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DC students go online with this year's 'Blacks In Wax' performances 10/10/2020 11:21am • D.C. students from schools throughout the city stressed the importance of voting in this year's Blacks In Wax virtual performance. The live performance, which was produced and created by Cora Barry -- the widow of the late former D.C. mayor Marion Barry -- had been suspended in March after the co Delaware judge refuses to order state to count late ballots 10/10/2020 06:28am • DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has rejected a request by the League of Women Voters and the American Civil Liberties Union to allow absentee and mail-in ballots received after the state-mandated deadline in November’s election to be counted. Delaware law has long required that absentee b Interactive art project on National Mall honors COVID-19 frontline workers 10/10/2020 05:51am • The word 'hope' will be spelled out in 8-foot-tall wooden letters and covered in colorful quilts by D.C.'s Smithsonian Metro station on Saturday to show gratitude for frontline workers during the coronavirus pandemic. It's part of the COVID-19 U.S. Honor Quilt project, where everyone is invited t GWU to continue virtual instruction in spring 10/09/2020 10:37pm • The George Washington University in D.C. announced Friday that it will continue with virtual instruction in the spring. After examining factors such as health and safety, continued uncertainty about the course of the coronavirus pandemic and feedback from the community, the university said in a s Campaign: Trump to hold first rally since COVID-19 diagnosis Monday in Florida 10/09/2020 04:43pm • President Donald Trump is returning to the campaign trail and will hold his first rally since his COVID-19 diagnosis on Monday in Florida. Trump's campaign says the event will take place at 7 p.m. in Sanford. The rally will be Trump's first since he tested positive for the coronavirus Oct. 1 w Arlington County sets tourism record in 2019, braces for sharp drop for 2020 10/09/2020 02:15pm • A man walks past closed stores in Arlington, Virginia on March 31, 2020. (AFP via Getty Images/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds) D.C.-area tourism is on the ropes in 2020, but 2019 was another record-breaking year for tourism in Arlington County, Virginia. According to the Virginia Tourism Corporati The Yards present 'glamp-grounds' for your outdoor enjoyment at Navy Yard 10/09/2020 01:36pm • Glamping has become a more glamorous alternative to camping in recent years. Next week, D.C.'s The Yards neighborhood presents Glamp Yards from Oct. 16-18. "Glamping is my kind of camping; it's the only kind of camping that I'll do," Jill Frederick, Brookfield Properties marketing director Loudoun County highlights domestic violence help during awareness month 10/09/2020 01:28pm • October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Loudoun County, Virginia, is working to make sure residents know there are resources available if they need them. Loudoun's Domestic Abuse and Response Team, or DART, said that though avoiding public places and working remotely may curb the spread Tractor trailer overturns on Beltway in Bethesda, causes delays 10/09/2020 11:32am • A tractor trailer overturned on the Capital Beltway in Bethesda, Maryland, early Friday morning, causing delays reminiscent of rush hour before the coronavirus pandemic. The tractor trailer overturned on the Outer Loop of Interstate 495 after Interstate 270 around 4:30 a.m., blocking the right si Study: Increasingly popular telemedicine visits may have shortcomings 10/09/2020 06:42am • Telemedicine is hot. About a third of visits with primary care doctors are happening virtually. But, a Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health expert warns they're not always best. The number of blood pressure checks declined by half, and cholesterol checks dropped by more than one-third Va. teachers' union apologizes for using coffin props at protest 10/09/2020 04:20am • MANASSAS, Va. (AP) — A northern Virginia teachers' union is apologizing after some of its members used child-size coffins as props at a protest seeking to delay in-person education. The Prince William Education Association posted the apology on its Facebook page early Thursday. The union said t Darrell Green pushes extra layer of protection against COVID-19 10/09/2020 04:14am • (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384';cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "9be9c680-c459-4acb-af21-654a2ccca384",mediaId: 'b0a1783f-ae23-48f4-bec9-dec085e54d8c' }).render("578615367cc08803");}); With Darrell Green’s speed, it was not Review: 'Save Yourselves!' is quirky alien invasion with ambiguous finale 10/09/2020 12:38am • It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January 2020 B.C. That's B.C. as in "Before Coronavirus," which honestly feels like forever ago. Now, in our new pandemic world, “Save Yourselves!” hits video-on-demand for $5.99, blending the indie rom-com genre with a sci-fi i Former White House Coronavirus Task Force member on complex protocols and why social distancing is challenging 10/08/2020 09:20pm • A former White House insider is providing insight into the protocols taken at the White House leading up to the COVID-19 outbreak and about the need to be as forthcoming as possible about infections. Joe Grogan, a former Trump White House domestic policy council director and former member of the Montgomery Co. residents are recycling a lot more during the pandemic 10/08/2020 08:39pm • From bottles to cardboard, Montgomery County, Maryland, is seeing a big spike in recyclables left out on the curb at homes in the county amid the pandemic. “We’re seeing real big increases from residences,” said Adam Ortiz, director of the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Prote