost at 'Shop and Drops' 12/18/2021 08:15pm • COVID-19 has made things hard on some small businesses. In Montgomery County, Maryland, budding minority-owned businesses have been given a boost by government-organized meetups, called Shop and Drop's, at community centers. The gatherings give business people a chance to swap ideas and the oppor Montgomery County holds 'boosterama' to increase coronavirus vaccine boosters 12/18/2021 09:55am • Montgomery County, Maryland, is holding a special clinic at Westfield Wheaton mall on Saturday to give COVID-19 booster vaccines to shoppers. Montgomery County, in partnership with Por Nuestra Salud y Bienestar and Westfield Wheaton, is hosting a "Super Saturday Boosterama" event from 10 a.m. to Howard Co. schools aim to restart paused activities heading into new year 12/17/2021 11:29pm • At a time when some school systems in the D.C. region are imposing new restrictions or shifting to virtual instruction, Howard County Public Schools are announcing that they will lift some of their restrictions in the new year. Howard County Public Schools Superintendent Michael Martirano said in Montgomery Co. Public Schools make COVID-related safety adjustments, opt not to go virtual 12/17/2021 11:29pm • Montgomery County Public Schools are making some adjustments to how they operate in light of increasing COVID-19 case rates in the D.C. region, though they are stopping short of canceling in-person instruction or athletics, the school system announced Friday. Even as neighboring Prince George's C Getting a COVID test for the holidays shouldn’t be a problem in Maryland 12/17/2021 06:01pm • Last year, there were shortages of COVID-19 tests available right before the holidays as everyone rushed to try and get one before they gathered with their family. Is history repeating itself this year? Not in Maryland. “We’ve got a lot of testing availability and people should be able to DC teachers, lawmakers apprehensive in days before holiday break 12/17/2021 05:17pm • Michael Iacovone, a teacher at McKinley Technology High School, in Northeast D.C., has started rethinking his holiday plans with family amid a surge of coronavirus cases across the region. With an uptick in cases among D.C. teachers and students ahead of next week's winter break, Iacovone is one Md. COVID-19 hospitalizations trigger 1st in series of changes to add bed capacity 12/17/2021 05:10pm • Maryland's hospitals are now reducing non-emergency surgeries that would require overnight stays. The move comes as the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Maryland has more than doubled in the past month, surpassing the 1,200 mark. On Wednesday, Gov. Larry Hogan announced the plans to make Prince George's County Public Schools shifts to virtual learning due to uptick in COVID cases 12/17/2021 04:27pm • All Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland will move to virtual learning for the final stretch of the school year and into the first month of 2022 due to an uptick in cases found within the school system, the school system's CEO announced Friday. Monica Goldson said all regularly sched WFT QB Taylor Heinicke tests positive for COVID-19 12/17/2021 10:38am • Starting quarterback Taylor Heinicke is the latest addition to the Washington Football Team’s COVID-19 list, according to the NFL Network and ESPN. Heinicke’s backup Kyle Allen was already on the COVID-19 list, and that means Washington might have to turn to a practice squad quarterback to st Loudoun Co. health director offers COVID-19 holiday safety tips 12/16/2021 10:58pm • With many people planning to celebrate Christmas with extended family for the first time in two years, Loudoun County health director Dr. David Goodfriend said there are several things you should do to prevent COVID-19 from joining the festivities. Whether you plan to gather locally or travel out University of Maryland cancels all winter commencement activities due to COVID 12/16/2021 08:43pm • The University of Maryland at College Park announced Thursday that it is canceling all winter commencement activities, including the main graduation ceremony scheduled for Dec. 20, because of a sharp uptick in COVID-19 cases. “This decision was not made lightly,” University President Darryll CDC recommends Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 shots over J&J's 12/16/2021 07:59pm • Most Americans should be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot that can cause rare but serious blood clots, U.S. health officials said Thursday. The strange clotting problem has caused nine confirmed deaths after J&J vaccinations — while the Pfiz