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Sewage suggests wider spread of COVID-19 in Stafford County 09/08/2020 09:52am • STAFFORD, Va. — An analysis of sewage in one Virginia county indicates that it has 10 times as many people walking around with the coronavirus than test results suggest. The Free Lance-Star reported Friday that Stafford County has been conducting experimental testing at two wastewater plants si DC updates list of high-risk coronavirus states 09/08/2020 08:15am • D.C.'s health department updated its list of high-risk coronavirus states Tuesday, denoting which travelers need to quarantine for 14 days per Mayor Muriel Bowser's order. There are 29 states on the list. Montana and Ohio were added to the list. Alaska and Arizona were removed. Maryland and Loudoun Co. school year starts with new but empty high school 09/08/2020 08:10am • Lightridge High School in Aldie is Loudoun County's 19th high school building. (WTOP/Neal Augenstein) Loudoun County's first day of an unprecedented, all-virtual school year during the COVID-19 pandemic will be bittersweet, as a brand-new high school in the Virginia county opens its doors with m Montgomery County to resume free school meal service for students 09/08/2020 04:19am • Montgomery County, Maryland, will resume free school meals to students this fall. The school system announced last month that it would stop offering free meals to students, but it said Friday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture extended the waivers that allowed the schools to provide free mea What should I look for in a hand sanitizer? 09/08/2020 03:02am • What should I look for in a hand sanitizer? Pick one that contains mostly alcohol, and has few other ingredients. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hand sanitizers should be at least 60% ethyl alcohol or 70% isopropyl alcohol. Other approved ingredients may include steri Col. Mustard in the library? 'Clue' comes to life at StageCoach Theatre in Ashburn 09/08/2020 12:19am • A local theater wants you to help solve a murder in Loudoun County, Virginia. That is, a fictional murder mystery based on a classic Hasbro board game. StageCoach Theatre Company presents "Clue" in Ashburn, Virginia, from Sept. 12-27. "Our theater company specializes in murder mysteries Coronavirus changes coming to City of Fredericksburg Christmas Parade 09/07/2020 10:14pm • The COVID-19 pandemic means an epic change for the Christmas parade in one Virginia city. Instead of the usual parade ritual, which involves guests staking out a good spot on the curb to watch the floats, the 2020 Christmas Parade in the City of Fredericksburg will be a reverse parade, where the Prince William County schools letting kids meet teachers in person — pandemic style 09/07/2020 09:04pm • While students in Prince William County, Virginia, are going back to school virtually on Tuesday, some of them had a chance to have an in-person meeting with their new teachers. In a video on its Facebook page, Colgan High School Principal Tim Healey said the school organized a ninth-grade driv 'Project Headphones' aims to help buy supplies for Arlington County students 09/07/2020 08:47pm • An online fundraiser is working to help provide headphones to Arlington County, Virginia, public school students as another semester of virtual learning gets underway. Cortney Weber said most parents feel similarly about how the 2019-2020 school year ended. "I think that for the most part, all Protest at Prince George's County Popeyes follows struggle between guard, customer 09/07/2020 08:12pm • Protesters gathered at a Popeyes restaurant in Prince George's County, Maryland, following a struggle, which was caught on video, between a security guard and a woman picking up an order. Black Lives Matter DC said that the Popeyes on Ritchie Station Court in Capitol Heights was shut down Monday Capital Gazette staff protests Annapolis newsroom closure 09/07/2020 06:54pm • Capital Gazette journalists rally in Annapolis, Maryland, on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (WTOP/Luke Lukert) Journalists from Annapolis, Maryland-based news outlet the Capital Gazette protested the closure of their newsroom, sending them to either work from home or in Baltimore, nearly 30 miles away. 'Significant pain': Metro begins planning possible cuts 09/07/2020 06:35pm • With an emergency boost of federal funding set to run out by the end of the year, the D.C. Metro system, which is reportedly losing millions of dollars a day, is beginning to plan for significant cost-saving measures, including the cutting of rail and bus service next year. Metro General Manager Restaurant workers converge in DC park for Labor Day rally 09/07/2020 06:25pm • Restaurant workers and their supporters gather at Malcolm X Park in Northwest D.C. on Labor Day on Monday, Sept. 7, 2020. (Courtesy Sara DuBois) Demonstrators turned out in D.C.'s Malcolm X Park on Labor Day, rallying to remind everyone that the COVID-19 pandemic is especially hard on restaurant Ellicott City furniture business puts in the labor 09/07/2020 05:50pm • (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: 'cc834b23-86e9-482d-b77c-0faa3ef87d6d' }).render("882615369dbcf3e4");}); In a time when so many American businesse So far, so good: 3 weeks in, no COVID-19 cases at Virginia's Randolph-Macon Academy 09/07/2020 01:17pm • Back in mid-August, retired Air Force Brigadier Gen. David Wesley said he'd be surprised if COVID-19 didn't mess up the safety plans in place as students arrived for an in-person semester at Randolph-Macon Academy in Front Royal, Virginia. "As in so many other things, I was wrong," said Wesley, t