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DC urges pharmacies to shutter COVID-19 vaccine scheduling sites in favor of the city's portal 04/09/2021 03:13pm • When William Fadel, president and CEO of Grubb’s Pharmacy in Southeast D.C., found out the store would be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine to offer to eligible District residents and workers, he started making a waiting list for his regular customers.  As soon as the store’s allotment arrived, Judge grants default judgment against Proud Boys for ignoring DC church's civil suit 04/09/2021 01:04pm • A D.C. Superior Court judge has granted a default judgment against the Proud Boys for ignoring the lawsuit filed by a church whose Black Lives Matter sign was defaced during a Dec. 12 demonstration in the nation's capital. The judge, however, granted Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio more Laminating your vaccination card? That won't be necessary 04/09/2021 12:16pm • It’s understandable that once you get your COVID-19 vaccination card, you’d want to come up with ways to preserve it. And if stores are offering to laminate it for free, then why not? On the other hand, you may have also started hearing warnings from people who say laminating your card will p Montgomery Co. families get chance to testify on COVID-19 summer camp restrictions 04/09/2021 10:41am • The coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of many summer camps in 2020, but lawmakers in Montgomery County, Maryland, don't want that to happen again. "They're really essential to the social and emotional growth of our kids, plus a lot of us rely on them for professional child care in the summe Number of craft breweries reached record high in 2020 04/09/2021 09:35am • Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the number of craft breweries reached a record high in 2020. Pandemic closures of bars and restaurants took their toll on the craft beer industry, but the number of new craft brewers that opened far offset the number that closed in 2020, pushing the total number Shift to Phase 2 could mean dip in vaccine doses sent to Northern Virginia 04/09/2021 09:22am • With Gov. Ralph Northam's deadline for all Virginia counties to shift to Phase 2 by April 18, Northern Virginia could temporarily receive fewer doses of COVID-19 vaccine from the state health department, according to public health experts. Dr. David Goodfriend, Loudoun County's health director, s 18 months removed from his last start, Joe Ross tasked with facing Dodgers 04/09/2021 09:03am • 18 months since his last start, Ross tasked with Dodgers originally appeared on NBC Sports WashingtonA lot has changed since Joe Ross last started a regulation baseball game.The Nationals’ right-hander's most recent appearance for the club was Oct. 27, 2019, also known as Game 5 of the World S Students to sit 3 feet closer in Alexandria 04/09/2021 08:32am • Students at Alexandria City Public Schools in Virginia will be sitting 3 feet closer to each other in classrooms after the school board reversed the superintendent's previous decision of staying 6 feet apart. Superintendent Gregory Hutchings sent a message to families earlier this week that stude Bowie Baysox ready to welcome fans back 04/09/2021 08:07am • Baseball fans will be allowed back to Prince George's Stadium in Bowie, Maryland, for the 2021 Baysox season, the team said. Prince George's Stadium will "operate at between 25-30% capacity to begin the 2021 season," the Bowie Baysox said in a post on the team's website. The stadium seating bowl Too much risk: Pandemic's impact on Md. high school senior 04/09/2021 05:50am • A fraction of Maryland high school students attending Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland are back in classrooms for the first time since March 2020, offering 12th graders anything but a traditional senior year experience. About 30% of Prince George's County students are returning t Metro considers fare discounts as way to get rail riders back 04/09/2021 05:03am • Will fare discounts draw more commuters back to Metro? The coronavirus pandemic has been a game-changer for Metrorail, but not in a good way, with ridership about 85% lower than it was before the pandemic hit. Metro board member Michael Goldman said the transit agency needs to get creative and Virginia OKs bill to allow Prince William Co. to have its own health department 04/08/2021 11:08pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax cast the deciding vote to allow Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park the authority to local 33% reduction in Md. COVID-19 vaccine doses coming, officials say 04/08/2021 10:30pm • The state of Maryland will be dealing with a 33% reduction in the total federal allocation of COVID-19 vaccines next week, Montgomery County officials said Thursday. Dr. Travis Gayles, the county’s health officer, said the dropoff was “likely” tied to the recent destruction of about 15 mill Virginia becomes 1st state to offer ASL video chats for COVID-19 call center 04/08/2021 09:21pm • Virginia has become the first state to provide real-time video chat access to its COVID-19 information call center for users of American Sign Language (ASL). The face-to-face service for the deaf and hard of hearing aims to offer equal access to state assistance in a format more likely to offer c DC to enter Phase 2 of COVID-19 vaccination plan earlier than expected 04/08/2021 04:17pm • D.C. is opening COVID-19 vaccination appointments to the public sooner than expected. The D.C. Health Department said Thursday afternoon that they sent out appointments to all registered D.C. residents eligible for appointments due to their job categories, “and determined that there were enough