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Montgomery Co.: Concerns over testing process, more guidance for nonpublic schools 08/13/2020 04:02pm • After officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, were blocked from ordering an across-the-board closure of private schools, several schools are now planning to reopen for in-person instruction. But county leaders said Thursday they are still waiting on health guidelines from the state that they be Metro prepares to ramp up service to pre-COVID-19 levels 08/13/2020 12:51pm • Metro is preparing to ramp up service starting this weekend, after nearly five months of sharp reductions because of the coronavirus pandemic. The transit system said it will reopen closed stations, run trains more frequently and expand hours of operation starting Aug. 16. Metro also plans to exp Maryland health department announces COVID-19 antibody study 08/13/2020 12:49pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — Maryland's health department has announced an antibody study to determine how many people have been exposed to COVID-19 in the state. The department said Thursday it is collaborating with 13 hospitals in Maryland with plans to test more than 6,000 people in the initial phase: Coronavirus scam complaints keeping FTC busy 08/13/2020 12:40pm • Perhaps the busiest federal agency during the coronavirus pandemic has been the Federal Trade Commission, which has been getting a huge increase of complaints from irate consumers all across the U.S. In Maryland and Virginia, the number of complaints received in July were up more than 135% compar DC's Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon, Half-Marathon canceled 08/13/2020 11:09am • The annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon and Half Marathon, which had already been postponed from March to November on account of the COVID-19 pandemic, have been canceled. “When we postponed the 2020 United Airlines Rock ‘n’ Roll Washington D.C. Marathon & ½ Marathon from its original da 3 DC-area AMC theaters open Aug. 20; opening-day tickets just 15 cents 08/13/2020 10:06am • FILE - AMC expects to open more than 100 theaters on Aug. 20 after a five-month coronavirus pandemic shutdown (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File) AMC theaters in Alexandria, Tysons, and Potomac Mills will reopen with limited seating and social distancing Aug. 20, and opening-day tickets will be 15 c 'Too much at stake' to wait 'til January, Md. special session advocates say 08/13/2020 09:36am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Groups representing workers, tenants, immigrants, parents, students and others pledged on Wednesday to ramp up their campaign to bring the Mar Hundreds of Univ. of Md. students struggling to get out of leases 08/13/2020 09:29am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. Julia Kane, a rising senior at the University of Maryland College Park, was worried about the lease she had signed in February, before she k Prix fixe meets 'to-go': DC-area Restaurant Weeks carry on during coronavirus 08/13/2020 08:23am • D.C.'s official Summer Restaurant Week as well as separate promotional dining events in Alexandria and Fairfax City, are set to kick off starting later this month, and they are fully embracing the takeout trend. (Getty Images/iStockphoto/antova) Restaurant Week is a twice-a-year chance to sample AMC to offer 15-cent tickets on first day of reopening 08/13/2020 08:01am • NEW YORK (AP) — AMC Theatres, the nation's largest movie theater chain, will reopen in the U.S. on Aug. 20 with retro ticket prices of 15 cents per movie. AMC Entertainment, which owns the chain, said Thursday that it expects to open the doors to more than 100 cinemas — or about a sixth of it Coronavirus is changing Prince George's Co. schools' vocational classes 08/13/2020 05:31am • With all classes going virtual this fall because of the coronavirus, Prince George's County, Maryland, Public Schools' specialty programs such as vocational training and language immersion are being adapted. The changes were discussed at a specialty programs virtual town hall meeting Wednesday ni Montgomery Co. closes virus testing sites in Silver Spring, White Oak for Thursday 08/13/2020 04:58am • Two coronavirus testing sites in Montgomery County will not be open on Thursday, August 13 due a reassessment of the testing process by the company that runs the program. The test sites at the Silver Spring Civic Building and the White Oak Community Recreation Center are closed Thursday. AdvaG Alexandria launches drive-in movie series to benefit Virginia charities 08/13/2020 12:36am • If you missed the Wolf Trap drive-in movie series last week, don't worry your quarantined heart. There's a new drive-in series coming to Northern Virginia. Behold, the Alexandria Drive-In presented by ALX Community and The Garden. "Our members, neighbors and people we love around the cit The Capital Gazette among 5 newsrooms closing 08/13/2020 12:01am • Tribune Publishing Company, which owns some of the most storied newspapers in American journalism, said Wednesday that it is closing the newsrooms at five of them, including New York's Daily News and The Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. The company said the newspapers — including the Orl COVID screener developed at George Mason helps with return to campuses across Virginia 08/12/2020 10:34pm • A locally-developed online COVID-19 screening program is helping college students get back to school across Virginia. The COVID Health Check tool was developed at George Mason University in March, at the onset of the pandemic. It has been refined since then and shared with universities across the