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Interested DC-area voters advised to request mail-in ballots sooner rather than later 08/12/2020 10:15pm • This Purcellville, Virginia, polling location in June took measures to prevent COVID-19 exposure with measures including social distancing, providing masks and working behind Plexiglas. (Courtesy Loudoun County Office of Elections) To vote in the November presidential election, everyone in the D Maryland to begin in-person early voting beginning Oct. 26 with additional voting centers 08/12/2020 08:26pm • The Maryland Board of Elections voted Wednesday to proceed with a plan to open around 80 voting centers for in-person early voting between Oct. 26 and Nov. 2 as a precaution against long lines on Election Day during a pandemic. The centers will be open daily from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Marylanders DC-area toll revenue plunges 90% amid coronavirus pandemic 08/12/2020 07:35pm • Traffic, Interstate 95, I-95, 95 express lanes, Virginia traffic, congestion, sprawl and crawl (WTOP/Dave Dildine) Revenue from toll lanes on the Capital Beltway and Interstate 95 in Virginia all but dried up in the spring, plummeting by nearly 90% compared to a year ago, as drivers stayed home Big Bus Tours resumes DC operations, offers private group tours 08/12/2020 12:39pm • A Big Bus employee sanitizes the upper deck of a tour bus at Union Station in Washington on Friday, July 24, 2020. (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Big Bus Tours, which suspended worldwide operations in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic, has resumed its open-top sigh Md. senators make 19 recommendations to protect prisoners from COVID-19 08/12/2020 11:35am • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee’s Courts & Criminal Justice Workgroup published a report Tuesday with 19 recommendations to Meat prices are finally falling — except for hot dogs 08/12/2020 10:20am • Americans finally got some relief in the grocery store last month as prices fell. Food prices overall fell a seasonally adjusted 0.4% in July, the first decrease since April of last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday. Prices of food for the home fell 1.1% in July, compared to On 3rd anniversary, effects of deadly Charlottesville rally still being felt 08/12/2020 10:01am • Three years after the Unite the Right rally brought thousands of white nationalists to historic Charlottesville, Virginia, culminating in James Alex Fields, Jr. purposely driving his car into a group of counter-protesters, the effects of the deadly day are still being felt. Fields has been senten 5 DC summer camps canceled, leaving families confused 08/12/2020 09:00am • Dozens of kids eagerly anticipating a break from monotony through a D.C. summer sports camp were disappointed to learn last week that camp was canceled. As parents shuffle plans and seek refunds, they've been given no clear reason why D.C. denied at least five camps' waivers from public health re Annapolis gets 40,000 mask donations from Chinese city 08/12/2020 06:42am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A municipal government in China has donated 40,000 medical-grade face masks to Maryland’s capital city amid the coronavirus pandemic. The donations from Changsha, China, were first offered to Annapolis city officials in April, when the need for the masks among public safety w DC man allegedly stole $2.5M from pandemic relief fund and church, then bought house and yacht 08/12/2020 05:23am • A D.C. man faces charges of fraudulently obtaining $2.1 million in federal coronavirus relief loans and embezzling $472,000 from the Archdioceses of Washington and then using the money to buy a $1.13 million rowhouse, a $300,000 yacht and a $46,000 sports car. The U.S. Attorneys's Office charged Hirshhorn hosts speaker series 'Talking to Our Time,' reopens Sculpture Garden 08/12/2020 12:28am • A woman walks past the courtyard of the Hirshhorn Museum &Sculpture Garden in D.C. in 2015. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) The Smithsonian museums have had to pivot to virtual programming this summer. However, the Hirshhorn has viewed it as an opportunity for a refreshing revamp. "It be Free COVID-19 testing in Dale City, Manassas, Woodbridge Aug. 13-15 08/11/2020 10:27pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Free COVID-19 testing is available for anyone who lives or works in Prince William County, Manassas or Manassas Park at locations Aug Pandemic is making opioid crisis worse, experts say 08/11/2020 08:33pm • As both national and D.C. area health departments deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the opioid crisis that has devastated communities across the U.S. hasn't gone away. Brendan Saloner, associate professor in the Department of Health, Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of P DC is helping parents prepare to guide kids with virtual learning 08/11/2020 08:19pm • This story is part of “Parenting in a Pandemic,” WTOP’s continuing coverage of how parents are dealing with child care, schooling and more through the coronavirus pandemic. Some parents may need guidance in preparing for how best to help their kids with distance learning during the COVID-19 Montgomery County offering more short-term rent assistance to tenants 08/11/2020 06:23pm • More help is on the way in Montgomery County, Maryland, for tenants who have fallen behind on their rent because of the coronavirus crisis. The county's COVID-19 Rental Assistance Program launched in June and made direct payments to landlords in July. Now, the program is back for a second round.