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FAQ: What to know about DC Summer Restaurant Week 08/06/2021 12:54pm • Get ready, foodies: Summer Restaurant Week returns next week. From American Prime in Tysons to Zaytinya in Penn Quarter, there's a load of restaurants offering fixed-price multicourse meals for you to feast on. Things will look a little different from the past few Restaurant Weeks, when indoor Scammers using texts to target unemployment benefits 08/06/2021 11:24am • This screenshot from the Federal Trade Commission shows the kind of alarming texts people are receiving from scammers trying to steal their unemployment benefits. Click to enlarge. (Courtesy Federal Trade Commission) You look on your phone and see an urgent text that says: “We’ve noticed the Masks required indoors at Virginia community colleges 08/06/2021 10:26am • RICHMOND, Va. — Community college students and staff in Virginia will be required to wear masks while indoors. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that Virginia Community College System Chancellor Glenn DuBois said in a letter to college presidents Wednesday that the system will follow guidanc Maryland casinos have never been busier with another record month 08/06/2021 10:19am • Slot machines in the casino are seen during a preview tour of the MGM National Harbor, Friday, Dec. 2, 2016 in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Gaming revenue at Maryland's six casinos set a record high in July for the third time in five months. The state's half-dozen casinos generated Coronavirus is in the air? A Maryland-based company has a detector for that 08/06/2021 07:55am • A company in Baltimore said it has made a machine that alerts people if coronavirus and COVID-19 variants have been detected nearby. Opteev calls its airborne virus detector "ViraWarn." The round screening device is said to work best if placed on the ground, since it analyzes the air around it DC-area colleges detail vaccination, return-to-campus plans for fall 08/06/2021 05:55am • Major D.C.-area universities are releasing their return-to-campus plans for the upcoming fall semester, signaling a return to in-person instruction more than a year after coronavirus restrictions drove students to online learning. American University American University is requiring all students a DC gyms push for maskless workouts for vaccinated members 08/06/2021 05:52am • A coalition of D.C. fitness businesses is asking the District to make an exception for vaccinated members from wearing masks while working out. The DC Fitness Alliance, which formed last year, recently approached D.C. leaders with an offer that echoes policies enacted in other places, including N Alexandria's guaranteed income pilot program will pay $500 a month 08/05/2021 11:30pm • The City of Alexandria in Virginia wants to see if it can help raise people out of poverty by paying them $500 a month. It's a program the city wants to get the community's feedback on during virtual meetings next week. The guaranteed income pilot program will start Nov. 1 and continue for two Fairfax Co. seeing 'substantial' transmission as COVID cases rise in region 08/05/2021 05:43pm • Fairfax County, Virginia, is now reporting substantial transmission of the coronavirus. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines substantial transmission as having at least 50 total new cases per 100,000 persons in the past seven days. Fairfax County, Virginia's largest county in Prince George's Co. reinstitutes indoor public mask mandate 08/05/2021 05:19pm • Hours after requiring masks inside all county government buildings starting Friday, Prince George's County, Maryland, has reinstituted an indoor public mask mandate that will go into effect Sunday. County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said Thursday that masks will be required inside all county gov Montgomery Co. votes to reimpose indoor mask mandate amid rise in COVID-19 cases 08/05/2021 04:50pm • Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, voted Thursday to reinstate a mask mandate requiring people in the county to wear face coverings in indoor public spaces, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated against COVID-19. The Montgomery County Council, acting as the board of health, unani 'Misinformation' — Flyers with false COVID-19 claims posted in Prince George's Co. 08/05/2021 03:33pm • Someone has been distributing misinformation about COVID-19 and the vaccines in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and one of the county’s top health officials said Thursday that it’s happening at a particularly bad time. “We're in a very critical time with respect to being able to preserv Northam requires COVID-19 vaccination or routine testing for state workers 08/05/2021 03:26pm • Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam on Thursday announced that all Virginia state workers will have to show they are vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing. The order will take effect on Sept. 1 and will apply to more than 120,000 state employees. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan made a simi No shot, no show: DC theaters to require vaccinations for audience members 08/05/2021 02:57pm • If you're planing on attending a local theater production, you better get vaccinated. An alliance of theaters across the D.C. area announced Thursday that they will require audience members to provide proof of vaccination for all indoor public performances. The venues taking part are some Hogan: Md. to require state employees to get vaccinated or be tested regularly 08/05/2021 02:28pm • Maryland will require state employees working in congregate facilities to be vaccinated or submit to regular COVID-19 testing and mask-use beginning Sept. 1, Gov. Larry Hogan announced Thursday. Hogan said the measures will impact state employees in 48 facilities, including: health care facilitie