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Anne Arundel Co. schools' plan to incentivize bus drivers includes pay increase, signing bonus 10/06/2021 11:54pm • Anne Arundel County, Maryland, schools are offering new incentives for school bus drivers, who earlier Wednesday returned to work after a two-day strike amid an ongoing dispute with the bus company. Schools Superintendent George Arlotto is asking the school board to approve $7.4 million for next Citing staffing shortage, Jefferson County to dismiss students half-day on Fridays 10/06/2021 10:35pm • A West Virginia county that borders Loudoun County, Virginia, said that it will temporarily dismiss students early every Friday because of staffing shortage. Jefferson County Schools said Wednesday that staffing shortages have "significantly affected our staff time to complete critical behind-the National Zoo cancels 2 popular seasonal events 10/06/2021 09:48pm • The Smithsonian's National Zoo in D.C. has canceled two big seasonal events — Boo at the Zoo and ZooLights — due to COVID-19. It's the second straight year the popular nighttime events have been called off because of the pandemic. More National Zoo News More Local News More D 'Win for some families' — What emergency schools bill means for parents, students 10/06/2021 06:01pm • About two weeks before the D.C. school year began, Dr. Carlene Reid started hearing from concerned parents. Reid, Ward 8's representative on the State Board of Education, heard stories about children not yet eligible to be vaccinated who live with immunocompromised people, and parents wondering w Montgomery Co. planning 100-member 'test-to-stay' mobile unit to reduce kids in COVID-19 quarantines 10/06/2021 03:44pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, say they're hiring 100 additional medical staff for a mobile unit that will deploy to schools around the county and administer daily rapid tests to reduce large-scale COVID-19 quarantines. Already, about 30 testers have been hired and another 30 are expec Prince George's County mask mandate expands to younger children 10/06/2021 03:01pm • Children ages 2 to 5 will have to wear masks indoors in Prince George’s County, Maryland, County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced Wednesday. The county’s mask mandate previously covered people down to age 5. “As a parent, I know it is not easy to mask younger children,” Alsobrooks DC 9th grader gets vaccine, wins $25K college scholarship 10/06/2021 01:46pm • A ninth grader at D.C.’s first computer science-focused middle school hugged her tearful mother, before being awarded a $25,000 college scholarship, through the Take the Shot DC giveaway. "I’m very excited," said Wendy Lewis, moments after her daughter Travanna had been presented with the fir DC-area hotels projected to lose $2.3B in business travel revenue in 2021 10/06/2021 09:18am • The interior of a room in D.C.'s first Curio Collection-branded hotel in Logan Circle. (Courtesy Curio Collection by Hilton) The D.C.-based American Hotel & Lodging Association estimates hotels in the region will lose $2.36 billion in business travel revenue for all of 2021, down 86.5% from Montgomery Co. schools roll out new approach to live instruction for quarantined elementary students 10/06/2021 09:10am • Maryland’s largest public school district has begun approaching live instruction for elementary school students quarantined due to COVID-19 in a new way. Montgomery County Public Schools started centralized live instruction for elementary school students quarantined due to COVID-19 on Friday, O Here’s what an AWS exec says Greater Washington needs to bridge its tech talent gaps 10/06/2021 08:44am • At the center of sharing information and creating new technologies is a partnership that Kim Majerus at Amazon Web Services views as essential for success: educational institutions and local government. Majerus took on her role this month as vice president of the U.S. public sector education, state Montgomery Co. to offer COVID-19 vaccine boosters at 3 new sites 10/06/2021 08:16am • Health officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, are relocating some vaccination sites ahead of an expected surge in demand for boosters. The county announced Tuesday that three clinics are moving to new sites with better capacity in Silver Spring and Germantown. While walk-ins are accepted, a Tina Turner sells music catalog going back 60 years to BMG 10/06/2021 06:19am • Tina Turner has sold the rights to her music catalog spanning six decades — including songs "What's Love Got to Do With It" and "The Best" — to music publishing company BMG. The legendary singer has also sold the artist's share of her recordings, her music publishing writer's share, neighbori Woman suffers burns while trying to save dog from Yellowstone hot spring 10/06/2021 06:18am • A woman suffered significant thermal burns from her shoulders to her feet while trying to save her dog who jumped into a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, officials said Tuesday. The 20-year-old woman from Washington state was visiting the park in Wyoming Monday when she and her father exi COVID Conspiracy: Analysis of foreign disinformation driving US vaccine resistance 10/06/2021 04:08am • Disinformation is based on a lie — plain and simple. The National Counterintelligence and Security Center, or NCSC, says disinformation is “false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately, most often by adversaries.” While adversaries really are the genesis of most disinforma Hospitalizations are down, but 8 states still have under 15% of ICU beds available 10/06/2021 03:34am • While much of the US is seeing a decline in hospitalizations for Covid-19, it's also evident the fight against the pandemic is far from over as eight states are reporting limited numbers of available ICU beds. Texas, Idaho, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arkansas and North Carolina have 15