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Study: Vaping teens, young adults have substantially increased risk of COVID-19 08/11/2020 03:48pm • FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2019, file photo, a woman using an electronic cigarette exhales in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File) Teens and young adults who smoke and use e-cigarettes have a substantially increased risk of COVID-19, according to a study led by the Stanford University Federal lawsuit still pending on Montgomery Co. nonpublic schools reopening 08/11/2020 02:38pm • The federal case against Montgomery County Health Officer Dr. Travis Gayles' now-rescinded order for private schools to remain closed is still pending. Timothy Maloney, the attorney for private schools and families who sued the county, explained in a statement Monday on his law firm's website tha Montgomery County program will bring local produce to food banks 08/11/2020 01:07pm • A new Montgomery County, Maryland, program is teaming government agencies with a nonprofit anti-hunger group to bring local farm food to the county’s food banks. The Farm to Food Bank program is spending about $200,000 on 100,000 pounds of local produce to be distributed by the Manna Food Cente Officials earmark $40 million for rent, mortgage assistance 08/11/2020 10:56am • DOVER, Del. (AP) — Delaware officials are using $40 million in federal coronavirus relief funds to help people struggling to make their rent or mortgage payments because of the pandemic. Officials are reopening the Delaware Housing Assistance Program to provide financial assistance for renters Au pairs play important role for families during coronavirus pandemic 08/11/2020 09:51am • The Petersons are seen with Brazilian au pair Juliana during Thanksgiving. (Courtesy Mark Mogle Photography) This story is part of “Parenting in a Pandemic,” WTOP’s continuing coverage of how parents are dealing with childcare, schooling and more through the coronavirus pandemic. When a CDC team is at federal immigration facility to address virus 08/11/2020 08:53am • FARMVILLE, Va. — Virginia’s governor says that a team of federal scientists has arrived at an immigration detention center in Farmville to address the worst coronavirus outbreak at any such facility in the nation. The Washington Post reported that the 10-person team from the Centers for Disea Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival postponed a year due to coronavirus 08/11/2020 08:21am • REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — A jazz festival in Delaware has been postponed for a year due to safety concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers for the Rehoboth Beach Jazz Festival announced Monday the event will now be held in October 2021. It was originally slated to be held this O DC bookstores find new ways to serve community amid pandemic and social upheaval 08/11/2020 04:18am • Anyone who has spent more than a passing moment inside a local bookstore knows each one carries a distinct personality. That personality is something of an amalgam of the owners, staff, customers and the books themselves. Spaces matter when it comes to the life of a local bookstore. So what th Silver Diner restaurants using ultraviolet light to counter coronavirus 08/11/2020 04:15am • This air purification system is one of many wall mounted units in place throughout the diners. It’s just inside the entryway and next to the host stand. A wavelength of ultraviolet light known to inactivate close relatives of the novel coronavirus is now an integral part of a cleaning system i Wolf Trap Opera presents virtual slate 08/11/2020 12:58am • Nicholas Newton performs in "The Orpheus Project" by the Wolf Trap Opera. (Wolf Trap) Even during a global virus pandemic, it's not over until the quarantined lady sings. The Wolf Trap Opera is currently the only U.S. opera company to provide an in-person training program for quarantined Despite pandemic, help is still available to sexual assault survivors 08/10/2020 08:53pm • Maryland advocates for sexual-assault survivors have taken to social media to remind the public that help is available, even during the coronavirus pandemic. "You need to know that all the rape crisis centers across Maryland are open and ready to help you," said Lisae Jordan, executive director a Hogan OKs plan for voting centers in Maryland 08/10/2020 07:30pm • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has given the green light for a plan to use "vote centers" in place of local polling sites for the Nov. 3 election. The decision comes as local officials struggle to get enough volunteer election judges to run in-person voting due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Marylan U.Md. delays in-person instruction for undergrads for two weeks 08/10/2020 05:25pm • In-person instruction at the University of Maryland, College Park will be delayed for two weeks. This is because the prevalence of COVID-19 in Maryland, and specifically in Prince George's County, remains higher than the university had hoped for the start of the academic year in the fall. The Amid record low positivity rate in Md., rate also dropping in Ocean City 08/10/2020 02:35pm • Maryland is seeing positive signs in its efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus: The percentage of residents testing positive for the virus has now hit its lowest level since the start of the pandemic. And a day after recording the state's highest positivity rate, the area around the popular DC updates high-risk coronavirus states list, removes Delaware 08/10/2020 11:49am • D.C. updated its list of high-risk coronavirus states Monday, removing Delaware — whose beaches are a top destination for summer vacationers from the Washington area. Ohio and Washington state were also removed. Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky and Minnesota are the newest additions to D.